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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

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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

Links: State of Machine Learning Follow us and leave a rating! Patreon iTunes Homepage Twitter @artlyintelly Facebook Learn Economics at Liberty Classroom

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

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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This week we interview Risto Miikkulainen, CTO of Sentient AI, to discuss evolutionary computing and the relevance it has for AI. We cover Sentient's work in evolving stock traders to questions on neuroevolution and reinforcement learning.  Links: Evolution is the New Deep Learning Experts Weigh in on the Future of AI and Evolutionary Algorithms A Java-Based Evolutionary Computational System The Surprising Creativity of Digital Evolution: A Collection of Anecdotes from the Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life Research Communities An Introduction to Evolutionary Computing Genetic Algorithms with Python Follow us and leave us a rating! iTunes Homepage Twitter @artlyintelly Facebook artificiallyintelligent1@gmail.com

Uber continues to lose money, and the most recent earnings report shows losses of $891 million dollars in Q2 2018. This has prompted investors to pressure Uber to sell off its high-profile autonomous vehicle research division which is costing between $125-200 million per quarter to maintain. Christian explains why he thinks that would be a good move for the company. Follow us and leave us a rating! iTunes Homepage Twitter @artlyintelly Facebook artificiallyintelligent1@gmail.com    

Supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning. What do these terms mean? How do they differ?  Follow us and leave us a rating! iTunes Homepage Twitter @artlyintelly Facebook artificiallyintelligent1@gmail.com

  Christian lays out some of the reasons he doesn't buy the superintelligence hype or fear. Links: The Local Maximum Episode 20: Musk vs Zuck and the Future of AI Books mentioned: The Emperor's New Mind Superintelligence The Myth of a Superhuman AI Follow us and leave us a rating! iTunes Homepage Twitter @artlyintelly Facebook artificiallyintelligent1@gmail.com

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Christian discusses his background and how he got to where he is working in machine learning and artificial intelligence.  Links: Predictive Analytics Data Science for Business Fundamentals of Machine Learning for Predictive Analytics Data Science from Scratch Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and Tensorflow Practical Data Science with R Hands-On Deep Reinforcement Learning DataHubbs Follow us and leave us a rating! iTunes Homepage Twitter @artlyintelly Facebook artificiallyintelligent1@gmail.com  

Google DeepMind and OpenAI recently released some new results that give a tantalizing glimpse at what AI can become in the future. We discuss DeepMind's results on capture the flag and the human-bot cooperation as well as OpenAI's recent achievements (and upcoming challenge) in DOTA2 with the OpenAI Five. Links: DeepMind Capture the Flag OpenAI Five Episodes Mentioned Episode 23: AI Competes in DOTA2 Tournament Episode 51: Adapting to AI in Industry with Jeff Kavanaugh Follow us and leave us a rating! iTunes Homepage Twitter @artlyintelly Facebook artificiallyintelligent1@gmail.com

This week we talk to Nicolas Hess, founder of Roboyo, a consulting firm focused on bringing Robotic Process Automation (RPA) to companies around the globe. We discuss what RPA is, how it fits in with AI, what are some of the use cases, and who its impacting.  Links: Roboyo Follow us and leave us a rating! iTunes Homepage Twitter @artlyintelly Facebook artificiallyintelligent1@gmail.com

The AI research community has weathered two "AI winters" - periods where the funding stops flowing to AI research, companies, and products - since the 1950's. More people these days are beginning to speculate that another winter is on the horizon as the market seems to be in a bubble with massive salaries and valuations to everyone associated with the new technology. We take a look at a pair of articles and try to chart a middle-road between the sky is falling and eternal enthusiasm for the prospects of the field. Links: AI Winter is Well on its Way When the Bubble Bursts... Previous episodes mentioned: Episode 54: The Local Maximum  Episode 32: The Magic Leap of AI Investment Follow us and leave us a rating! iTunes Homepage Twitter @artlyintelly Facebook artificiallyintelligent1@gmail.com

Our guest today has recently authored a new book called The Human Advantage: The Future of American Work in the Age of Smart Machines which argues for key differences between humans and machines that will ensure that humans remain employed for a long, long time to come. Dr. Jay Richards and I discuss some of these fundamental differences that he lays out in the book and how the workplace will evolve in the coming years. Links The Human Advantage The Stream Follow us and leave us a rating! iTunes Homepage Twitter @artlyintelly Facebook artificiallyintelligent1@gmail.com