Best Ted Dorsey Podcasts (2024)

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Next up for AI? Dancing robots | Catie Cuan 11:34

34m ago11:34

11:34

Would you tango with a robot? Inviting us into the fascinating world of dancing machines, robot choreographer Catie Cuan highlights why teaching robots to move with grace, intention and emotion is essential to creating AI-powered machines we will want to welcome into our daily lives.By TED Tech

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How you could see inside your body — with a micro-robot | Alex Luebke and Vivek Kumbhari 12:07

1h ago12:07

12:07

Would you swallow a micro-robot? In a gutsy demo, physician Vivek Kumbhari navigates Pillbot, a wireless, disposable robot swallowed onstage by engineer Alex Luebke, modeling how this technology can swiftly provide direct visualization of internal organs. Learn more about how micro-robots could move us past the age of invasive endoscopies and open …

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Your right to repair AI systems | Rumman Chowdhury 12:25

13d ago12:25

12:25

For AI to achieve its full potential, non-experts need to contribute to its development, says Rumman Chowdhury, CEO and cofounder of Humane Intelligence. She shares how the right-to-repair movement of consumer electronics provides a promising model for a path forward, with ways for everyone to report issues, patch updates or even retrain AI technol…

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How AI could save (not destroy) education | Sal Khan 15:45

11d ago15:45

15:45

Sal Khan, the founder and CEO of Khan Academy, thinks artificial intelligence could spark the greatest positive transformation education has ever seen. This week we're revisiting a talk where he shares the opportunities he sees for students and educators to collaborate with AI tools — including the potential of a personal AI tutor for every student…

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How to govern AI — even if it's hard to predict | Helen Toner 15:46

23d ago15:46

15:46

No one truly understands AI, not even experts, says Helen Toner, an AI policy researcher and former board member of OpenAI. But that doesn't mean we can't govern it. She shows how we can make smart policies to regulate this technology even as we struggle to predict where it's headed — and why the right actions, right now, can shape the future we wa…

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12 predictions for the future of technology | Vinod Khosla 11:25

26d ago11:25

11:25

Techno-optimist Vinod Khosla believes in the world-changing power of "foolish ideas." He offers 12 bold predictions for the future of technology — from preventative medicine to car-free cities to planes that get us from New York to London in 90 minutes — and shows why a world of abundance awaits.By TED Tech

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Entertainment is getting an AI upgrade | Kylan Gibbs 10:48

1M ago10:48

10:48

AI has the power to bring your favorite fictional characters to life, says technologist Kylan Gibbs. Introducing Caleb, an "AI agent" with personality and internal reasoning, he demonstrates how AI-powered characters can interact with people in novel ways, generate unique video game outcomes and augment our ability to tell stories, opening up new w…

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The TED AI Show: Is AI just all hype? w/ Gary Marcus 39:04

2M ago39:04

39:04

Are we mistaking the remarkable skills of tools like ChatGPT with genuine intelligence? AI skeptic Gary Marcus pulls no punches when he warns that believing in the hype of generative AI models might be distracting us from building the type of AI future we actually want. Bilawal and Gary delve into the nuanced perspectives beyond the AI hype cycle, …

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With AI, anyone can be a coder now | Thomas Dohmke 14:39

2M ago14:39

14:39

What if you could code just by talking out loud? GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke shows how, thanks to AI, the barrier to entry to coding is rapidly disappearing — and creating software is becoming as simple (and joyful) as building LEGO. In a mind-blowing live demo, he introduces Copilot Workspace: an AI assistant that helps you create code when you speak…

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The TED AI Show: Will AI “eat software” — and what’ll happen to coders? w/ GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke 29:38

2M ago29:38

29:38

AI is reshaping software development so much that someday soon, anyone will be able to build an app or a game. What does that mean for programming now? Bilawal and Thomas Dohmke, CEO of GitHub, explore the soaring possibilities and discuss the lingering concerns as “AI eats software.” Whether you are a coder or a tech enthusiast, think AI will supe…

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What is an AI anyway? | Mustafa Suleyman 23:17

