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We Wonder Podcast
by Jason Schlachter
How will technology change the meaning of work? What does AI mean for humanity's future? Are we living in a simulation? What will healthcare look like in the future? Join us as we meet with engaging experts to explore questions like these and many more as we look at how science and technology will impact society in the near and distant [email protected]://twitter.com/wewonderpodcasthttp://facebook.com/wewonderpodcast
Episodes
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19. Full Self Driving, Robots that Navigate Crowds, and Covert Robotics with Brian Satterfield
In this episode, we chat with Futurist and technology innovator, Brian Satterfield, about his role in the DARPA Urban Challenge, in building robots that can navigate dynamically in dense crowds of people, and about covert robots that don't want you to know they're there. Listen in for front line...
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18. Medical Ethics and AI with Dr. John Banja
In this episode we're joined by the always insightful Dr. John Banja, Professor and Medical Ethicist at the Emory University Center for Ethics, host to his own podcast (AI, Radiology and Ethics) and author of multiple books on patient safety and healthcare system failures. We go deep on the…
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17. AI for Good with Michelle Yi
In this episode we're joined by the brilliant Michelle Yi from Slalom Consulting where she is the Practice Area Lead for their Global AI Center for Purpose and Founder of Slalom Innovation for Good. Her team takes 25% of profits from Slalom's commercial AI practice to fund projects that do good…
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16. Why are animals social?
In this episode we sit down (recorded safely in pre-COVID19 times) with Georgia Tech Professor of Biology, Dr. Mike Goodisman to talk about how sociality, the degree to which individuals in an animal population tend to associate in social groups, has evolved, and how it affects evolution. Dr....
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15. How to secure AI against bad actors
Security is an emergent property of good system design and engineering and it's no different with AI. Except it's totally different. In this episode we talk with Dr. Gary McGraw, a key voice in the software security world who has turned his focus to ML security. We discuss his recent publication…
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14. Millipedes, Mars Rovers, and 3D Printed Robots - we explore complex Rheology and Biomechanics with Professor Daniel Goldman
Whew, what a title! In this episode we sit down with Professor Daniel Goldman from the Physics Department at Georgia Tech to discuss how the biomechanics of different organisms interact with complex and dynamic surfaces to enable locomotion. I had to opportunity to tour his lab and speak with…
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13. How AI helps your doctors to keep you healthy
In this episode, we sit down with Rachel Stuve, a healthcare analytics expert, to discuss the ways in which AI is changing healthcare delivery and outcomes as well as the barriers, disruptors, real-world applications, and ethics. And just when you think the show is over, we careen off the deep…
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12. Why do we buy the things we buy?
What drives us to buy the things we buy? How do we research the products we need, buy the products we don't need, and make decisions in a world where companies can use sophisticated technology to serve us with highly tailored information and ads? What will the future of buying be like as…
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11. Why is governing AI so damn hard??
This episode is for everyone, regardless of technical depth, who has an interest in how our society and government are grappling with the changes that AI will bring to our world. We sit down with Mina Hanna, the Co-Chair of the Policy Committee of the IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of…
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10. A Smooth Criminal [0.87 Confidence]
If you were in jail, would you want AI deciding when you get out? Turns out that parole boards do a better job at releasing criminals when using AI as measured by re-arrest rates! But these systems need oversight and transparency and we must ensure they make our world better and not perpetuate...
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9. How an AI company used crowd funding to bring in big bucks from small investors
Andy Pandharikar, CEO of Commerce.ai, and his team have raised millions in seed funding for their AI company by crowd sourcing it on seedinvest.com rather than going to traditional venture capital firms. In this episode, Andy and Jason Schlachter chat about what Commerce.ai does, and how Andy and...
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8. Help, I'm stuck in a simulation!
Last year Elon Musk said we're probably living in a simulation, but he's not the only one to make such claims. Serious scientists at MIT and elsewhere see the evidence stacking up in favor of such a hypothesis. Is it simulations all the way down?? Join host, Jason Schlachter, and special guest...
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7. What we learned about AI at NeurIPS 2019, the largest AI conference in the world
Alexei Samoylov and Jason Schlachter go to the largest AI conference in the world, NeurIPS, where all the top universities and companies present their research. It was a week of hard core math and algorithms, but plenty of networking and socializing as well in beautiful Vancouver. In this…
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6. The age of virtual and augmented reality
Join Annie Eaton, CEO of Futurus, a virtual and augmented reality focused company, as we discuss their work on consumer products and perspectives on the ethics of VR. We also have a killer philosophical discuss around some rapid fire questions at the end. Stick around. It’s fun. (Reach out to…
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5. Look at all these things online!
The Internet of Things (IoT) is the buzz word for a massive effort to connect our stuff to the internet. There are already more things using the internet than people. Join myself and special guest Sid Verma, Global Head and VP of Industrial Internet of Things at Siemens, as we look at what this...
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4. (Not) Ready Player One
A world in which the troubles of our day melt away as we defer to the realism of computer generated reality, a virtual reality (VR), is not yet upon us, and yet science fiction tells us a cautionary tale. In this episode we're joined by Vance Souders, VR expert and Founder of Plas.md, as we…
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3. The age of personal voice assistants
Conversational interfaces allow us to talk to our machines to get stuff done. Think of Siri, Alexa, and Ok Google, and how much they've integrated themselves into our lives and our homes, and now consider that this is early days. How did we get here? Where are we going with this tech? Join us as…
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2. It’s the end of our jobs as we know them...and I feel fine...
Industrial automation has been changing the world for decades but the rate of change is increasing dramatically because of AI. What will this mean for all of us? Join me as we discuss this with Dr. Robert Joseph, Director of Industrial Strategy at a S&P 500 manufacturing company.
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1. The AI is coming for you
In this episode, we explore the nature of Artificial Intelligence and what it means for the future of humanity with our special guest, AI expert and practitioner Alexei Samoylov.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
How will technology change the meaning of work? What does AI mean for humanity's future? Are we living in a simulation? What will healthcare look like in the future? Join us as we meet with engaging experts to explore questions like these and many more as we look at how science and technology will impact society in the near and distant [email protected]://twitter.com/wewonderpodcasthttp://facebook.com/wewonderpodcast
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Jason Schlachter
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