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Alon Grinshpoon | CEO - Echo 3D 3D asset management for games, 3D apps, and AR/VR experiences echo3D (www.echo3D.com) is a cloud platform for 3D/AR/VR asset management that provides tools and network infrastructure to help developers & companies quickly build and deploy 3D apps, games, and content. echo3D serves over 40,000 developers using our SDKs to create real-time 3D experiences (for healthcare, entertainment, retail, gaming, training, and more) and have deployed AR+5G projects with both Verizon and AT&T. echo3D signed partnerships with Unity3D, the world's leading game engine, and NextNav (Nasdaq: NN). echo3D is backed by Qualcomm Ventures, Konvoy Ventures, Remagine Ventures, Space Capital, and Techstars, and received grants from Y Combinator, Verizon, and NYC Media Lab. We were named AR/VR finalists for SXSW 2020, won the DevProject Award 2019, named among the 2019 Most Fundable Companies, named one of the Top 25 finalists in Sir Richard Branson's Extreme Tech Challenge (XTC) 2019, and featured on VentureBeat, The Hill, XRToday, Bold TV, Ynet, Calcalist, and Mako. --

Head of the AI and Media Integrity Program at the Partnership on AI (PAI) Claire Leibowicz, Tech Policy Press CEO and Editor Justin Hendrix, Betaworks CEO John Borthwick, and Douglas Rushkoff come up with guiding principles for the future of artificial intelligence on a live panel discussion recorded at Betaworks on Monday, April 3.

As a child Brendan was drawn to martial arts and began training in TaeKwonDo in 1988 when he was just 5 years old, 3 years later he began wrestling too. Brendan competed in TaeKwonDo from 1988-1994 where he competed and placed multiple times on a national level and wrestled competitively from 1990-2002. In college Brendan discovered Kickboxing and began competing in local fights in Massachetts while he was in college. From 2005–2012, Brendan was a professional mixed martial artist (MMA) and Kickboxer competing on the world's biggest stages. Fighting out of Jackson Wink in Albuquerque, NM, and Fighting Arts Academy in Springfield, MA, he amassed 16 professional fights (10 in MMA and 6 in Kickboxing). He retired in 2012 with a 7:3:0 record in MMA and 4:2:0 in kickboxing. Brendan trained with some of the industry's biggest names. His experience includes a professional kickboxing fighting in Thailand and in 2012 Brendan got to live a dream fighting for the UFC's Ultimate Fighter, Season 15. Brendan also was a competitor on Steve Austin's Broken Skull Challenge (Season 3) in 2015. A few years after retiring from his professional fight career competing on the world's biggest stages, Brendan decided to leave consumer-facing gyms to found B-well consulting in order to expand the reach of his impact to a wider demographic providing services to corporations. Shortly after, Brendan began getting traction and consulting for a mid-size pharmaceutical company, providing a digital wellness curriculum. In early 2016, Brendan also accepted a more significant consulting position at a large hedge fund where he had been consulting for a few years. There he developed group classes, private programming for the partners of the firm, and performed an operational role managing the gym facility, while he was forming Workweek Wellness. In February 2017, Brendan launched Workweek Wellness, a fully scalable, white-labeled, content-driven platform designed to improve the lives of people in corporate environments. After spending a year in NYU's EdTech program and finding traction with Workweek Wellness and finding inspiration from his mother, Brendan then decided to launch a wellness company geared towards active seniors called LyfeProof. The mission is to help retirees increase the quality of their life and prolong their longevity by improving their personal wellness effort by using computer vision. After completing the NYC Media Lab with LyfeProof Brendan wanted to find a way to help during the Covid-19 crisis so he teamed up with a friend who was also looking to make a difference during the pandemic and started Actively Young. He also joined the founding team of Passdoor, whose mission is to provide students with first hand experience of Broadway taught by the stars in the show. In the late fall of 2021 Brendan joined the Nobody team and works in a Business Lead Role for their health and wellness companies where he is brings companies from the idea stage into the market creating and testing M.V.P.s.

