Hear Both Sides of the Story: Podcasts Analyzing the Advantages and Disadvantages of AI Applications
Dive into the electrifying realm of 🧠Artificial Intelligence with this curated podcast playlist, exploring the profound questions that grip our future🔮. Will AI one day achieve sentience, demanding rights like our own? Or will it remain a powerful tool, shaping our lives for better or worse?
Unpacking the Engine: Demystifying AI Fundamentals
 Sean Carroll’s Mindscape| RaphaĂ«l Millière on How Artificial Intelligence Thinks
 What are the algorithms and models that underpin AI, and how do they differ from human thought processes? How do machines learn from data, and what are the limitations of this learning? These are just some of the questions we’ll be exploring in this episode
The Reith Lectures| The Biggest Event in Human History
Stuart Russell explores the future of Artificial Intelligence and asks; how can we get our relationship with it right? Professor Russell is founder of the Centre for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence at the University of California, Berkeley. In this lecture he reflects on the birth of AI, tracing our thinking about it back to Aristotle. He outlines the definition of AI, its successes and failures, and the risks it poses for the future. Referencing the representation of AI systems in film and popular culture, Professor Russell will examine whether our fears are well founded. ALSO LISTEN TO OTHER EPISODES IN THIS PODCAST
The Munk Debates Podcast| Munk Dialogue with AI Debaters Yann Lecun, Max Tegmark, Melanie Mitchell and Yoshua Bengio
On June 22nd AI experts gathered at Toronto’s Roy Thomson Hall for a live, sold out debate on Artificial Intelligence. Joined on stage were four AI experts and pioneers to debate the resolution ‘Be it Resolved, AI research and development poses an existential threat.’ MIT’s Max Tegmark and Mila’s Yoshua Bengion argued in favour of the resolution, while Meta’s Yann Lecun and the Santa Fe Institute’s Melanie Mitchelll argued against it.
Plain English with Derek Thompson | The AI Revolution Could Be Bigger and Weirder Than We Can Imagine
Derek unpacks his thoughts about GPT-4 and what it means to be, possibly, at the dawn of a sea change in technology. Then, he talks to Charlie Warzel, staff writer at The Atlantic, about what GPT-4 is capable of, the most interesting ways people are using it, how it could change the way we work, and why some people think it will
The Looming Shadow: Confronting the Cons of AI
Behind the Bastards | AI Is Coming for Your Children
We continue our investigation of weird AI children’s book grifters.
Big Technology Podcast| An AI Chatbot Debate – with Blake Lemoine and Gary Marcus
Blake Lemoine is the ex-Google engineer who concluded the company’s LaMDA chatbot was sentient. Gary Marcus is an academic, author, and outspoken AI critic. The two join Big Technology Podcast to debate the utility of AI chatbots, their dangers, and the actual technology they’re built on.
Endless Thread | Deepfake Law 101
Since the creation of deepfakes in 2017, the AI-powered technology that swaps faces into videos has become commonplace, particularly in pornography.
Using someone’s image without their consent to create porn can have damaging effects, emotionally and physically. But no federal law criminalizes the creation or sharing of non-consensual deepfake porn in the United States.
Radiotopia Presents | Bot Love
The AI chatbot universe is deeper and bigger than the general public knows. Millions of users worldwide are creating deep emotional bonds, sometimes sexual and sometimes not, with their own AI-driven virtual humans.Â
Vox Unexplainable | The Black Box: In AI We Trust?
Artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT can do a wide range of impressive things: they can write passable essays, they can ace the bar exam, they’ve even been used for scientific research. But ask an AI researcher how it does all this, and they shrug.
Embracing the Dawn: Championing the Pros of AI
Me, Myself and AI | Making 600 Billion Decisions with AI: Expedia Group’s Rathi Murthy
Rathi Murthy has always been passionate about technology roles that allow her to drive business transformation and improve customer experience. In her current role as CTO and president of Product & Technology for Expedia Group, she’s able to do both. She is helping to modernize the entire travel industry by making Expedia’s AI technology available to B2B partners throughout the travel ecosystem, such as hotels, airlines, car rental companies, and cruise lines.
AI Podcast by Nvidia | MIT’s Anant Agarwal on AI in Education
 Anant Agarwal, founder of edX and Chief Platform Officer at 2U, shared his vision for the future of online education and the impact of artificial intelligence in revolutionizing the learning experience. Agarwal, a strong advocate for Massive Open Online Courses MOOCs, discussed the importance of accessibility and quality in education.
Armchair Expert | Lee Hood & Nathan Price
Lee Hood (world-renowned biologist) and Nathan Price (professor) are the authors of The Age of Scientific Wellness: Why the Future of Medicine Is Personalized, Predictive, Data-Rich, and in Your Hands. Lee and Nathan join the Armchair Expert to discuss how artificial intelligence is changing the medical industry, how infectious disease has impacted our world, and the effectiveness of prescriptions.
The Ezra Klein Show | AI Could Solve Some of Humanity’s Hardest Problems. It Already Has
Since the release of ChatGPT, huge amounts of attention and funding have been directed toward chatbots. These A.I. systems are trained on copious amounts of human-generated data and designed to predict the next word in a given sentence. They are hilarious and eerie and at times dangerous.
AI and the Future of Work | Rodrigo Liang, SambaNova CEO, shares how he raised more than $1B to launch and grow the first generative AI unicorn
The original vision for SambaNova’s chip architecture and software products came from work his co-founders did at Stanford’s famous AI Lab. Today, SambaNova has embraced generative AI and is again leading the industry. Before founding SambaNova, Rodrigo held senior leadership roles at Oracle and Sun after having received his masters and bachelors degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford.
Practical AI | Automated cartography using AI
Your feed might be dominated by LLMs these days, but there are some amazing things happening in computer vision that you shouldn’t ignore! Gabriel Ortiz, who is works with the government of Cantabria in Spain automates cartography and applies AI to geospatial analysis. In this podcast you hear about how AI tooling fits into the GIS workflow, and Gabriel shares some of his recent work (including work that can identify individual people, invasive plant species, building and more from aerial survey data).