Best David Yakobovitch Podcasts (2024)

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89. AI Ethics, Risks and Safety Conference - Special Edition 12:55

2d ago12:55

12:55

In this special eddition episode we hear vox-pops recorded at the AI Ethics, Risks and Safety Conference in Bristol on the 15th of May 2024. We hear about AI regulations, AI Standards, AI Ethics frameworks, principles, ethics guiding research, awareness of the ethics of AI, and explainable AI.By Ben Byford and Herbie Robson at the AI Ethics, Risks and Safety Conference

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88. AI fictions with Alex Shvartsman 35:22

1M ago35:22

35:22

This episode we're chatting with Alex Shvartsman about what is our AI future, human crafted storytelling, the Generative AI use backlash, disclaimers for generated text, human vs AI authorship, practical or functional goals of LLMs, changing themes in science fiction, a diversity of international perspectives and more...…

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87. Good tech with Eleanor Drage and Kerry McInerney 53:49

3M ago53:49

53:49

This episode we're chatting with Eleanor and Kerry on what is good technology and is it even possible? Technology is political, watering down regulation, the magic of AI, the value of human creativity, how Feminism, Aboriginal, mixed race studies can help AI development? The performative nature tech and more...…

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86. What is AI? Vol.3 14:47

3M ago14:47

14:47

This is a bonus episode looking back over answers to our question: What is AI?By Ben Byford and guests

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Max Galka: How AI Transforms Decision-making on the Blockchain 30:53

4M ago30:53

30:53

Max Galka: How AI Transforms Decision-making on the Blockchain [Audio] Max Galka is the CEO of Elementus, the first universal search engine for blockchain and institutional grade crypto forensics solution. In this episode, we talk about all things Blockchain, Bitcoin, Data, and AI. Episode Links: Max Galka LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxg…

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85. New forms of story telling with Guy Gadney 47:51

5M ago47:51

47:51

This episode we're chatting with Guy Gadney on new forms of story telling, placing people inside a story, natural language in games, LLM hype, data used in LLMs, copyright infringment, the destructive ideology of innovation, an unprecedented redistribution of wealth away from the cultural industries and more...…

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84. Review of 2023 with Karin Rudolph 1:02:33

6M ago1:02:33

1:02:33

For our in-person episode on 2023 with Karin Rudolph we chat about the Future of Life Institute letter, existential risk of AI, TESCREAL, Geoffrey Hinton’s resignation from Google, the AI Safety Summit, EU AI act and legislating AI, neural rights and more...By Ben Byford with Karin Rudolph

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83. Avoidable misery with Adam Braus 1:06:52

7M ago1:06:52

1:06:52

This episode we're chatting with Adam Braus about natural stupidity, natural intelligence, misericordianism and avoidable misery, the drowning child thought experiment, natural state of morality, Donald Trump bot, Asimov’s rules, human instincts, the positive outcomes of AI and more...By Ben Byford with Adam Braus

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82. Work, wellness and creativity with Harriet Pellereau 56:03

9M ago56:03

56:03

This episode we're chatting with Harriet Pellereau about AI’s lack of reasoning ability, uses of generative AI, creativity and AI, what even is creativity? creative duties, new ways of working / digital working, 4 day week global, work life balance, the hidden cost of convenience, responsible tech and more...…

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81. The state of AI Ethics with Alice Thwaite 1:03:11

9M ago1:03:11

1:03:11

This time I'm chatting to alice about teaching ethics, the idea of information environments, the importance of democracy, the Ethics hype train and the ethics community, people to follow in AI and Data Ethics, ethics as innovation and more...By Ben Byford with Alice Thwaite

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80. Art and AI collaboration with Sarah Brin 35:44

9M ago35:44

35:44

This time we're chatting with Sarah Brin about types of AI, the process of making artwork, how is an artwork culturally valuable, curatorial practise for AI art, unionising creative art workers, collaborative artwork with AI, using AI to help the climate emergency, AI in games and more...By Ben Byford with Sarah Brin

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79. Taming Uncertainty with Roger Spitz 1:13:36

12M ago1:13:36

1:13:36

This time we chat with Roger Spitz about how to think about the future, what does a futurist do? Thriving with disruption, a chief existential officer, virtuous inflection points, delegating too much authority / decision making, our inappropriate education systemBy Ben Byford with Roger Spitz

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78. Design and AI with Nadia Piet 40:56

1y ago40:56

40:56

This episode Nadia and I chat about how design can co-create AI, what the role of designers are in AI services? post-deployment design, narratives in AI development and AI ideologues, anthropocentric AI, augmented creativity, new AI perspectives, situated intelligences and more...By Ben Byford with Nadia Piet

