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Deep fakes are here, a result of astounding innovation in computational media creation. Stanford professor Maneesh Agrawala joins Dirk and Jon to talk about advances in and challenges with machine creation of video and journalism.

Maneesh Agrawala, Director of the Brown Institute for Media Innovation at Stanford University, joins Dirk and Jon to discuss key issues in the computational creation of media, such as video and journalism. While these sorts of technologies famously contribute to the creation of things like deep fakes, those perversions are based off groundbreaking and assistive work that promises to make the process of creating communication media, whether written or visual, more efficient and effective.

 

Memorable Quotes

"We've been thinking a lot about where computational tools could be used by journalists, to make their jobs easier and better."

"When you have a manipulated video, it should be clear that it has been manipulated."

"There have been incidents in other countries, in India, for example, where video that was untrue caused riots."

"One way to rebuild the trust is to be more transparent about the news production process."

"The idea is to use VR to help people embody someone who is very different from them."

 

Who You'll Hear

Dirk Knemeyer, Social Futurist and Producer of Creative Next (@dknemeyer)

Jonathan Follett, Writer, Electronic Musician, Emerging Tech Researcher and Producer of Creative Next (@jonfollett)

Maneesh Agrawala, Forest Baskett Professor of Computer Science and Director of Brown Institute for Media Innovation at Stanford University (@magrawala)

 

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GoInvo, A design practice dedicated to innovation in healthcare whose clients are as varied as AstraZeneca, 3M Health Information Services, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. www.goinvo.com 

Design Museum Foundation, A new kind of museum, they believe design can change the world. They’re online, nomadic, and focused on making design accessible to everyone. Their mission: bring the transformative power of design everywhere. You can learn about their exhibitions, events, magazine, and more. www.designmuseumfoundation.org

BIF, As a purpose-driven firm, BIF is committed to bringing design strategy where it is needed most - health care, education, and public service to create value for our most vulnerable populations. www.bif.is 

Artificial intelligence already writes stock and minor league sports blurbs. Is storytelling next? AI researcher Snigdha Chaturvedi joins Dirk and Jon to share her research projects developing AI augmented storytelling tools.

AI researcher Snigdha Chaturvedi joins Dirk and Jon to share details from her research projects over the years, building toward AI that can eventually tell original stories. We learn about challenges faced in her work, limitations with the current technology, and how AI storytelling with augment professional writers and amateur non-writers in the near future.

 

Memorable Quotes

"The creativity and expertise of AI-based generation system would enable amateur writers to express themselves in an interesting and professional manner. So, essentially, everybody could be a writer."

"AI writing will certainly make the job of professional writers much easier."

"If you want your newsfeed to know what kind of relations you are in with different people and then present only those things that are of interest to that specific relationship, the algorithm that is generating that newsfeed needs to be aware of the type of relationship that you have with your dad versus the type of relationship that you have with your colleague."

"We are trying to make a machine collaborate with humans to generate a short story."

"The mathematical representations make it difficult for even human experts or scientists to decipher how exactly the system is working."

 

Who You'll Hear

Dirk Knemeyer, Social Futurist and Producer of Creative Next (@dknemeyer)

Jonathan Follett, Writer, Electronic Musician, Emerging Tech Researcher and Producer of Creative Next (@jonfollett)

Snigdha Chaturvedi, AI Researcher, snigdhac@gmail.com

 

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GoInvo, A design practice dedicated to innovation in healthcare whose clients are as varied as AstraZeneca, 3M Health Information Services, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. www.goinvo.com 

Design Museum Foundation, A new kind of museum, they believe design can change the world. They’re online, nomadic, and focused on making design accessible to everyone. Their mission: bring the transformative power of design everywhere. You can learn about their exhibitions, events, magazine, and more. www.designmuseumfoundation.org

BIF, As a purpose-driven firm, BIF is committed to bringing design strategy where it is needed most - health care, education, and public service to create value for our most vulnerable populations. www.bif.is

The human voice is helping to drive the future of automation. Systran and Adobe veteran Shivali Goel joins Dirk and Jon to explain how Natural Language Processing, or NLP, is powering the AI of today and tomorrow.

