Artificially Intelligent

OpenAI has published a great blog showing the development of complex strategies from their RL agents while playing hide-and-seek. We talk about what was achieved as well as the state of current RL research and, more importantly, applications. Links: Emergent Tool Use from Multi-Agent Interaction Follow us and leave a rating! Patreon iTunes Homepage Twitter @artlyintelly Facebook

The US and China have been locked in an epic struggle for AI dominance - whatever that may mean. Kai-Fu Lee's latest book, AI Superpowers provides a unique look at the development of AI from a Chinese perspective. Additionally, a recent report attempts to quantify the development of AI for China, the United States, and the European Union to measure who is really ahead. Links AI and Superpowered Economic Errors AI Superpowers Who is Winning the AI Race? Follow us and leave a rating! Patreon iTunes Homepage Twitter @artlyintelly Facebook Access the latest episode here!  

A British energy firm lost about $240k due to an AI system imitating a managing director in the company. The fraudsters instructed a lower level employee to transfer funds to a Hungarian account after mimicking their boss' voice, intonation, and even his German accent with the tech. Should we be worried? Links An AI first: Voice-mimicking software reportedly used in a major theft Episode 20: Zuck and Musk and the Future of AI Lyrebird Learn Austrian Economics! Follow us and leave a rating! Patreon iTunes Homepage Twitter @artlyintelly Facebook

This past week in Shanghai, Elon Musk and Jack Ma shared the debate stage to discuss the future of artificial intelligence. Jobs, Mars, simulation theory, and the end of the world were all discussed.    Links Ma and Musk Debate  Bostrom's Simulation Argument Follow us and leave a rating! Patreon iTunes Homepage Twitter @artlyintelly Facebook

There has been increasing scrutiny on the big tech firms as of late - Amazon, Facebook, and Google in particular - regarding their handling of data. Additionally, there have been calls to break these companies up because of fear of their monopoly power. We take a look at these claims this week with Dr. Peter Klein of Baylor University. Links Dr. Klein's homepage and Twitter Follow us and leave a rating! Patreon iTunes Homepage Twitter @artlyintelly Facebook

DeepMind loses $572 million dollars last year, giving them a running three year total of over $1 billion in losses. With no clear path to profitability, what does this mean for the future of one of the most high-profile companies in the AI space? Links Reinforcement Learning is Wrong for your Business American Spies: Modern Surveillance, Why You Should Care, and What to Do About It Follow us and leave a rating! Patreon iTunes Homepage Twitter @artlyintelly Facebook

Links: Antony's Books Universal Basic Income: For and Against Procrastination Annihilation Episodes mentioned: 100 Economic Misgivings - Robots, Andrew Yang, UBI Andrew Yang 2020, Automation, AI - Truth and Fiction UBI Debate! Michael Munger Munger vs Antony Sammeroff Be Yourself and Love It Robotics will soon lead to widespread joblessness and the concentration of wealth in the hands of a few (Soho Forum debate) Antony Sammeroff vs Martin Ford  

Facial recognition technology is growing more and more pervasive around the world. This has led to adoption by companies for security, but also by governments for the purposes of policing and controlling. We look at recent stories from London, China, and San Francisco to discuss some troubling trends. Links: Police Stop People for Covering their Faces Facial Recognition Wrongly Identifies Public as Potential Criminals 96% of Time, Figures Reveal Artificial Intelligence has been Weaponized in China US Firms are Helping Build China's Orwellian State China Is Using Facial Recognition to Track Ethnic Minorities, Even in Beijing San Francisco Bans Agency Use of Facial-Recognition Technology Follow us and leave a rating! Patreon iTunes Homepage Twitter @artlyintelly Facebook

Andrew Yang's presidential campaign has helped make UBI an ubiquitous term. His motivation is driven by automation and job displacement by developments in AI. Here, we look at why UBI is more problematic than anything and that Yang's assumptions are built on faulty ground. Follow us and leave a rating! Patreon iTunes Homepage Twitter @artlyintelly Facebook

Elon Musk is in the headlines again with a lackluster showing to investors regarding Tesla's AI capabilities. He forecasts Level 5 Autonomous driving with fleets of Tesla robo-taxis taking to the roads by the end of next year! This comes two days before a Q1 earnings report, which shows Tesla is in the red again. What does this mean for self-driving technology? What about for Tesla as a company? Links: Here are Elon Musk's wildest predictions about Tesla's self-driving cars Tesla's earnings were a 'debacle' It's Elon Musk vs everyone else in the race for fully driverless cars Follow us and leave a rating! Patreon iTunes Homepage Twitter @artlyintelly Facebook

