Artificially Intelligent

Artificially Intelligent episodes:

• 05.04.2020

  105: AI at Experian with Shri Santhanam

  We interview Shri Santhanam, VP of AI and Analytics with Experian about how AI is transforming credit, ratings agencies, loans, and how they are using AI to help during the COVID-19 pandemic. Follow us and leave a rating! Skill...

  
• 04.24.2020

  103: AI at the Speed of Light with Patrick Bowen

  We're joined by Dr. Patrick Bowen, CEO of Neurophos - a company working to bring optical computing to AI inference. We cover optical, analog computation, metamaterials and heaps of fascinating physics and how that interfaces with artificial intelligence. Follow...

  
• 04.06.2020

  102: The AI-Powered Enterprise with Seth Earley

  We interview Seth Earley of Earley Information Sciences, a data science consulting firm out of Boston. There are heaps of great information that we get into here covering AI applications for HR, supply chain, best practices, and the key...

  
• 04.04.2020

  101: COVID-19, Location Data, and more with Max Sklar

  We're joined by Max Sklar, Foursquare engineer and host of the Local Maximum podcast, to discuss the data issues around COVID-19, what it's like in New York right now, and some of the latest developments from Foursquare. Links Local...

  
• 03.21.2020

  100: The Bubble is Popping!

  This has been a wild few weeks: COVID-19 has spread around the world, people are getting shelter in place orders, and the markets are reacting violently to the news. Last October, we recorded an episode predicting this bubble would...

  
• 03.19.2020

  99: A Spell to Make AI for Everyone with Serkan Piantino

  We talk with CEO and founder of Spell, Serkan Piantino. Spell is a New York-based startup that is making AI better and easier for everyone involved by automating your experiments, deployment, and resources. We discuss his past experience at...

  
• 03.02.2020

  98: Can AI Help Save you From the Coronavirus?

  The coronavirus is inescapable - at least if you're watching the news. It is spreading around the world and worrying travelers, markets, and governments. Advances in machine learning, however, may help combat the spread and potentially offer paths towards...

  
• 02.17.2020

  97: I Can't Wait for Robots to Take My Job with Antony Sammeroff

  Fresh off a decisive debate victory over Martin Ford, Antony and I discuss the debate, future of work, and some of the great things about an automated society. Also, Antony issues the challenge to others (*Andrew Yang*) who want...

  
• 02.10.2020

  96: Is there Bias in Facial Recognition?

  A recent NIST study investigates the bias in many commercially available facial-recognition algorithms. They results provide very interesting findings that challenge the dominant narrative surrounding AI and bias. Links NIST Face Vendor Recognition Test The Critics Were...

  
• 01.20.2020

  95: Artificial Humans and AI Sightings

  Neon CEO explains tech behind his overhyped 'artificial humans' Neon Test Video Free E-Book Follow us and leave a rating! Skill Share Patreon iTunes Homepage Twitter @artlyintelly Facebook Learn Economics at Liberty Classroom

  
• 01.07.2020

  94: The AI Future is Bright!

  A new decade is upon us, but the future of AI and work is still being debated. We review a recent debate in New York between Antony Sammeroff and Martin Ford on whether or not we should prepare for...

  
• 12.23.2019

  93: State of Machine Learning

  Links: State of Machine Learning Follow us and leave a rating! Patreon iTunes Homepage Twitter @artlyintelly Facebook Learn Economics at Liberty Classroom

  
• 12.09.2019

  92: AI's Fake News Problem

  The AI hype train rolls on through 2019 with trumpeted breakthrough's in autonomous vehicles, natural language processing, robotics, and more. We take a look at some of the most outlandish stories and reports of the year to try to...

  
• 12.02.2019

  91: The Algorithm That Solved the Market

  Renaissance Technology has returned an incredible amount of cash to its investors over the years - far outperforming all other hedge funds in the industry. Their secret has been the early adoption of machine learning and hiring talents from...

  
• 11.18.2019

  90: Can AI predict if you're a criminal?

  Whether Epstein killed himself or not, his death has brought a number of AI companies focused on data collection and predictive policing to the public's attention. He was an investor in Carbyne911 - an Israeli company offering next gen...

  
• 11.11.2019

  89: MegaFace: Could you get paid for your face?

  You could get thousands of dollars for your face being used in a data set published by the University of Washington to train facial recognition algorithms. MegaFace is the data set in question, which was put together by Yahoo...

  
• 11.04.2019

  88: Robots and Rubik's Cubes

  OpenAI recently announced a new achievement, solving a Rubik's Cube with a one-handed robot using reinforcement learning! After all of the fanfare, a lot of people are pushing back on their paper and results, arguing that the claims are...