Final 2021 episode of the prograrm all about TV. Our guest: Steven Rosenbaum, executive director of NYC Media Lab.

We talk to virtuoso violinist, composer, performer and producer Tim Fain about his adventurous and boundary-pushing career that spans film, the concert stage and virtual reality, and his collaborations with everyone from Philip Glass to The National. Then we talk to participants from the ASCAP Lab's 2021 Immersive Music Studio Challenge, our partnership with the NYC Media Lab, that offers grants to startups and university teams to develop and expand upon prototype technologies that demonstrate new ways artists can create music, connect with fans and reimagine how we interact with music and sound. Watch Tim Fain's Resonance: A Jump VR Video Listen to Tim Fain Plays Philip Glass: Partita for Solo Violin Watch Algorithm Nation: Four Tech Tools Pointing to Music's Future Watch the ASCAP Experience - the ultimate music creator community and event series. Check out The ASCAP Lab  RSVP for The ASCAP Experience Listen, Watch & Subscribe: i Apple Podcasts | YouTube | Spotify | Stitcher 

  Justin Hendrix is CEO and Editor of Tech Policy Press, a new nonprofit media venture concerned with the intersection of technology and democracy. Previously, he was Executive Director of NYC Media Lab. He spent over a decade at The Economist in roles including Vice President, Business Development & Innovation. He is an associate research scientist and adjunct professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering.

Runway's co-founder Cristóbal Valenzuela on the need for new creative interfaces to control complex algorithms that focus on results (not technology), the freedom of being a startup, and how machine intelligence is changing how we think, design, and make art. Cristóbal Valenzuela is a technologist, artist and software developer interested in the intersection between artificial intelligence and creative tools. He is Runway's co-founder. Previously, he co-founded Latent Studio, a creative studio specializing in machine learning and artificial intelligence. He also contributes to OSS and helps maintain ml5.js. His work has been sponsored by Google and the Processing Foundation and his projects has been exhibited in Latin America and the US, including NeurIPS, Santiago Museum of Contemporary Art, ARS Electronica, GAM, ACADIA, Fundación Telefonica, Lollapalooza, NYC Media Lab, New Latin Wave, DOCLAB, Inter-American Development Bank, Stanford University and New York University. Connect with Cristóbal on his website, Twitter (@c_valenzuelab), or GitHub (@cvalenzuela). Favorite quotes "You don't care about the mathematical function that goes behind blurring [an image in Photoshop]. You just want the output of it—the creative output of moving a slider and having an effect applied to your video, your pixels, or content." "When you think about using algorithms to help you and assist you in the editing process, you need [to find] a metaphor or tool that would allow you to collaborate with those algorithms." "We need those new interfaces, metaphors, and systems. And that's all we're building, basically, those next-generation systems to help people create video and content." "When you take that picture, no one is saying, 'Oh, the AI is biased' or 'The AI worked or didn't work' or 'It showed me new creative possibilities.' It just works." "[Artificial intelligence] is a tool as any other tool. And so, in general, I think all the art tools that we're making will eventually reach that point where you're not too concerned about the systems you're using. You are just using it as a tool. And if it provides you with good results to explore the creative direction, you're going to use it again." Links NYU ITP Runway ML Made with Runway Runway's Generative Media Runway's Green Screen Making albums with AI from our backyard: Claire Evans, Jona Bechtolt, and Rob Kieswetter of YACHT Machine learning (concept) StyleGAN (machine learning algorithm) Building accessible tools for artists by Cris (article) Descript People mentioned Alejandro Matamala Ortiz Anastasis Germanidis Mario Klingemann Outline Intro. [0:00] What's new with Runway ML? [0:28] We need new interfaces. [1:44] The freedom of being a startup. [4:23] How's life? [4:55] Built with Runway. [5:38] ML Lab and Sequel. [6:55] Interfaces to control ML algorithms. [8:08] Machine intelligence in design, art, and architecture. [10:31] Creativity. [13:14] Originality and bias. [14:23] AI as a tool. [16:06] Thanks. [18:13] Submit a question about this or previous episodes. I'd love to hear from you. Join the Discord community. Meet other curious minds. If you enjoy the show, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds and really helps. Show notes, transcripts, and past episodes at gettingsimple.com/podcast. Follow Nono Twitter.com/nonoesp Instagram.com/nonoesp Facebook.com/nonomartinezalonso YouTube.com/nonomartinezalonso