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77. Doing Ethics with Marc Steen 52:24

1y ago52:24

52:24

This episode Marc Steen and I chat about: AI as tools, the ethics of business models, writing Ethics for People Who Work in Tech, the process of ethics - “doing ethics” and his three step process, misconceptions of ethics as compliance or a road block, evaluating ethical theories, universal rights, types of knowledges, what is the world we’re creat…

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76. The professionalisation of data science with Dr Marie Oldfield 38:10

1y ago38:10

38:10

This episode we're talking with Dr Marie Oldfield on definitions of AI, the education and communication gaps with AI, explainable models, ethics in education, problems with audits and legislation, AI accreditation, importance of interdisciplinary teams, when to use AI or not, and harms from algorithms.…

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75. The moral status of non-humans with Josh Gellers 1:05:03

1y ago1:05:03

1:05:03

This episode we talk with Josh Gellers about nature rights, rights for robots, non-human and human rights, justification for the attribution of rights, the sphere of moral importance, perspectives on legal and moral concepts, shaping better policy, the Lamda/Lemoine controversy, predicates of legal personhood, the heated discourse on robot rights, …

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74. AI, ethics and the future - DFA talk special edition 1:10:05

1+ y ago1:10:05

1:10:05

In this special edition episode with Data Science Festival we're hosting a panel discussing: what is ethics? Designing for Responsible AI, ethics as innovation and competitive advantage, ghost work, fairer AI, language as a human computer interface, cleaning up the web, technologies that shouldn’t be deployed and much more...…

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73. 2022 in review with Olivia Gamblin 1:17:37

1+ y ago1:17:37

1:17:37

For this end of year episode I'm joined by Olivia Gamblinn to discuss: ethics boards, generative images models and copywrite, concept art, model bias and representation in the generative models, paying artists to appear in training sets, plagerism, chatGPT and when it breaks down, factual “truth” in text models, expectations for AI and digital tech…

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72. Algorithms with Social Impact with Mitchel Ondili 43:48

1+ y ago43:48

43:48

This episode we talk with Mitchel Ondili on algorithm awareness, technology colonisation in the global south, OASI the registry for Algorithms with Social Impact, AI auditing, private vs public rights to consent, submitting your algorithms to OASI, hiring, and social services algorithms, the over datafication of life, or becoming an algorithmic sub…

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71. The Politics of AI with Mark Coeckelbergh 45:49

1+ y ago45:49

45:49

This episode we talk with Mark Coeckelbergh about AI as a story about machines and where are we heading in creating human level intelligence, moral standing and robot-animal interfaces, technology determinism, environmental impacts of robots and AI, energy budgets, politics and AI, self-regulation and global governance for global issues.…

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Steven Banerjee: How Machine Intelligence, NLP and AI is changing Health Care 30:39

2y ago30:39

30:39

Steven Banerjee: How Machine Intelligence, NLP and AI is changing Health Care [Audio] Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS Steven Banerjee is the CEO of NExTNet Inc. NExTNet is a Silicon Valley based technology startup pioneering natural language based Explainable AI platform to accel…

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70. Rights, trust and ethical choice with Ricardo Baeza-Yates 45:19

2y ago45:19

45:19

This episode we talk with Ricardo Baeza-Yates about: Responsible AI, the importance of AI governance, questioning people's intent to create AGI, robot rights and brain / neural rights, the evolution of intelligence, ethical risk assessment, machine ethics, making ethical choices on behalf of your users, binary notions of trust, stupid uses of AI an…

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69. AI ethics strategy with Reid Blackman 57:24

2y ago57:24

57:24

In this episode we talk with Reid Blackman about: what is learning? What it means to be worthy of trust, bullsh**t AI principles, company values, purpose and use in decision making, his AI ethics risk strategy book, machine ethics as a fools errand, weighing metrics for measuring bias, ethics committees, police and the IRB. And much more...…

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Steven Shwartz: How AI Will Impact Society Over the Next Ten Years 34:14

2y ago34:14

34:14

[Audio] Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS Steve received his PhD from Johns Hopkins University in Cognitive Science where he began his AI research and also taught Statistics at Towson State University. After receiving his PhD in 1979, AI pioneer Roger Schank invited Steve to join t…

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Gianluca Mauro: How To Educate Future Managers To The AI Era 34:54

2y ago34:54

34:54

[Audio] Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS Gianluca Mauro is the CEO of AI Academy, which he founded with the mission of helping people understand what artificial intelligence is and its place in their organizations and their career. Gianluca is the author of the book "Zero to AI - …

