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Ep. 48: Sarcasm Detector Uses AI to Understand People at Their Funniest, Meanest
Sarcasm? On the Internet? You're kidding. But sarcasm is no joke. Long before today's sentiment analysis systems struggled to accurately understand human communication, people struggled to understand…
Published on 7 years, 10 months ago
Ep. 47: How AI Can Improve Access to Palliative Care
AI is being used to enhance and improve life in varied and often incredible ways. But what if we could use AI to improve the end of our lives, too? Our guest today is Anand Avati, a graduate student …
Published on 7 years, 10 months ago
Ep. 46: When AI Meets Sci-Fi - A Talk with Award-Winning Author Ken MacLeod
AI is getting better, and it's finding its way into more parts of our lives with each passing day. And talking about the future artificial intelligence has become a surefire way to spawn a thousand d…
Published on 7 years, 11 months ago
Ep. 45: How to Use AI, and Tinder, to Hack the Dating Scene
Love. The search for love. The search even for someone you just kind of like. It's been the subject of poems, novels, songs, you name it. For as long as humans have been around, they've been looking …
Published on 8 years ago
Ep. 44: Forget Polls, Here's What Street View, and AI, Can Tell You About How People Will Vote
Election polling is an inexact science. If you've been paying attention to American politics at all over the past year or two, you don't need us to tell you that. But what if instead of asking voters…
Published on 8 years ago
Ep. 43: How Vincent AI Uses a Generative Adversarial Network to Let You Sketch Like Picasso
Think you've got no artistic talent? You do now. Vincent AI is an application that lets you pick up a stylus, sketch out a few lines on a screen, and watch as your scribbles are turned into a work of…
Published on 8 years ago
Ep. 42: AI Serves Up Feast of Recipes for Thanksgiving (and Beyond)
Ever see a photo of an amazing looking meal, maybe in a food magazine or an Instagram feed, and wish you had the recipe to make it yourself? Thanks to a project born out of MIT's Computer Science and…
Published on 8 years, 1 month ago
Ep. 41: How Artomatix Uses AI to Generate Infinite Zombie Armies
Whether you're wandering through the sprawling virtual worlds of Grand Theft Auto... or just trying out a new couch in Ikea's virtual living room, virtual worlds are everywhere. But there's as proble…
Published on 8 years, 1 month ago
Ep. 40: Using Deep Learning to Scan Your Shopping Basket
Tired of waiting in checkout lines? Malong Technologies offers technology that may one day let you grab what you want and go. We spoke to this startup about how it's turning its prowess in some of th…
Published on 8 years, 2 months ago
Ep. 39: How Tattoodo Uses AI to Help You Find Your Next Tattoo
Picture this, you find yourself in a tattoo parlor. But none of the dragons, flaming skulls, or gothic font lifestyle mottos you see on the wall seem like something you want on your body. So what do …
Published on 8 years, 3 months ago