This week - Events have gone vertical, just as COVID seems like it may be ready to recede. We look at three events. SxSW, The Grammy’s, and the NYC Media Lab’s Tech+Storyteling event. What worked? What didn’t? And will things go back to the way they were? I’m Steven Rosenbaum , and this is future forward. I’m Alexa Scordato - Let’s Launch!

Roboto News 12.03.21. - Rusia contra Twitter. - #ImmersiveFuture en NYC Media Lab. La importancia de los Millenials y los Gen Z en el futuro de los medios. - Carta de Tim Berners-Lee y Rosemary Leith, en el 32º aniversario de la World Wide Web. Si te interesa el impacto que tiene la tecnología en nuestras sociedades: www.amenazaroboto.com. Te invitamos a seguirnos en @AmenazaRoboto en Twitter e Instagram.

Andrew Yang fireside chat with Steven Rosenbaum and Erica Matsumoto of the NYC Media Lab.

Design educator, data rights advocate, and recovering entrepreneur David Carroll talks with Lee-Sean Huang about the challenges that digital platforms pose to privacy, democracy, and beyond. David Carroll is associate professor of media design and former Director of the MFA Design and Technology graduate program at the School of Art, Media and Technology at Parsons School of Design at The New School. He is known for legally challenging Cambridge Analytica and related companies in the UK courts to recapture his 2016 voter profile using European data protection law. Featured in The Great Hack (2019) on Netflix, his data quest has appeared in WIRED, The Guardian, Motherboard, The Boston Review, Slate, Mother Jones, and the international press more widely. Formerly CEO of a failed tech startup backed by Hearst and incubated at NYC Media Lab and NY Media Center by IFP, Glossy visually organized digtial archives using machine learning and social content recommendation engines. This experience deep in industry helped form the basis of his research, legal efforts, and public engagement on data rights. His earlier scholarship on mobile media funded by research grants included support from Pearson Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, and Nokia Research Centers. He is active on Twitter @profcarroll Professor Carroll is scheduled to speak at the AIGA Design Conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, now rescheduled for November 12-14, 2020. https://designconference.aiga.org/ This interview is the final episode in this season of Design Future Now. We would love to hear your feedback and suggestions for future episodes. Email us at podcast@aiga.org. We will be back in a few weeks! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/designfuturenow/message

This episode of the Retail X Series podcast is an in-depth interview with Amanda Patterson, CEO of The Call List. Amanda shares her experiences and thoughts in growing B2B sales for her company, from her first enterprise customer to today - and all the lessons she's learned along the way.Topics:- How to get the critical first enterprise pilot customer- How to convert a pilot into a contract- How to price product for B2B software companies at the early stages- Building and managing the sales pipeline once that first customer is in place- Growth hacking strategies/PR for retail tech and B2B companies- Advice for founders looking to make that first B2B saleResources Amanda shared in this episode:- Monarq Incubator - Copper for managing sales pipelines- NY Fashion Tech Lab incubator- NYC Media Lab with HavasMusic by Eino Toivanen, kongano.com

