Fixing the Future

About Fixing the Future

Fixing the Future from IEEE Spectrum magazine is a biweekly look at the cultural, business, and environmental consequences of technological solutions to hard problems like sustainability, climate change, and the ethics and scientific challenges posed by AI. IEEE Spectrum is the flagship magazine of IEEE, the world’s largest professional organization devoted to engineering and the applied sciences.

Publisher

IEEE Spectrum

Category

news · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

23 Sept 2020

Latest episode

29 May 2024

Latest episodes

11 of 65 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   29 May 2024TRANSCRIPT

   Using AI to Clear Land Mines in Ukraine

   Gabriel Steinberg (https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabriel-steinberg/), co-founder of the nonprofit Demining Research Community (https://www.de-mine.com/) and the startup Safe Pro AI (https://safeproai.com/) talks with Spectrum editor Eliza Strickland (https://spectrum.ieee.org/u/eliza-strickland)  about using machine learning to speed up demining operations in former Ukranian battlefields.

2. 

   15 May 2024TRANSCRIPT

   Never Recharge Your Consumer Electronics Again?

   Founder and CEO of Exeger (https://www.exeger.com/), Giovanni Fili (https://www.exeger.com/about-us/management/), talks with IEEE Spectrum editor Stephen Cass (https://spectrum.ieee.org/u/stephen-cass) about Exeger's Powerfoyle flexible dye-based solar cells for consumer electronics, which can recharge devices even in indoor light, and how Exeger convinced major companies to incorporate its tech into their products.

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   1 May 2024TRANSCRIPT

   The UK's ARIA Is Searching For Better AI Tech

   The United Kingdom has created a new government agency, the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/advanced-research-and-invention-agency), or ARIA, similar to the United States' DARPA (https://www.darpa.mil/). ARIA's first foray is into creating new enabling technologies to make AI faster and more energy efficient, and the program lead, Suraj Bramhavar (https://www.linkedin.com/in/suraj-bramhavar-667a6b24/) spoke with Spectrum editor Dina Genkina (https://spectrum.ieee.org/u/dina-genkina) about some of areas, such as new ways to use noise, that ARIA would be helping investigate.

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Using AI to Clear Land Mines in Ukraine

Published 29 May 2024 · Transcript excerpt

[…] So if you can constrain an area of polygon with a certainty of contamination and a high density of contamination, then you can deploy the most expensive parts of the clearance process, which are the humans and the machines and the dogs. You can deploy them to a very specific area. […]

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

13 ratings

Spotify

4.6 / 5

8 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 6 / 100

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1

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

27

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