Your AI Injection

Synthetic AI voices are everywhere, from the smart speakers in your home to ads on the radio. This week, we speak with David Ciccarelli  about AI voices and voice acting. David is the CEO of Voices, a leading voice over platform where companies can hire voice actors to complete creative projects. 

In this episode, we cover the rapid rise of AI voice technology, what goes into creating synthetic voices, and future implications of their development. David also addresses the  value of voice actors as compared to synthetic voices, and reasons that companies might choose to use one over the other.

Check out Voices here: https://www.voices.com/ 

Have you ever wondered how robotic arms can be controlled using your mind? This week on Your AI Injection, Deep speaks with Keiland Cooper, a cognitive scientist and neuroscientist at the University of California, Irvine, about the intersection of AI and neuroscience research. Cooper uses machine learning to study how the brain learns, remembers, and makes decisions.

We learn about how analysis of deep neural networks using AI can be used to classify and model brain activity, and how this information is being used to develop technology for people with disabilities. Cooper also teaches us how studying the brain can be used to better develop existing AI algorithms. As one means to explore this, we discuss ContinualAI, a non-profit research organization co-founded by Cooper with a focus on continuous learning. 

Learn more about ContinualAI: https://www.continualai.org/ 

This week on Your AI Injection, Deep speaks with Dr. Brian Green. Dr. Green is the director of technology ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. His work focuses mainly on the relationship of ethics in AI.

In this episode, we find out how social media algorithms can encourage negative thinking. We also talk about how tech companies can create ethical AI during the product design process and what it means to expand the ethical circle.  We also touch on the ethical dilemmas in self driving cars, autonomous weapons and more.

Find out more about Dr. Green below:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-green-896a3b39/

If you are interested in learning more about this topic, check out our in depth article titled "How to Detect and Mitigate Harmful Societal Bias in Your Organizations AI:
https://www.xyonix.com/blog/how-to-detect-and-mitigate-harmful-societal-bias-in-your-organizations-ai

This week we’re speaking with Dr. Daniel Gould and Dr. James Smartt. Dr. Gould’s a plastic surgeon and the author of hundreds of peer-reviewed journal articles. Dr. Smartt is an attending surgeon at Bucky Plastic Surgery and the CEO and co-founder of Love My Delta, a smart phone application that measures and tracks cosmetic surgery improvements over time. 

This episode discusses how AI is impacting the world of plastic surgery.  We dive into ways treatment efficacy is measured through crowdsourcing and AI and how both methods are essential to gather data.  We also discuss the app Love My Delta and gain insights into how the app is beneficial to physicians by helping improve patient outcomes and product efficacy. 

This week on the podcast we spoke with Anup Joshi to provide us with some insight into measuring and monitoring biological carbon stocks . Dr. Joshi has a Ph.D. in Conservation Biology from The University of Minnesota. Dr. Joshi currently works at the GHG Management Institute  where he teaches remote sensing and GIS for measuring and mapping forest carbon stocks. Additionally, Dr. Joshi develops training courses for governments to report and verify forest carbon emissions for successful implementation of REDD+ programs.

In this exciting episode, we dive deep into the world of carbon stock mapping and how remote sensing and LiDAR are used to calculate the  biomass of a tree. We also get an insight into carbon credit accounting and how this is emerging as a way to offset GHG emissions.

Connect with Dr. Anup Joshi here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/anup-joshi-70a47493/

Want to learn more?
Check out our two part article series on Carbon Sequestration:
https://www.xyonix.com/blog/improving-carbon-sequestration-by-leveraging-ai-to-better-map-and-monitor-stocks-part-1-1

https://www.xyonix.com/blog/improving-carbon-sequestration-part-2-orgs-using-ai-to-monitor-deforestation-improve-decisions

What happens when we can no longer trust what we see? In this episode of Your AI Injection, host Deep Dhillon sits down with Ilke Demir of Intel Corporation to explore the unsettling rise of deepfake technology and its impact on truth and trust in our digital world. Dr. Demir, a leading expert in deepfake detection, explains how GANs (Generative Adversarial Networks) fuel these hyper-realistic videos and shares cutting-edge methods, like tracking PPG (photoplethysmography) signals, to detect the faint clues that reveal synthetic content. Together, they examine the deep social implications of deepfakes, discussing whether digital provenance and new legislation could help restore credibility in media—or if we’re entering an era where deception reigns.

Learn more about Dr. Demir's work below:
https://ilkedemir.weebly.com/

Can artificial intelligence save our forests—and our planet?

In this episode of Your AI Injection, Deep sits down with Kelsey Josund, a machine learning engineer at Pachama, to explore how AI is reshaping the world of nature-based carbon credits. They discuss the cutting-edge technologies—like LIDAR, satellite imagery, and machine learning—that verify forest health and quantify carbon capture. Dive into the challenges of monitoring deforestation, ensuring biodiversity, and preventing poorly designed carbon projects that harm ecosystems. Discover how these innovations are solving real-world issues, from fighting climate change to protecting vulnerable forests, and learn how both corporations and individuals can contribute to these life-saving efforts.

Connect with Kelsey and learn more about her work here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kelsey-josund-98b9b943/

Learn more about Pachama by following the link below:
https://pachama.com/about

Interested in learning more about carbon monitoring? Check out some of our articles below:
https://www.xyonix.com/blog/improving-carbon-sequestration-by-leveraging-ai-to-better-map-and-monitor-stocks-part-1-1

https://www.xyonix.com/blog/improving-carbon-sequestration-part-2-orgs-using-ai-to-monitor-deforestation-improve-decisions

This week's episode discusses how we can understand human conversations through human-machine synergistic interactions. We are joined by Carsten Tusk and Bill Constantine to dive deep into this topic. Training machines to understand languages can be a challenge for most data scientists. This episode starts with the basics of how to start training these machines to understand languages. We take a look at different scenarios where this can be used in everyday business practices.  

Check out some of our articles that dig into this and related topics in more depth: 

• Understanding Conversations in Depth through Synergistic Human/Machine Interaction
• Practical Applications of AI, NLP and GPT3 in Automated Text Generation
• Modern AI Text Generation Exploration Using GPT3, Wu Dao, and other NLP Advances

This week, we sat down with published poet Andrew Levy, a professor at The City University in New York.  We discussed using AI to assist in writing poetry and creative writing. We also ran one of Andrew's poems, The Putative Tiring of Light, through an AI text generator and we discuss the output on the episode.

Andrew's most recent publication, Artifice in the Calm Damages, can be found here:
https://www.chax.org/product-page/artifice-in-the-calm-damages

Check out more of our work with GPT-3 below:
Practical Applications of AI & NLP for Automated Text Generation

Modern AI Text Generation: An Exploration of GPT-3, Wu Dao 2.0 & other NLP Advances

This episode of Your AI Injection features Dr. Tom Lendvay, a physician at Seattle Children's Hospital and an associate professor of urology at the University of Washington. Alongside his work in the clinical setting, Tom has been involved with a number of AI-driven startups. We spent time talking about important areas and ways that AI is impacting healthcare, and what the future looks like from the perspective of an AI-savvy physician. We also dive into discussing our microbiomes and how AI can possibly help in replenishing weak gut microbiomes. 

• Check out our work assisting physicians here:
  https://www.xyonix.com/industries/health/physician-assistance-and-training
  
  
• Keep up to date on Tom's work by visiting his LinkedIn:
  https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-lendvay-b0926721/