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Ben Zweig: How Data Science and Labor Economics Connects to Workforce Intelligence 27:12

2y ago27:12

27:12

Ben Zweig: How Data Science and Labor Economics Connects to Workforce Intelligence [Audio] Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS Ben Zweig is the CEO of Revelio Labs, a workforce intelligence company. Revelio Labs indexes hundreds of millions of public employment records to create the …

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68. Ethics of digital worlds with Richard Bartle 1:01:31

2+ y ago1:01:31

1:01:31

Richard Bartle joins us again after his appearance on ep.65 to chat about the metaverse, different ways to design AI controlled NPC, the lack of progress of AI in games, ethical considerations of games designers, ethics of AI life, virutalism, 'smart' AI will happened, robot rights and more...By Ben Byford with Richard Bartle

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67. AI Audits with Ryan Carrier 57:11

2+ y ago57:11

57:11

This episode we're chatting with Ryan Carrier about the positivity of the ForHumanity community, being compelled to do something about AI technologies negative impact, AI audits and topics including: trust, oversight, governance, privacy, cyber security, bias; creating an infrastructure of trust, disclosing found risks and the ethical decisions, th…

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Edo Liberty: How Vector Data Is Changing The Way We Recommend Everything 33:27

2+ y ago33:27

33:27

Edo Liberty: How Vector Data Is Changing The Way We Recommend Everything [Audio] Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS Edo Liberty is the CEO of Pinecone, a company hiring exceptional scientists and engineers to solve some of the hardest and most impactful machine learning challenges o…

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66. 2021 in review with Merve Hickok 50:18

2+ y ago50:18

50:18

This episode Ben and Merve are chatting about 2021–EU AI legislation & harmonising AI product markets through policy, the UNESCO principles, systemic dogma, AI ethics in defence, Reith lectures and Lethal autonomous weapons, demonstrating values / principles and much more...By Ben Byford and Merve Hickok

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Thor Ernstsson: How To Use Data Science for Stronger Relationships 34:26

2+ y ago34:26

34:26

Thor Ernstsson: How To Use Data Science for Stronger Relationships [Audio] Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS Thor Ernstsson is the CEO of Strata, a company that helps customers invest in their networks, no matter how busy they are. Strata enables intelligent outreach recommendation…

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65. DeepDive: AI and Games 35:16

2+ y ago35:16

35:16

This first Deepdive episode we talk to Amandine Flachs, Tommy Thompson and Richard Bartle about AI in games, it's history, it's uses and where its going. We discover NPCs, games as a test bed for AI research, different game AI techniques, back office uses of AI, job displacement, bad actors and possible futures...…

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Stephen Miller: How To Leverage Mobile Phones And 3D Data To Build Robust Computer Vision Systems 34:21

2+ y ago34:21

34:21

Stephen Miller: How To Leverage Mobile Phones And 3D Data To Build Robust Computer Vision Systems [Audio] Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS Stephen Miller is the Cofounder and SVP Engineering at Fyusion Inc. He has conducted research in 3D Perception and Computer Vision with Profs …

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Nell Watson: How To Teach AI Human Values 34:44

2+ y ago34:44

34:44

Nell Watson: How To Teach AI Human Values [Audio] Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS Nell Watson is an interdisciplinary researcher in emerging technologies such as machine vision and A.I. ethics. Her work primarily focuses on protecting human rights and putting ethics, safety, and …

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64. Emotion detection with Andrew McStay 50:23

2+ y ago50:23

50:23

This episode we're chatting with Andrew McStay about emotional human machine interface, emotion face and voice detection, emotion detection and hiring–and the possiblity of gaming these systems, interactive AI kids toys, the space between an ethical subject and an object in AI systems, raising children in an AI world, cultural differences in emotio…

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Ryan McDonald: How To Position People at the Center of AI Native Solutions 35:01

2+ y ago35:01

35:01

Ryan McDonald: How To Position People at the Center of AI Native Solutions [Audio] Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS Ryan McDonald is the Chief Scientist at ASAPP working on NLP and ML research focusing on CX and enterprise. He is also an Associate researcher in the NLP group at At…

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Humphrey Chen: How AI Can Revolutionize the Way We Consume Video 36:00

2+ y ago36:00

36:00

Humphrey Chen: How AI Can Revolutionize the Way We Consume Video [Audio] Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS Humphrey Chen is the CEO and Co-Founder of CLIPr. He has a BS in Management Science from MIT. His work in tech specializes in the use of technology to make people and companie…