Zuckerberg released an op-ed in the Washington Post asking to be regulated. He paints this as a win for consumers, but in reality, it's a call to put a government wall around Facebook to prevent competition. We look at the details of his letter and discuss Google's failed AI ethics board and Trump's recent Executive Order on American AI dominance.  Links Ep 20: Musk vs. Zuck and the Future of AI Zuckerberg's WaPo Op-Ed Mark Zuckerberg Facebook Regulations Explained Google Cancels AI Ethics Board Dangers of Government Funded Artificial Intelligence EU Article 11 and 13  Follow us and leave a rating! iTunes Homepage Twitter @artlyintelly Facebook

Google DeepMind releases the long awaited AlphaStar in a high-profile demonstration for the public which shows it besting world champs in the game of Starcraft 2. We discuss the challenge and some of the interesting results from this latest round of man vs. machine. Links Ep 13: AI's new Alpha Dog Google DeepMind Blog DeepMind Video   Follow us and leave a rating! iTunes Homepage Twitter @artlyintelly Facebook

China has rolled out its latest effort in maintaining control of the population Zhima or Sesame Credit. This is a system designed to rate how good of a citizen you are based on the whims of the Communist Party. It tracks your credit - like western systems - but goes deeper into what you buy, what you post, and who your friends are in an attempt to nudge you into the party approved direction.  We take a deep dive in this topic today and look at some of the potential ramifications of such a system. Could something like this be coming to western nations as well? Links Episode 7: Will Democracy Survive the AI Revolution? Inside China’s Vast New Experiment in Social Ranking What Can We Learn from China’s Sesame Credit? No, China isn’t Black Mirror Follow us and leave a rating! iTunes Homepage Twitter @artlyintelly Facebook

Home assistants like the Amazon Echo have become increasingly common in households in the US and Europe. What is rarely seen, however, is the vast infrastructure and complex array of technology, materials, and labor needed to produce and provide these small devices. We break down an article that attempts to map out all of the myriad of inputs and trace them to the production of a simple voice command - and dive deep into the economic and ideological presuppositions which underlie their critique. Links: anatomyof.ai I, Pencil Böhm-Bawerk's Critique of the Exploitation Theory of Interest Labor and Capitalist Exploitation: Böhm-Bawerk and the Close of Marx's System Episode 70: Ai in the Cloud and Around the World with Mark Sears ollow us and leave us a rating! iTunes Homepage Twitter @artlyintelly Facebook

We interview Mark Sears founder and CEO of the company CloudFactory - a Kathmandu based AI firm. We discuss Mark's philosophy and how this technology can bring new jobs and opportunities to people far away from the normal tech hubs of the world. Links: CloudFactory @marktsears Follow us and leave us a rating! iTunes Homepage Twitter @artlyintelly Facebook

Save Your Internet!   Links: Why the Whole World Should be Up In Arms About EU's Looming Internet Catastrophe Episode 53: Billion Dollar Data Protection Boondoggle Julia Reda's Site EU Copyright Law Isn't Great: It Could Soon Get a Lot Worse ICO Levels First Ever GDPR Fine Against AggreateIQ Fleeing Facebook App Users Realise What They Agreed to in Apps Years Ago Vote Leave Fined and Reported to Police by Electoral Commission Follow us and leave us a rating! iTunes Homepage Twitter @artlyintelly Facebook artificiallyintelligent1@gmail.com

Bloomberg reports this week that Sentient AI - a company we featured in an interview on this podcast - is liquidating their trading business after two years of operations. Sentient isn't alone, AI hedge funds have been struggling to keep pace with investors who park their money in an S&P 500 index fund. What makes this such a difficult domain for fund managers? Is AI poorly suited? What can we learn from economics and Austrian Business Cycle Theory (ABCT) to help investors, managers, and individuals? Links: AI Hedge Fund is said to Liquidate after Less than Two Years The Massive Hedge Fund Betting on AI Episodes Mentioned: Episode 64: Evolutionary AI with Risto Miikkulainen Episode 1: AI of Wall Street Follow us and leave us a rating! iTunes Homepage Twitter @artlyintelly Facebook artificiallyintelligent1@gmail.com

Story 1: Universal Basic Income https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-10/swiss-village-says-yes-to-2-500-franc-a-month-free-money-trial?srnd=premium-europe Story 2: Access to Software Developers https://stripe.com/reports/developer-coefficient-2018 Story 3: Crypto currency value drop https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-10/crypto-wipeout-deepens-to-640-billion-as-ether-leads-declines   Follow us and leave us a rating! iTunes Homepage Twitter @artlyintelly Facebook artificiallyintelligent1@gmail.com Access the latest episode here!

Since the publication of Moneyball, sports and advanced statistics have entered the mainstream. Other sports have gradually jumped on board with less than stellar results from Die Mannschaft's partnership with SAP that resulted in an early loss in exit at the hands of the South Koreans in the most recent World Cup, to the Cleveland Browns taking an analytics driven approach and then winning one game in two seasons. What makes sports and AI so difficult in these domains and what can we learn about sports applications to help us in other industries? Follow us and leave us a rating! iTunes Homepage Twitter @artlyintelly Facebook artificiallyintelligent1@gmail.com

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