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Latest Episodes

What Are Mentats: Dune's Alternative to AI
February 14, 2020

Do mentats represent the future where 'Dune' intersects with 'The Singularity is Near'?

Legendary Science Fiction Novel Dune Has No AI
February 11, 2020

The legendary science fiction novel Dune has futuristic technology but no artificial intellligence. What happened?

Why is Bias in AI Important?
February 04, 2020

The less melodramatic but more real threat of AI is not the rise of the machines but the bias researchers inadvertantly feed into the algorithms.

ImageNet
January 28, 2020

ImageNet is a 15 million image dataset created by computer rock start Fei Fei Li who revolutionized artificial intelligence and changed the world.

Fake Radiology
January 17, 2020

Fake radiology is when artificially intelligent malware places fake tumors in patients' CT scans. With a hospital's permission, this threat became real.

What is AlphaZero?
January 14, 2020

Alpha Zero is a computer program that trained itself to play chess, Go and Shogi at superhuman levels in 24 hours.

Walloped by AlphaGo
January 10, 2020

In 1997 a chess playing computer built by IBM called Deep Blue beat the world chess champion Gary Kasparov. You […]

Deepmind, Gaming and the Nobel Prize
January 07, 2020

DeepMind is the world’s largest and most prestigious company focused on artificial intelligence and really came into the public eye […]

How AI Is Disrupting Medicine
January 03, 2020

AI and medicine…where to begin? There is so much going on in how AI is impacting healthcare. It’s a meta […]

The Turing Test 2029
December 31, 2019

Tomorrow is January 1, 2020 and we do not just start a new year but a new decade. In the […]