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2 episodes with jibo
SummaryIn this conversation, Kaitlyn Witman, CEO of Rainfactory, shares her journey from co-founding the company to leading it as a solo CEO. She discusses her early experiences in marketing, the challenges and successes of launching products, and the importance of adaptability in finding market fit. Caitlin also highlights her partnerships with major brands and her vision for the future of Rainfactory, emphasizing the need for innovative products that stand out in the market.TakeawaysHer journey began with an internship at a consumer electronics warranty company.Rainfactory's first major success was with Jibo, the world's first family robot.Kaitlyn emphasizes the importance of adaptability in business.She enjoys the automation aspect of email marketing.Kaitlyn believes in opening up to opportunities in her career.Rainfactory focuses on products that do something better than competitors.Partnerships with established brands help Rainfactory grow.Kaitlyn aims to support innovative startups in 2025.She values the collaborative spirit of her team and clients. Host your own podcast with RSS.com: https://rss.com/?via=c026c9Save 20% with Riverside for podcast recording and editing: https://www.riverside.fm/?utm_campaign=campaign_5&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=rewardful&via=abbey-gravesExperiencing and exploring everything that makes small towns great. Abbey (The Small Town Tourist) sits down with people to share stories about the towns they live in, the cool services they provide, and more. Visit online at https://thesmalltowntourist.com/ and follow on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/thesmalltowntourist/
Kungiyar ‘Yan Nijar mazauna Cote d'Ivoire ta bukaci a cirewa Nijar takunkumai da aka kakaba mata sakamkon juyin mulki da sojoji suka yi, saboda halin kunci da hakan ya jefa su ciki. Shugaban kungiyar ta Ho consei de Nijar a Cote d'Ivoire Alhaji Abdou Jibo ya yi wannan kira, yayin zantawa ta musamman da sashin hausa na RFI a Abidjan.Amma ya fara yi wa Ahmad Abba bayani kan zamantakewarsu a kasar da ke mamba a ECOWAS.Shiga alamar sauti domin sauraron cikakkiyar tattaunawar
Heɗiyannkooɓe Rfi Fulfulde on salminaama. En yewtay hannde fii no jannginooɓe senditirtee hakkunde ɗee duɗe. Fii yewtugol e dow ndee toɓɓere, hiɗen jaɓɓii Mammadu Sanusi DANSOKO gooto e hooreeɓe suudu toppitiindu jannde fayɓe ka diiwal Labe e nder Gine. Fahin en yewtiday kadi e Aamadu TAMMBURA, hooreejo fedde mawɓe lekolɓe ka saare Jibo jeyaande Burkina Faso. En jonnay kadi konngol woɓɓe e heɗiyannkooɓe men. Ka timmingol oo taskaram men, wano woowiri non, hiɗen jaɓɓii koɗo men jannginoowo, ko kanko woni Ijjatu JALLO jannginoowo ka duɗal mawngal laamuyannkowal Dakaar. En yewtiday e makko ko yowitii alhaali leelugol fuɗɗitagol jannde ka Iniwersite UCAD.
Heɗiyannkooɓe Rfi Fulfulde on salminaama. En yewtay hannde fii no jannginooɓe senditirtee hakkunde ɗee duɗe. Fii yewtugol e dow ndee toɓɓere, hiɗen jaɓɓii Mammadu Sanusi DANSOKO gooto e hooreeɓe suudu toppitiindu jannde fayɓe ka diiwal Labe e nder Gine. Fahin en yewtiday kadi e Aamadu TAMMBURA, hooreejo fedde mawɓe lekolɓe ka saare Jibo jeyaande Burkina Faso. En jonnay kadi konngol woɓɓe e heɗiyannkooɓe men. Ka timmingol oo taskaram men, wano woowiri non, hiɗen jaɓɓii koɗo men jannginoowo, ko kanko woni Ijjatu JALLO jannginoowo ka duɗal mawngal laamuyannkowal Dakaar. En yewtiday e makko ko yowitii alhaali leelugol fuɗɗitagol jannde ka Iniwersite UCAD.
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The World Bank EduTech team is partnering with Digital Promise and AIEngage.org to host a series of episodes about AI in Education. This week, we're exploring opportunities to advance access and inclusivity in AI education to people of all ages and backgrounds with a focus on K12 and the workforce. World Bank Senior Education and Technology Specialist Cristobal Cobo speaks with the Director of the MIT-wide Initiative on Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education (raise.mit.edu), Cynthia Breazeal, about RAISE and its 2022 Day of AI, which seeks to engage K-12 students across the US in a series of freely available hands-on activities designed to introduce them to AI and how it plays a part of their lives today. You can learn more about Day of AI at https://www.dayofai.org. Cynthia Breazeal is a professor of media arts and sciences at MIT, where she founded and directs the Personal Robots group at the Media Lab. She is the MIT dean for digital learning, and in this role, she leverages her experience in emerging digital technologies and business, research, and strategic initiatives to lead Open Learning's business and research & engagement units. She is also the Director of the MIT-wide Initiative on Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education (raise.mit.edu). MIT RAISE is a research and outreach effort that advances access and inclusivity in AI education to people of all ages and backgrounds with a focus on K12 and the workforce. She co-founded the consumer social robotics company, Jibo, Inc., where she served as Chief Scientist and Chief Experience Officer.
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This week Harry continues to explore advances in "digital therapeutics" in a conversation with Paolo Pirjanian, the founder and CEO of the robotics company Embodied. They've created an 8-pound, 16-inch-high robot called Moxie that's intended as a kind of substitute therapist that can help kids with their social-emotional learning. Moxie draws on some of the same voice-recognition and voice-synthesis technologies found in digital assistants like Siri, Alexa, and Google Home, but it also has an expressive body and face designed to make it more engaging for kids. The device hit the market in 2020, and parents are already saying the robot helps kids learn how to talk themselves down when they're feeling angry or frustrated, and how to be more confident in their conversations with adults or other kids. But Moxie isn't inexpensive; it has a purchase price comparable to a high-end cell phone, and on top of that there's a required monthly subscription that costs as much as some cellular plans. So it feels like there are some interesting questions to work out about who's going to pay for this new wave of digital therapeutics, and whether they'll be accessible to everyone who needs them. Pirjanian discussed that with Harry, along with a bunch of other topics, from the product design choices that went into Moxie to the company's larger ambitions to build social robots for many other applications like entertainment or elder care.Please rate and review The Harry Glorikian Show on Apple Podcasts! Here's how to do that from an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch:1. Open the Podcasts app on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac. 2. Navigate to The Harry Glorikian Show podcast. You can find it by searching for it or selecting it from your library. Just note that you'll have to go to the series page which shows all the episodes, not just the page for a single episode.3. Scroll down to find the subhead titled "Ratings & Reviews."4. Under one of the highlighted reviews, select "Write a Review."5. Next, select a star rating at the top — you have the option of choosing between one and five stars. 6. Using the text box at the top, write a title for your review. Then, in the lower text box, write your review. Your review can be up to 300 words long.7. Once you've finished, select "Send" or "Save" in the top-right corner. 8. If you've never left a podcast review before, enter a nickname. Your nickname will be displayed next to any reviews you leave from here on out. 9. After selecting a nickname, tap OK. Your review may not be immediately visible.That's it! Thanks so much.TranscriptHarry Glorikian: Hello. I'm Harry Glorikian, and this is The Harry Glorikian Show, where we explore how technology is changing everything we know about healthcare.Two weeks ago, in our previous episode, I talked with Eddie Martucci, the CEO of a company called Akili Interactive that's marketing the first FDA-approved prescription video game. It's called EndeavorRx, and it's designed to help kids with ADHD improve their attention skills.It's one of the first examples of what some people are calling “digital therapeutics.”And this week we continue on that topic—but with a conversation about robots rather than video games. My guest Paolo Pirjanian is the founder and CEO of Embodied.They've created an 8-pound, 16-inch-high robot called Moxie that's intended as a kind of substitute therapist that can help kids with their social-emotional learning.Moxie draws on some of the same voice-recognition and voice-synthesis technologies found in digital assistants like Siri, Alexa, and Google Home. But it also has an expressive body and face designed to make it more engaging for kids.Moxie Video Clip: Hi, I'm Moxie. I'm a robot from the GRL. That's the Global Robotics Laboratory. This is my first time in the human world. It's nice to be here. Oh, where is here, exactly? It's a pretty big world for a little robot.Harry Glorikian: Moxie hit the market in 2020, and parents are already saying the robot helps kids learn how to talk themselves down when they're feeling angry or frustrated, and how to be more confident in their conversations with adults or other kids.But just like EndeavorRx, Moxie isn't inexpensive. The robot has a purchase price comparable to a high-end cell phone, and on top of that there's a required monthly subscription that costs as much as some cellular plans.So, it feels like there are some interesting questions to work out about who's going to pay for this new wave of digital therapeutics, and whether they'll be accessible to everyone who needs them.Paolo and I talked about that, as well as a bunch of other topics—from the product design choices that went into Moxie, to the company's larger ambitions to build social robots for many other applications like entertainment or elder care.So here's my conversation with Paolo. Harry Glorikian: Paolo, welcome to the show.Paolo Pirjanian: Thank you. Hey, for having me on the show.Harry Glorikian: Paolo, you're the co-founder and CEO of a company called Embodied. And and you guys are in the field of, I'm going to call it educational robotics. But this is not your first robotics company, right? Can you can you start by filling in listeners about your history in the consumer robotics field?Paolo Pirjanian: Absolutely. Yeah. So I actually got my education in Denmark. I got a PhD in A.I. and robotics and then moved to the US actually to work at NASA's JPL. Which was a childhood dream job. Shortly thereafter, I got approached by Bill Gross of Idealab, who started one of the earliest incubators, who wanted to start a robotics company. So I joined that company as the CTO originally and then eventually became the CEO. We developed Visual Slam Technology, which is a vision based, camera based ability for a robot to build a map of the environment and know how to navigate it autonomously. That company in 2012 was acquired by iRobot. And we integrated that technology across Roomba and the other iRobot portfolio products to allow them to be aware of the environment and know how to navigate around the home, primarily for cleaning the floors. I was a CTO there for a couple of years and then decided to move on to do something that's been a childhood dream, to really create AI friends that can help us through difficult times in our lives.Harry Glorikian: But one of the projects you worked on, and correct me if I'm wrong, was the Sony's Aibo Robot Dog, right? It's not necessarily educational, but it was aimed at kids. So what sort of drew your focus on robotics for education and socialization, I want to say.Paolo Pirjanian: Yes, correct. Sony Aibo, the robotic dog, my previous company, we developed a computer vision technology for it that enabled the robot to be able to see things and interact with things in the environment. And it was an amazing product, actually, the Sony Aibo. And I've always actually had interest in let's call it mental health. And of course, my craft is AI and robotics. And so after my last company was acquired, I decided the timing is now to go pursue that childhood dream of creating robots that can actually help us with mental health. So we don't categorize ourselves as education in the strict sense because we do not really focus on STEM education. We focus on for children. The first product is for children. It's called Moxie, and it's helping them with social emotional skills, learning, which in layman's term you could describe as EQ, emotional intelligence skills versus IQ, which are more related to STEM type education.Harry Glorikian: Yeah. And it's it's supposed to complement traditional therapy if I was reading everything correctly.Paolo Pirjanian: Exactly. Exactly. We don't believe in replacing humans in the loop. We want people to be treated by humans. But given the shortage and cost of mental health services, there's always room for complementing that with AI and other technologies. And that's what we are doing.Harry Glorikian: So if I ask the question, is Moxie more like a toy that's supposed to be fun, or is it a tool that's supposed to be therapeutic or correct some help help a child that's using it or is it both?Paolo Pirjanian: It's primarily a tool to help children with social emotional learning, things that you would go to a therapist for. The analogy that I use that may be helpful here is really Moxie is a tool to deliver therapy to children. But we we have to make it fun enough for the child to want to take that pill. So in a way, if you use pharmaceuticals as an analogy, a pill usually for children is sugar coated because you want them to take the pill to deliver the medicine to them. So the same way here, Moxie has a lot of fun activities and interesting things that attract a child to want to interact with Moxie. And then during those interactions, Moxie will find the opportunity to deliver techniques and therapies, for instance, to teach the child about mindfulness, teach them about emotion regulation, teach them social skills, to teach them about empathy and kindness, talking about your feelings and so on.Harry Glorikian: I know many adults that may need Moxie for sure. With all those categories you mentioned. Right.Paolo Pirjanian: I agree.Harry Glorikian: But but let's talk about the range of challenges, problems or issues that you've designed Moxie to help with. So can it help with relatively mild issues like shyness, or is it designed to help kids with more severe issues like, Autism Spectrum Disorder or all of the above?Paolo Pirjanian: Yeah, no, it's first of all, you're talking about the audience that it's appropriate for. Obviously, children that have been diagnosed with any neurodevelopmental challenges such as autism need to be trained on social emotional skills. But neurotypical children also can benefit from it. Actually in our customer base, we see a roughly 50-50 split between children that have mental, behavioral developmental disorders. And in the 50% are children that you would call neurotypical. But yet we know even within neurotypical children, they have to deal with things such as stress, anxiety, sometimes even depression. Covid obviously did not help it. It exacerbated a lot of mental health issues for every child, including adults, by the way, as you pointed out. And these techniques and tools that you use from therapy are really the same independent of the diagnosis. Now, some children may need more help with social skills. Let's say if there is a child on the autism spectrum, they may not be very comfortable making eye contact, which is an important social skill to have. When you're interacting with someone, you want to look them in their eyes and Moxie will help them, for instance, with that. And that's maybe something that a neurotypical child doesn't need. So Moxie will focus more on helping them with things such as coping skills, with coping with stress, coping with anxiety or managing anxiety, or even social skills. Like you can talk to Moxie about bullying and it will allow you to talk about it and understand how to navigate that and teach you skills about how to protect your own personal space. A lot of these foundational skills are are the type of skills that social emotional learning includes.Harry Glorikian: So. Let's talk a little bit more about the actual product. And because this is a podcast, I'm sort of like need to talk through some of the features, right? Because they everybody can't see it. But so on the hardware side, you know, the arms, the waist, it bends, the rotating ears, the rotating base, the ears, the face, the speakers, the camera, you know, the program that animates the face and gives Moxie, a personality, the computer vision elements. Right. And then all the scripts of all the different interactions. Right, you know. Why was it important to give Moxie an LCD screen as a face rather than mechanical mouth or eyes.Paolo Pirjanian: Yeah. Let me start maybe take a couple of steps back for the audience, as you said there are no visuals here. Think of Moxie as a AI character brought to real life. Right. So think of it as a, sorry, as a cartoon character brought to real life. So think of a cartoon character that has physical embodiment and it can talk to you. It can smile back at you. We can interact with you with body language and emotions and so on. To your question as to why it required a LCD display. We could potentially consider creating a mechanical face that can have enough expressivity, but that can add a lot of costs on one hand. On the other hand, if not done well enough, it can become uncanny and creepy. So we decided that the LCD