082 - Guest: Kush Varshney, AI Trustworthiness Research Scientist

01/10/22 • 28 min

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Never mind fantasies about Skynet and Terminators; how to trust AI is a real issue right now, as AI is used in life-impacting decisions like medical diagnoses and loan granting. Kush Varshney has a PhD from MIT and is a distinguished researcher at IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center in New York, where he leads the machine learning group in the Foundations of Trustworthy AI department. He is the author of the book Trustworthy Machine Learning. We talk about the whole ecosystem of trustworthiness, finding out where it goes in areas like privacy, anonymization, regulation, compliance, and oversight.

All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines.

Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .

All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines.

Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.

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081 - Guest: Tannya Jajal, AI Innovator and Author

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Joining us from Dubai is Tannya Jajal, keynote speaker, AI futurist, and UAE Chapter Lead for the Global Women in Tech Movement. She is a resource manager at VMware, a technology contributor at Forbes Middle East, and author of the new book, Thinking Machines: AI and the Intelligence Explosion.

I invited Tannya to the podcast after running into her on two different AI panels in different countries on the same day (virtually!). We talk about how AI is being taught and developed in the worlds of women, children, and the Middle East.

All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines.

Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.

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083 - Guest: René Morkos, AI for Construction CEO

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AI continues to penetrate more and more into our daily lives, including activities that are in the background for most of us - like construction. Have you ever looked at a construction site and thought, "Surely there's a way there could be more people working on this at once?" Well, René Morkos, founder and CEO of Alice Technologies, did just that, and then wrote a PhD thesis on using AI to solve that problem. Learn with me how AI is changing construction.

All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines.

Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.