We Wonder Podcast

We Wonder Podcast

By Jason SchlachterScience
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We Wonder Podcast episodes

  • 9. How an AI company used crowd funding to bring in big bucks from small investors

    Andy Pandharikar, CEO of Commerce.ai, and his team have raised millions in seed funding for their AI company by crowd sourcing it on seedinvest.com rather than going to traditional venture capital firms. In this episode, Andy and Jason Schlachter chat about what Commerce.ai does, and how Andy and his team managed to raise so much money from many small investors and how this lets him build his business differently. In the second half of this podcast, we discuss the nature of consciousness and AI, genetic engineering, cold fusion and much more in this fun conversation. Stick around to the end, and let us know your thoughts on these topics http://www.wewonderpodcast.com.

    Reach out to Andy via https://www.commerce.ai or [email protected]

    53 min
  • 8. Help, I'm stuck in a simulation!

    Last year Elon Musk said we're probably living in a simulation, but he's not the only one to make such claims. Serious scientists at MIT and elsewhere see the evidence stacking up in favor of such a hypothesis. Is it simulations all the way down?? Join host, Jason Schlachter, and special guest Alexei Samoylov, AI practitioner and Physics prodigy as we discuss.

    50 min
  • 7. What we learned about AI at NeurIPS 2019, the largest AI conference in the world
    Alexei Samoylov and Jason Schlachter go to the largest AI conference in the world, NeurIPS, where all the top universities and companies present their research. It was a week of hard core math and algorithms, but plenty of networking and socializing as well in beautiful Vancouver. In this episode, we discuss some of our most interesting insights and take aways about the current state of AI and the path towards safe, ethics, and positive AI for our society. This episode consists of audio from two YouTube videos we made, which can be found here: 
    Overall reflection - https://youtu.be/HJufbBaUb_s
    AI Ethics - https://youtu.be/3R1hEJ3Cj84
    35 min
  • 6. The age of virtual and augmented reality

    Join Annie Eaton, CEO of Futurus, a virtual and augmented reality focused company, as we discuss their work on consumer products and perspectives on the ethics of VR. We also have a killer philosophical discuss around some rapid fire questions at the end. Stick around. It’s fun. 

    (Reach out to Annie @ Futurus https://futurus.com)

    1 hr 3 min
  • 5. Look at all these things online!
    The Internet of Things (IoT) is the buzz word for a massive effort to connect our stuff to the internet. There are already more things using the internet than people. Join myself and special guest Sid Verma, Global Head and VP of Industrial Internet of Things at Siemens, as we look at what this means for manufacturing and the future of our society.
    41 min
  • 4. (Not) Ready Player One
    A world in which the troubles of our day melt away as we defer to the realism of computer generated reality, a virtual reality (VR), is not yet upon us, and yet science fiction tells us a cautionary tale. In this episode we're joined by Vance Souders, VR expert and Founder of Plas.md, as we explore the state of the art for VR, a bit of history, and the challenges of developing compelling VR applications. 
    Plas.md -> https://www.plas.md
    55 min
  • 3. The age of personal voice assistants
    Conversational interfaces allow us to talk to our machines to get stuff done. Think of Siri, Alexa, and Ok Google, and how much they've integrated themselves into our lives and our homes, and now consider that this is early days. How did we get here? Where are we going with this tech? Join us as I speak with Vineet Khosla, one of the creators of Siri and leader of SiriKit, and now an AI leader at Uber.
    38 min
  • 1. The AI is coming for you
    In this episode, we explore the nature of Artificial Intelligence and what it means for the future of humanity with our special guest, AI expert and practitioner Alexei Samoylov.
    1 hr 2 min

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How will technology change the meaning of work? What does AI mean for humanity's future? Are we living in a simulation? What will healthcare look like in the future? Join us as we meet with engaging experts to explore questions like these and many more as we look at how science and technology will impact society in the near and distant future.