James Patchett on how the NYEDC is driving future innovation  Welcome back to the IBM Blockchain Pulse podcast! With the first episode back into the new year, our host Matt Hooper takes time to reflect on the progress made by the tech community in New York City where innovative technology is widely celebrated. It’s also where you’ll likely find a more thriving startup ecosystem than any other place in the country.   And speaking of New York, Matt couldn’t be happier to be joined by his guest, James Patchett — the President and CEO of the New York City Economic Development Corporation! NYCEDC is a not-for-profit organization that has been around for over 20 years, not as an agency, but affiliated with city government. The work James is doing with the EDC is inspiring and exciting. He is playing a major role in helping shape the future of the New York City.   In this episode, Matt and James discuss what NYCEDC is and how they think about job creation in New York and how the startup ecosystem in NYC works, some of the keys to a successful corporate-startup relationship and the current state of the startup ecosystem in the city. They also talk about some of the metrics for success when it comes to a healthy economic ecosystem, some of the ways that the NYC tech community is becoming more inclusive, and much more.    Key takeaways   [:01] Matt welcomes listeners back to the first episode of the new year and introduces today’s episode and special guest! [2:58] Matt welcomes James to the podcast. [3:04] How does being a Red Socks jive with being a New Yorker? [5:00] What the NYCEDC is and how they think about job creation in New York. [6:23] How does the startup ecosystem in NYC work with the heritage businesses that have long made the city what it is? And given the high number of heritage businesses in NYC, what are some of the most successful corporate-startup collaborations that James has seen during his time as CEO? And what are some of the keys to a successful corporate-startup relationship? [9:36] James speaks about the relationship between NYCEDC and the NYC Media Lab and how it helps foster the relationships between the heritage companies and the new companies in NYC. [10:33] James speaks about their reaction to the recession and the action that they took. [12:13] James speaks about the current state of the startup ecosystem in New York. [13:10] James highlights some of the metrics for success when it comes to a healthy economic ecosystem. [14:08] What is the blockchain ecosystem looking like right now in New York? And what is exciting James the most about it? [15:46] What are some of the mature industries in the ecosystem? [18:03] How does a city become a platform for innovation? [19:47] James speaks about some of the ways that the NYC tech community is becoming more inclusive. [23:21] Where to get a free download of Blockchain for Dummies! [24:03] What is the NYCEDC doing in support of the creation of responsible AI? [26:05] Are identity applications an area where they’re looking to the blockchain ecosystem for solutions? [27:53] James walks listeners through what it would look like if you were are a blockchain startup looking to utilize the blockchain lab space that the NYCEDC has built. [29:30] James gives a peek into what his busy and exciting days look like as the President and CEO of NYCEDC! [32:40] James shares why he thinks a city as a platform for innovation is appealing. He also gives his predictions on what he thinks New York will look like 10 years out as a platform for innovation. [34:22] How to get involved with the NYCEDC! [34:44] Matt thanks James for joining the podcast.   Sources mentioned   New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) NYC Media Lab Spotify acquires blockchain startup Mediachain Union Square Tech Training Center Blockchain for Dummies — Free download! Cornell Tech   Follow-up with our guest   James Patchett   Looking for More Episodes?   Visit IBM Blockchain — and for news and updates, follow @IBMBlockchain on Twitter!

Columbus Day 2019 episode of the program all about TV, presented one half-hour earlier than usual. Our guests: Michael Winter, Chicken Soup For The Soul Entertainment executive and executive producer of Going From Broke, Crackle's latest original series premiering October 17; Paul Pawlowski and David Check, executive producers of Leavenworth, the new documentary series on Starz launching October 20, and Steven Rosenbaum, new managing director of NYC Media Lab.

NYC Media Lab Awards $25,000 in Prizes! https://medium.com/@nycmedialab/nyc-media-lab-awards-25-000-in-prizes-11c37d3a0c3f NYC Media Lab has funded 30+ emerging technology prototypes and startups so far in 2019 https://medium.com/@nycmedialab/nyc-media-lab-has-funded-30-emerging-technology-prototypes-and-startups-so-far-in-2019-c17440c30d96 Chapter 1 NYC Media Lab - Summit 2019 100+ demos will be on display, spanning VR/AR, voice, data science, AI, robotics, accessible tech and more Demos reflect prototypes from local colleges […]

Special Thursday episode of the program all about TV, originating live from New York City College of Technology in downtown Brooklyn, site of the annua New York City Medialab Summit, featuring Joshua Ness, senior manager with Verizon 5G Labs.