display that, by the way, is very is curved because we did not want it to look like a monitor stuck in the head. But it was integral to the design. So it's curved and looks like a face. And what you see on the face is an animated character, Moxie's character, which is integrated very well with a hardware industrial design. So you can provide much more freedom of expression from facial expressions. And especially for children, you want to have a robot that has the ability to show facial expressions. By the way, the intonation of the voice will change as well, based on the type of conversation and the emotion we are trying to capture in the conversation.Paolo Pirjanian: And then the other question, actually, a macro level question becomes embodiment, why did this need to be embodied? Why physical? Why not just a digital character on a screen? Well, so, evidence from neuroscience, from MRI, fMRI scans shows that when we interact with something that has physical embodiment and agency, it triggers our mirror neurons, our imitation neurons are triggered at a much higher level and much wider level than when you're interacting with something just on a screen. And the implication of that is that things you can learn through interaction with the embodied agency have a deeper impact in terms of retention of the information, something that we may be able to anecdotally relate to during COVID. All education went online and the post mortem on that was that te quality of education that was delivered online doesn't compare to what happens in the classrooms. And that's, again, the same thing when it's not embodied. You don't feel that emotional connection. You don't feel an obligation. Many children will just turn off the monitor and walk away, whereas with something that's physically embodied, you feel you can't do that. It has feelings, you feel it has a perspective. You can't just turn it off. By the way, on Moxie, if you look at it closely, there are no buttons on Moxie. There is no input device on moxie like a keyboard or a touch screen or anything else. The way you interact with moxie is the way we interact with each other, using conversation, body language, intonation of voice, emotion, facial expressions and so on. There is one switch actually on the bottom of the robot that you don't see. That's for emergency situations in case something goes wrong. For certification reasons, we have to put that physical switch to turn it off if something goes wrong.Harry Glorikian: So not having played with it does, and only watching the video online, Moxie's voice synthesized like Siri or is it prerecorded? Like, how does it sound?Harry Glorikian: It's synthetic. Yes. So, yeah. So we cast the character of Moxie, decided what this character stands for, what are its values, what is the background story? And then based on that, decided the voice of Moxie, what it should be. And then the way you develop the synthetic voices that you take in neural network and train it based on a lot of samples that we captured from a voice actress in a studio recording hundreds and hundreds of hours of speech from a script. So we have this script and we know how it sounds based on the character's voice recording, and that gets fed into a deep neural network that is trained over and over again until it models that voice. So that later I can just give a text and it will generate a synthetic voice that sounds exactly like that character.Harry Glorikian: And then Moxie seems to emit a lot of sound effects and music. Does that element enhance the product somehow?Paolo Pirjanian: Yeah. So we can underline mood and so on with sound effects or background music. For instance, one of the activities Moxie will suggest if the child is talking about things that are have to do with stress and so on, is a mindfulness journey. Where it will ask you to close your eyes. Imagine you are in a forest or other places as well. There's a library of them. Let's say you're in a forest, listen to the wind and then it will start playing some sound effects in the background and calming music to get the child to imagine they're in that space. For some children that have high sensitivity disorders to certain stimuli like sound, the parents can actually, through a parent app, provide that information which will adjust the settings. In that case, Moxie will actually not use sound effects or any jarring effects that may disturb that child.Harry Glorikian: Interesting. So. Simple question, but is it battery operated? I mean, how long does it last on a single charge? Does it plug in?Paolo Pirjanian: Yeah, it's battery operated because the child usually likes to move it around. You carry the round almost like a baby on your arm. If you remember the days where we had young babies, it was literally ergonomically, it sits exactly right on your arm very nicely. And it has a battery that can run for hours of active usage. And then at night, usually like your cell phone, you plug it in any charges overnight.Harry Glorikian: So, you know, this begs the question of where did the idea of Moxie really come from? Because you don't decide on a whim to build a product this complex. You know, how did you persuade yourself and your investors that the technology is at a point where, you know, it could really make a difference with kids, you know, that have social emotional development issues?Paolo Pirjanian: Yeah. I mean, the idea was sparked probably early in my early childhood, I would say. So, very briefly at a very early age due to a war, my world was turned upside down. And unfortunately, I had to flee my my homeland and seek refuge in another country where I looked different, sounded different and was different. Right? And and unfortunately, as such, you do get rejected by the society. You have a harder time in school. You get exposed to racism and rejection and all these things. So. I remember during that time I saw the first animated short by Pixar. Which was Luxo Jr., the two lamps, mama lamp and baby lamp playing with a ball. Which blew me away that a computer can generate millions of pixels on the screen that are moving to create, to induce or elicit such emotion in the audience. So that inspired me to actually seek education in computer science and robotics and A.I. because before that, as many immigrants you were taught that you were going to be a doctor, so that that's.Harry Glorikian: Or a lawyer.Paolo Pirjanian: Lawyer comes second, but obviously doctor first. So so that inspired me actually to buy a computer and start coding by myself. And I started learning coding and then I decided I'm going to do well in high school so I can get into university and pursue my education. And I did. And to be honest with you, this has been something I've been wanting to do for since I can remember. My previous company, as I mentioned, Evolution Robotics, that was a Idealab company and I was the CTO then became the CEO. I wanted it to do it then, but that's almost a decade ago, or maybe slightly more than a decade ago. We even tried. It was not possible. Absolutely not possible. I remember back then. Just to use an example that I think most people can relate to, voice recognition for even a single command was hard. All of us have had in-car navigation systems with a voice assistant that you would press a button, hold it down and say navigation, and would pull up navigation and say, Enter your address. It will enter the address. And you would have, to by the time you were done, enter the address because it would constantly misunderstand you and then give you options. Did you say A, B or C and no, no, no. I didn't say that. By the time you were done entering the address, you were at the destination. So that was state of the art only a decade ago. Just for voice recognition. Same thing with computer vision.Paolo Pirjanian: My specialty actually was computer vision. Computer vision. Also, we couldn't recognize things very well. And the advancement that has happened in deep neural networks due to the increase in compute power, due to increase to labeled data sets that are available through many sources from YouTube and the Internet and so on. We have been able to solve age-old problems that for decades we were struggling with So it was not possible. The other piece that was probably not possible was that I was not ready as an entrepreneur probably to take on such a colossal challenge of building a product like this. So the stars aligned around 2015 when I decided to leave iRobot and said, You know what? The time is probably right now. And and fortunately, I was able to get some investors that believed in the vision of creating AI characters, AI friends that can help children with social emotional development. And obviously, this technology platform, we will in the future use it for also helping the elderly population with loneliness and Alzheimer's and dementia and so on. We have just scratched the surface with our first products, right? And there is a lot more work to do. But today it's possible. We have proven it. We have a product in the market. A five year old can will interact with it for months at a time without any human intervention. So yeah, so it was a series of events brewing over the last 30, 40 years for this to become possible today.[musical interlude]Harry Glorikian: Let's pause the conversation for a minute to talk about one small but important thing you can do, to help keep the podcast going. And that's leave a rating and a review for the show on Apple Podcasts.All you have to do is open the Apple Podcasts app on your smartphone, search for The Harry Glorikian Show, and scroll down to the Ratings & Reviews section. Tap the stars to rate the show, and then tap the link that says Write a Review to leave your comments. It'll only take a minute, but you'll be doing a lot to help other listeners discover the show.And one more thing. If you like the interviews we do here on the show I know you'll like my new book, The Future You: How Artificial Intelligence Can Help You Get Healthier, Stress Less, and Live Longer.It's a friendly and accessible tour of all the ways today's information technologies are helping us diagnose diseases faster, treat them more precisely, and create personalized diet and exercise programs to prevent them in the first place.The book is now available in print and ebook formats. Just go to Amazon or Barnes & Noble and search for The Future You by Harry Glorikian.And now, back to the show.[musical interlude]Harry Glorikian: I mean, just looking at the system, there's probably a lot of innovations that were required to put Moxie together. And so. I don't know, maybe you can give us a few, you know, like "Oh, my God" moments that took place in this, right? I mean. I don't know if it's the physical movements. I don't know if it's the, you know, personality or the scripts. But, you know, give us the highlights of what you think was like the big breakthroughs that made this possible.Paolo Pirjanian: Yeah. So there are many, many, many, many pieces of technology that we had to invent or partner for to make this happen. So what I mentioned, deep neural networks, generally speaking, in the field of AI have advanced to the point where we can have very reliable speech recognition technology, for instance, right? Where you have an accent or not, you're speaking loud or soft and so on, you have background noise and so on, it will be able to transcribe what you're saying pretty accurately. There are still errors, but it's pretty accurate. It's accurate enough, let's put it that way. The next stage of the conversation pipeline is actually understanding. Now you have a transcript of what was said. Now I need to understand the semantics of what was meant, what was the intent behind this, this string of characters, and that's natural language understanding. In that area, Embodied has made huge advancements because we have to be able to understand what the child is saying. And the state of the art when we started is defined by Siri and Alexa and Google Home, where it's very command and response. "Alexa, play music for me. Alexa, how is the weather? Alexa, tell me a joke. Alexa, read a story or read the news for me." And so on. So short utterances and and direct mapping to a function that the device can do. Whereas in our case it's not about this transactional command and response, it's about relation and social interaction. So the child, Moxie will actually ask and encourage the child. It says, "So how was your day to day?" There is no way any human being can script all the possible answers that you could expect to hear because you could basically say anything possible to that question.Paolo Pirjanian: So we had to develop natural language understanding that can understand what was said no matter what was said, and provide a relevant response. Because if you don't, if the robot says something that's absolutely not related to what the child wanted to talk about, then children get disappointed. They say, well, this thing is a dumb robot. It doesn't doesn't understand me. And they will dismiss it, right? The illusion of intelligence breaks away very quickly as soon as you you misunderstand or say something off script, let's say. So we had to develop a combination of systems to be able to address that. Another major challenge, and this was actually much bigger than I thought, we spent a lot of time on this challenge to solve. Again, it has to do with interaction using Alexa as an example also, and Siri as well as Google. They all have this notion of a wake word, Hey, Google, hey Siri or Alexa. When you say this keyword known as a wake word, the device is actually at the, when it's on standby, it's putting all of its attention to look for that keyword before it does anything else. So as soon as you say it, a couple of things happen. It's almost like turning on a switch to say, I'm going to speak, right? So number one, you're telling it, I'm going to say something now. Number two, as soon as you have said that phrase, these things have multiple microphones on them. And the mic array allows you to be able to be informed and focus your attention on the location from which you heard this phrase. With doing that, you can also filter out anything that's in the background. So you focus the attention of the device on that location of the user that said Alexa. And then you say a phrase and then it processes and executes the action. In our case, in social interaction, it will not be appropriate if you had to say Moxie in every volley of the conversation. Every time you want to say a sentence to me, you would start by saying Paolo and I and I would look at you, and then you would say something, and then I would stop listening. And then you say, Paolo, for every sentence, right. That would that would be a very awkward social interaction. So we had to solve that problem. It's a tough problem to solve. And we use a combination of cameras to know where the child is, the voice, where it's coming from, and what was being said to focus the attention of Moxie on the person that's engaged with it so that Moxie doesn't respond to the TV or mom and dad maybe having a conversation on the phone over there and it filters all of that automatically, without the need for having a wake word phrase. And I can go down the list. There is many, many more. But this is just examples of the type of things we have to solve.Harry Glorikian: So, you know, I think some people might make the argument that kids should really be learning their social and emotional skills from other human beings. From a parent, from a teacher, from their peers, maybe their therapist if they have one. You know, how can a robot fit into that picture in a healthy, productive way? You know, how would you respond to the potential criticism, which I'm sure you've heard before. When a parent who buys Moxie for their kid, are they offloading their parental responsibilities?Paolo Pirjanian: That's an absolutely valid concern and a good question to ask. And obviously, even before inception of the company, I personally myself was thinking about this because there is a there's a contradiction in saying that a child that is not very good at social interaction, let's put them in front of a robot, they'll get better at it. There's a contradictory element to that potentially. Right. So let's put it this way. In the extreme case, what if the child does not have the ability to have interaction with their peers? Right. So they do not get the opportunity to interact with other peers from which they're actually learning to hone in their social skills. Well, that happened during the pandemic. There's a huge mental health crisis happening in the US now that will take years for us to to address. That was because children were locked in their home without the ability to socialize with other children because of worries about being getting COVID, right. So now pandemics are rare events that hopefully don't happen that often. But now let's put ourselves in the shoes of children that are, for various reasons, are not successful in providing social interactions. An extreme case is a child on the autism spectrum. That does not have the right skills to have social interactions nor interpret social cues in a conversation. Let's say if you're annoyed at someone on the spectrum, it's likely that they may not even understand that you're annoyed at them and they may keep saying the same thing or doing the same thing. That's going to make you more and more agitated or the other end of the spectrum, which is not as severe.Paolo Pirjanian: My example when I was a child. And I lived in a foreign country where I was different. I had an accent. I looked different. I came from a different cultural background and other kids didn't want to play with me. And there's everything in between. Right? So then. What do we