In Machines We Trust MIT Technology Review

We're joined on stage by two startup founders working to bring automation to smaller scale farms. A live conversation from Lisbon, Portugal taped at one of the world's largest tech conferences, Web Summit.

We meet:
Praveen Penmetsa, CEO of Monarch Tractor
Barry Lunn, CEO of Provizio AI 

Credits:
This episode was recorded and produced by Jennifer Strong with help from Emma Cillekens and Anthony Green. We’re edited by Mat Honan and mixed by Garret Lang, with original music from Garret Lang and Jacob Gorski. Artwork from Stephanie Arnett.

A Roomba recorded a woman on the toilet. How did screenshots end up on Facebook?
This episode we go behind the scenes of an investigation that uncovered how sensitive photos taken by an AI powered vacuum were leaked and landed on the internet. 

Reporting:
A Roomba recorded a woman on the toilet. How did screenshots end up on Facebook?
Roomba testers feel misled after intimate images ended up on Facebook

We Meet:
Eileen Guo, MIT Technology Review
Albert Fox Cahn, Surveillance Technology Oversight Project

Credits:
This episode was reported by Eileen Guo and produced by Emma Cillekens and Anthony Green. It was hosted by Jennifer Strong and edited by Amanda Silverman and Mat Honan. This show is mixed by Garret Lang with original music from Garret Lang and Jacob Gorski. Artwork by Stephanie Arnett.

Our reporting about farming, AI and satellites turned into three episodes of this podcast, which you can find linked here in the show notes, and as part of this reporting we also toured a satellite factory in downtown San Francisco, called Planet Labs. This week we bring you along for one of our audio postcards to hear how these satellites are built and tested.

We meet: 
Jacob Stern, director of test engineering at Planet Labs

Credits:
This episode was produced by Jennifer Strong with help from Anthony Green and Emma Cillekens. It was edited by Mat Honan and mixed by Garret Lang, with original music from Garret Lang and Jacob Gorski. Art direction by Stephanie Arnett.

A panel of luminaries join us live on stage at MIT Technology Review’s flagship conference, EmTech MIT, and discuss the path forward for AI research.

We Meet:
Will Douglas Heaven, Senior Editor of AI at MIT Technology Review
Ashley Llorens, Vice President & Managing Director at Microsoft Research
Raia Hadsell, Senior Director of Research and Robotics at DeepMind
Yann LeCun, NYU Professor, VP & Chief AI Scientist at Meta

Credits:
This episode was recorded in front of a live audience at the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts with special thanks to Will Douglas Heaven, Amy Lammers and Brian Bryson. It was produced by Jennifer Strong, Emma Cillekens and Anthony Green, directed by Erin Underwood, edited by Mat Honan and mixed by Garret Lang. 

From chess to Jeopardy to e-sports, AI is increasingly beating humans at their own games. But that was never the ultimate goal. In this episode we dig into the symbiotic relationship between games and AI. We meet the big players in the space, and we take a trip to an arcade.


We Meet: 
Julian Togelius
Will Douglas-Heaven
David Silver 
David Fahri 



We Talked To: 
Julian Togelius
Will Douglas-Heaven
Karen Hao
David Silver 
David Fahri 
Natasha Regan



Sounds From:

Jeopardy 2011-02:The IBM Challenge
https://archive.org/details/Jeopardy.2011.02.The.IBM.Challenge/Jeopardy.2011.02.16.The.IBM.Challenge.Day.3.HDTV.XviD-FQM.avi 

Garry Kasparov VS Deep Blue 1997 6th game (Kasparov Resigns)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsMk1Nbcs-s 

Attack Like AlphaZero: The Power of the King
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0JK5Fa3AqI 

Miracle Perfect Anti Mage 16/0 - Dota 2 Pro Gameplay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59KnNcU9iKc 

DOTA 2 - ALL GAME-WINNING Moments in The International History (TI1-TI9)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJcNbuASl-Y 


Credits:
This episode was reported by Jennifer Strong and Will Douglas Heaven and produced by Anthony Green, Emma Cillekens and Karen Hao. We’re edited by Niall Firth, Michael Reilly and Mat Honan. Our mix engineer is Garret Lang. Sound design and music by Jacob Gorski.

AI is used in farming in some ways you might not expect, like for tracking the health of crops—from space. We travel from test farms to labs in the second installment of our series on agriculture, AI, and satellites. 

We Meet:
Joseph Liefer, senior product manager of autonomy at John Deere
Julian Sanchez, director of emerging technology at John Deere
Shely Aranov, CEO of InnerPlant
Rod Kumimoto, CSO of InnerPlant

Credits:
This episode was reported and produced by Jennifer Strong, Emma Cillekens and Anthony Green. It was edited by Mat Honan, and mixed by Garret Lang, with original music by Garret Lang and Jacob Gorski. Artwork by Stephanie Arnett.