Artificial Intelligence and You

160 - Guest: Roman Yampolskiy, AI Safety Professor, part 1

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With statements about the existential threat of AI being publicly signed by prominent AI personalities, we need an academic's take on that, and returning to the show is Roman Yampolskiy, tenured professor of Computer Science at the University of Louisville in Kentucky where he is also the director of the Cyber Security Laboratory. He has published so much in the field of AI Safety for so long that he is a preeminent researcher in that space. He has written numerous papers and books, including Artificial Superintelligence: A Futuristic Approach in 2015 and Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security in 2018. Roman was last on the show in episodes 16 and 17, and events of the last seven months have changed the AI landscape so much that he has been in strong demand in the media. Roman is a rare academic who works to bring his findings to laypeople, and has been in high profile interviews like futurism.com and Business Today, and many mainstream/broadcast TV news shows, but he found time to sit down and talk with us. In the first part of the interview we discussed the open letters about AI, how ChatGPT and its predecessors/successors move us closer to AGI and existential risk, and what Roman has in common with Leonardo DiCaprio. All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines. Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.

 

 

 

 

159 - Guest: Louis Rosenberg, Human/AI Hybrid Intelligence Expert, part 2

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What do honeybees have to teach us about AI? You'll find out from Louis Rosenberg on this episode. He's been working in AR and VR starting over 30 years ago at Stanford and NASA. 1992 he developed the first mixed reality system at Air Force Research Laboratory. In 2004 he founded the early AR company Outland Research which was acquired by Google in 2011. He received a PhD from Stanford, was a tenured professor at California State University, and has been awarded over 300 patents. He's currently CEO and Chief Scientist of Unanimous AI, a company that amplifies human group intelligence using AI technology based on the biological principle of Swarm Intelligence, which is where the bees come in. The Swarm AI technology that he created has an extraordinary record of making predictions like Oscar winners. In the conclusion of the interview, we talk about ways AI threatens privacy, and Louis' philosophy of using AI to empower human cooperation. All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines. Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.

 

 

 

 

158 - Guest: Louis Rosenberg, Human/AI Hybrid Intelligence Expert, part 1

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What do honeybees have to teach us about AI? You'll find out from Louis Rosenberg on this episode. He's been working in AR and VR starting over 30 years ago at Stanford and NASA. 1992 he developed the first mixed reality system at Air Force Research Laboratory. In 2004 he founded the early AR company Outland Research which was acquired by Google in 2011. He received a PhD from Stanford, was a tenured professor at California State University, and has been awarded over 300 patents. He's currently CEO and Chief Scientist of Unanimous AI, a company that amplifies human group intelligence using AI technology based on the biological principle of Swarm Intelligence, which is where the bees come in. The UNU Swarm Intelligence that he created has an extraordinary record of making predictions like Oscar winners. We talk about how AI can help humans cooperate instead of conflict, and we talk about threats to privacy, and the convergence of AI and AR/VR technology like Apple's new headset. All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines. Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.

 

 

 

 

157 - Should AI Be AbleTo Feel?

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Should AI be able to feel? It may seem like the height of hubris, recklessness, and even cruelty to suggest such a thing - and yet our increasing unease and fears of what #AI may do stem from its lack of empathy. I develop this reasoning in my third TEDx talk, recorded at Royal Roads University. From my research into Joseph Weizenbaum's ELIZA to what developers of #ChatGPT and other AI are missing, I explore this most sensitive of issues. This podcast episode is the bonus track, the director's cut if you will, that expands on those 12 minutes of talk to give you added value and even more questions to take away. All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines. Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.

 

 

 

 

156 - Guest: Dorian Selz, Business AI CEO

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Large language models like #ChatGPT have thoroughly disrupted business today, and here to help us understand what's going on there and how business leaders should view LLMs is Dorian Selz. He called from Zurich, where he is the CEO of Squirro, making it easier for businesses to start using #AI. We talked about everything from where to be wary of LLMs to EU regulation. All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines. Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.

 

 

 

 

155 - Guest: Ben Whately, Language Tutoring with AI

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With so much talk about how large language models like #ChatGPT have learned our languages, we can forget that humans also want and need to learn other human languages, and that's what happens at memrise.com. CSO and co-founder Ben Whately came on the show to help us understand how they use GPT #AI models to help people with that process, and the fascinating and unexpected ways that human memory plays its part. All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines. Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.

 

 

 

 

154 - Turning Anxiety About ChatGPT into Resilience

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If you're feeling on edge due to all the rapid-fire development around #ChatGPT and its companion AIs, you're not alone. In fact most people feel some degree of anxiety around not knowing where all this is going and the impact on their jobs, their world, and their lives. Our core mission on this show is to help people understand #AI and turn that stress into empowerment, so that's exactly what we do in this special episode. This rate of disruption is unprecedented, and a lot of people are taking advantage of the situation to suggest that you ought to be on top of everything that's going on. Spoiler alert: They aren't on top of it all, and neither is anyone else. This episode lays bare some of that angst and gives you some perspectives that are useful for feeling empowered, without sacrificing our trademark dedication to realism over optimism or pessimism. (Our episode image is helpfully generated by AI. But not this text.) All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines. Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.

 

 

 

 

153 - Guest: Frank Stephenson, Legendary Car Designer

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Frank Stephenson is the legendary designer of the BMW Mini Cooper reboot, and the Maserati MC12 and Ferrari F430 among other models. He is now Head of Design at McLaren Automotive and designed the MP4-12C, the successor to the F1. His latest projects include electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing vehicles at the design studio that bears his name. What does Frank have to do with AI? He came on the show to talk about the impact of generative models on the field of car design and how he's using them. There's a lot to unpack here for designers of all kinds. All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines. Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.