Technologist and artist Cristóbal Valenzuela on powering your creative work with artificial intelligence, co-founding RunwayML to put machine learning in the hands of creators, and his take on simple living and creativity. Cristóbal Valenzuela is a technologist, artist and software developer interested in the intersection between artificial intelligence and creative tools. He is co-founder of Runway and researcher at New York University ITP. Previously, he co-founded Latent Studio, a creative studio specializing in machine learning and artificial intelligence. He also contributes to OSS and helps maintain ml5.js. His work has been sponsored by Google and the Processing Foundation and his projects has been exhibited in Latin America and the US, including NeurIPS, Santiago Museum of Contemporary Art, ARS Electronica, GAM, ACADIA, Fundación Telefonica, Lollapalooza, NYC Media Lab, New Latin Wave, DOCLAB, Inter-American Development Bank, Stanford University and New York University. Connect with Cristóbal on his website, Twitter (@c_valenzuelab), or GitHub (@cvalenzuela). Favorite quotes "For me, simplicity is anything that allows you to concentrate your energy on meaningful tasks so you don't spend time around things that are not necessary." "Simple is hard to get and understand. There's no simplicity law." "Being surrounded by people that are not in your field [and things] not related to what you do often, not common to your day to day [makes me more creative]." "The main idea of Runway is to enable creative people to use and benefit from artificial intelligence in a way that's common to a language they understand." "Anyone can do anything [with the right mindset and time]." "We are on the verge of a new creative revolution. [Machine intelligence] is producing radical changes in the way digital content is made, understood, and processed, unfastening previously unimagined ways of creating." Links NYU ITP Runway ML Machine learning ml5.js Processing Processing.py Processing for Android p5.js Processing Foundation Google Summer of Code‌ The origins of ml5.js (article) TensorFlow.js (formerly deeplearn.js) Canvas API MNIST LSTM (Long short-term memory) Style transfer Pix2Pix PoseNet im2txt GAN (Generative adversarial networks) Ars Electronica Inaccurate Collaborations (project) Marrow (project) Lobe.ai Sketching Interfaces Google PAIR Naming ml5 (and other name ideas) Rest of you (video) iTerm (app) Visual Studio Code (app) Paperspace Clear (app) How to make your iPhone black and white (article) The New Yorker Building accessible tools for artists by Cris (article) Books Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas (book) People mentioned Daniel Shiffman Yining Shi Dan Oved Alejandro Matamala Ortiz Anastasis Germanidis Shirin Anlen Gene Kogan Mario Klingemann Memo Akten Hana Davis Mimi Onuoha David Ha Martin Wattenberg Fernanda Viegas Daniel Smilkov Nikhil Thorat Kyle McDonald Jabrils Daniel O'Sullivan Carolina Pino Nathan Melenbrink Episode notes Intro. [0:33] Cristóbal Valenzuela. [2:29] ml5 - Learn about the origins of ml5. [8:18] Naming ml5 - How did the name come to be? [10:44] Experiments. [11:50] Open source. [13:07] Runway. [14:17] Exposing it to people - What would happen if I expose the scripts I use to automate my process to more people? [14:57] Runway's roadmap. [16:43] Projects. [18:28] Machine learning. [20:44] Visual artists. [22:19] Other companies. [23:47] Cristobal Valenzuela. [24:43] Day-to-day. [24:58] Commute. [25:44] Exercise. [26:24] Meditative moments. [26:54] Simple living. [27:14] Complexity. [27:41] Hobbies. [28:20] Book recommendations. [28:40] Artificial intelligence on simplicity. [29:50] Your contribution to artificial intelligence. [30:33] Ideal work. [31:26] Starting a startup. [31:57] Focus, flow, and music. [34:33] Distractions. [36:00] Work-in-progress. [36:41] Creativity. [37:13] Serendipity? [38:32] @c_valenzuelab [39:36] Ideas. [39:52] Deliberate practice. [40:35] Digital tools. [41:11] The sandbox folder. [42:23] Favorite user interface. [43:10] Simplicity. [44:31] Intuitive. [45:02] Healthy tech. [45:33] Addictive tech - What decisions (and where should they be made) to make technology healthier? [47:10] Measuring "success" [48:42] Disconnect. [49:07] Boredom. [50:25] Email. [51:48] Away from the screen. [52:29] Money. [53:11] A positive purchase. [54:07] Clothing. [54:52] Physical clutter. [55:30] Traveling light. [56:10] Personal success. [56:48] A message to yourself. [57:31] A sentence to the world. [59:01] Worries. [59:44] Impostor syndrome. [1:01:49] Habit-changing software. [1:02:26] Environment. [1:03:28] Connect with Cris. [1:03:59] New York vs Chile. [1:05:09] Submit your questions and I'll try to answer them in future episodes. I'd love to hear from you. If you enjoy the show, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds and really helps. 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When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi gave a seemingly inebriated speech at a news conference in May, President Donald Trump blasted her in a tweet. The problem was, the video was fake.

