AI Innovations Unleashed

May I Learn About AI? Talking to Robots - Episode 2


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In celebration of Star Wars Day, Dr. JR and AI linguist Dr. Casey Brightman explore the galaxy of Conversational AI—from voice assistants like Siri and Alexa to advanced chatbots like ChatGPT. Learn how these systems work, what they really understand, and how close we are to talking with robots that "get us."

Plus, we dive into some hilarious AI fails, uncover the history of language models, and preview what’s coming next in emotionally intelligent AI. Whether you’re a techie, a Star Wars fan, or just trying to stop your smart speaker from ordering Baby Yoda merch—this episode is for you.

📌 What You’ll Learn:

  • What Conversational AI is (and isn’t)
  • How voice assistants interpret your commands
  • Why language models don’t actually “understand”
  • The real-life gap between sci-fi robots and today’s AI
  • The evolution from rule-based bots to deep learning LLMs
  • New breakthroughs in multimodal AI and emotional speech
  • Funny real-world fails that show AI’s limits
  • Sneak peek into Episode 3: Can AI Be Biased?

🔗 Mentioned in This Episode:

  • Google Gemini 1.5
  • Meta’s Voicebox
  • Stanford/MIT AI Research (JAIR, April 2025)
  • Paper: “Attention Is All You Need” (Vaswani et al., 2017)
  • Bender et al. (2021): “Stochastic Parrots” – FAccT Conference

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💬 Listener Challenge: Send us your funniest, weirdest, or most frustrating voice assistant moments!

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Next up: 📅 May 12 – Episode 3: “Can AI Be Biased?” We’ll explore AI ethics, fairness, and whether a machine can learn to care.

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