Artificially Intelligent

We interview Shri Santhanam, VP of AI and Analytics with Experian about how AI is transforming credit, ratings agencies, loans, and how they are using AI to help during the COVID-19 pandemic. Follow us and leave a rating! Skill Share Patreon iTunes Homepage Twitter @artlyintelly Facebook Learn Economics at Liberty Classroom

We're joined by Dr. Patrick Bowen, CEO of Neurophos - a company working to bring optical computing to AI inference. We cover optical, analog computation, metamaterials and heaps of fascinating physics and how that interfaces with artificial intelligence. Follow us and leave a rating! Skill Share Patreon iTunes Homepage Twitter @artlyintelly Facebook Learn Economics at Liberty Classroom

We interview Seth Earley of Earley Information Sciences, a data science consulting firm out of Boston. There are heaps of great information that we get into here covering AI applications for HR, supply chain, best practices, and the key ingredient most companies who are struggling with machine learning are missing. Links The AI Powered Enterprise Earley Information Sciences Follow us and leave a rating! Skill Share Patreon iTunes Homepage Twitter @artlyintelly Facebook Learn Economics at Liberty Classroom

We're joined by Max Sklar, Foursquare engineer and host of the Local Maximum podcast, to discuss the data issues around COVID-19, what it's like in New York right now, and some of the latest developments from Foursquare. Links Local Maximum Podcast Ep 54: The Local Maximum Ep 98: Can AI Help Save you from the Coronavirus? Visit Data Foursquare: Doing What We Can to Help Foursquare Data on Airport Traffic Hydroxichloroquine as COVID-19 Treatment S2 Cell Geometry Follow us and leave a rating! Skill Share Patreon iTunes Homepage Twitter @artlyintelly Facebook Learn Economics at Liberty Classroom

This has been a wild few weeks: COVID-19 has spread around the world, people are getting shelter in place orders, and the markets are reacting violently to the news. Last October, we recorded an episode predicting this bubble would pop soon. Here, we explain why we saw that coming and how you can educate yourself to be prepared for what's coming next. Links Episode 87: The Coming Crash of Tech Bubble 2.0 Dao of Capital, Mark Spitznagel Incerto, Nassim Nicholas Taleb The (Mis)behavior of Markets, Benoit Mandelbrot Choice, Bob Murphy Human Action, Ludwig von Mises Mystery of Banking, Murray Rothbard Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles, Jesus Huerta de Soto Big Debt Crisis, Ray Dalio Mastering the Market Cycle, Howard Marks Follow us and leave a rating! Skill Share Patreon iTunes Homepage Twitter @artlyintelly Facebook Learn Economics at Liberty Classroom

We talk with CEO and founder of Spell, Serkan Piantino. Spell is a New York-based startup that is making AI better and easier for everyone involved by automating your experiments, deployment, and resources. We discuss his past experience at Facebook and get his thoughts on the future development of the field. Links Spell Follow us and leave a rating! Skill Share Patreon iTunes Homepage Twitter @artlyintelly Facebook Learn Economics at Liberty Classroom

The coronavirus is inescapable - at least if you're watching the news. It is spreading around the world and worrying travelers, markets, and governments. Advances in machine learning, however, may help combat the spread and potentially offer paths towards a cure. We dig into the coronavirus mayhem and try to find AI's role in the mess. Links: Death by Regulation: How we're Robbed of a Golden Age of Health An AI Epidemiologist Sent the First Warnings of the Wuhan Virus How AI is Battling the Coronavirus Outbreak Two Groups use AI to find Compounds that Could Fight the Coronavirus Artificial Intelligence Could Fight a Future Corona Virus Follow us and leave a rating! Skill Share Patreon iTunes Homepage Twitter @artlyintelly Facebook Learn Economics at Liberty Classroom

Fresh off a decisive debate victory over Martin Ford, Antony and I discuss the debate, future of work, and some of the great things about an automated society. Also, Antony issues the challenge to others (*Andrew Yang*) who want to debate the topic of automation and AI's impact on jobs. Links: Universal Basic Income: For and Against SOHO Forum Debate: Will Robots Cause Mass Unemployment? Ep 94: The AI Future is Bright! Ep 78: UBI with Antony Sammeroff Procrastination Annihilation Be Yourself and Love It Follow us and leave a rating! Skill Share Patreon iTunes Homepage Twitter @artlyintelly Facebook Learn Economics at Liberty Classroom

A recent NIST study investigates the bias in many commercially available facial-recognition algorithms. They results provide very interesting findings that challenge the dominant narrative surrounding AI and bias. Links NIST Face Vendor Recognition Test The Critics Were Wrong: NIST Data Shows that the Best Facial Recognition Algorithms Are Neither Racist Nor Sexist 77: The State and Facial Recognition Follow us and leave a rating! Skill Share Patreon iTunes Homepage Twitter @artlyintelly Facebook Learn Economics at Liberty Classroom  