2M ago23:17

23:17

When it comes to artificial intelligence, what are we actually creating? Even those closest to its development are struggling to describe exactly where things are headed, says Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman, one of the primary architects of the AI models many of us use today. He offers an honest and compelling new vision for the future of AI, pr…

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The TED AI Show: AI therapy is here. What does it mean for you? w/ Dr. Alison Darcy and Brian Chandler 40:17

2M ago40:17

40:17

We may think the complexities of the human mind can only be understood by other humans. Yet research on chatbots and psychology suggests non-human bots can actually help improve mental health. Bilawal talks with Dr. Alison Darcy, the founder of mental health app Woebot, and Brian Chandler, an app user, to learn what chatbots reveal about our inner …

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What if buildings created energy instead of consuming it? | Ksenia Petrichenko 15:57

2M ago15:57

15:57

Buildings are bad news for the climate -- but they don't have to be. While our structures are currently responsible for a third of global energy consumption and emissions, a future where they create more energy than they consume is possible. This week we are revisiting a talk by energy policy analyst Ksenia Petrichenko who has a three-tiered strate…

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The TED AI Show: Your next best friend may be 100% AI w/ Purnendu Mukherjee 30:16

2M ago30:16

30:16

Non Player Characters --NPCs for short-- have always been a huge part of what makes video games engaging, from Cortana in Halo to Navi in The Legend of Zelda. But interactions with NPCs were always limited to a pre-written script. Until now. Purnendu Mukherjee is the CEO of Convai, a platform that enables developers to create NPCs with human-like c…

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How AI is unlocking the secrets of nature and the universe | Demis Hassabis 26:21

2M ago26:21

26:21

Can AI help us answer life's biggest questions? In this visionary conversation, Google DeepMind cofounder and CEO Demis Hassabis delves into the history and incredible capabilities of AI with head of TED Chris Anderson. Hassabis explains how AI models like AlphaFold — which accurately predicted the shapes of all 200 million proteins known to scienc…

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The TED AI Show: Why we can't fix bias with more AI w/ Patrick Lin 34:00

2M ago34:00

34:00

Technology is supposed to make our lives better – but who gets to decide how that improvement unfolds, and what values it upholds? Tech ethicist Patrick Lin and Bilawal dig into the hidden -- and not so hidden -- biases in AI. From historically inaccurate images to life-and-death decisions in hospitals, human biases reveal how AI mirrors our own fl…

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3 mysteries of the universe — and a new force that might explain them | Alex Keshavarzi 13:21

3M ago13:21

13:21

We're still in the dark about what 95 percent of our universe is made of — and the standard model for understanding particle physics has hit a limit. What's the next step forward? Particle physicist Alex Keshavarzi digs into the first results of the Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab in Chicago, which found compelling evidence of new particles or forc…

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The TED AI Show: AI may take jobs – but not our creativity w/ artist Claire Silver 31:10

3M ago31:10

31:10

Like many new, exciting artistic technologies before it, the development of AI is begging us to ask: what counts as art? In a provocative conversation, Claire Silver, an anonymous AI collaborative artist, sits down with Bilawal to talk about how AI has revolutionized her own mixed media practice, and why she thinks that AI may be an inextricable pa…

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Can AI catch criminals at sea? | Dyhia Belhabib 14:01

3M ago14:01

14:01

Can AI help catch oceanic outlaws? From drug smugglers to modern-day pirates, maritime crime fighter Dyhia Belhabib introduces Heva: an AI-powered tool that aggregates international criminal records to detect and stop crime that might otherwise get swept away in the tide. After the talk, Sherrell dives deeper into how technology can help us keep ou…

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The TED AI Show: What really went down at OpenAI and the future of regulation w/ Helen Toner 40:28

3M ago40:28

40:28

If there’s one AI company that’s made a splash in mainstream vernacular, it’s OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. Former board member and AI policy expert Helen Toner joins Bilawal to discuss the existing knowledge gaps and conflicting interests between those who are in charge of making the latest technology – and those who create our policies at t…