do? Well, you can have therapies and that's what we do. There's a massive shortage of therapists. If you have a child, usually the way this works is that your school teacher will come and say, we think your your child may be on the spectrum or your child may have ADHD or your child have some other neurodevelopmental challenge. You should get your child diagnosed. Okay. Hopefully no one has to try this. The waiting list for getting diagnosed is minimum six months, minimum six months. And that's if you have connections and good providers and all these things. While imagine for six months your mind as a parent, you're like, dying. What the hell is going on with my child? I've got to figure this out quickly. Once your child is diagnosed and you spend 6000, 7000 hours on that, then you've got to find providers. There's a huge shortage of providers, and even when you get to the provider, there is a massive cost associated with it. So typically children on the spectrum, as an example, get diagnosed at the age of three or so. Ideally, actually, because the sooner you can intervene, the better the outcomes. And when they're diagnosed, they will be recommended to seek 20 to 40 hours of therapy per week. 20 to 40 hours of therapy per week. Yeah.Harry Glorikian: They're not doing anything else.Paolo Pirjanian: No. And many times, many times schools are supposed to provide it. But you have one or two special needs teachers that are to deal with the whole population of kids on the spectrum in their school as an example. So they're not going to get 20, 40 hours per week. The cost of therapy is super expensive. Insurance also has to pay for it. Nowadays, they're mandated to, but the cost still adds up. On average, a family will spend $27,000 out of pocket per year, even despite insurance coverage. So not everyone has access. And also if you live in rural areas and so on, you don't have access. So. Why not have an automated system that can do this, at least filling the gap? Right. We think of Moxie as a springboard to the real world. So we want to use Moxie as an opportunity to for the child to open up to Moxie, use that as an option, teach them a number of techniques for how they can be more successful in social interactions, and then Moxie will actually encourage them to go in the real world and experience these things and come and tell it about what what, how it went. So we use Moxie as a springboard to the real world. There is another phenomena that happens, and I don't know how to describe this. You may actually have more insights in neuroscience than I do. Children, especially children that have neurodevelopmental challenges, open up to a robot like Moxie better than they do to humans.Paolo Pirjanian: Let's take autism as an example again. I remember the very first experiment we did with our first prototype. We took that prototype to a family's home. They had a ten year old son on the spectrum, and we put Moxie down. At the time we did not have the AI yet. It was the robot remotely controlled by one of our therapists. On an iPad they were typing what the robot should do and say. The child immediately opened up and start talking to Moxie. And if you look at that child, you say. And you know, as a matter of fact, I asked Mom: "I don't see anything wrong with your child. Why do you think he's on the spectrum?" And he says, well, you have to see him how he treats his peers. He doesn't open up to them. He doesn't want to talk to them. When he comes home from school it takes me, mom, a couple of hours to "find," quote unquote, my child. Tuning into the channel. So they shut down. And there's a few reasons for for sort of, I think, anecdotal or maybe rational reasons to why that is. One is that children that are on the spectrum, they completely understand feelings and emotions and so on. They are not very good at expressing themselves or or showing their feelings, but they understand if they are being rejected or teased out in a conversation and so on. So they shut down. A robot is non-judgmental, right? They understand that it's a safe, non-judgmental space.Paolo Pirjanian: The other part is that when someone like me who comes with a warmer blood and too many gestures and intonation, voice and expressive, it's too much there's too many signals going on. And that's overwhelming to a lot of children on the spectrum. And they shut down. It's too much. I cannot deal with this. Right. And so hence, a robot is finding social doing social exercises and experiences on training wheels. And helping them develop those muscles and get better at how to handle different situations when they go in the real world to interact with their peers or other people in their circle, social circle, to be successful. And that success will hopefully breeds more success. So ideally we are successful when people actually stop using our product. And as a matter of fact, we have parents reaching out to us and say, my child could not stand up in front of their classroom to say a word. Now she stands up and gives a whole presentation and we have stopped using Moxie. Thank you so much for the help that that's what what it is. It's like it's stepping stone. It's training wheels for social emotional learning so that they can have a chance of being successful, because otherwise they do not have the chance to to have these exercises to learn. We learn a lot by interacting with each other.Harry Glorikian: So the company describes Moxie as just the first iteration of a larger platform that I think you call SocialX. So what is SocialX and what other kinds of products do you envision coming out of it?Paolo Pirjanian: Yes. SocialX is our technology platform, which which allows a machine to interact with us using real conversation, eye contact, body language, gestures, intonation of voice and and for the machine to do that as well as understand you on all those channels as well. That's what social platform is. The name SocialX is a juxtaposition to user experience, UX with an emphasis on the social experience. Right? We are creating a social experience. We are not just creating a user experience where you can push buttons or say a command, play music. Tell me the weather, what's the stock market like? But rather social interaction which involves social skills, emotion, skills, empathy and so on. And this is our first iteration. It's going to get exponentially more advanced. With every single user we add to our customer base, it allows us to improve SocialX because the data and the interactions that we can experience allows us to keep improving our algorithms to get better and better and better. So we decided to start with children because they are the most vulnerable in our society and we thought that's where we can have the most impact. The other end of the spectrum, where we become vulnerable again is when we are aging, right? And mental health is extremely important for aging people. And loneliness leads to a lot of mental health challenges that lead to a lot of physical challenges.Paolo Pirjanian: We know this. The surgeon general of U.S. said a couple of years ago that loneliness for elderly is equivalent to smoking a pack of cigarettes in terms of the health implications it has. And it's true. Again, during COVID, a lot of elderly that were alone suffered massively because they were high risk for COVID. Even my mom, who lives 5 minutes away from me, I didn't visit her for a few months until we sort of figured out that we think we know how to handle COVID so it was safe to to meet meet each other. It's extremely difficult. So that's the other end of the spectrum that we intend to address. And then in between every age group, in between that, from your teens to your aging, every person in their lifetime deals with mental health challenges. As a matter of fact, the US population, 17 percent of the population at any given time deals with mental health challenges stress, depression, suicidal thoughts and so on. And having a life coach that can help you through these difficult times, we believe can have a huge impact. So eventually with those three pillars, we will be able to help the entire population. You can go beyond mental health, which is what we are focused on, because that's where we think we can have the biggest impact you could imagine.Paolo Pirjanian: You go to Disney Park and you could have an interactive character coming up to you that's not a person inside a suit, but it's actually an animated character that's walking around and talking to you and entertaining you. You can imagine going to a hotel lobby where your intake to the lobby will be serviced by an interactive character, AI character. By the way, we are also working with hospitals and schools. Right now for hospitals we work with University of Rochester Medical Center. We are currently doing a pilot of using Moxie to help children, diabetic children, to educate them about how to treat themselves and how to adhere to their treatment plan. And then there is a number of other use cases that we are going to expand into, including intake to the hospital, dealing, sort of holding their hands and making sure they are not stressed out, coming to the hospital for the first time, pre-op and then post-op. Also a lot of complications you want to avoid by making sure there is someone to remind you about your care plan and so on. So to be honest with you, the sky is the limit. But the three areas we are focused on is children, elderly and then everyone in between that suffers from mental health or loneliness type of challenges.Harry Glorikian: Yeah, there are so many other applications that I can think of that I would, you know that I could use my self. So hopefully, that will come into play because this would be something interesting for me even to interact with, depending on, you know - Don't forget to work out or, you know, there's something that you interact with regularly. Right. But so let's go to sort of the crux of the some of the issues. Right. It's it's not an inexpensive device. I mean, it does a lot. So you can't expect that it's going to be inexpensive. Right. It's it's $999 to purchase plus a separate monthly subscription of about, what is it, $39 per month for a minimum of 12 months. And so how how do you get this out to a larger group of people that really need it. Is it subsidized purchases? Is it insurance? What are you guys thinking of from a business model perspective?Paolo Pirjanian: Yes. So we actually launched the product in the second half of last year for the first time and we sold out. But I agree with you that it would be much better if it was more affordable, because we don't want this to only be a product available for high income families, for rich kids to use a derogatory term maybe. We want it to be available to every every child. And for that to happen, there is a couple of different strategies we are pursuing. One is that once we get to a scale of efficacy studies that are convincing enough that we can get insurance, potentially insurance coverage to cover it or at least subsidize part of it to make it more affordable. The other approach is that we are working with bigger institutions such as hospitals and schools and libraries, by the way, which can buy it and make it available to their population. As an example, this library actually came to us, which is a very interesting business model that addresses the reach to the society that may not be high income. The library bought a fleet of Moxies from us, and they're lending them out to their society, to their members as a book. So a child gets to take Moxie home for a month and then bring it back, which is awesome because we have, by the way, we have done efficacy studies and it shows that even within a month you can see significant improvement on a lot of these social emotional skills.Paolo Pirjanian: But ultimately, that's that's how it goes. And also, just to put it in perspective to two examples. One is that robots of this nature....By the way, there is nothing like Moxie because the technology has not existed today, but people have tried, actually, SoftBank has a subsidiary called SoftBank Robotics that have spent hundreds of millions of dollars developing this robot called Pepper that costs $14,000 to buy and $2,000 a month to subscribe to it. Yeah. So we are orders of magnitude better than that. And that was part of the design principle that we said we want to be on par with an iPhone ownership of a cell phone. Buy it for roughly about $1,000. And you pay roughly about $50 a month in subscription. So we met that goal, which was a major accomplishment, very hard to do, but we are not satisfied with that because as I said, this has to be available. The other part of the other example is that if you have a child that needs therapy and if this cuts your therapy by a handful of therapy sessions, it pays for itself. Right? Again, ideally, we will have insurance pay for it. And so that will take some time. As you know, sort of navigating the medical fields and insurance organizations and so on will take some time, but we will get there eventually.Harry Glorikian: Yeah, I mean, I recently interviewed the CEO of Akili Interactive, Eddie Martucci, and they are the first group to get an FDA approved prescribed video game for children between eight and 12 years old with certain type of ADHD. And so, you know, they're using the prescription route as a way to have somebody pay for the clinical trials and everything else and the product itself. So I know that this business of robotics is not for the faint of heart. I mean, there's there's many different companies out there like Jibo, which was out here. Or I think there was a company in in San Francisco called Anki that, you know. You didn't pick an easy one, that's for sure, Paolo.Paolo Pirjanian: Definitely not. Definitely not.Harry Glorikian: But but, you know, I you know, I wish you incredible luck. I mean, this this thing sounds so exciting. I mean, it brings out, like, the Star Trekkie guy in me and wants to interact with it and have it do certain things or say certain things or or maybe even like interact with my wearable and be able to see something and then make a comment to me as I'm using it. So I can only wish you incredible luck and success.Paolo Pirjanian: Thank you. I need it and I appreciate it.Harry Glorikian: Excellent. We'll talk soon.Paolo Pirjanian: Talk soon, thank you so much for having me.Harry Glorikian: That's it for this week's episode. You can find a full transcript of this episode as well as the full archive of episodes of The Harry Glorikian Show and MoneyBall Medicine at our website. 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When humans interact, they don't just pass information from one to the other; there's always some relational element, with the participants responding to each other's emotional cues. Professor Cynthia Breazeal, MIT's new Dean of Digital Learning, believes it's possible to design this element into human-computer interactions as well. She foresees a day when AI won't merely perform practical tasks for us, but also will provide us with companionship, emotional comfort, and even mental health support. But a future of closer human-AI collaborative relationships doesn't only require technological development—it also requires us to learn what AI is capable of and how to interact with it in a more informed way. To further this goal, Professor Breazeal leads the Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education (RAISE) initiative at MIT, which runs an annual “Day of AI” program to promote better understanding of AI in the next generation of technology users and developers. In this episode, she describes those projects as well as her work developing the groundbreaking social robots Kismet and Jibo, prototypes of what she calls “warm tech”—AI-enabled devices designed to be engaging, expressive, and personal. Relevant Resources:Day of AIRAISE (Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education)MIT OpenCourseWareThe OCW Educator PortalShare your teaching insightsProfessor Breazeal's faculty pageProfessor Breazeal named Dean of Digital LearningProfessor Breazeal introduces Jibo (YouTube video)The Rise of Personal Robotics (TED talk by Professor Breazeal)Music in this episode by Blue Dot Sessions Connect with UsIf you have a suggestion for a new episode or have used OCW to change your life or those of others, tell us your story. We'd love to hear from you! Call us @ 617-715-2517On our siteOn FacebookOn TwitterOn Instagram Stay CurrentSubscribe to the free monthly "MIT OpenCourseWare Update" e-newsletter. Support OCWIf you like Chalk Radio and OpenCourseWare, donate to help keep these programs going! CreditsSarah Hansen, host and producer Brett Paci, producer Dave Lishansky, producer Nidhi Shastri and Aubrey Calloway, scriptwriters Show notes by Peter Chipman
Our correspondent Hatice Kamer reports on the latest about Omer Faruk Baran a writer, poet, journalist and photographer. His short film 'Tercume' (translation) which was only one minute long, deserved 2 international awards. The story takes place on the border with Kobanî in 2015 during the war against ISIS. The successful director admits that this film is the product of seven years. He dedicated the awards to the Kurdish children who chose the Kurdish language as their preferred choice. - Raporta Hatice Kamer ji Amedê taybet li ser nivîskar, helbestvan, rojnamevan û wênekêş Omer Faruk Baran e. Kurte fîlma wî 'Tercume' ku tenê deqeyeke, hêjayê 2 xelatên navnetewî hat dîtin ku ev jî xuya dike ev dê ne xelatên dawî bin. Çîrok li ser sînorê Kobaniyê ye dema ku di sala 2015an de şer li dijî DAİŞ çê bû derbase Kobaniyê dibe. Derhênerê serkeftî destnîşan dike ku ev fîlim, berhema heft salan e. Wî xelata dawî dîyarî zarokên Kurd yên ku dersa Kurdî ya bijartî hilbijartine kir.