  
• 10.14.2019

  87: Coming Crash of Tech Bubble 2.0

  2019 has been the worst year for IPO's and more companies that rely on technology and AI have been struggling. Is this the coming of AI Winter III and the end of the tech bubble? What can you do...

  
• 10.07.2019

  86: Siraj Raval and AI Education

  Siraj Raval, a prominent YouTuber and AI educator has come under fire for allegedly plagiarizing code across his popular YouTube channel and on a course that he offered through the AI School. Siraj isn't alone in this. Many AI...

  
• 09.30.2019

  85: Bitcoin, Digital Currency, Global Reserves, and Facebook

  Facebook's digital currency announcement has been met with a myriad of responses ranging from the euphoric to apocalyptic. We discuss Libra, what it is, how it's different from Bitcoin, and what it means from a monetary policy perspective. Links...

  
• 09.28.2019

  84: OpenAI's "Emergent" AI Agents

  OpenAI has published a great blog showing the development of complex strategies from their RL agents while playing hide-and-seek. We talk about what was achieved as well as the state of current RL research and, more importantly, applications. Links:...

  
• 09.16.2019

  83: AI Superpowers

  The US and China have been locked in an epic struggle for AI dominance - whatever that may mean. Kai-Fu Lee's latest book, AI Superpowers provides a unique look at the development of AI from a Chinese perspective. Additionally, a recent...

  
• 09.11.2019

  82: Voice Mimicking Software Swindles Company

  A British energy firm lost about $240k due to an AI system imitating a managing director in the company. The fraudsters instructed a lower level employee to transfer funds to a Hungarian account after mimicking their boss' voice, intonation,...

  
• 09.04.2019

  81: The Musk and Ma Debate!

  This past week in Shanghai, Elon Musk and Jack Ma shared the debate stage to discuss the future of artificial intelligence. Jobs, Mars, simulation theory, and the end of the world were all discussed.    Links Ma and Musk...

  
• 09.01.2019

  80: Data Privacy and Big Tech with Dr. Peter Klein

  There has been increasing scrutiny on the big tech firms as of late - Amazon, Facebook, and Google in particular - regarding their handling of data. Additionally, there have been calls to break these companies up because of fear of...

  
• 08.18.2019

  79: DeepMind faced with Big Losses

  DeepMind loses $572 million dollars last year, giving them a running three year total of over $1 billion in losses. With no clear path to profitability, what does this mean for the future of one of the most high-profile...

  
• 07.08.2019

  78: UBI with Antony Sammeroff

  Links: Antony's Books Universal Basic Income: For and Against Procrastination Annihilation Episodes mentioned: 100 Economic Misgivings - Robots, Andrew Yang, UBI Andrew Yang 2020, Automation, AI - Truth and Fiction UBI Debate! Michael Munger Munger vs Antony Sammeroff Be...

  
• 06.17.2019

  77: The State and Facial Recognition

  Facial recognition technology is growing more and more pervasive around the world. This has led to adoption by companies for security, but also by governments for the purposes of policing and controlling. We look at recent stories from London,...

  
• 06.01.2019

  Why AI doesn't require UBI

  Andrew Yang's presidential campaign has helped make UBI an ubiquitous term. His motivation is driven by automation and job displacement by developments in AI. Here, we look at why UBI is more problematic than anything and that Yang's assumptions...

  
• 04.29.2019

  75: Tesla's Autonomy Day

  Elon Musk is in the headlines again with a lackluster showing to investors regarding Tesla's AI capabilities. He forecasts Level 5 Autonomous driving with fleets of Tesla robo-taxis taking to the roads by the end of next year! This...

  
• 04.26.2019

  74: Regulating Facebook

  Zuckerberg released an op-ed in the Washington Post asking to be regulated. He paints this as a win for consumers, but in reality, it's a call to put a government wall around Facebook to prevent competition. We look at...

  
• 02.27.2019

  73: DeepMind Does it Again

  Google DeepMind releases the long awaited AlphaStar in a high-profile demonstration for the public which shows it besting world champs in the game of Starcraft 2. We discuss the challenge and some of the interesting results from this latest...

  
• 12.18.2018

  72: Sesame Credit, China's new Citizen Score

  China has rolled out its latest effort in maintaining control of the population Zhima or Sesame Credit. This is a system designed to rate how good of a citizen you are based on the whims of the Communist Party. It...

  
• 10.16.2018

  Episode 71: Anatomy of an AI System

  Home assistants like the Amazon Echo have become increasingly common in households in the US and Europe. What is rarely seen, however, is the vast infrastructure and complex array of technology, materials, and labor needed to produce and provide these...

