Human v Robot

By Human v Robot

A weekly discussion about the intersection of humanity and technology in our lives.... more

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The podcast currently has 23 episodes available.

Human v Robot episodes:

December 08, 2022EP13 - The Metaverse
Today we talk about what the Metaverse is, what it is not, and somehow find our way to wondering if Roblox should be regulated?

Links:
What AI-generated COVID news tells us that journalists don’t

Crypto.com - The State of the Metaverse in 2022

Meta - Responsible innovation

Why the Metaverse Needs Cryptocurrencies, NFTs, and Open Standards

The Guardian - I’ve seen the metaverse — and I don’t want it

Hikikomori

The Metaverse Book Summary by Matthew Ball

NYT - opinion - My Sad, Lonely, Expensive Adventures in Zuckerberg’s V.R.

Facebook, beware: The metaverse is flat
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50min
December 01, 2022EP12 - Propaganda
Propaganda, Disinformation, Information Wars. Is technology making it worse or are we just becoming more aware of the amount of fake news lately?

Links:
Government of Canada - Online disinformation

Pew Research - 71% of journalists think misinformation is a major problem in the US

Craphound.com - Twitch Does A Chokepoint Capitalism

YouTube Information Panels

The New York Times - Cambridge Analytica and Facebook: The Scandal and the Fallout So Far

Scientific American - “Fake News” Web Sites May Not Have a Major Effect on Elections

Elsevier - Pandemic widely increased public scrutiny, but not understanding, of scientific research

EUvsDisinfo database
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45min
November 17, 2022EP11 - The Blockchain Winter
What is happening to blockchain, web3, NFT’s and the like? Are they the next big thing online or just smoke and mirrors? Maybe they're just not ready and we are entering “The Blockchain Winter”?

Links:
What Is Web3? Understanding What Web3 Is... and Isn’t

Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee wants us to ‘ignore’ Web3: ‘Web3 is not the web at all’

Blockchain Futures

The NFT market has collapsed (but that may not be a bad thing)

Web3 Developers Still Building Despite Crypto Winter

34 Blockchain Applications and Real-World Use Cases
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48min
November 04, 2022EP10 - Responsible Tech Companies
Today Heather and Andy talk about Responsible tech companies. Should we be holding tech companies to a higher standard and if so, how do we do that?

Links:
Jeff Hawkins: A Thousand Brains

Peter Godfrey-Smith: Other Minds

All Tech is Human (alltechishuman.org)

Center of AI and Digital Policy

Generative A.I. is Here. Who should control it? (Interview with Stability AI founder)
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47min
October 30, 2022Episode 9 - Radicalization
Today Heather and Andy talk about Radicalization. What do we mean when we talk about radicalization, polarization and extremism? Is technology adding fuel to the fire?

Links:
Rupi Kuar - Productivity Anxiety

Cortex #134: AI Art Will Make Marionettes Of Us All Before It Destroys The World

Michael Levin: Intelligence Beyond the Brain

National Strategy on Countering Radicalization to Violence

RAND - Radicalisation in the digital era

Youth and violent extremism on social media: mapping the research

Algorithmic radicalization - Wikipedia

Q&A: The Myth of "Radicalization" | American Civil Liberties Union
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46min
October 13, 2022Episode 8 - Human v Productivity
Today Heather and Andy talk about productivity culture and how we measure our self worth in an increasingly technological culture.

Links:
The many strengths of neurodivergence (Ep. 493) - Stack Overflow Podcast

Julia Whelan - Thank You For Listening

Ness Labs - Productivity Addiction

Forbes - Microsoft's Latest Work Trend Index Urges To End Productivity Paranoia

The New Yorker - The Frustration with Productivity Culture

Calendar.com - Your Productivity Does Not Determine Your Self-Worth
...more
40min
October 06, 2022Episode 7 - How is tech affecting our health?
Today Heather and Andy talk about how tech is affecting our health. We also talk about the importance learning to manage our attention.

Links:
Kaspersky: Impacts of Technology on Health

Vox: Is our constant use of digital technologies affecting our brain health? We asked 11 experts.

Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport
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33min
September 30, 2022Episode 6 - What are robots good/bad at?
Today Heather and Andy talk about some of the strengths and weaknesses of AI, as well as the strengths and weaknesses of us humans.

Links:
NetDragon Websoft appoints a humanoid robot as CEO

AI Pickup Lines

5 things AI can do better than humans

Artificial intelligence has one big weakness: The humans who create and shape it
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40min
September 22, 2022Episode 5 - What makes AI 'intelligent' and 'caring'?
Today is a solo episode with Andy where he talks about AI in medicine and how we relate to AI.

Links:
XKCD - Scientific Field Prefixes

What makes AI ‘intelligent’ and ‘caring’? Exploring affect and relationality across three sites of intelligence and care

Will Family Medicine Physicians be replaced by AI & Robots?
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12min
September 09, 2022Conflict
Today we talk about whether robots will steal your job, Intuition v Data, and how we manage conflict online.

Links:
Cortex #133: The Ethics of AI Art

willrobotstakemyjob.com

ML Glossary - Gradient Descent

The Online Disinhibition Effect
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41min

FAQs about Human v Robot:

How many episodes does Human v Robot have?

The podcast currently has 23 episodes available.