Neon CEO explains tech behind his overhyped 'artificial humans' Neon Test Video Free E-Book Follow us and leave a rating! Skill Share Patreon iTunes Homepage Twitter @artlyintelly Facebook Learn Economics at Liberty Classroom

A new decade is upon us, but the future of AI and work is still being debated. We review a recent debate in New York between Antony Sammeroff and Martin Ford on whether or not we should prepare for a coming jobs apocalypse. Links Ep 78: UBI with Antony Sammeroff Ep 54: The Local Maximum with Max Sklar Follow us and leave a rating! Skill Share Patreon iTunes Homepage Twitter @artlyintelly Facebook Learn Economics at Liberty Classroom

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The AI hype train rolls on through 2019 with trumpeted breakthrough's in autonomous vehicles, natural language processing, robotics, and more. We take a look at some of the most outlandish stories and reports of the year to try to bring some balance and much-needed nuance to the discussion of AI development. Links: Magic Leap Glasses: Funding Woes and Staff Exits The Economist Interviews GPT-2 Episode 87: The Coming Crash of Tech Bubble 2.0 Episode 31: The Magic Leap of AI Investment Follow us and leave a rating! Patreon iTunes Homepage Twitter @artlyintelly Facebook Learn Economics at Liberty Classroom

Renaissance Technology has returned an incredible amount of cash to its investors over the years - far outperforming all other hedge funds in the industry. Their secret has been the early adoption of machine learning and hiring talents from IBM and elsewhere with computer science and mathematical backgrounds to build algorithms to beat the market. Links: The Man Who Solved the Market Follow us and leave a rating! Patreon iTunes Homepage Twitter @artlyintelly Facebook Learn Economics at Liberty Classroom

Whether Epstein killed himself or not, his death has brought a number of AI companies focused on data collection and predictive policing to the public's attention. He was an investor in Carbyne911 - an Israeli company offering next gen 911 response technology that also collects all of the data on your phone. Carbyne911 isn't alone in this as Palantir has been piloting predictive policing efforts in major cities around the US and the attorney general has stepped up his calls for this new technology. Links: Barr's Orwellian Pre-Crime Program Can 'predictive policing' prevent crime before it happens?   Follow us and leave a rating! Patreon iTunes Homepage Twitter @artlyintelly Facebook Learn Economics at Liberty Classroom

You could get thousands of dollars for your face being used in a data set published by the University of Washington to train facial recognition algorithms. MegaFace is the data set in question, which was put together by Yahoo and Flickr in 2014 before being used by UW (with some changes) in a facial recognition competition. Now a lawsuit is being brought forward under an old Illinois privacy law to go after the companies who took part in this. Links: How Photos of Your Kids Are Powering Surveillance Technology Episode 80: Data Privacy with Peter Klein Episode 77: The State of Facial Recognition Elon Musk and David Einhorn Fraud Accusation  Follow us and leave a rating! Patreon iTunes Homepage Twitter @artlyintelly Facebook Learn Economics at Liberty Classroom

OpenAI recently announced a new achievement, solving a Rubik's Cube with a one-handed robot using reinforcement learning! After all of the fanfare, a lot of people are pushing back on their paper and results, arguing that the claims are highly misleading. On top of that we talk about Tesla's recent return to profitability and reveal a new change to the show! Links: OpenAI  Solving a Rubik's Cube Episode 84: OpenAI's Emergent Agents Episode 58: Beaten at our Own Games Gary Marcus' Response Follow us and leave a rating! Patreon iTunes Homepage Twitter @artlyintelly Facebook Learn Economics at Liberty Classroom

2019 has been the worst year for IPO's and more companies that rely on technology and AI have been struggling. Is this the coming of AI Winter III and the end of the tech bubble? What can you do if you're working as a data scientist or machine learning engineer to protect yourself? Links: 2019 Tesla Crash Compilation 75: Tesla's Autonomy Day 49: Tesla's New Discovery - Humans are Underrated 31: The Magic Leap of AI Investment Follow us and leave a rating! Patreon iTunes Homepage Twitter @artlyintelly Facebook Learn Economics at Liberty Classroom

Siraj Raval, a prominent YouTuber and AI educator has come under fire for allegedly plagiarizing code across his popular YouTube channel and on a course that he offered through the AI School. Siraj isn't alone in this. Many AI "gurus" lack the technical competency to teach what they claim. More importantly though, what does this incident and the rise of alternative educational platforms mean about the existing educational system? Links: YouTuber charged loads of fans $199 for shoddy machine-learning course that copy-pasted other people's GitHub code Case Against Education Follow us and leave a rating! Patreon iTunes Homepage Twitter @artlyintelly Facebook

Facebook's digital currency announcement has been met with a myriad of responses ranging from the euphoric to apocalyptic. We discuss Libra, what it is, how it's different from Bitcoin, and what it means from a monetary policy perspective. Links Bitcoin White Paper Libra White Paper Exorbitant Privilege Cryptocurrency Follow us and leave a rating! Patreon iTunes Homepage Twitter @artlyintelly Facebook