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
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Dec 18, 2020 • 39min
Geoff Hinton on his quest to decode learning in the brain
Geoff Hinton has lived at the outer reaches of machine learning research since an aborted attempt at a carpentry career a half century ago. He spoke to me about his work In 2020 and what he sees on the horizon for AI.
Dec 11, 2020 • 34min
Biodata as an instrument of National Power
Chris Darby, CEO of the CIA-backed tech investment company In-Q-Tel, talks about the commission's recommendation that AI for national security be extended to biotechnology, and that bio-data be considered an instrument of national power.
Dec 3, 2020 • 26min
Eric Horvitz on AI and Allies
Eric Horvitz, chief research scientist at Microsoft and a commissioner on the National Security Commission on AI, talks about ensuring interoperability of AI systems with US allies and working to make all AI systems reliable.
Dec 3, 2020 • 44min
Tricky Business: Deploying AI Models on Hardware
An open-source compiler called TVM helps data scientists optimize their model's performance on specific hardware.
Nov 12, 2020 • 49min
AI in Space with NASA's Steve Chien
NSCAI commissioner Steve Chien, technical supervisor of the artificial intelligence group at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, talks about the growing demand for AI solutions in space, from coordinating an increasing number of earth-orbiting objects to protecting critical communication satellites from attack.
Nov 4, 2020 • 37min
Opening AI Career Paths in Government and funding STEM education
This week, NSCAI commissioner Jose-Marie Griffiths talks about her line of effort's recommendations to increase STEM related educational funding by $8 billion in order to prime the pump for an AI ready workforce and to make a variety of bureaucratic changes that will open AI related career pathways for government employees.
Oct 28, 2020 • 36min
AI and Allies: coordinating national security with NATO and India
Jason Matheny, a commissioner at the National Security Commission on AI and head of Georgetown University's Center for Security and Emerging Technology, talks about coordinating AI developments with NATO and making India the focus of the US's Indo-Pacific AI strategy to counter China.
Oct 28, 2020 • 46min
Programmatic labeling with Alex Ratner of Snorkel AI
Alex Ratner, an assistant professor at the University of Washington and a cofounder and CEO of Snorkel AI, talks about programmatically labeling training data for supervised learning models.
Oct 14, 2020 • 44min
Data Wrangling with Joe Hellerstein
In the second episode of a series on the machine-learning pipeline, Joe Hellerstein, a professor at UC Berkeley, talks about data wrangling.
Sep 30, 2020 • 50min
Turing Award Winner David Patterson - CPUs to GPUs to TPUs and Beyond
Turing Award winner David Patterson talks about the end of Moore's law and the evolution of computer chips from general purpose CPUs to GPUs to the recent Cambrian explosion of specialized AI chips, including Google's TPU, in the first episode of five about the machine-learning model-development pipeline with Ameet Talwalkar, co-founder of Determined AI, an open-source platform for ML model development.