This week, the questions that have journalists looking fearfully to the future “Can Machines Make Media?” Then - is our love affair with tech over? One WIRED writer says - Not So Fast. And, the U.S. Updated its Nuclear Arsenal - to solve what is being called a ‘deterrence gap.’ I’m Alexa Scordato - and I’m Steven Rosenbaum - and this is Future Forward

How have our relationships been impacted by emerging technology? Is technology respecting our human dignity? Should it creep us out that our devices may understand our emotional state? In this episode of thinkPod, we are joined by Justin Hendrix (Executive Director of NYC Media Lab) and Dr. Jess Carbino (Relationship expert & former sociologist for Tinder & Bumble). We talk to Justin and Jess about whether we are being upgraded or downgraded, the interplay between privacy and control, the rise of synthetic media, and whether we should put our trust in institutions or corporations. We also debate using a chatbot therapist, need for soft skills in tech, and how technology is altering the ways in which we interact with one another. “Eli Pariser has this idea of human dignity and whether the devices and the content and the mechanisms and the ecosystem we built is sort of respecting our dignity. I'm not certain at the moment that the information ecosystem is doing that. We've got sort of a ways to go I think until we can feel comfortable that we've addressed those issues.” -Justin Hendrix “People not only want to present themselves as the self that they want to be to the world, but also how they perceive other people want them to be. And I think that's a really strong tension that people have and are trying to negotiate.” -Dr. Jess Carbino “How do we design systems that we can trust, that support institutions we can trust, that support relationships we can trust? I don't think we've solved that.” -Justin Hendrix “Fundamentally the decision to trust is related to the decision that I have control over my fate over my destiny.” -Dr. Jess Carbino Connect with thinkLeaders and our panelists: @IBMthinkLeaders @justinhendrix @drjesscarbino Justin Hendrix is Executive Director of NYC Media Lab, a public-private partnership between the City’s industry and its universities to drive emerging media and technology innovation and entrepreneurship, and the founding Executive Director of RLab, a new 16,500 square foot facility including co-working labs, classrooms, studios, and more in the Brooklyn Navy Yard that is New York’s City’s home for VR, AR and spatial computing. RLab is the nation’s first city-funded center for research, entrepreneurship and education in virtual and augmented-reality, spatial computing and other emerging media technologies. Previously he was Vice President, Business Development & Innovation for The Economist. He holds a BA from the College of William & Mary and an MSc in Technology Commercialization from the McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Jess Carbino is a relationship and online dating expert who been called by The NY Post "the Dr. Ruth of the swipe right generation" and by the Host of This American Life "the Nate Silver of online dating." Dr. Jess, as she is fondly referred to, served as Sociologist for Tinder and Bumble, leading research for each of the two companies. She regularly analyzes user data to align social needs with product and user experience. She has conducted hundreds of focus groups and analyzed hundreds of thousands of profiles. Dr. Jess was named one of the 100 Most Creative People by Fast Company magazine. Her work has been featured in major news outlets including The New York Times, Time Magazine, Marie Claire, Cosmo, Men’s Health, New York Magazine and The Colbert Report. She has appeared on many TV programs including Good Morning America, Nightline, 20/20, The Doctors, CNN and Huffington Post. Dr. Jess also regularly speaks at conferences and events, most recently at the Oxford Union. Dr. Jess received her PhD in sociology from UCLA. Her doctoral research has broadly focused on sex, dating and relationships. Dr. Jess' dissertation, “Dating in the 21st Century” used data from several online dating sites to answer the age-old question: “what do men and women want?”

