AI-Curious with Jeff Wilser
Episodes
The Rise of Brain Computer Interfaces (BCI) that Can Compete with Rogue Super-AIs, w/ Trent McConaghy
01 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
If AI gets super intelligent and super powerful, will it be benevolent? Or will it want to crush us like ants?Perhaps they’ll be benevolent. Maybe t...
AI and the Ukraine War, w/ TIME Magazine's Vera Bergengruen
23 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The cover of this week’s TIME Magazine has a bold headline: “The First AI War.” The subtitle: “Palantir and other tech giants are building the...
AI and the State of Play of Self-Driving Cars, w/ Noah Gedrimas
16 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Confession: I don't really care about cars. But I *love* the idea of self-driving cars.So what's the status of this idea? There's now a...
The (hype-free) AI Playbook for Machine Learning, w/ Eric Siegel
10 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Siegel is a longtime expert on machine learning, and is the author of the new book "The AI Playbook: Mastering the Rare Art of Machine Learn...
AI in Finance, Bridging Hype to Reality w/ Vasagi Kothandapani
02 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Can AI make you rich? Or, more to the point, can AI make investment banks, hedge funds, and financial services companies even richer?Not so fast...Vas...
AI Dispatch from Sundance, and Hilke Schellmann on Bias in AI Hiring Practices
25 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As our quick appetizer, a quick dispatch from the Sundance Film Festival, where AI was seemingly *everywhere*.For our entrée, we speak with Hilke Sch...
The War over AI Training Data, and Key AI Trends w/ Sharon Goldman, Senior Writer at Venture Beat
18 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What are the most important stories in AI right now? Today we chat with Sharon Goldman, Senior Writer at Venture Beat, who covers all things artificia...
How to (Actually) Use AI in Your Day-to-Day Life, w/ Catalist AI cofounder Sam Stevens
11 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We all know AI has tons of potential, but how do you *actually* use ChatGPT in your daily life?Sam Stevens is the cofounder of Catalist AI, an AI-powe...
AI’s Impact on the 2024 Election, w/ Election Expert David Becker
04 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As deep fakes get easier and the truth gets murkier, how will AI impact the 2024 election?We’re joined by election expert David Becker, the founder ...
10 AI Predictions for 2024
28 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Where is AI headed next year?I curated some of my favorite AI predictions -- and give a few of my own -- from some of the year-end AI roundups and pre...
7 Key AI Trends from 2023, w/ Tech Strategist George Kamide
21 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
So what did we learn about AI in 2023? What are the most important trends?To make sense of this wild new space, I’m joined by tech strategist and AI...
Chilling Risks of AI Deepfakes and Cyberattacks, w/ Security Expert Christian Seifert
14 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
You get a FaceTime from a loved one. They're in trouble. Big trouble. Their life is in danger. They need you to Venmo you $, they have no choic...
AI Risks and Safety, w/ The AI Policy Institute's Executive Director, Daniel Colson
07 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Now it's time for the flip side of AI.What could go wrong?Daniel Colson is the Executive Director of The AI Policy Institute, which has a mission...
Human Cloning is Here(?!), with BHuman CEO Don Bosco
01 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send in the clones. They're here. Don Bosco is the founder and CEO of BHuman, a start-up that is, well.... creating human clones. For real! Don ...
AI's Impact on Marketing and Fashion, w/ Deniz Ozgur (a Forbes' "30 Under 30" leader)
24 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When the AI hype began in earnest, "marketing and advertising" was one of the industries seen as most likely to be disrupted. This is alrea...
AI to Super-Charge Translation, w/ Smartling CEO Bryan Murphy
16 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Some of the best use cases of AI are when we think of it not as Artificial Intelligence, but "Augmented Intelligence."That's what Bryan...
AI for Drug Discovery and Longevity, w/ Rejuve CEOs Kennedy Schaal and Jasmine Smith
09 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The most important, wide-reaching, and profound use case for AI might just be drug discovery. Normally it takes YEARS for scientists to develop drugs;...
Is AI Creative? Can AI Be an Artist? W/ Mario Klingemann, Inventor of “Botto”
02 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
By now you've heard the question, "Can AI create art?"Mario Klingemann had a more provocative question: "Can an AI machine be an a...
AI to save local news, w/ Nano Media co-founder Winston Chen
26 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Will AI kill the newsroom? Possibly. But today’s guest has a different goal. Winston Chen, the co-founder of Nano Media, is using AI to try and *sav...
Mastering AI Visual Art and Storytelling w/ Heather Cooper
19 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For many, the first "gateway drug" for generative AI is text-to-image, using tools like DALL-E and Midjourney to instantly flex your creativ...
AI to Empower, w/ All Star Code's Danny Rojas
12 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What should be the role of AI in education? Cheating is an obvious concern. But can AI be used to accelerate, personalize, and even empower educatio...
How Will We Know if AI is Alive (Conscious), w Neuroscientist Dr. Grace Lindsay
05 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If AI becomes conscious, you could argue this is the most important inflection point in the history of humanity.So how will we know if and when that h...
Moral Implications of AI Consciousness, w Philosopher Jeff Sebo
28 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If AI becomes sentient, what are the moral, ethical, and legal implications? This is a tricky question with many, many, *many* follow-up questions. S...
The Wild World of AI "Digital Twins," with Querlo CEO Francesco Rulli
21 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
You can now use AI to create a digital clone, or "digital twin" of yourself or loved one or anyone, really. Why would you do this? What&apos...
How to Use AI in Business Operations, w Rachel Woods, CEO of The AI Exchange
14 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Do you work at a job? Then you're probably involved in some kind of business operations, and there's a 99.999% chance that your job will be ...
Building an AI Business, with SwingVision CEO Swupnil Sahai
07 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Think of this as an "AI case study" -- a way to make the abstractness of AI concrete by going deep on a hyper-specific example.Swupnil Sahai...
AI in Hollywood, with Toonstar's John Attanasio and Luisa Huang
31 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to AI-Curious, a podcast that explores the good, the bad, and the creepy of artificial intelligence. For the debut episode, I'll intr...