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Ep. 38: Spoiler Alert! AI Predicts Next Chapter in Game of Thrones Saga
This might be the first time we've been able to say this, but we might have spoilers ahead on this episode. Joining us we have Zack Thoutt, a data scientist and a developer from Boulder, Colorado. Za…
Published on 8 years, 3 months ago
Ep. 37: Sergey Levine on How Deep Learning Will Unleash a Robotics Revolution
The robots that have taken on tasks in the real world - which is to say the world where physics apply - are primarily programmed to do a specific job, such as welding a joint in a car or sweeping up …
Published on 8 years, 4 months ago
Ep. 36: How AI Is Reshaping the Payments Industry
The next time you don’t recognize a transaction listed on your monthly Paypal statement, rest assured: AI will likely identify the culprit and help ensure it won’t happen again. With advances in mach…
Published on 8 years, 4 months ago
Ep. 35: Jetson Interns Assemble! Interns Discuss Amazing AI Robots They're Building
We are here at the mothership of NVIDIA with this summer's Jetson interns. And Mokshith Voodarla, Mark Thies, Isaac Wilcove -- all recruited at top robotics competitions -- are building some amazing …
Published on 8 years, 4 months ago
Ep. 34: Pierre Barreau Explains How Aiva Uses Deep Learning to Make Music
AI systems have been trained to take photos and transform them into the style of great artists like Van Gogh, Picasso, or J.M.W. Turner. Take a photo, pick a style, and what emerges looks kind of lik…
Published on 8 years, 4 months ago
Ep. 33: Why Warehouses Could Be the Sweet Spot for Flying Robots
We’ve heard of robots working in warehouses, picking the right windshield or a box of wiring harnesses from shevles. But what about making sure those shelves are stocked with the right stuff, in the …
Published on 8 years, 4 months ago
Ep. 32: Deep Learning Pioneer Andrew Ng on AI as the New Electricity
Purple shirts, haircuts, and cats. How are these three all related? According to deep learning pioneer Andrew Ng, they all played a part in AI’s growing presence in our lives. Ng, formerly of Google …
Published on 8 years, 5 months ago
Ep. 31: Could an AI Win the Nobel Prize?
Our guest on this segment, Paul Wigley, of the Australian National University, was part of a team of scientists who applied AI to an experiment to create a Bose-Einstein condensate. And in doing so t…
Published on 8 years, 5 months ago
Ep. 30: Not Hotdog, When Ridiculous AI Fiction Becomes Hilarious Reality
Tim Anglade, a consultant with HBO's "Silicon Valley," has engineered an app that solves an important problem for all of us: is that a hot dog... or not? The app was dreamed up by the writers and pro…
Published on 8 years, 5 months ago
Ep. 29: TuSimple's Xiaodi Hou Talks About Bringing Driverless Trucks to Highways
We all know about driverless cars, driverless cars get all the love and all the attention, because we don't want to drive. But we're going to talk in this segment about autonomous trucks, how and why…
Published on 8 years, 5 months ago