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The AI-powered tools supercharging your imagination | Bilawal Sidhu 18:20

3M ago18:20

18:20

How is AI changing the nature of human imagination and creativity? Through a mind-bending tour of new techniques he's been tinkering with, creative technologist Bilawal Sidhu shows how anyone can use AI-powered tools — like 3D scans that let you redesign the physical world in real time — to expand the possibilities of artistic expression, often wit…

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The TED AI Show: Is AI destroying our sense of reality? with Sam Gregory 27:25

3M ago27:25

27:25

Could you spot a deepfake? We’re entering a new world where generative AI is challenging our sense of what’s real and what’s fiction. In our first episode, Bilawal and Sam Gregory, a human rights activist and technologist, discuss how to protect our sense of reality. This is an episode of The TED AI Show, TED's newest podcast. Sure, some prediction…

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Why don't we have better robots yet? | Ken Goldberg 13:13

3M ago13:13

13:13

Why hasn't the dream of having a robot at home to do your chores become a reality yet? With three decades of research expertise in the field, roboticist Ken Goldberg sheds light on the clumsy truth about robots — and what it will take to build more dexterous machines to work in a warehouse or help out at home.…

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AI and the paradox of self-replacing workers | Madison Mohns 11:33

4M ago11:33

11:33

As companies introduce AI into the workplace to increase productivity, an uncomfortable paradox is emerging: people are often responsible for training the very systems that might displace them. AI ethics advocate Madison Mohns presents three leadership principles to embrace technological progress while prioritizing your coworkers' well-being — pavi…

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How wireless energy from space could power everything | Ali Hajimiri 11:50

4M ago11:50

11:50

Modern life runs on wireless technology. What if the energy powering our devices could also be transmitted without wires? This week we are revisiting a talk by electrical engineer Ali Hajimiri, where he explains the principles behind wireless energy transfer and shares his far-out vision for launching flexible solar panels into space in order to co…

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Next up for AI? Dancing robots | Catie Cuan 11:34

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How you could see inside your body — with a micro-robot | Alex Luebke and Vivek Kumbhari 12:07

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Your right to repair AI systems | Rumman Chowdhury 12:25

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How AI could save (not destroy) education | Sal Khan 15:45

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How to govern AI — even if it's hard to predict | Helen Toner 15:46

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12 predictions for the future of technology | Vinod Khosla 11:25

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Entertainment is getting an AI upgrade | Kylan Gibbs 10:48

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The TED AI Show: Is AI just all hype? w/ Gary Marcus 39:04

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With AI, anyone can be a coder now | Thomas Dohmke 14:39

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The TED AI Show: Will AI “eat software” — and what’ll happen to coders? w/ GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke 29:38

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What is an AI anyway? | Mustafa Suleyman 23:17

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The TED AI Show: AI therapy is here. What does it mean for you? w/ Dr. Alison Darcy and Brian Chandler 40:17

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What if buildings created energy instead of consuming it? | Ksenia Petrichenko 15:57

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The TED AI Show: Your next best friend may be 100% AI w/ Purnendu Mukherjee 30:16

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How AI is unlocking the secrets of nature and the universe | Demis Hassabis 26:21

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The TED AI Show: Why we can't fix bias with more AI w/ Patrick Lin 34:00

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3 mysteries of the universe — and a new force that might explain them | Alex Keshavarzi 13:21

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The TED AI Show: AI may take jobs – but not our creativity w/ artist Claire Silver 31:10

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Can AI catch criminals at sea? | Dyhia Belhabib 14:01

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The TED AI Show: What really went down at OpenAI and the future of regulation w/ Helen Toner 40:28

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The AI-powered tools supercharging your imagination | Bilawal Sidhu 18:20

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The TED AI Show: Is AI destroying our sense of reality? with Sam Gregory 27:25

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Why don't we have better robots yet? | Ken Goldberg 13:13

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AI and the paradox of self-replacing workers | Madison Mohns 11:33

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How wireless energy from space could power everything | Ali Hajimiri 11:50

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