2 episódios
Machine Minds Podcast Machine Minds
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- Tecnologia
Machine minds is a podcast exploring how technology is reshaping our relationships with our bodies, minds and each other.
We’ll be drawing on new research from human computer interaction, sociology, psychology, economics, and law. The series will tackle topics including stereotypes and search engines, chatbots and childhood, and antagonistic algorithms.
We’ll be interviewing researchers, activists and people whose day-to-day lives are being changed by technology in dramatic and subtle ways.
WHO ARE WE?
Machine minds is produced and presented by Holly Challenger and Reuben Binns.
Holly is a user experience researcher, currently working at the Government Digital Service. With a background in social research, she is interested in mental health, multiculturalism and inclusive technology.
Reuben is a researcher at the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford. His interests include privacy, security, data ethics, and decentralisation.
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Series 1 Episode 2: Robot therapists
In this episode we look at how the history of artificial intelligence is intertwined with psychotherapy, and how a range of new technologies aim to simulate therapeutic conversations.
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Series 1 Episode 1: Search engine bias
Did you know that if you do an image search for 'person' the results contain twice as many men as women?
In this episode we investigate why this is the case by looking at bias and how it has permeated our online world, and in particular, search engines. Search engines now have the power to influence how we see the world, guiding us towards some content over others, catering to our interests based on our internet history.
Guests this week include:
- Riham Satti and Vivek Doraiswamy, who are the CEO and CTO of MeVitae, a company that attempts to detect and overcome cognitive biases using new technologies
- Jahna Otterbacher, an Assistant Professor at the Open University in Cyprus
- Paul Clough, Professor of Information Retrieval in the Information School at the University of Sheffield
Music in this episode is 'Quitting Time' by Patrick Lee.
For further reading see: http://www.machinemindspodcast.com/2017/07/02/episode-1-search-engines-and-bias/