Learn what you need to know right now to get smart about AI with our podcasts featuring industry experts across AI.

1. How to Get Smart
Right Now About AI

2. AI is driven by deep learning – a
technology that’s mysterious
even to some of those creating it.
AI is remaking everything in the world around us.
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is to help everyone who needs
to get smart about AI get their
heads around the topic. And
use it as a new way to look at
the world it’s changing.
The AI Podcast…

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Featuring Industry experts across AI …
The AI podcast is hosted by tech journalist Michael Copeland, who
wrote for WIRED and Fortune.
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Michael Copeland
Tech Journalist
Lynn Richards
CEO/President
Congress for New Urbanism
Mike Senese
Executive Editor
Make: Magazine
Kris Hammond
Chief Scientist
Narrative Science

5. The History of the AI Boom
“50 years ago, artificial intelligence was a research topic. It was
something people in academia and economic organizations were
testing to create machines to perform tasks at human-level
accuracy. The dreams at that time, of androids and robots,
generated interesting ideas but nothing amounted out of it.”
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Will Ramey
Director of Developer Marketing, NVIDIA
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6. The first examples of AI being used were based
on trying to solve games. Simple, logic-based
applications. People were training machines to
play checkers, tic-tac toe, and other games.
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“As with most things in science,
we had to start with baby steps
and incremental approaches.”
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Where is AI Going Next?
“We’re at a point now where computers are actually better at
recognizing objects in images than a person is … This opens up
possibilities for people to do things that we couldn’t conceive of before
such as speech recognition and wearable computing. We’ll know AI
really works when we hardly notice it at all.”
Bryan Catanzaro
Vice President, Applied Deep Learning Research
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AI is Beginning to Reshape Our Cities
“There are tech firms that already are in the process of designing
cities and are hiring coders and all other realms of tech folk, but
not engaging with urban planners or designers. We are on the
verge of a disruption.“
Lynn Richards
President/CEO, Congress for New Urbanism
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How AI is Revolutionizing Driving
“We are training our system to understand the
environment with cameras and using that
information on how to recognize pedestrians,
cars, trucks, or bicyclists. There are also a
variety of sensors to gain different types of
information and combine those to accurately
discern the environment.”
Danny Shapiro
Senior Director of Automotive, NVIDIA
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And Turning Kiddie Cars into
Autonomous Racers …
“This has only been possible in the last few
years, as sensors are now good enough and
cheap enough to be used on small vehicles.
Now, is the best time to start experimenting in
creating cars cheaper than $1000.”
Jim Burke
Graphic Artist/Founder, Power Racing Series
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AI is Tackling Common
Household Tasks
“Technology is finally hitting a point, where
consumers have access to this type of
capability. We did a project using computer
vision that can detect a cat and entertain it
with a laser pointer. Once the cat leaves, the
laser would recognize that and turn off.”
Mike Senese
Executive Editor, Make: Magazine
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And even Crafting Beer,
Chocolate, Wine, Coffee …
“We need a way to programmatically measure and
develop systems to record taste. And then save this
till the next season comes around. Does it taste the
same? Does it taste worse? Or does it taste better?
Your memory is incredible faulty and we need
consistency in a brand’s taste.”
Jason Cohen
Founder, Gastrograph
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How AI will eventually Teach Us
“The solution isn’t just to look for our own biases when
training AIs, but to understand our own limitations, and train
AIs to help us all see past them. And having machines help us
— because there are people who understand who we are and
how we are and how we think — and actually design those
machines to really cater to the best of us, that actually is
absolutely doable.”
Kris Hammond
Chief Scientist, Narrative Science
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