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Conversations with researchers, scientists, artists, and philosophers about all that has fascinated the human mind through its history. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  1. 23/12/2024

    William Jones: Aging, Technology, and Keeping Found Things Found

    William Jones is a Research Associate Professor Emeritus in the Information School at the University of Washington. He continues to work on the challenges of “Keeping Found Things Found” both as a research topic and in his own life. Currently he has been working on the relationships between information, knowledge and successful aging. William has published in the areas of personal information management (PIM), human-computer interaction, information retrieval (search), and human cognition/memory. He wrote the book Keeping Found Things Found: The Study and Practice of Personal Information Management and, more recently, the three-part series, on the The Future of Personal Information. He is lead editor on a book scheduled for publication in 2025 by Cambridge Press. Chapters: 0:00 - Introduction 1:16 - Keeping found things found 3:44 - Storing information 5:20 - Using folders 8:44 - New ways of searching 13:38 - Embodied information and search 16:20 - Value of memorization 20:20 - Personal AI assistants 30:20 - Language and thought 35:30 - Thriving in Time 42:44 - Aging gracefully 55:16 - Contract between generations 1:02:44 - What to look forward to Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1 h 8 min

  2. 08/09/2024

    #11 Åsa Unander-Scharin: Opera, dance & robotics

    Åsa Unander-Scharin is a professor of music performance at Luleå university of technology. Her works is with the study of the intersection between opera, dance, music, interactive technology and robotics.  Her artistic work started in 1998 when she created the first choreography for an industrial robot, with many acclaimed works to follow. She has choreographed the Nobel Banquette and two dance films Elevation and Artificial Body Voices produced by the Swedish Television. Her most recent works include two experimental operas Callas:Medea for the Croatian National Opera and The Tale of the Great Computing Machine commissioned by the KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Chapters: 0:00 - Introduction 1:02 - History of Opera 4:02 - Current technics in Opera  6:02 - Evolution in the arts 8:16 - Creating new works 12:12 - TheTale of the Great Computing Machine 17:06 - Machines in performative arts  26:04 - Anthropomorphism  29:02 - AI art 39:09 - The artistic experience  40:45 - Choreography  43:35 - The modern experience  48:47 - New operas 53:00 - Artists and Robots 1:01:02 - Robot performers  1:07:56 - Artistic freedom  1:10:48 - Humanoid robots  1:13:18 - Robots enjoying art 1:15:00 - Future works  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1 h 21 min

  3. 08/07/2024

    #10 Mario Romero: Visualisation & AI

    Mario Romero is an Associate Professor in Visualisation at the Department of Computational Science and Technology at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at KTH. He is the national technical manager and local node coordinator of the Swedish Research Council National Research Infrastructure in Visualisation InfraVis. He is also a technical co-founder of BrailleTouch, a smartphone keyboard for blind users, and Anymaker, a tablet application for sketching in 3D. Chapters: 0:00 - Introduction 1:52 - Visualisation & AI 7:46 - Visualising complex systems 14:28 - Understanding & recognition 17:50 - Understanding in LLMs 25:48 - Respecting AI models 32:20 - Humanoid robots 36:20 - Visualising AI models 46:30 - Real cost of AI 50:36 - Educating about AI 56:15 - Transduction 1:00:20 - Science & pseudo science 1:04:58 - Multimodality 1:10:18 - Humans & AI 1:27:25 - Brailletouch 1:42:46 - Quality of life 1:47:46 - Accessibility 1:51:00 - Risk assessment 2:00:50 - AI in medicin 2:03:08 - Human influence 2:07:46 - AGI Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    2 h y 12 min

  4. 21/04/2024

    #9 Magnus Boman: AI and Health

    Professor Magnus Boman is the lead of AI and health at Department of Medicine, Solna, Division of Clinical Epidemiology at the Karolinska Instituted. His research spans in a variety of subjects such as the use cases of AI for precision medicine and multimodal prediction and prevention, assisting humans learn over time for cross-domain applications and saving and sharing those learned structures, how AI should take on energy-efficient forms that address the von Neumann bottleneck, and how it can can help translate the output from quantum sensors into meaningful and actionable information. Chapters: 0:00 - Introduction 0:49 - AI in health 11:40 - AI models 30:00 - New techniques 45:20 - Licensing 55:00 - Data collection Reach out to me: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/avid_fayaz/ X: https://twitter.com/AvidFayaz LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/avid-fayaz-98825a252/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1 h 9 min

  5. 19/02/2024

    #8 Haluk Akay: Design, Sustainability, and AI

    Haluk Akay is a postdoc at KTH Royal Institute of technology working with AI and design principles to utilise engineering knowledge in decision making in sustainable manufacturing. He has received his phd in mechanical engineering from MIT. He has also conducted research in microelectronic mechanical systems, MEMS, and their use cases. The AI Pod is supported by KTH Innovation. Chapters: 0:00 - Introduction 0:47 - Design principles 4:10 - Good design 11:00 - AI in design 16:50 - Training AI design models 19:30 - Data availability 23:50 - Sustainability & AI 34:34 - Access to AI 43:46 - AI arms race 47:20 - Supervision over AI 50:00 - AI & human bias 52:16 - Timeline for AI 55:06 - Future of work 58:30 - Global equality & AI 1:05:30 - MEMS 1:09:32 - MEMS in space 1:11:20 - Personal hopes and concerns Video link to the podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@theaipod Write to me on: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/avid_fayaz/ X: https://twitter.com/AvidFayaz LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/avid-fayaz-98825a252/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1 h 13 min