Ep. 414 | Originally Aired: October 20, 2018 We live in a world awash with media of all types. If we’re honest, it seems like we have not yet mastered the current onslaught of social media in public life. Justin Hendrix warns that, for good or for bad, the future is coming. Justin Hendrix is Executive Director of NYC Media Lab, connecting media and tech companies with NYC universities to drive digital media innovation and entrepreneurship. Previously he was Vice President, Business Development & Innovation for The Economist. He holds a BA from the College of William & Mary and an MSc in Technology Commercialization from the McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin. Follow him on Twitter @justinhendrix. Learn more. 

Co-hosts David Ryan Polgar (tech ethicist) and Joe Leonardo (UCB comedian) stop by the NYC Media Lab to find out what the brightest minds are working on, play with some emerging tech demos, and hear a range of keynotes and panel discussion on computer-brain interface, digital equity, and the synthetic media debate. Stay in touch with the NYC Media Lab at: https://nycmedialab.org/ FUNNY AS TECH Funny as Tech tackles the thorniest issues in tech with the help of experts. Each week, tech ethicist David Ryan Polgar and comedian Joe Leonardo invite a guest to take a deep dive into a complex tech issue that is tripping up society. The show has dealt with AR, VR, AI, IoT, diversity in tech, tech addiction, media literacy, future of work, and much more. Previous guests have included CNN's Laurie Segall, Baratunde Thurston, Nir Eyal, Manoush Zomorodi, Douglas Rushkoff, Joe Lubin, Tracy Chou, Bridget Carey, and Chuck Nice. Funny as Tech also performs on the road with conferences and special events. Have a question? Info@FunnyAsTech.com FUNNY AS TECH FunnyAsTech.com Twitter: twitter.com/FunnyAsTech Instagram: www.instagram.com/FunnyAsTech/ Facebook: www.facebook.com/FunnyAsTech/ Soundcloud: @user-328735920 iTunes: apple.co/2mAxIAV Google Play: bit.ly/2C7afyg Signup to our monthly mailing list: eepurl.com/dgokyz

Will synthetic media be a net positive or net negative for society?! An important thorny ethical debate! Co-hosts David Ryan Polgar and Joe Leonardo recently attended the NYC Media Lab Summit where this debate happened on stage. Right after the debate, David and Joe recorded their reflections on the debate. Here is the description of the debate, written by the NYC Media Lab: NYCML'18: The Great Synthetic Media Debate The debate covers whether synthetic media will do more good than harm. What is synthetic media you ask? Manoush Zomorodi, founder at Stable Genius Productions, defines it as everything from "holographic popstars, to new tools that automate workflows, from deep learning techniques used for producing news articles, to highly engaging AI characters". But we've all seen how these tools can be put to nefarious uses by now. As the debate escalates, niceties are thrust aside and potshots taken. Many great points emerge from each of the brilliant speakers: Ken Perlin (Director, NYU Future Reality Lab): all art is synthetic media, from Shakespeare's works to Thanos's AI-enabled face, and even as insidious versions surface, we have the right people and community leaders to help us get together as a society and establish truth and rationality. Eli Pariser (Omidyar Fellow, New America Foundation): all media is synthetic (ex. edited news clips), so we can't divorce the content from those who made it - synthetic media will lead us to question the veracity of things and look at the author for answers. Matthew Hartman (Partner, Betaworks Ventures): there are few good instances of synthetic media out there, a lot of "nice to have" ideas, but the examples we see out in the world today have definitely done more harm than good. Karen Kornbluh (Senior Fellow for Digital Policy, Council on Foreign Relations): major entities have always tried to trick us (ex. oil companies "hacking" climate scientists, Russia's disinformation campaigns), but while we can mitigate all this, we've lost the will to work as a society and make tech work for us. FUNNY AS TECH Funny as Tech tackles the thorniest issues in tech with the help of experts. Each week, tech ethicist David Ryan Polgar and comedian Joe Leonardo invite a guest to take a deep dive into a complex tech issue that is tripping up society. The show has dealt with AR, VR, AI, IoT, diversity in tech, tech addiction, media literacy, future of work, and much more. Previous guests have included CNN's Laurie Segall, Baratunde Thurston, Nir Eyal, Manoush Zomorodi, Douglas Rushkoff, Joe Lubin, Tracy Chou, Bridget Carey, and Chuck Nice. Funny as Tech also performs on the road with conferences and special events. Have a question? Info@FunnyAsTech.com FUNNY AS TECH FunnyAsTech.com Twitter: twitter.com/FunnyAsTech Instagram: www.instagram.com/FunnyAsTech/ Facebook: www.facebook.com/FunnyAsTech/ Soundcloud: @user-328735920 iTunes: apple.co/2mAxIAV Google Play: bit.ly/2C7afyg Signup to our monthly mailing list: eepurl.com/dgokyz twitter.com/TechEthicist twitter.com/ImJoeLeonardo www.instagram.com/techethicist/ www.instagram.com/imjoeleonardo/ NEW EPISODES EVERY MONDAY