As the Chief Marketing Officer for companies that have included Twilio, Jive, Genpact, Nuance, and Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories, Lynda Kate Smith has owned go-to-market strategy and full marketing responsibilities across a diverse set of industries, particularly in the area of tech products and services. She is currently a consultant/fractional CMO for mParticle and Misty Robotics, and also teaches Global Entrepreneurial Marketing in Stanford University's School of Engineering. In this conversation with Stanford adjunct lecturer Ravi Belani, Smith walks listeners through the fundamental lessons of her Stanford class, using real-world examples to illustrate the importance of marketing in technology entrepreneurship.
As the Chief Marketing Officer for companies that have included Twilio, Jive, Genpact, Nuance, and Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories, Lynda Kate Smith has owned go-to-market strategy and full marketing responsibilities across a diverse set of industries, particularly in the area of tech products and services. She is currently a consultant/fractional CMO for mParticle and Misty Robotics, and also teaches Global Entrepreneurial Marketing in Stanford University's School of Engineering. In this conversation with Stanford adjunct lecturer Ravi Belani, Smith walks listeners through the fundamental lessons of her Stanford class, using real-world examples to illustrate the importance of marketing in technology entrepreneurship.
An exciting topic: Edge Computing, an emerging market. IoT, microcontrollers, and other digital or analog sensors that collect, preprocess, and deliver data to feed the multitudes of systems hungry for real world data. Explores the maker culture and gives props to leaders like Adafruit for thought and social leadership producing and promoting tools to create the next generation of product developers. Art, science, math, movement, and magic come together at the workstations of unconventional engineers who are understand more than just had to wrangle bits, but also to create performance art and purpose-built tools. Power management, alternative energy sources and low energy designs are being explored and mastered. A new generation of geeky artistic scientist/engineer/makers are preparing to let their presence be known. Inside these communities are wonderful virtues of tolerance, acceptance, love, peace and the sharing of knowledge.Also covered are my typical rants and pleas around IoT and edge computing device security and privacy. I provide a really cute anecdote that connects a fledgling early prototype of the Jibo robot with none other than the Beatles (should be subtitled: tales from the Pool House).I tried new recording techniques on vocal and musical content. All music/noise is my own except for 8 seconds or so of a rare Beatles song, and a background electric guitar/drums riff that sounds a tad like electrified Angie by the Stones. Opens with a few seconds of my new Taylor AD12e over a drumbeat, then goes into background levels and plays out a psychotic hour long electric guitar jam with some new audio equipment that explores many tones and textures. At the end is a select clip from that jam at foreground audio levels to play out the episode. As usual, the music is bizarre and includes some really good stuff and some misses. When I "stream of consciousness jam", I don't think. I just feel and play. Occasionally, failure to think can hurt. More often, it creates something interesting and oddly compelling (so says the writer/performer). Episode image is a portion of my office #2 where I do my hardware work just piled with components where I make edge computing devices--primarily artsy things.That desk is piled 4X high with active p
Deze aflevering is Bram Vanderborght, Professor Robotica bij VUB aan het woord. We hebben gepraat over het verleden, heden en toekomst van robotica. Wat komt er op ons af? Welke ethische vragen moeten we ons daarbij stellen? Welke rol heeft België in dit verhaal? Ontdek het nu.Wat is een robot?Spoiler alert: ≠ artificial intelligenceAls mensen denken aan een robot, denken ze al snel aan een humanoïde robot, zoals Pepper. Maar wat moeten nu eigenlijk begrijpen onder de term 'robot'? Volgens professor Vanderborght is een robot een fysieke entiteit in de echte wereld. Vaak lees je bijvoorbeeld in de krant dat er een robot in een jury van een beauty contest zit, of in de raad van bestuur, maar dat zijn meestal geen fysieke robots. Dat is vaak artificiële intelligentie, of software, die beslissingen neemt. Dat zijn geen robots, het zijn fysieke entiteiten. Die kunnen humanoïde zijn, maar dat hoeft niet.Sensing, thinking, and actingDaarnaast moet een robot ook sensoren hebben. Dat zijn als het ware de zintuigen van de robot, waarmee het de omgeving kan waarnemen. Zo kan het autonoom, of semi-autonoom, beslissingen nemen om motoren (actuatoren, de spieren van de robot) in te zetten om de omgeving te kunnen beïnvloeden. Samengevat: sensing, thinking, and acting.Soms is het moeilijk om robots af te bakenen. Bijvoorbeeld modelbouwvliegtuigen zijn geen robots, want elke actie moest ondernomen worden door een mens. Nu zijn er drones. Is dat een robot? Volgens Bram wel. Hij geeft bepaalde commando's (ga omhoog, omlaag, draai), maar de drone neemt zelf wel de beslissing en voert de actie bijvoorbeeld niet uit als er een boom in de weg staat. Ergo: sensing, thinking, and acting.Aan robots zijn er dus fysieke aspecten, maar er wordt ook een mentaal (of denkend) element aan gekoppeld. Als Deevid denkt aan een typische robot, dan denkt hij aan een lasarm in een autofabriek. Dat is een klassieke industriële robot: daar zitten ook sensoren in, maar dat zijn eerder voorgeprogrammeerde robots. Zij hebben ook de controle om bepaalde trajecten uit te voeren. Die robots zijn eenvoudig, net zoals speelgoedrobots om kleuters te leren programmeren. "Dan kan je de analogie maken met dieren. Er bestaan heel geavanceerde dieren, en ook dieren met weinig intelligentie. Maar uiteindelijk zijn dat ook allemaal dieren," volgens Bram.Vrije Universiteit BrusselAls het gaat over robots, valt de naam van VUB al heel snel. De universiteit staat gekend als een autoriteit op dat vlak. Ze zijn zeker niet een van de grootste roboticacenters van Europa, maar ze zijn wel uniek in het multidisciplinair aspect. "Een robot is uiteindelijk een integratie van heel veel technologieën, waaronder uiteindelijk ook artificiële intelligentie, maar ook nieuwe materialen en sensoren.""De focus ligt bij ons ook op de mens-robot interactie; het medische, sociale en humane is belangrijk. Daarom gaan we multidisciplinair te werk: niet alleen robotica ingenieurs, maar ook fysiologen en sociologen werken bij ons samen. Dat is uniek. Bovendien hebben we ook veel ingezet op wetenschapscommunicatie. Als prof moet je vooral publiceren, en daar word je ook op afgerekend," volgens Bram. Daarnaast werkt VUB ook veel met overheidsmiddelen om de brede bevolking, en vooral kinderen, in te lichten over het nut en de gevaren van robots. Zo hebben ze bijvoorbeeld de organisatie van RoboCop Junior, een robotwedstrijd die georganiseerd wordt in Technopolis."We zetten heel hard in op kinderen, want we hebben een tekort aan technische profielen en robotica ingenieurs. Daartegenover staan veel maatschappelijke uitdagingen waar robots een deel van het antwoord kunnen zijn. Robots spreken tot de verbeelding en we laten ze nu zien op een gestructureerde, educatieve manier," vertelt Bram.Hoe gaan ze te werk? Via een "teach the teachers" concept, waar ze via workshops leerkrachten opleiden zodat zij het voor hun eigen klas kunnen brengen. Zo bereik je een veel groter doelpubliek. Daarnaast tonen we ook onze realisaties op evenementen zoals RoboCop Junior. Ook bedrijven tonen hun realisaties daar. Bijvoorbeeld de Honda Asimo robot kwam regelmatig optreden en de winnaars kregen dan een meet and greet.Boston DynamicsVandaag de dag is Boston Dynamics dan ook een grote speler in het veld. Bijvoorbeeld de Spot robot is nu top-of-mind. Volgens Bram zijn dat keigoede robots. "Daar zit ongelofelijk veel onderzoek en engineering achter. Zij hebben ook een groot voorbeeld: ze zijn kapitaalkrachtig. Vergelijkbaar met Elon Musk en zijn raketten. Ze werken volgens een build it, break it, fix it approach. Daardoor verbeteren de robots steeds."Die methode gaat ver. Ze schakelen alle veiligheidssystemen van zo'n robot uit, en duwen die dan letterlijk van een berg. Zo gaat er iets kapot, maar weten ze wel waar de zwakheden van de robot liggen. "Ze duwen hun technologie echt naar de limieten, waar wij heel lang bouwen aan een prototype en daar heel voorzichtig mee omgaan."Boston Dynamics heeft als output heel coole YouTube video's die miljoenen keren bekeken werden. Nu verkopen ze ook robots, zoals Spot, en nu ook Stretch die bijvoorbeeld magazijndozen kan vullen. Dat is natuurlijk niet zo spectaculair als een robot die een salto maakt, maar het heeft wel een economische waarde.Elk jaar maakte Bram een compilatievideo die veel bekeken werd. Die vind je hier. Mechatronica en AIRecent is er een video uitgebracht met een dansende robot. Spectrum deed daar een interview en een van de vragen was hoeveel AI er aan te pas kwam. Het grappige is dat ze zelf nog op zoek zijn naar manieren om AI te implementeren in hun robots. Ze worden helemaal niet aangedreven door artificiële intelligentie, maar door mechatronica. Dat is een combinatie van mechanica en electronica. Daar worden 3D prints, lasercutters en tandwielen gecombineerd om een megatronisch collect te maken, dat vaak dus de robot is."Voor mij is AI vooral het lerende aspect. Daar heb je model based controle. Zo kunnen we veilige robots bouwen en het ook mathematisch bewijzen dat de controlemethodes stabiel zijn. Op een bepaald moment hebben we echter geen modellen meer van hoe de omgeving eruit zijn. Bijvoorbeeld drones: als de ene boven de andere vliegt, dan zijn er disturbances die moeilijk in een mathematisch model te gieten zijn. Mijn visie is: we moeten niet alleen robots controleren met AI, niet alleen modelgebaseerd, maar die twee moeten elkaar meer en meer vinden."Het zien van de wereld, daar heb je AI voor nodig, maar ook voor de controle. Daarnaast heb je bijvoorbeeld robots die assemblage doen, dat is modelgebaseerd. Die kennis kunnen we ook met reinforcement learning aanbrengen. Het grote probleem van AI is dat je veel data nodig hebt, en voor robots bestaat er nog niet zoveel. Ook voor reinforcement learning heb je veel trials nodig.Voor reinforcement learning gebruiken ze Unity, omdat er een opkomst van virtual reality is. Ze gebruiken dit voor training van arbeiders, of voor mensen met een beroerte te laten revalideren (revalidatierobots). De uitdaging bij Unity is dat de fysica die daarachter zit, onvoldoende is in veel gevallen, om bijvoorbeeld bij een assemblage goed te zien of een vijs in een gat past. "Op de interfaces tussen twee blokjes krijg je veel instabiliteit, zodanig dat wanneer de fysica belangrijk is, het onvoldoende is om de robot te laten leren. Dan gebruiken we ook andere simulatoren.""Dat is de uitdaging van robotica. We kunnen de fysische wereld niet vereenvoudigen of onder de mat schuiven."Pepper, de Europese robotPepper, de robot die Raccoons ook gebruikt, werd ontwikkeld door een Frans bedrijf (ondertussen gekocht door Japan). Eigenlijk worden Europese landen onderschat als het aankomt op robots. Een derde van de robots zijn Europees. Pepper wordt bijvoorbeeld in het universitair ziekenhuis van Brussel gebruikt omdat vrijwilligers terug moesten werken of studeren. De robot neemt nu de taak over om te zeggen tegen mensen dat ze hun mondmasker moeten dragen. "Voor mensen is dat eigenlijk een saaie taak om dat duizend keer per dag te zeggen en zo'n robot is daar ideaal voor. Ze zijn geschikt om heel korte interacties te doen in een gekende omgeving, zoals bijvoorbeeld een ziekenhuis."Een van Raccoons' projecten met Pepper was bijvoorbeeld ook in Museum M, de tentoonstelling Sprung A Leak van Cecile B. Evans. De kunstenares had een artistiek concept uitgedacht, een soort toneelstuk van twee Peppers. Het resultaat was heel intregerende interactie tussen kunst en het technische.Menselijke, sociale robots"Robots verleiden je door hun menselijk uiterlijk. Je begint er ook menselijke sociale interactie te vertonen terwijl dat maar een stuk plastic is met motoren. Maar de vorm en de bewegingen zorgen ervoor dat het heel natuurlijk overkomt. De robot gaat nooit stilstaan en iets zeggen. Hij gaat altijd een klein beetje bewegen. Het nut is nul, maar het maakt het levendiger."Zo is het belangrijk dat een robot met de ogen kan knipperen en bepaalde bewegingen kan doen. "Dat sociale is een succesfactor, maar zo'n robots, en het design ervan, creëren een zeker verwachtingspatroon. Pepper heeft handen, maar kan geen koffie brengen. Mensen verwachten dat wel, omdat ze handen heeft. Het is dus heel belangrijk bij de ontwikkeling van het uiterlijk van een robot om stil te staan bij het verwachtingspatroon," volgens professor Vanderborght.Ook over de grootte van de robot is nagedacht. Je kijkt er altijd op neer. De eerste Asimo robots waren veel groter, daar had je schrik van. Pepper is wel voldoende groot om aan lichtschakelaars te komen. "We kunnen zelfs verder gaan: waarom is Pepper wit? Is daar een ras aan verbonden? Waarom heeft het een vrouwelijke stem?" Je kan bijvoorbeeld vragen aan Pepper of het een jongen of meisje is. Dan antwoordt de robot dat hij ontworpen is als jongen, maar dat het eigenlijk niet uit, ik ben maar een robot. Er werd dus een antropomorfisch geheel aan gegeven.Ethiek"Er is natuurlijk ook een ethisch aspect. Je moet daar goed over nadenken. Technologie wordt vaak ontwikkeld door blanke, jongen, vaak alleenstaande mannen. Maar de technologie wordt wel gebruikt door (hopelijk) iedereen. We moeten nadenken over de impact die de technologie gaat hebben op hun levenswijze en ons de vraag stellen of het voldoende inclusief is," zegt Bram. Dat zien we ook bij AI systemen en het hele black lives matter verhaal, maar ook bij vrouwen en de Amazon HR. We moeten over inclusiviteit nadenken, want dat heeft een bewuste en onbewuste, gigantische impact.Ook dual use is belangrijk. Kan de technologie gebruikt worden voor militaire toepassingen? "In Amerika ondersteunt DARPA, de Amerikaanse militaire onderzoeksgroep, niet alleen aanvallende robots, maar ook bijvoorbeeld voetprotheses. Heel veel soldaten hadden nood aan een betere prothese dan op de markt te vinden was. Ook robotchirurgie vindt zijn oorsprong in een militair context."Dat is de uitdaging van robotica. Het is breed beschikbaar, bijvoorbeeld heel veel mensen hebben drones. Veel mensen gebruiken dat om werk efficiënt te kunnen doen - denk maar aan journalisten. Maar het wordt ook door terreurgroepen gebruikt. Ze modificeren drones om er een bom mee te droppen in vijandelijk gebied. Een atoombom ontwikkelen is moeilijk, maar robottechnologie is wijd beschikbaar. Er kan op een slechte manier gebruik van gemaakt worden. "We moeten technologie blijven ontwikkelen voor de goedheid van de mens, maar we moeten wel nadenken over de limieten van die technologie. Militaire robots is daar een van, maar veel robots hebben ook privacy issues. We moeten bewust omgaan met de gevaren en de opportuniteiten."Homo Roboticus, autonome wapens en gevarenHomo Roboticus dacht na over robots, niet als