

Eye On A.I.
Craig S. Smith
Eye on A.I. is a biweekly podcast, hosted by longtime New York Times correspondent Craig S. Smith. In each episode, Craig will talk to people making a difference in artificial intelligence. The podcast aims to put incremental advances into a broader context and consider the global implications of the developing technology. AI is about to change your world, so pay attention.
Episodes
Mentioned books

Jan 2, 2023 • 1h
Setting the stage for 2023
To set the stage for some terrific conversations I have coming to you in the new year, in this episode we go back to some earlier conversations that talk about how we got to where we are in deep learning and how those early threads continue to lead innovation.

4 snips
Nov 9, 2022 • 40min
AI Supply Chain Optimization
This week I talk to Bob Rogers, a Harvard trained astrophysicist who once built digital twins of black holes to better understand them, and now builds digital twins of supply chains to help make them more efficient and resilient.

Oct 20, 2022 • 46min
NO-CODE WITH AKKIO
Jonathon Reilly, co-founder of Akkio, a no-code AI platform, talks about how users with a web browser and an idea have the power to bring AI to life themselves without having to write code.

Oct 5, 2022 • 43min
MLOps with ClearML
Moses Guttmann, founded ClearML, talks about the evolution of the MLOps industry over the past few years and ClearML's contribution to it.

Sep 21, 2022 • 20min
Amazon's Sagemaker
Bratin Saha, head of Amazon's machine learning services, talks about Amazon's growing dominance in model building and deploying AI, about the company's SageMaker platform, and whether anyone can compete with the behemoth.

Sep 8, 2022 • 29min
AUTOMATED CODE GENERATION
Peter Schrammel, one of the founders of Diffblue, an automated unit-test writing software company, speaks about the increasing automatic generation of code and how he sees such automation increasing the productivity of developers.

Aug 25, 2022 • 31min
Michael Kearns on Privacy
Michael Kearns, a computer scientist professor at the University of Pennsylvania and an Amazon scholar talks about differential privacy, how Amazon's research approach differs from its peers, and how AI will eventually permeate all aspects of our lives.

Aug 10, 2022 • 37min
XPRIZE TELEPORTATION
Jacki Morie, a senior XPRIZE advisor, talks about the ANA Avatar XPRIZE, a competition focused on creating a physical avatar system that will seamlessly transport human skills and experience to distant locations. The four-year competition is in its final stretch.

Jul 28, 2022 • 41min
VITAL & MINT
Aaron Patzer, founder of the personal finance app MINT and more recently founder of the AI-based healthcare company Vital, talks about keeping customer data private and the promise, giving emergency room patients information with AI and finding friendly solutions to anxiety-producing problems.

Jul 15, 2022 • 32min
Amazon's Rohit Prasad
Rohit Prasad, Amazon's Senior Vice President and Head Scientist for Alexa, speaks about the development of conversational AI and virtual assistants and the merging of IoT sensor data into ambient intelligence - AI that is always present and immediately accessible.