  6. 25/11/2023

    #7 Hedvig Kjellström: Communication, Cognition, and AI

    Hedvig Kjellström is a Professor in the Division of Robotics, Perception and Learning, KTH, and also affiliated with Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Silo AI, Swedish e-Science Research Centre, and Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Germany.  The general theme of her research is the study of methods for enabling artificial agents to interpret human and animal behavior. These studies have been applied in the study of human aesthetic bodily expressions such as in music and dance, modeling and interpreting human communicative behavior, and the understanding of animal behavior and experiences. Chapters: 0:00 - Introduction 0:40 - AI-Human interaction 11:00 - Study of humans 15:10 - Developing AI models 19:08 - Creativity and AI 23:20 - AI & understanding 28:36 - Thought without language 37:00 - Non-human Intelligence 41:00 - Projecting feelings on AI 46:18 - Regulations 51:56 - Open source models 54:34 - Watermarking 55:34 - Hopes & concerns 59:20 - AGI and embodied models 1:01:10 - Future of jobs Video link to the podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@theaipod Write to me on: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/avid_fayaz/ X: https://twitter.com/AvidFayaz LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/avid-fayaz-98825a252/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1 h 5 min

  7. 11/11/2023

    #6 André Holzapfel: AI, Music, and Creativity

    André Holzapfel is an associate professor of Media Technology with a specialisation in sound & music at KTH, Royal Institute of Technology. His work also encompasses the ethical and sustainability aspects of AI. He has also studied the relation of dance and music, with a focus on the island of Crete, through his work in ethnomusicology. Video link to the podcast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEFO1CFt8ocQXoS2q7tyQVA Social: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/avid_fayaz/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AvidFayaz LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/avid-fayaz-98825a252/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    49 min
  8. #5 Per Andersson: Organisational & Business Effects of AI

    24/03/2023

    #5 Per Andersson: Organisational & Business Effects of AI

    Per Andersson is a professor at Stockholm School of Economic. His research focuses on the organisational effects of implementation of AI and its different applications in businesses and government organisations. Chapters: 0:00 - Introduction 0:56 - AI in organisations 2:05 - AI & Digitalisation 5:18 - Different uses 6:56 - Business applications 12:06 - Accessibility to AI 16:48 - Finding AI solutions 20:00 - Customer obsession 24:20 - Ethics, transparency & sustainability 32:14 - Regulations 33:38 - Public sentiment 37:46 - Education on AI 39:20 - Front-end uses 42:06 - Large and small companies 44:06 - Traditional businesses vs Startups 48:48 - Global equality 54:48 - Future of jobs 57:36 - Business management 59:48 - AGI 1:05:06 - Future of AI Social: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/avid_fayaz/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AvidFayaz LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/avid-fayaz-98825a252/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1 h 6 min
  9. #4 Clàudia Figueras: The Ethics of AI

    25/02/2023

    #4 Clàudia Figueras: The Ethics of AI

    Clàudia Figueras is a researcher and doctoral student at the Department of Computer and Systems Sciences (DSV) at Stockholm University. Through her research, she works with studying how practitioners in AI apply ethics in their work. Link to the YouTube version of the Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@theaipod Social: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/avid_fayaz/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AvidFayaz Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1 h 9 min
  10. #3 Fredrik Strand: Radiology, breast cancer, and AI

    20/02/2023

    #3 Fredrik Strand: Radiology, breast cancer, and AI

    Fredrik Strand is an associate professor of radiology at Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. Through his research, with his team, he works with studying the applications of AI in mammography and breast cancer detection. Link to Fredriks research: https://ki.se/en/onkpat/research-team-fredrik-strand Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    54 min
  11. #2 Bob L.T. Sturm: Music and AI

    11/02/2023

    #2 Bob L.T. Sturm: Music and AI

    Bob Sturm is a professor of computer science at the department of Speech, Music and Hearing at KTH in Stockholm. Through his research he has studied the uses of AI in creation, analysis, and transcription of music. He is also PI of MUSAiC, a research project which studies the impacts of AI on music as an art form. Through his personal blog he performs music that has been generated by AI. The links to which can be found here: MUSAiC: https://musaiclab.wordpress.com/ Blog: https://tunesfromtheaifrontiers.wordp... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1 h 20 min
  12. #1 - Gabriel Skantze: Social robots, Language, and Communication between Humans and Robots | The AI Pod with Avid Fayaz

    03/02/2023

    #1 - Gabriel Skantze: Social robots, Language, and Communication between Humans and Robots | The AI Pod with Avid Fayaz

    Gabriel Skantze is a professor Communication and Technology, with a specialisation in Conversational Systems at KTH. He is also one of the cofounders and chief scientist of Furhat Robotics, a startup company focused on developing social robots. Youtube link to the podcast: https://youtu.be/qEgrBeqV7AE Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    55 min
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    Avid Fayaz
  • Años de actividad
    2023 - 2024
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