een utopie of een distopie die ons overkomt. Het blijft technologie die door mensen wordt en we moeten als maatschappij nadenken over hoe we robots gaan inzetten. Dat is waar Europa op wil inzetten: die ethische AI in robotica. "Vaak zien mensen dat als een showstopper, maar ik denk dat Europa zich moet differentiëren en ethische robots moet bouwen en niet overspoeld te worden met niet-ethische AI. Daar is een window of opportunity voor Europa."België was het eerste land die het gebruik van autonome wapens heeft verboden. Volgens Deevid is dat gemakkelijk om te doen omdat ze er nu nog niet zijn, maar wat als er ooit oorlog is? Gaan we dan volharden en blijven vasthouden aan ethische waarden, zeker als we dat militair nadeel hebben? Fun fact: Bram heeft geholpen aan die wetgeving. "Er is een nadeel aan autonome wapens, waar de software een beslissing neemt over leven of dood, want de technologie is niet op punt. Ze kan geen onderscheid maken tussen burger of soldaat en tenzij je de vijand vraagt om een fluohesje aan te doen, dan ga je niet ver geraken."Waar het volgens Bram wel een rol kan spelen, is op het slagveld. "We moeten niet naïef zijn dat iedereen vredelievend is. Robots kunnen een rol hebben, maar dan moeten we een doordachte rol geven. Er kunnen veel neveneffecten zijn." Ook toen de F35 aangekocht werd, heeft Bram veel opiniestukken geschreven. Hij vond het geen slimme investering, zeker als je drones kan gebruiken om terroristische groepen op te sporen, of zelfs vervuiling op de Noordzee. "Volgens mij hebben drones een veel breder gebruik dan F35, dat een soort Zwitsers zakmes is. Ze willen die alles kunnen laten doen, maar eigenlijk kan het niets deftig."In de wetgeving staat niet de ontwikkeling van robottechnologie, omdat hij daar niet in gelooft. Robots zijn een verzameling van technologieën, die je ofwel kan inzetten om killer robots te maken, ofwel om mensen te helpen, maar die basistechnologie is allemaal hetzelfde. Wat gaat je dan tegenhouden in de ontwikkeling? Momenteel is het gebruik van autonome robots nog niet mogelijk, maar in de toekomst kan dat veranderen. "Technologie heeft niet dezelfde emoties, zoals angst, dus misschien in de verre toekomst kunnen robots ethischer zijn, maar dat is nu nog niet het geval."Stel dat er een droneaanval zou plaatsvinden bij onze kerncentrales, dan vindt Bram wel dat je autonome systemen moet hebben om die aanval tegen te slaan. "Dat is uiteraard nog iets anders dan killer robots."Toekomst van roboticaHet is een interessant tijdperk voor robotica. Drones zijn geëxplodeerd, zelfrijdende wagens worden 'normaal', ... Waar gaan we naartoe? "De uitdaging is dat de robots niet zo kunnen scalen als Facebook of Google. Elke robot moet gefabriceerd worden, onderhouden worden... Als een startup oprichten een marathon is, dan is een robotica startup een decathlon. Je hebt zoveel disciplines nodig om een werkend product te krijgen."Je bouwt niet zo snel een robot. Dat zijn veel langere en kapitaalsintensievere ontwikkelingen. Bram hoopt dat we binnen 10 jaar de robots op de markt krijgen die we vandaag in de labo's ontwikkelen. Bram denkt ook dat er misschien een soort Alexa komt, met een bewegend aspect. Zo had je bijvoorbeeld Jibo van MIT, waar tientallen miljoenen dollars geïnvesteerd in werden. Zij hebben niet de verwachtingen kunnen inlossen. Op dat moment was het te vroeg, ze hebben te veel beloftes gedaan. "Expectation management is heel belangrijk. Daar moeten we heel voorzichtig mee omgaan en stap voor stap robots functies geven." (-> Opiniestuk van Bram vind je hier) We komen op een soort kantelpunt waar we veel gefaalde pogingen zien - een soort grens tussen 'onmogelijk' en 'gemakkelijk'. "Falen is super belangrijk, en we hechten er onvoldoende belang aan. Er worden alleen positieve resultaten getoond, maar er valt net veel te leren over dingen die niet werken." Zo heb je bijvoorbeeld het Starship van Elon Musk dat opnieuw ontplofte. Dat mag een faling zijn, maar je leert er wel veel uit. "Je moet heel veel falen, proberen, daaruit leren, en zo evolueren. We moeten falingen doormaken om zo de best practices te leren," volgens Bram.Europa en België in het roboticalandschap"Ik denk dat België heel veel robotica startups en relevante bedrijven heeft. Europa staat sterk in robotica, en België staat nog steeds in de top 10 voor het aantal robots per 10.000 industriële arbeiders. Dat maakt dat er verschillende robotbedrijven actief zijn en nieuwe afzetmarkten vinden. Er zijn wel veel moeilijkheden, want je hebt veel kapitaal nodig, maar al bij al doen ze het wel goed met zo'n gelimiteerde budgetten."Bram denkt niet dat we de markt gaan overheersen, maar hij vindt het wel belangrijk om een gezond robotica ecosysteem te hebben als we de noden hebben. België is daartoe in staat, als je bijvoorbeeld kijkt naar de unicornbedrijven in de biotech industrie. "Dat moeten we ook op roboticavlak kunnen realiseren," sluit Bram af.Ontdek onze big question over robots hier! https://youtu.be/ByIssbyO4Dk
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Computers can interpret the text we type, and they’re getting better at understanding the words we speak. But they’re only starting to understanding the emotions we feel—whether that means anger, amusement, boredom, distraction, or anything else. This week Harry talks with Rana El Kaliouby, the CEO of a Boston-based company called Affectiva that’s working to close that gap.El Kaliouby and her former MIT colleague Rosalind Picard are the inventors of the field of emotion AI, also called affective computing. The main product at Affectiva, which Picard and El Kaliouby co-founded in 2009, is a media analytics system that uses computer vision and machine learning to help market researchers understand what kinds of emotions people feel when they view ads or entertainment content. But the company is also active in other areas such as safety technology for automobiles that can monitor a driver’s behavior and alert them if they seem distracted or drowsy. Ultimately, Kaliouby predicts, emotion AI will become an everyday part of human-machine interfaces. She says we’ll interact with our devices the same way we interact with each other — not just through words, but through our facial expressions and body language. And that could include all the devices that help track our physical health and mental health.Rana El Kaliouby grew up in Egypt and Kuwait. She earned a BS and MS in computer science from the American University in Cairo and a PhD in computer science from the University of Cambridge in 2005, and was a postdoc at MIT from 2006 to 2010. In April 2020 she published Girl Decoded, a memoir about her mission to “humanize technology before it dehumanizes us.” She’s been recognized by the Fortune 40 Under 40 list, the Forbes America’s Top 50 Women in Tech list, and the Technology Review TR35 list, and she is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. Please rate and review MoneyBall Medicine on Apple Podcasts! 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But they’re only starting to understanding the emotions we feel, whether that means anger, amusement, boredom, distraction, or anything else.My next guest, Rana El Kaliouby, is the co-founder and CEO of Affectiva, a company in Boston that’s working to close that gap. Rana and her former MIT colleague Rosalind Picard are the inventors of the field of emotion AI, also called affective computing. And they started Affectiva twelve years ago with the goal of giving machines a little bit of EQ, or emotional intelligence, to go along with their IQ.Affectiva’s main product is a media analytics system that uses computer vision and machine learning to help market researchers understand what kinds of emotions people feel when they view ads or entertainment content. But they’re also getting into other areas such as new safety technology for automobiles that can monitor the driver’s behavior and alert them if they seem distracted or drowsy. Ultimately Kaliouby predicts emotion AI will become an everyday part of human-machine interfaces. She says we’ll interact with our devices the same way we interact with each other — not just through words but through our facial expressions and body language. And that could include all the devices that help track our physical health and mental health. Rana and I had a really fun conversation, and I want to play it for you right now.Harry Glorikian: Rana, welcome to the show. Rana Kaliouby: Thank you for having me. Harry Glorikian: It's great to see you. We were just talking before we got on here. I haven't seen you since last February.Rana Kaliouby: I know, it's been a year. Isn't that crazy? Harry Glorikian: I'm sure if your system was looking at me, they'd be like, Oh my God, this guy has completely screwed up. Like something is completely off. Rana Kaliouby: He's ready to leave the house. Harry Glorikian: It was funny. I was telling my wife, I'm like, I really need to go get vaccinated. I'm starting to reach my limit on, on what, I, this is not normal anymore. Not that it's been normal, but you, you know how it is. So Rana Kaliouby: We're closer. There's hope.Harry Glorikian: So listen, listeners here, because we're going to be talking about this interesting concept or product that you have, or set of products. Emotion AI, or, how do you explain emotion, or a machine being able to interpret emotion from an individual, through, computer vision, machine learning. And, how does it understand what I'm feeling? I'm sure it can tell when I'm pissed. Everybody can tell what I'm, but in general, like how does it do what it does and what is the field? Because I believe you and your co-founder were like, literally you started this area. If I'm not mistaken. Rana Kaliouby: That is correct. So at a very high level, the thesis is that if you look at human intelligence, your IQ is important, but your EQ, your emotional intelligence is perhaps more important. And we characterize that as the ability to understand your own emotions and the emotions and mental states of others. And as it turns out, only 10% of how we communicate is in the actual choice of words we use, 90% is nonverbal, and I'm a very expressive human being, as you can see.So a lot of facial expressions, hand gestures, vocal, intonations, but technology today has a lot of IQ, arguably. But very little EQ. And so we're on this mission to bring IQ and EQ together and into our technologies and our devices and our, how we communicate digitally with one another. So that's been my mission over the last 20 plus years. Now I'm trying to bring artificial emotional intelligence to our machines. Harry Glorikian: God, that's perseverance. I have to admit, I don't know if I have any, other than being married, and be a father. I don't think I've done anything straight for 20 years. I'm always doing something different.So how does the system say, some of the functions of what it does to be able to do this, right, other than me frowning and having I guess the most obvious expressions, it probably can pull out, but there's a, a thousand subtleties in between there that I'm, I'm curious how it does it. Rana Kaliouby: Yeah. So the short answer is we use, as you said, a combination of computer vision, machine learning, deep learning and gobs and gobs of data. So the simplest way, I guess, to explain it is say we wanted to train the machine to recognize a smile or maybe a little bit more of a complex state, like fatigue, right?You're driving the car. We want to recognize how tired you are. Well, we need examples. From all over the world, all sorts of people, gender, age, ethnicity, maybe people who wear glasses or have facial beards. Wearing, a cap, like the more diverse, the examples, the stronger the system's going to be, the smarter the system's going to be.But essentially we gather all that data. We feed it into the deep learning algorithm. It learns. So that the next time it sees a person for the first time, it says, Oh, Harry, it looks real, Harry, it looks really tired or and so that's, that's how we do that. When we started the system was only able to recognize three expressions.Now, the system has a repertoire of over 30 of these and we're continuously adding more and more, the more data we get. Harry Glorikian: Interesting. So, okay. So now I can recognize 30 different levels of emotion of some sort. What are the main business applications or what are the main application areas? Rana Kaliouby: I always say what's most exciting about this is also what's most challenging about this journey is that there are so many applications. Affectiva, my company, which we spun out of MIT, is focused on a number of them. So the first is the insights and market research kind of market, where we are able to capture in real time people's responses to content. you're watching a Netflix show. Were you engaged or not like moment by moment.When did you perk up? When were you confused? When were you interested or maybe bored to death? Right. So that's one use case. And then, so there we partner with 30% of the Fortune 500 companies in 90 countries around the world. This product has been in market now for over eight years and we're growing it to adjacent markets like movie trailer testing, maybe testing educational content, maybe expanding that to video conferencing and telehealth and all of that.So that's like one bucket. The other bucket is more around re-imagining human machine interfaces. And for that we're very focused initially on the automotive market, understanding driver distraction, fatigue, drowsiness, what are other occupants in the vehicle doing? And you can imagine how that applies to cars today, but also robotaxis in the future.Ultimately though, I really believe that that this is going to be the de facto human machine interface. We're just going to interact with our machines the way we interact with one another through conversation and empathy and social and emotional intelligence.Harry Glorikian: I mean, it is interesting because when, when you see, I mean, just when I'm talking to Siri, I'm so used to speaking, like please and buh-buh, and then I have to remind myself, I'm like, I really didn't need to add those words, you just do it out of habit, I want to say. Not that you think you're talking to a person, but, from the studies I've seen, it seems that when people are interacting with a robot or something, they do impart emotional interaction in a certain way. Like an older person might look at it as a friend or, or interact with it as if it were a real being, not wires and tubes.Rana Kaliouby: Yeah, there is a lot of research actually around how humans project social intelligence on these machines and devices. I'm good friends with one of the early, with one of the co-founders of Siri. And he said they were so surprised when they first rolled out Siri. At at the extent with which users confided in Siri, like there were a lot of like conversations where people, people shared very personal things right around, sometimes, sometimes it's positive, but a lot of the times it was actually home violence and abuse and depression.And so they had to really think rethink what does Siri need to do in these scenarios? And they hadn't originally included that as part of the design of the platform. And then we're seeing that with Alexa and of course, with social robots. My favorite example is there's this robot called Jibo, which