Mar 5, 2023
Michael Levin (🔗, 🔗, 🔗) is the director of the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University, and Distinguished Professor of Biology and Vannevar Bush Chair, among several other roles. In this episode he talks with Michael and Dave about computing writ very large indeed, with topics ranging from the meaning of...
Feb 18, 2023
Cynthia Rudin, the Earl D. McLean, Jr. Professor of Computer
Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Statistical Science,
Mathematics,and Biostatistics & Bioinformatics at Duke
University (🔗, 🔗, 🔗), joins Michael and Dave
for a fast and feisty
conversation about how to make machines we can understand...
Jan 8, 2023
Vukosi Marivate, Associate Professor of Computer Science and ABSA UP Chair of Data Science at the University of Pretoria (🔗, 🔗, 🔗), joins Michael and Dave for a discussion of AI and machine learning research across Africa and around the world, and the challenges of centralization and efficiency versus...
Nov 5, 2022
Andrew Davison is Professor of Robot Vision (🔗) at Imperial College London, and leads the Dyson Robotics Laboratory (🔗). Andrew invented the SLAM algorithm for robot mapping and navigation, and as this fast conversation makes clear, Dave and Michael are both big fans.
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Oct 2, 2022
Reclusive New York Times best-selling author John Twelve Hawks (🔗, 🔗 , 🔗) joins Michael and Dave to discuss problems of the world today and possibilities of the world tomorrow -- including AI risks, technological centralization, machines acting like people and people acting like machines, sex drives for...