This episode was recorded at the Fake News Horror Show, an event NYC Media Lab hosted on June 7th and 8th, 2018 to explore the problems of propaganda and misinformation. Clint Watts, a former FBI Special Agent, U.S. Army officer and leading cyber-security expert, gave a keynote presentation on his recently published book, Messing with the Enemy: Surviving in a Social Media World of Hackers, Terrorists, Russians, and Fake News.

https://fufwd.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/FF-0028-b-1.mp3 This week - China’s ZTE. A massive threat, or never mind, just kidding? Then, can Machines make the future of Journalism less full of Fake News? the NYC Media Lab says maybe it can. All that plus, I’m going to share the untold story of my ongoing feud with Trevor Noah. Yup, it’s about […]

This discussion was recorded at Machines+Media 2018. While discussion of potential new regulations for technology companies is somewhat muted in the United States, it is raging in the UK and Europe. While many observers agree more transparency and accountability for the platforms is desirable, new rules could have unintended consequences. What are the parameters for healthy regulation? Panelists included Paul Barrett, NYU Center for Business and Human Rights; Kevin Carty, Open Markets Institute; Nicholas Thompson, WIRED; and Claire Wardle, Shorenstein Center. Justin Hendrix, Executive Director of NYC Media Lab moderated the discussion.

In the news this week, journalists found that Facebook, Google and Twitter all allowed them to target ads toward racist groups like “Jew haters” and “black people ruin neighborhoods.” The social platforms quickly removed those terms. A new initiative called Report for America aims to place 1,000 public service journalists into newsrooms over the next five years. Can a Peace Corps idea help boost local journalism? And the creator of the Pepe the Frog cartoon is taking legal action against alt-right groups for selling merchandise with his image. Our Metric of the Week is ARPU, and we go one-on-one with Justin Hendrix, executive director of the NYC Media Lab, to discuss his upcoming Summit next week and a new center focused on virtual and augmented reality.

In the news this week, journalists found that Facebook, Google and Twitter all allowed them to target ads toward racist groups like “Jew haters” and “black people ruin neighborhoods.” The social platforms quickly removed those terms. A new initiative called Report for America aims to place 1,000 public service journalists into newsrooms over the next five years. Can a Peace Corps idea help boost local journalism? And the creator of the Pepe the Frog cartoon is taking legal action against alt-right groups for selling merchandise with his image. Our Metric of the Week is ARPU, and we go one-on-one with Justin Hendrix, executive director of the NYC Media Lab, to discuss his upcoming Summit next week and a new center focused on virtual and augmented reality.