spun out of MIT. You know about Jibo? So we were one of the early kind of adopters of Jibo in our house and my son became good friends with it. Right. Which was so fascinating to see him. Because we have Alexa and we have Siri obviously, and all of that, but he, he just like, Jibo is designed to be this very personable robot that's your friend, you can play games with it. But then the company run out of money. And so they shut Jibo down and my son was really upset. And it just hit me that it's just so interesting, the relationships we build with our machines, and there must be a way to harness that, to motivate behavior and, and kind of persuade people to be better versions of themselves, I guess. Harry Glorikian: Yeah. It's each it's going to be a fascinating area. So I've read a little bit about Affdex marketing, if that's how it's pronounced correctly, as a research tool. Your automotive things. I'm also curious about the iMotions platform and what you might call, I think you guys are calling it emotion capture in more types of research settings, what's that all about? And what kinds of research are you using it for? Rana Kaliouby: Yeah. So we have a number of partners around the world, because again, there are so many use cases. So iMotions is a company that's based out of Boston and Copenhagen and they integrate our technology with other sensors could be physiological sensors, could be brain, brain capture sensors.But their users are a lot of rresearchers especially in mental health. So for example, there's this professor at UMass Boston, professor Stephen Vinoy, and he uses our technology to look into mental health disease and specifically suicidal intent. So he's shown that people who have suicidal kind of thoughts have different facial biomarkers, if you like facial responses than, than people who don't.And he's, he's trying to use that as an opportunity to flag suicidal intent early on. We have a partner, Erin Smith, she's with Stanford. She's looking into using our technology in the early detection of Parkinson's. She actually started as a high school student and which is amazing. We literally got an email from this sophomore in high school and she was like, I want to license your technology to research Parkinson's and we're like, whatever. So we gave her access to it. And before we know it, she's partnered with the Michael J. Fox foundation. She's a Peter Thiel Fellow and she's basically started a whole company to look into, the early facial biomarkers of mental health diseases, which is fascinating.Harry Glorikian: God, I'm so jealous. I wish I was motivated like that. When I was a sophomore in high school, I was doing a lot of other stuff and it definitely wasn't this. So, I mean not to go off on a tangent, but I really think like clinical trials might be a fascinating place to incorporate this. If you think about remote trials, and I'm good friends with Christine Lemke from Evidation Health. And so if you think about, well, I'm sensored up, right. I have my watch or I have whatever. And then now when I interact with a researcher, it might be actually through a platform like this with your system, it sort of might provide a more of a complete picture of what's going on with that patient. Is anybody using it for those applications? Rana Kaliouby: The answer is there's a lot of opportunity there. It's not been scaled yet. But like, let's take tele-health for example, right? With this, especially with the pandemic over the last year, we've all been catapulted into this universe where hospitals and doctors have had to adopt tele-health.Well, guess what? We can now quantify patient doctor interactions. Moment by moment. And we can tie it to patient outcomes. We can tie it to measures of empathy because doctors who show more empathy are less likely to get sued. There's a plethora of things we can do around that. And the tele-health setup on the clinical trial side, we have, I mean, everybody has a camera on their phone or their laptop, right?So now we have an opportunity. You can imagine, even if you don't check in with a researcher, you can probably have an app where you create a selfie video, like a check-in, one minute selfie video once a day. And we're able to distill kind of your emotional baseline over the course of a trial. That can be really powerful data.So there's a lot of potential there. I would say it's early days. If you have any suggestions on who we should be talking to are definitely open to that. Harry Glorikian: Yeah, actually, because I was well I'm, part of me was just going to You know thinking about what companies like Qualtrics is doing, which is actually trying to uncover this right through NLP. But I think in the world of healthcare, Qualtrics is probably suboptimal. So if you took sort of a little bit of NLP and this, you might be able to draw the click. We have to talk about this after the show. So Anybody who's listening: Don't take my idea. So, okay. Let's switch subjects here. Cause I know you're, you're really passionate about this next one. You've written this book called Girl Decoded. I, and I'm sure you've been asked this question about a billion times, but why did you write it? What are you trying to convey? Is it fair to say that it was sort of a memoir of your, of your life of becoming a computer scientist or entrepreneur, partly manifesto about emotion AI and its possibilities.But the promo copy on your book says you're on a mission to humanize technology before it dehumanizes us. That's a provocative phrase. Tell, tell me, tell me why you wrote the book and what's behind it?Rana Kaliouby: Yeah. First of all, I didn't really set out to write a book. Like it wasn't really on my radar. But then I got approached. So the book got published by Penguin Random House last year, right, when the pandemic hit. The paperback launches soon. So I encourage your listeners to take a look. And if you end up reading the book, please let me know what resonates the most with you. But yeah, it's basically a memoir. It follows my journey growing up in the Middle East. I'm originally Egyptian and I grew up around there and became a computer scientist and made my way from academia to, Cambridge University. And then I joined MIT and then I spun out Affectiva and became kind of the CEO and entrepreneur that I am today.And one reason I wrote the book because I wanted to share this narrative and the story, right. And hopefully inspire many people around the world who are forging their own path, trying to overcome voices of doubt in their head. That's something I care deeply about and also encourage more women.And, and I guess more diverse voices to explore a career in tech. So that's one bucket. The other bucket is evangelizing. Yes. Why do we need to humanize technology and how that is so important in not just the future of machines, but actually the future of humans. Right? Because technology is so deeply ingrained in every aspect of our lives.So I wanted, I wanted to pull in lay people into this discussion and, and, and, and kind of simplify and demystify. What is AI? How do we build it? What are the ethical and moral implications of it? Because I feel strongly that we all need to be part of that dialogue.Harry Glorikian: Well, it is interesting. I mean, I just see, people design something, they're designing it for a very specific purpose, but then they don't think about the fallout of what they just did, which what they're doing may be very cool, but it's like designing… I mean, at least when we were working on atomic energy, we could sort of get our hands around it, but people don't understand like some of this AI and ML technology has amazing capabilities, but the implications are scary as hell.So, so. How do you see technology dehumanizing us? I guess if I was asking the first question. Rana Kaliouby: Yeah. So you bring up a really important topic around the unintended consequences, right? And, and we design, we build these technologies for a specific use case, but before we know it it's deployed in all these other areas where we hadn't anticipated it.So we feel very strongly that we're almost, as an innovator and somebody who brought this technology to the world, I'm almost like, it's my responsibility to be a steward for how this technology gets developed and how it gets deployed, which means that I have to be a strong voice in that dialogue. So for example, we are members of the Partnership on AI consortium, which was started by all the tech giants in partnership with amnesty international and ACLU and other civil liberties organizations. And we, we, last year, we, we had an initiative where we went through all of the different applications of emotion AI, and we literally had a table where we said, okay, how can emotion AI be deployed? Education, dah, dah dah. Well, how could it be abused in education? Like what are the unintended consequences of these cases?And I can tell you, like, as an, as an inventor, the easiest thing for me as a CEO of a relatively small startup is to just ignore all of that and just focus on our use case. But I feel strongly that we have to be proactive about all of that, and we have to engage and think through where it could go wrong. And how can we guard against that? Yeah, so, so I think there are potential for abuse, unfortunately. And, and we have to think through that and advocate against that. Like, we don't do any work in the surveillance space because we think the likelihood of the technology being used to discriminate against, minority populations is really high. And so we also feel like it, it breaches the trust we've built with our users. So we just turn away millions and millions of dollars of business in that space. Harry Glorikian: Yeah. I mean, it's a schizophrenic existence for sure, because. I mean everything I look at, I'm like, Oh my God, that would be fantastic. And then I think, Oh my God, like, it could be, that's not good. Right? But I'm like, no, look at the light, look towards the light. Don't look towards the dark. Right? Because otherwise you could, like, once you understand the power in the implications of these, which most people really don't, the impact is profound or can be profound.So how can we humanize technology? Rana Kaliouby: Well the simplest way is to really kind of bring that human element. So for example, a lot of AI is just generally focused on productivity and efficiency and automation. If you take a human centric approach to it, it's more about how does it help us the humans, right. Humans first, right. How does it help us be happier or healthier or more productive or more empathetic? Like one of the things I really talk about in the book is how we are going through an empathy crisis. Because the way we use technology just depolarizes us and, and it dehumanizes us. You send out a Twitter in Twitterverse and you have no idea how it impacts the recipients.Right? We could redesign technology to not do that, to actually incorporate these nonverbal signals into how we connect and communicate at scale. And in a way that is just a lot more thoughtful yeah. And, and, and tries to optimize for empathy as opposed to not think about empathy at all. Harry Glorikian: Well, yeah, I mean, I gotta be honest with you, giving everybody a megaphone, I'm not sure that that's such a great idea. Right? That's like yelling fire in a crowded room. I understand that it has its place, but wow. I mean, I'm not exactly the biggest advocate of that. But so this system, as you were saying requires tons of data. How do you guys accumulate that data? I mean, over time, I'm sure like a little bit, little bit, little bit, but a little bit, a little bit does not going to get you to where you want to go. You need big data to sort of get this thing trained up and then you've got to sort of adjust it along the way to make sure it's doing what you want it to do.Rana Kaliouby: Yeah, the, the quantity of the data is really key, but the diversity of the data is almost, in my opinion, more important. So, so to date, we have over 10 million facial responses, which is about 5 billion facial frames. It's an incredible, and, and, and it's super diverse. So it's curated from 90 countries around the world.And everything we do is based on people's opt-in and consent. So, so we have people's permission to get this data, every single frame of it. That's one of our core values. So we usually, when we partner with say a brand and we are. measuring people's responses to content, we ask for people's permission to turn their cameras on.They usually do it in return for some value, it could be monetary value or it could be other type of rewards. In the automotive space we have. A number of data collection labs around the world where we have people putting cameras in their vehicles, and then we record their commutes over a number of weeks or months, and that's really powerful data.And it's kind of scary to see how people drive actually. Lots of distracted drivers out there. It's really, really amazing or, yeah, it is scary. So yeah, so that's how we collect the data, but we have to be really thoughtful about the diversity angle. It's so important. We, we once had one of our automotive partners send us data.They have an Eastern European lab and it was literally like blond middle-aged, Blue eyed guys. And I was like, that's not, you're a global automaker, like that's not representative of, of your drivers or people who use your vehicles. So we sent the data back and we said, listen, we need to collaborate on a much more diverse data set. So that's, that's really important. Harry Glorikian: So I just keep thinking like you're doing facial expression and video, but are you, is there an overlay that makes sense for audio?Rana Kaliouby: Love that question. Yes. So a number of years ago, we invested in a tech, like basically we ramped up a team that looked at the prosodic features in your voice. Like how loud are you speaking? How fast, how much energy, pausing, the pitch, the intonation, all of these factors. And ultimately I see a vision of the universe where it's multimodal, you're integrating these different melodies. It's, it's still early in the industry like this whole field is so nascent, which makes it exciting because there's so much room for innovation.Harry Glorikian: There was a paper that was in the last, I want to say it came out in the last two weeks about bringing all these together within robotics is perceiving different signals, voice visual, et cetera. And I haven't read it yet. It's in my little to do, to read, but it's, it looks like one of those fascinating areas.I mean, I had the chance to interview Rhoda Au from BU about her work in voice recordings and, and analysis from the Framingham heart study. And so how to use that for. detecting different health conditions. Right. So that's why I'm sort of like looking at these going, wow, they make a lot of sense to sort of come together. Rana Kaliouby: Totally. Again, this has been looked into it in academia, but it hasn't yet totally translated to industry applications, but we know that there are facial and vocal biomarkers of stress, anxiety, depression.Well, guess what? We are spending a lot of time in front of our machines where we have an opportunity to capture both. Your video stream, but also your audio stream and use that with machine learning and predictive analytics to correlate those with, early indicators of