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Cycle of DOOM Now Complete: Researchers Use AI to Generate New Levels for Seminal Videogame - Ep. 69
DOOM, of course, is foundational to 3D gaming. 3D gaming, of course, is foundational to GPUs. GPUs, of course, are foundational to deep learning, which is, now, thanks to a team of Italian researcher…
Published on 7 years, 3 months ago
This Astrophysics Grad Student Doesn't Always Make Memes... But When He Does, He Uses Deep Learning
What's a meme? And what makes a meme, dank? Today's guest is Lawrence Pierson, a PhD student in theoretical astrophysics at Stanford University, will answer these questions, and more. He's the author…
Published on 7 years, 4 months ago
Teaching Bots Learn by Watching Human Behavior - Ep. 67
Robots following coded instructions to complete a task? Old school. Robots learning to do things by watching how humans do it? That’s the future. Earlier this year, Stanford’s Animesh Garg and Maryne…
Published on 7 years, 4 months ago
Startup Uses Deep Learning to Understand Voice - Ep. 66
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. As the years have passed what passed since the invention of the personal computer, what passes in the world of technology has ch…
Published on 7 years, 4 months ago
Startup Uses AI to Help Airports Work More Smoothly - Ep. 65
Airport control towers are icons of the aviation industry. But a Canadian startup wants to use artificial intelligence to make them a relic of the past. Searidge Technologies believes AI powered vid…
Published on 7 years, 5 months ago
Startup Uses AI to Give Consumers the Credit They Deserve - Ep. 64
Credit scores are a funny thing. Funny might not be the right word, but you know what we mean. You can't have a credit score unless you have a credit history. You have to use your credit to keep your…
Published on 7 years, 5 months ago
NVIDIA Chief Scientist Bill Dally on Where AI Goes Next - Ep. 62
NVIDIA researchers are gearing up to present 19 accepted papers and posters, seven of them during speaking sessions, at the annual Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference next week in Salt…
Published on 7 years, 6 months ago
How AI's Storming the Fashion Industry - Ep. 61
Smarts are always in fashion, and our next guest has that in spades. Costa Colbert has been chasing down how brains — both real and artificial — work for 30 years. Dr. Colbert — who holds degrees in …
Published on 7 years, 6 months ago
Netflix's Justin Basilico on How Entertainment and AI Intersect - Ep. 60
NetFlix has changed the way we watch television for the better. The streaming video pioneer is much more than just an entertainment giant for the 21st century — it’s also a pioneer when it comes to u…
Published on 7 years, 7 months ago
A USB Port for Your Body? Startup Uses AI to Connect Medical Devices to Nervous System - Ep. 59
Think of it as like a USB port for your body. Emil Hewage is the co-founder and CEO at Cambridge Bio-Augmentation Systems, a neural engineering startup. They UK startup is building interfaces that us…
Published on 7 years, 7 months ago