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63. AI readiness with Tim El-Sheikh 1:00:53

2+ y ago1:00:53

1:00:53

This episode we're talking with Tim El-Sheikh of Nebuli.com. We chat about definitions of intelligence and augmented intelligence, ethical AI as the smarter AI, importance of a businesses AI strategy and getting data ready, AGI and what is conciousness? Human intuition, privacy as a human right and more...…

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Dave Bechberger: How Connected Data Impacts Our Daily Interactions 32:32

2+ y ago32:32

32:32

Dave Bechberger: How Connected Data Impacts Our Daily Interactions [Audio] Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS Dave Berchberger is a Senior Graph Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS). He is known for his expertise in distributed data architecture being a thought leader in graph dat…

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Alex Beard: How to Solve for the Global Education Crisis caused by The Pandemic 38:07

3y ago38:07

38:07

Alex Beard: How to Solve for the Global Education Crisis caused by The Pandemic [Audio] Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS Alex Beard is the Senior Director at Teach For All , and author of the book Natural Born Learners. After starting out as an English teacher in a London comprehe…

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How To Organize Data Science Teams and Data Science Projects for Startups with Ivy Lu at Oxygen 26:18

3y ago26:18

26:18

Ivy Lu: How To Organize Data Science Teams and Data Science Projects for Startups [Audio] Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS Ivy Lu is the head of data science and machine learning at Oxygen. Ivy's onboarding marked the launch of Oxygen’s banking platform. She has bachelor's degree …

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62. What excites you about AI? Vol.1 17:25

3y ago17:25

17:25

In this bonus compilation episode we look back at our interviewees answers to the question: What excites you about our AI mediated future? We chat about rethinking our responsibility towards our world, algorithms that work for everyone not just the a few, social justice, solving coordination problems and humanitarian problems, growing as a humanity…

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How the future of media will be enhanced by generative design with Asra Nadeem 42:06

3y ago42:06

42:06

Asra Nadeem: How the future of media will be enhanced by generative design [Audio] Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS Asra Nadeem is the Co-Founder of Opus AI, a streaming platform powered by proprietary tech that turns plain text into movies and playable 3D worlds in real-time. She…

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61. Welcome to the Machine Ethics podcast 3:13

3y ago3:13

3:13

Short introduction to the podcast: what it is about, when it started, and how to get involved.By Ben Byford

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60. Responsible AI Research with Madhulika Srikumar 40:38

3y ago40:38

40:38

This time we're talking AI research with Madhulika Srikumar of Partnership on AI. We chat about managing the risks of AI research, how should the AI community think about the consequences of their research, documenting best practises for AI, OpenAI's GTP2 research disclosure example, considering unintended consequences & negative downstream outcome…

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59. What scares you about AI? Vol.1 16:44

3y ago16:44

16:44

In this bonus compilation episode we look back at our interviewees answers to the question: What scares you about our AI mediated future? We chat gender imbalance and lack of diversity, digital personhood, climate change, ubiquitous surveillance, deep-fakes, people misusing AI, human hubris, capitalism getting in the way and more...…

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What is Knowledge Process Automation for AI with Steven Shillingford of DeepSee.ai 37:08

3y ago37:08

37:08

[Audio] Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS Steven Shillingford is President and CEO of DeepSee.ai, a Knowledge Process Automation (KPA) platform to mine unstructured data, operationalize AI-powered insights, and automate results into real-time action for the enterprise. He is the cr…

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How Data, Analytics, Decisions and Intelligence Are Connected with Oliver Schabenberger of SingleStore 36:31

3y ago36:31

36:31

Oliver Schabenberger: How Data, Analytics, Decisions and Intelligence Are Connected [Audio] Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS Oliver Schabenberger is the Chief Innovation Officer at SingleStore. He is a former academician and seasoned technology executive with more than 25 years of…

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58. AI regulation with Lofred Madzou 45:19

3y ago45:19

45:19

We chat with Lofred Madzou about AI as a journey to understand ourselves through smart machines, scepticism about wholesale job lose, understanding that “you are not your data”, dissecting the European proposal for AI regulation, examples of types of AI activities under regulation, the spirit of the regulation - human rights centric, risk based app…

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How To Make Sense of The Exploding Volumes of Data Available with Brad Schneider 26:05

3y ago26:05

26:05

[Audio] Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS Brad Schneider is the Founder and CEO of NoMad Data. He was previously the CEO of Adaptive Management. Throughout his career, Brad has focused on using alternative data to improve decision making and prediction. Brad has been a Portfolio Ma…

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