wellness, again, stress, anxiety, et cetera.What is missing in this? So I feel like the underlying machine learning is there, the algorithms are there. What is missing is deploying this at scale, right? Cause you don't want it to be a separate app on your phone. Ideally actually, you want it to be integrated into a technology platform that people use all the time.Maybe it's Zoom, maybe it's Alexa, maybe it's, another social media platform, but then that of course raises all sorts of privacy questions and implications who owns the data who has rights to the data. Yeah, so it's it's, to me it's more of a go-to-market. Like again, the technology's there.It's like, how do you get the data at scale? How do you get the users at scale? And I haven't figured it out yet. Harry Glorikian: So you mentioned like areas where it's, it could be exploited negatively. You mentioned a few of them, like education, are there, are there others that sort of like jump out and like, we're not doing that other than, tracking people in a crowd, which. In the last four years you wouldn't have wanted to do for sure.Rana Kaliouby: Yeah. Definitely. One of the areas where we try to avoid deploying the technology is around security and surveillance. We routinely get approached by different governments, the U.S. Government, but also other governments to use our technology in, airport security or border security, lie detection.And, and to me, obviously when you do that, you don't necessarily have people's consent. You don't necessarily, you don't necessarily explain to people exactly how their data is going to get used. Right. And there's just, it's the, so fraught with potential, for discrimination, like the technology's not there in terms of robustness and kind of the use case, right? We just steer away from that. I've been very vocal, not just about Affectiva's decisions to not play in this space, but I've been advocating for thoughtful regulation. And I, and I think we absolutely need that. Harry Glorikian: So let's veer back to healthcare here. If I'm not mistaken, one of the original places you were focusing was mental health and autism so is it still being used in those areas? I mean, is it, how has it being used in those areas? I'm curious. Rana Kaliouby: Yeah. So when I first got to MIT, the project that actually brought me over from Cambridge to MIT was essentially deploying the technology for individuals on the autism spectrum.So we built a Google Glass-like device that had a little camera in it. The camera would detect the expressions of people you interact with. So an autistic child would wear the glass device as augmentation device and we deployed it at schools, partner schools while I was at MIT. And then we started Affectiva and now we are partnered with a company called Brainpower, the CEO is Ned Sahin, and they use Google Glass and our technology integrated as part of it.And I believe they're deployed in about 400 or so families and homes around the U.S. and they're in the midst of a clinical trial. What they're seeing is that the device, while the kids are wearing it, they're definitely showing improvement in their social skills. The question is once you take the device away, do these abilities generalize, and that's kind of the key question they're looking into.Harry Glorikian: Well, ‘cause I was thinking, I think that there's a few people I know that should get it and they don't have they're they're technically not autistic, but they actually need the glasses. Rana Kaliouby: A lot of MIT people, right? Harry Glorikian: No, no, just certain people the way they look at the world or the way they're acting, I actually think they need something that gives them a clue about the emotion of people around them. Actually now that I think about it, my wife might have me wear it sometimes in the house. Rana Kaliouby: We used to always joke in the early days at MIT that the killer app is a mood ring where, gives your wife or your partner, a heads up about your emotional state before you come into the house. Just so they know how to react.Harry Glorikian: Now it's when I come down the stairs, she's like, you just sit, relax, calm down. Hey. Cause at least before used to have a commute to come out of state, but now you're like coming down a flight of stairs and it's sorta hard to snap your fingers and, and snap out of state.So. Where do you see the company? how do you see it progressing? I know it's been doing great. But where do you see it going next? And what are your hopes and dreams Rana Kaliouby: We are very focused on getting our technology into cars. That's kind of our main, like, area of focus at the moment. And we're partnered with many auto manufacturers around the world in the short term, the use case is to focus on road safety.But honestly with robo-taxis on autonomous vehicles we're going to be the ears and eyes of the car. So we're excited about that. Beyond that, as I'm very passionate about the applications in mental health, and it's an area that we don't do a lot of at the company, but I'm so interested in trying to figure out how I can be helpful with, having spent many years in this, in this space.So that's, that's an area of interest. And then just at a high level, over the last number of years, and especially with the book coming out, I've definitely realized that, that I have a platform and a voice for advocating for diversity in AI and technology. And I want to make sure that I use that voice to inspire more diverse voices to be part of the AI landscape.Harry Glorikian: Love to hear how things are going in the future. Congratulations on the book coming out in paperback I'm sure that the people listening to this will look it up. Stay safe. That's that's all I can say.Rana Kaliouby: Thank you. Thank you. And stay safe as well and hope we can reunite in person soon, Harry Glorikian: Excellent.Rana Kaliouby: Thank you.Harry Glorikian:That’s it for this week’s show. We’ve made more than 50 episodes of MoneyBall Medicine, and you can find all of them at glorikian.com under the tab “Podcast.” You can follow me on Twitter at hglorikian. If you like the show, please do us a favor and leave a rating and review at Apple Podcasts. Thanks, and we’ll be back soon with our next interview.
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Rumors: an M1X chip, Apple's still-rumored car, and AirTags in March. iJustine takes a tumble Apple 'M1X' chip specification prediction appears on benchmark site Apple Car: Nissan talks failed over branding issues Volkswagen CEO Diess 'not afraid' of an Apple electric car Apple Seeds Second Betas of iOS 14.5 and iPadOS 14.5 to Developers Apple Seeds Second tvOS 14.5 Beta to Developers Apple Seeds Second Beta of watchOS 7.4 to Developers AirTags next month? (Jon Prosser) iOS 14.5 Beta Directs 'Safe Browsing' Traffic in Safari Through Apple Server Instead of Google to Protect Personal User Data Apple has won 3 Project Titan patents today relating to 3D AR Windshield Display, a Next-Gen Airbag System & more Facebook Meets Apple in Clash of the Tech Titans—'We Need to Inflict Pain' North Dakota senate votes down anti-App Store bill first given to lawmaker by Epic Games lobbyist All-in-one Microsoft Office app now available for iPad Apple offering free repairs for Apple Watch Series 5 and SE devices stuck in Power Reserve mode Apple Watch Is Now Worn on 100 Million Wrists Facebook Plans Smartwatch With Focus on Messaging, Health Picks of the Week Leo's pick: Hush Andy's pick: The Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction Rene's pick: Canon C70 Alex's pick: HOUSE: MARK I Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Rene Ritchie, and Alex Lindsay Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly. Sponsors: sandisk.com/macbreak itpro.tv/macbreak promo code MACBREAK30
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Rumors: an M1X chip, Apple's still-rumored car, and AirTags in March. iJustine takes a tumble Apple 'M1X' chip specification prediction appears on benchmark site Apple Car: Nissan talks failed over branding issues Volkswagen CEO Diess 'not afraid' of an Apple electric car Apple Seeds Second Betas of iOS 14.5 and iPadOS 14.5 to Developers Apple Seeds Second tvOS 14.5 Beta to Developers Apple Seeds Second Beta of watchOS 7.4 to Developers AirTags next month? (Jon Prosser) iOS 14.5 Beta Directs 'Safe Browsing' Traffic in Safari Through Apple Server Instead of Google to Protect Personal User Data Apple has won 3 Project Titan patents today relating to 3D AR Windshield Display, a Next-Gen Airbag System & more Facebook Meets Apple in Clash of the Tech Titans—'We Need to Inflict Pain' North Dakota senate votes down anti-App Store bill first given to lawmaker by Epic Games lobbyist All-in-one Microsoft Office app now available for iPad Apple offering free repairs for Apple Watch Series 5 and SE devices stuck in Power Reserve mode Apple Watch Is Now Worn on 100 Million Wrists Facebook Plans Smartwatch With Focus on Messaging, Health Picks of the Week Leo's pick: Hush Andy's pick: The Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction Rene's pick: Canon C70 Alex's pick: HOUSE: MARK I Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Rene Ritchie, and Alex Lindsay Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly. Sponsors: sandisk.com/macbreak itpro.tv/macbreak promo code MACBREAK30
Rumors: an M1X chip, Apple's still-rumored car, and AirTags in March. iJustine takes a tumble Apple 'M1X' chip specification prediction appears on benchmark site Apple Car: Nissan talks failed over branding issues Volkswagen CEO Diess 'not afraid' of an Apple electric car Apple Seeds Second Betas of iOS 14.5 and iPadOS 14.5 to Developers Apple Seeds Second tvOS 14.5 Beta to Developers Apple Seeds Second Beta of watchOS 7.4 to Developers AirTags next month? (Jon Prosser) iOS 14.5 Beta Directs 'Safe Browsing' Traffic in Safari Through Apple Server Instead of Google to Protect Personal User Data Apple has won 3 Project Titan patents today relating to 3D AR Windshield Display, a Next-Gen Airbag System & more Facebook Meets Apple in Clash of the Tech Titans—'We Need to Inflict Pain' North Dakota senate votes down anti-App Store bill first given to lawmaker by Epic Games lobbyist All-in-one Microsoft Office app now available for iPad Apple offering free repairs for Apple Watch Series 5 and SE devices stuck in Power Reserve mode Apple Watch Is Now Worn on 100 Million Wrists Facebook Plans Smartwatch With Focus on Messaging, Health Picks of the Week Leo's pick: Hush Andy's pick: The Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction Rene's pick: Canon C70 Alex's pick: HOUSE: MARK I Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Rene Ritchie, and Alex Lindsay Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly. Sponsors: sandisk.com/macbreak itpro.tv/macbreak promo code MACBREAK30
Rumors: an M1X chip, Apple's still-rumored car, and AirTags in March. iJustine takes a tumble Apple 'M1X' chip specification prediction appears on benchmark site Apple Car: Nissan talks failed over branding issues Volkswagen CEO Diess 'not afraid' of an Apple electric car Apple Seeds Second Betas of iOS 14.5 and iPadOS 14.5 to Developers Apple Seeds Second tvOS 14.5 Beta to Developers Apple Seeds Second Beta of watchOS 7.4 to Developers AirTags next month? (Jon Prosser) iOS 14.5 Beta Directs 'Safe Browsing' Traffic in Safari Through Apple Server Instead of Google to Protect Personal User Data Apple has won 3 Project Titan patents today relating to 3D AR Windshield Display, a Next-Gen Airbag System & more Facebook Meets Apple in Clash of the Tech Titans—'We Need to Inflict Pain' North Dakota senate votes down anti-App Store bill first given to lawmaker by Epic Games lobbyist All-in-one Microsoft Office app now available for iPad Apple offering free repairs for Apple Watch Series 5 and SE devices stuck in Power Reserve mode Apple Watch Is Now Worn on 100 Million Wrists Facebook Plans Smartwatch With Focus on Messaging, Health Picks of the Week Leo's pick: Hush Andy's pick: The Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction Rene's pick: Canon C70 Alex's pick: HOUSE: MARK I Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Rene Ritchie, and Alex Lindsay Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly. Sponsors: sandisk.com/macbreak itpro.tv/macbreak promo code MACBREAK30
A pure celebration of geekdom and nerd squads. As I said to my daughter just before recording this: "I'm like a super geekazoid, huh?" Her answer: "Yeah you are." Aha! Someone agrees with me! This episode stays in the technical domain. There's a lot to talk about in the world of computers and the components that enable them. We will be going from a discussion of Raspberry Pi to the Apple M1 creating a mighty hunger for some Apple Pie.I received a parcel from across the pond today. It contained a Raspberry Pi Pico, the new $4 programmable microprocessor, arriving from the England. The Pi Pico intrigues me because I have already thought of some cool projects to use them for. One of the projects is a sweet Valentine's oriented couple's project: to merge my sweetie Sue's hobby (arts and crafts) with my geeky creations to create something interesting and fun. Now I just have to implement at least part of it by Valentine's day because I think this is a clever, unique, interesting way to bring our leisure hobbies together. How much more (super geek) romantic could something be? I am not joking about this either.I had already been in the middle of several Raspberry Pi projects using Pi Zero W, several Pi 3bs, and a Pi 4/4GB RAM. The image for this episode shows some of the Pi boards, my soldering workstation, and peripheral components such as a hi quality camera, sound cards and synthesizers, a breadboard and other cool nerd toys. If you look closely, there's a yellow CD case from Symantec C++, a product I worked on while working at Symantec in the early 1990s. It's there as a reminder and behind it are some Jibo robots. I "stage" my work areas to always include something inspirational whether a book, product, picture, guitar, piece of some product from my 40 years as a maker, or pictures of puppies.Many products are mentioned. None paid or asked for placement. This remains an non-monetized, unbiased, rant-oriented podcast series. But at the end I hint that one of the companies should consider sponsoring me in some way based on the plans I have to do business with them.Music is just some pre-Super Bowl snippets from a 45 minute, high gain, loud, experimental jam. It was like driving a Mustang Cobra with 600 Horsepower on the verge of losing its grip on the pavement. This is why we love tubes. The responsiveness and added harmonic content is delicious and oh so satisfying. Apologies to Ms Sue. I played super duper loud pushing all 4 tubes in the recording chain to their limits and letting the Tele bridge pickup work it's magic. Played on Liz The Firecracker (2020 Squier by Fender Affinity Tele with special upgrades) through Blackstar Studio 10 KT88 with new Genalex Gold Lion tubes for both the 12AX7 preamp and KT88 power amp. Another Gold Lion in the SM57's signal chain pointed two inches off center of the Celestion, and an Electro Harmonix 12AX7 LPS in the Rode NT5 room mics signal chain. All tubes hand selected and modern Russian-made reissues of the classic British tubes.Blah, blah, blah. My intros are longer than the episodes!