  
• 10.02.2018

  Episode 70: AI in the Cloud and Around the World with Mark Sears

  We interview Mark Sears founder and CEO of the company CloudFactory - a Kathmandu based AI firm. We discuss Mark's philosophy and how this technology can bring new jobs and opportunities to people far away from the normal tech hubs...

  
• 09.25.2018

  Episode 69: EU to Extirpate Internet as We Know It

  Save Your Internet!   Links: Why the Whole World Should be Up In Arms About EU's Looming Internet Catastrophe Episode 53: Billion Dollar Data Protection Boondoggle Julia Reda's Site EU Copyright Law Isn't Great: It Could...

  
• 09.17.2018

  Episode 68: Survival of the Fittest - Evolutionary AI Fund goes Extinct

  Bloomberg reports this week that Sentient AI - a company we featured in an interview on this podcast - is liquidating their trading business after two years of operations. Sentient isn't alone, AI hedge funds have been struggling to...

  
• 09.11.2018

  Ep 67: August In The News

  Story 1: Universal Basic Income https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-10/swiss-village-says-yes-to-2-500-franc-a-month-free-money-trial?srnd=premium-europe Story 2: Access to Software Developers https://stripe.com/reports/developer-coefficient-2018 Story 3: Crypto currency value drop https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-10/crypto-wipeout-deepens-to-640-billion-as-ether-leads-declines   Follow us and leave us a rating! iTunes Homepage Twitter @artlyintelly Facebook [email protected] Access...

  
• 09.04.2018

  Episode 66: Sports, Analytics, and Football Failure

  Since the publication of Moneyball, sports and advanced statistics have entered the mainstream. Other sports have gradually jumped on board with less than stellar results from Die Mannschaft's partnership with SAP that resulted in an early loss in exit at...

  
• 08.28.2018

  Episode 65: OpenAI and Magic Leap

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• 08.21.2018

  Episode 64: Evolutionary AI with Risto Miikkulainen

  This week we interview Risto Miikkulainen, CTO of Sentient AI, to discuss evolutionary computing and the relevance it has for AI. We cover Sentient's work in evolving stock traders to questions on neuroevolution and reinforcement learning.  Links: Evolution is...

  
• 08.18.2018

  Episode 63: Uber Pressured to Sell Self-Driving Division

  Uber continues to lose money, and the most recent earnings report shows losses of $891 million dollars in Q2 2018. This has prompted investors to pressure Uber to sell off its high-profile autonomous vehicle research division which is costing between...

  
• 08.07.2018

  Episode 62: How does a Machine Learn?

  Supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning. What do these terms mean? How do they differ?  Follow us and leave us a rating! iTunes Homepage Twitter @artlyintelly Facebook [email protected]

  
• 07.26.2018

  Episode 61: Why I Don't Buy Superintelligent AGI

    Christian lays out some of the reasons he doesn't buy the superintelligence hype or fear. Links: The Local Maximum Episode 20: Musk vs Zuck and the Future of AI Books mentioned: The Emperor's New Mind Superintelligence...

  
• 07.24.2018

  Episode 60: Rise of the RoboChef

  Links: DataHubbs Follow us and leave us a rating! iTunes Homepage Twitter @artlyintelly Facebook [email protected]

  
• 07.17.2018

  Episode 59: My Data Science Path Thus Far

  Christian discusses his background and how he got to where he is working in machine learning and artificial intelligence.  Links: Predictive Analytics Data Science for Business Fundamentals of Machine Learning for Predictive Analytics Data Science from Scratch Hands-On Machine Learning...

  
• 07.10.2018

  Episode 58: Beaten at Our Own Games

  Google DeepMind and OpenAI recently released some new results that give a tantalizing glimpse at what AI can become in the future. We discuss DeepMind's results on capture the flag and the human-bot cooperation as well as OpenAI's recent achievements...

  
• 07.03.2018

  Episode 57: Robotic Process Automation in Industry with Nicolas Hess

  This week we talk to Nicolas Hess, founder of Roboyo, a consulting firm focused on bringing Robotic Process Automation (RPA) to companies around the globe. We discuss what RPA is, how it fits in with AI, what are some of...

  
• 06.26.2018

  Episode 56: AI Winter is Coming?

  The AI research community has weathered two "AI winters" - periods where the funding stops flowing to AI research, companies, and products - since the 1950's. More people these days are beginning to speculate that another winter is on...

  
• 06.19.2018

  Episode 55: The Human Advantage

  Our guest today has recently authored a new book called The Human Advantage: The Future of American Work in the Age of Smart Machines which argues for key differences between humans and machines that will ensure that humans remain employed for...