Conversations with researchers, scientists, artists, and philosophers about all that has fascinated the human mind through its history. <hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>

The AI Pod
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Conversations with researchers, scientists, artists, and philosophers about all that has fascinated the human mind through its history. <hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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December 23, 2024
William Jones: Aging, Technology, and Keeping Found Things Found
<p>William Jones is a Research Associate Professor Emeritus in the Information School at the University of Washington. He continues to work on the challenges of “Keeping Found Things Found” both as a research topic and in his own life. </p><br><p>Currently he has been working on the relationships between information, knowledge and successful aging. William has published in the areas of personal information management (PIM), human-computer interaction, information retrieval (search), and human cognition/memory. He wrote the book Keeping Found Things Found: The Study and Practice of Personal Information Management and, more recently, the three-part series, on the The Future of Personal Information. He is lead editor on a book scheduled for publication in 2025 by Cambridge Press.</p><br><p>Chapters:</p><p>0:00 - Introduction</p><p>1:16 - Keeping found things found</p><p>3:44 - Storing information </p><p>5:20 - Using folders</p><p>8:44 - New ways of searching</p><p>13:38 - Embodied information and search</p><p>16:20 - Value of memorization </p><p>20:20 - Personal AI assistants </p><p>30:20 - Language and thought </p><p>35:30 - Thriving in Time</p><p>42:44 - Aging gracefully </p><p>55:16 - Contract between generations</p><p>1:02:44 - What to look forward to</p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>

September 8, 2024
#11 Åsa Unander-Scharin: Opera, dance & robotics
<p>Åsa Unander-Scharin is a professor of music performance at Luleå university of technology. Her works is with the study of the intersection between opera, dance, music, interactive technology and robotics. </p><p>Her artistic work started in 1998 when she created the first choreography for an industrial robot, with many acclaimed works to follow. She has choreographed the Nobel Banquette and two dance films Elevation and Artificial Body Voices produced by the Swedish Television. Her most recent works include two experimental operas Callas:Medea for the Croatian National Opera and The Tale of the Great Computing Machine commissioned by the KTH Royal Institute of Technology.</p><br><p>Chapters:</p><p>0:00 - Introduction</p><p>1:02 - History of Opera</p><p>4:02 - Current technics in Opera </p><p>6:02 - Evolution in the arts</p><p>8:16 - Creating new works</p><p>12:12 - TheTale of the Great Computing Machine</p><p>17:06 - Machines in performative arts </p><p>26:04 - Anthropomorphism </p><p>29:02 - AI art</p><p>39:09 - The artistic experience </p><p>40:45 - Choreography </p><p>43:35 - The modern experience </p><p>48:47 - New operas</p><p>53:00 - Artists and Robots</p><p>1:01:02 - Robot performers </p><p>1:07:56 - Artistic freedom </p><p>1:10:48 - Humanoid robots </p><p>1:13:18 - Robots enjoying art</p><p>1:15:00 - Future works </p><p><br></p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>

July 8, 2024
#10 Mario Romero: Visualisation & AI
<p>Mario Romero is an Associate Professor in Visualisation at the Department of Computational Science and Technology at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at KTH. He is the national technical manager and local node coordinator of the Swedish Research Council National Research Infrastructure in Visualisation InfraVis. He is also a technical co-founder of BrailleTouch, a smartphone keyboard for blind users, and Anymaker, a tablet application for sketching in 3D. </p><br><p>Chapters:</p><p>0:00 - Introduction </p><p>1:52 - Visualisation & AI </p><p>7:46 - Visualising complex systems </p><p>14:28 - Understanding & recognition </p><p>17:50 - Understanding in LLMs </p><p>25:48 - Respecting AI models </p><p>32:20 - Humanoid robots </p><p>36:20 - Visualising AI models </p><p>46:30 - Real cost of AI </p><p>50:36 - Educating about AI</p><p>56:15 - Transduction </p><p>1:00:20 - Science & pseudo science</p><p>1:04:58 - Multimodality</p><p>1:10:18 - Humans & AI</p><p> 1:27:25 - Brailletouch </p><p>1:42:46 - Quality of life</p><p>1:47:46 - Accessibility </p><p>1:51:00 - Risk assessment </p><p>2:00:50 - AI in medicin </p><p>2:03:08 - Human influence </p><p>2:07:46 - AGI</p><p><br></p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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