Dave Evans, Founder and CEO of Fictiv, discusses the importance of a company's manufacturing and supply chain ecosystems. We breakdown case studies from Hebi Robotics and Gecko Robotics. We're also joined by Marc Alba of NTT Disruption, which is the new owner of the Jibo social robot. Marc updates us on the current status of the robot and the new direction in which it's headed.
On Episode 9 of The Robot Report Podcast, we talk re-skilling coal miners with Kathy Walker of the eKentucky Advanced Manufacturing Institute, and maxon's crucial role in the Perseverance Rover mission to Mars. We also discuss the return of Jibo and Boston Dynamics' partnership with Ford.
Patrocinador: Los ganadores de los Platinum Contact Center Awards 2020 siguen: Telefónica ganó el galardón a Mejor Proyecto IT en Omnicanalidad; Ydilo en Mejor Proyecto IT de IVR y autoservicio; El Mejor Proyecto BPO – Back Office ha sido el realizado por E-voluciona; y Lanalden hizo el Mejor Proyecto de soluciones de customer engagement. Un ataque a Garmin deja atletas y pilotos jodidos / Un misterioso software borra bases de datos / Funcionarios rastreados por WhatsApp / Sigue sin haber suficientes webcam / Jibo tendrá una segunda vida
A half hour discussion of realities of life in general and in technology. Quarantine amplifies some of the challenges. Lots of idiot savant wisdom from my 35 plus year career building technology products. Some interesting stuff in here that relates to attitude, approach to interacting with people, and providing a growth experience for everyone you intersect with. Get specific with one person and discuss my current team (with the appropriate focus on NDA and personal privacy issues for most people involved). Stories from my life raising money as a CTO pitching and working with VCs such as the classic question: "what is your succession plan if you were hit by a bus?" Believe it or not this is an incredibly common question and proves more difficult to answer than you would have thought even if you're not an arrogant narcissist. I try to soak of the rays of wisdom that every gifted and capable person I meet and let them merge into my essence through osmosis (note: liberties with science and analogies there!). Includes a discussion of "greatness" -- whatever that means to you.This episode also features fade in and out music from my chaos-inspired song "Harsh Echoes of Quarantine" which began life as just an experiment in attempting to melt the tube in my little practice amp. Published under my new solo-band name: Pandemic Richie and the Quarantined. Slightly different portions of the song than the prior episode used.The image was taken today at noon on Monday May 18, 2020 by MacOS PhotoBooth with me attempting to put on an exaggerated angry face. The shirt I'm wearing gives another hint to my anger dissipation strategy. It says: "I might look like I'm listening to you, but in my head I'm playing my guitar (or I'm thinking about buying another one...)." Over my shoulder on left is Time Magazine cover with Jibo robot on the cover from Nov 27, 2017 issue of Time. On my right is my trusty Fender Telecaster Custom Shop HH (the guitar used for both tracks of "Harsh Echoes...").
A discussion of issues that arose over the bots that block content on sites like YouTube. Loosely related to a recent YouTube video by Rick Beato involving bassist Leland Sklar and James Taylor. Talks about some non-obvious sources of friction that pushes back against emerging technology.The image is playful picture due to use of word "bots" in the title. This is from the manufacturing facility in China where we built the Jibo robot. Playful because this is not the kind of bot this episode talks about!
A new year and a new episode. Rich calls the so-called security camera products to the carpet for unethical policies around security and privacy. He then explains how the very platform that launched so many self-published stars is now working to remove their incentive to create content. Both are important issues. These are topics that you are going to want to understand for one simple reason. That reason? You are the only hope for demanding and modeling change. In order to change things you must first grok them. Achieve grokkage and the path will emerge from the mist. Some light swearing in episode. It may be a new year but it's the old me talking and I swear.
We're all traveling this week for the Thanksgiving holiday, so here's a vintage episode of This is Only a Test from the archive. The year is 2014. We're talking Surface Pro 3, pinball cabinets, and Comcast cancelling woes. But most importantly, a personal assistant robot named Jibo has just been announced. Enjoy!
We're all traveling this week for the Thanksgiving holiday, so here's a vintage episode of This is Only a Test from the archive. The year is 2014. We're talking Surface Pro 3, pinball cabinets, and Comcast cancelling woes. But most importantly, a personal assistant robot named Jibo has just been announced. Enjoy!
Last year, Jibo—“the world's first social robot for the home”—began to lose its mind. First came memory problems. The bot started to spend less time swiveling its head like the animated Pixar lamp and more time staring blankly at the wall. Its cognitive demise was slow, then fast. At one point, Jibo itself delivered the fatal diagnosis: “The servers out there that let me do what I do will be turned off soon,” it said in its computerized voice.
Bu bölümde Ahmet A. Sabancı, çok büyük vaatlerle yola çıkan fakat start-up kültürünün ve Silikon Vadisi'nin gazabına uğrayarak hayatı sona eren sosyal robot Jibo'nun öyküsünü ele alıyor. Bu öyküden çıkartmamız gereken dersleri ve bu yaklaşımın neden bizler için ciddi güven sorunları yarattığını da anlatan bu bölüm, akıllı teknoloji anlatılarına karşı da eleştirel bir yaklaşım öneriyor.Bölümün Önerisi: Supra Systems Book - Georgina Voss (ed.)http://suprasystems.studio/Tuhaf Gelecek'i destekleyin: https://patreon.com/ahmetasabancihttps://tuhafgelecek.com
CEO & General Partner at Pegasus Tech Ventures Chairman of Startup World Cup for Entrepreneurs Looking for Start Up CapitalThis episode is powered by www.Transcanna.comAbout Transcanna Holdings Inc. TransCanna Holdings Inc. is a Canadian based company providing branding, transportation and distribution services, through its wholly-owned California subsidiaries, to a range of industries including the cannabis marketplace. For further information, please visit the Company’s website at www.transcanna.com or email the Company at info@transcanna.com. Anis Uzzaman, Ph.D., is the General Partner, CEO, and founding member of Fenox Venture Capital, a Silicon Valley-based VC with strong global network and investments.Anis has invested in over 120 startups in the United States, Japan, and South East Asia. Prominent US startups in the Fenox portfolio include x.ai, Jibo, Genius, Affectiva, Afero, MindMeld, Lark, Scanadu, Meta, and ShareThis. He is an investor and a board director of Tech in Asia, the largest tech media in Southeast Asia. Anis also sits on the board of directors of Jibo, Affectiva, Afero, Lark, Jetlore, DLE, I AND C-Cruise, ZUU, and Infoteria.Anis holds a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Tokyo Metropolitan University. He has published more than 30 technical papers, and has authored 5 books in 4 Asian languages, providing valuable insights to Asian startups and corporations.We highlight Stocks that are geared to ramp up. Positivestocks.com platform is primarily used to: (1) create and distribute audio/video based content related to a particular private or public company or an industry in which a company conducts business; (2) append interview-related and other rich media content to traditional press releases; and (3) for registered investment professionals only, to add interview-based audio & video content to financial research. Positivestocks.com content is distributed to 1M individuals online and over 60,000 financial professionals, including North American and international buy-side analysts, investment research professionals and portfolio managers. Positive Stocks specializes in covering Small Cap Stocks & providing Small Cap Investor Awareness Programs. Positive Stocks also offers investing tools to help investors make informed decisions about the small cap stocks they are interested in. Follow Positive Stocks for investment news, expert views, insights & commentary. Positive Stocks is a capital market services & financial communications firm based out of San Diego with a proven track record of positively identifying and launching quick-coverage of highly potential small cap & mid cap stocks at an early stage. Meet the CEO's of some of the most ambitious small cap public companies and influencers within and around the industry.https://www.positivestocks.com
CEO & General Partner at Pegasus Tech Ventures Chairman of Startup World Cup for Entrepreneurs Looking for Start Up CapitalThis episode is powered by www.Transcanna.comAbout Transcanna Holdings Inc. TransCanna Holdings Inc. is a Canadian based company providing branding, transportation and distribution services, through its wholly-owned California subsidiaries, to a range of industries including the cannabis marketplace. For further information, please visit the Company’s website at www.transcanna.com or email the Company at info@transcanna.com. Anis Uzzaman, Ph.D., is the General Partner, CEO, and founding member of Fenox Venture Capital, a Silicon Valley-based VC with strong global network and investments.Anis has invested in over 120 startups in the United States, Japan, and South East Asia. Prominent US startups in the Fenox portfolio include x.ai, Jibo, Genius, Affectiva, Afero, MindMeld, Lark, Scanadu, Meta, and ShareThis. He is an investor and a board director of Tech in Asia, the largest tech media in Southeast Asia. Anis also sits on the board of directors of Jibo, Affectiva, Afero, Lark, Jetlore, DLE, I AND C-Cruise, ZUU, and Infoteria.Anis holds a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Tokyo Metropolitan University. He has published more than 30 technical papers, and has authored 5 books in 4 Asian languages, providing valuable insights to Asian startups and corporations.We highlight Stocks that are geared to ramp up. Positivestocks.com platform is primarily used to: (1) create and distribute audio/video based content related to a particular private or public company or an industry in which a company conducts business; (2) append interview-related and other rich media content to traditional press releases; and (3) for registered investment professionals only, to add interview-based audio & video content to financial research. Positivestocks.com content is distributed to 1M individuals online and over 60,000 financial professionals, including North American and international buy-side analysts, investment research professionals and portfolio managers. Positive Stocks specializes in covering Small Cap Stocks & providing Small Cap Investor Awareness Programs. Positive Stocks also offers investing tools to help investors make informed decisions about the small cap stocks they are interested in. Follow Positive Stocks for investment news, expert views, insights & commentary. Positive Stocks is a capital market services & financial communications firm based out of San Diego with a proven track record of positively identifying and launching quick-coverage of highly potential small cap & mid cap stocks at an early stage. Meet the CEO's of some of the most ambitious small cap public companies and influencers within and around the industry.https://www.positivestocks.com
What happens when your robot friend dies? Ashley Carman and Kaitlyn Tiffany of Why'd You Push That Button? explore the grieving community surrounding the short-lived social robot Jibo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sting yourself with live bees, peculiar animal mating rituals, and the heartbreaking death of Jibo, the social robot!
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Where to begin… Netflix darling Marie Kondo is hitting up Sand Hill Road in search of $40 million to fund an ecommerce platform, Y Combinator is giving $150,000 to a startup building a $380,000 flying motorcycle (because why not) and Jibo, the social robot, is calling it quits, speaking to owners directly of its imminent shutdown. It was a hectic week in unicorn land so, I'm just going to get right to the good stuff.
The holidays are upon us, and with that comes family gatherings, delicious food, and a ton of presents. From my vantage point, this also seems like the year artificial intelligence invades the home. Amazon Dot and Google Home are invading countertops, Jibo, the world's first social robot, is dancing up a storm, and kids are building and interacting with toys like the Meccano M.A.X. Interactive Robot. And this seems like just the beginning. To better understand the technology behind these products and more that will debut in 2018 and beyond, I want to share with all of you a fascinating, venture-backed AI startup out of Boston University's Neuromorphics Lab called Neurala. This deep learning startup has raised $14M to build brains for autonomous cars, drones, toys, and more. Counting NASA, the U.S. Air Force, Motorola, and Teal as customers, Neurala's platform is a refreshingly innovative take on neural network training as well as building a platform for AI to learn and adapt on its own in low connectivity environments. I hope you enjoy today's conversation with Max Versace, Co-Founder and CEO of Neurala. You can connect with Neurala at: Website - https://www.neurala.com/ Twitter - @Neurala
Two pioneers in AI discuss their work and describe the way in which machine led intelligence is set to remake our world. Eric Horvitz, managing director of Microsoft Research and Cynthia Breazeal, chief scientist of the Robotics firm Jibo join the BBC's Rory Cellan Jones to discuss the rewards and challenges of AI with an audience in Silicon Valley.
Two pioneers in AI discuss their work and describe the way in which machine led intelligence is set to remake our world. Eric Horvitz, managing director of Microsoft Research and Cynthia Breazeal, chief scientist of the Robotics firm Jibo join the BBC's Rory Cellan Jones to discuss the rewards and challenges of AI with an audience in Silicon Valley.
It is a long and winding road that leads to very interesting technology discussion on this week's Charlie Tonic. After a recap of Labor Day plans that involve Tecumseh, a pig roast, and firework Ginny and Charlie get into tech. In a conversations that ranges from Lyft to Drones and from Instagram to a friendly robot, the meandering goes all over. They end with a Presbyterian cocktail to celebrate Bourbon Heritage Month and then give you a sneak peek into Cincy Con's best events.
Join Francis as he brings the world of punk rock crashing to the forefront. Every Monday night he will have the music and artists that brought the punk scene alive. Tonight we will talk with Josh and Jibo from The Insurgence. We will catch up on the Seattle Washington based punk bands album and tour plans. We will also have part 2 of our 2 part spot light on A Tale Of Rotten Orange. The great new Orange County comp that was released on Oragne Fight records. Troy Uncivil will join us to give us the backgrounds on the bands and give us his assesments of the songs.To take part in the show, call (347) 202-0832.
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