Natural Language Processing researcher Shivali Goel joins Dirk and Jon to go deep into this crucial technology. We learn about what Natural Language Processing, or NLP, is, how it powers software, AI, and automation, and discover some of the cutting-edge applications that NLP is driving today.

 

Memorable Quotes

"For example, if I say 'Kids make nutritious snacks', what do you understand? Are the children cooking something nutritious? Or that they themselves are a nutritious snack?"

"Instant voice translation is making language no longer a barrier. I can talk to you in Hindi and you can hear the same content in English."

"NLP is basically math and statistics with elements of linguistics."

"A person got arrested in Iraq because his Facebook translated his 'good morning' to 'attack them'."

 

Who You'll Hear

Dirk Knemeyer, Social Futurist and Producer of Creative Next (@dknemeyer)

Jonathan Follett, Writer, Electronic Musician, Emerging Tech Researcher and Producer of Creative Next (@jonfollett)

Shivali Goel, Natural Language Processing Researcher (@shivugoel)

 

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GoInvo, A design practice dedicated to innovation in healthcare whose clients are as varied as AstraZeneca, 3M Health Information Services, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. www.goinvo.com 

Design Museum Foundation, A new kind of museum, they believe design can change the world. They’re online, nomadic, and focused on making design accessible to everyone. Their mission: bring the transformative power of design everywhere. You can learn about their exhibitions, events, magazine, and more. www.designmuseumfoundation.org

BIF, As a purpose-driven firm, BIF is committed to bringing design strategy where it is needed most - health care, education, and public service to create value for our most vulnerable populations. www.bif.is

We communicate with artificial intelligence via user interface, or UI. AI innovator Erica Lee joins Dirk and Jon to talk about the present and future of people communication with our smart machines.

AI innovator Erica Lee joins Dirk and Jon to explore user interface and artificial intelligence. We talk about on-trend inputs like gestural and voice and how they contribute to augmentation and automation driven by artificial intelligence.

 

Memorable Quotes

"As we improve our sensor imprint and our understanding of human intelligence, how the brain works, how the body works, and how they work in relationship to each other, we can use that data and that information to really build products that help us with our goals in fitness, health, education, the environment, and more."

"With AI, the thing I am most excited about is being able to augment decision-making, not necessarily automate it."

"I would like to challenge people in AI as, are you really using AI to solve the Root Cause Analysis?"

"On the consumer side, the biggest market is with home automation, with building devices at home to help you with small tasks."

"If you can't distinguish the difference between new and completely innovative, and then being able to master the skills to actually apply that, you will just naturally be left behind."

"Voice interface is now actually starting to merge with visual interfaces."

"AI is a technology that's been around for a while, but it's especially meaningful right now because people are realizing they can turn data into insights."

"It's still clunky, and it's like this teenager trying to figure out what it's doing in the world."

 

Mentioned in this episode

Singularity University

CRISPR-Cas9

 

Who You'll Hear

Dirk Knemeyer, Social Futurist and Producer of Creative Next (@dknemeyer)

Jonathan Follett, Writer, Electronic Musician, Emerging Tech Researcher and Producer of Creative Next (@jonfollett)

Erica Lee, AI Innovator (@EricaLeeAI)

 

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GoInvo, A design practice dedicated to innovation in healthcare whose clients are as varied as AstraZeneca, 3M Health Information Services, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. www.goinvo.com

Design Museum Foundation, A new kind of museum, they believe design can change the world. They’re online, nomadic, and focused on making design accessible to everyone. Their mission: bring the transformative power of design everywhere. You can learn about their exhibitions, events, magazine, and more. www.designmuseumfoundation.org

BIF, As a purpose-driven firm, BIF is committed to bringing design strategy where it is needed most - health care, education, and public service to create value for our most vulnerable populations. www.bif.is

Researcher Katja Grace joins Dirk and Jon to discuss upcoming AI achievements. We then explore expert predictions in Katja’s research paper, When Will AI Exceed Human Performance?, to project when key advances will happen.

AI researcher Katja Grace joins Dirk and Jon to talk about her work. In 2016 Katja led a research project that gathered input from hundreds of AI experts to speculate about the timeframe in which different advances would be completed. We talk about the many predictions from her paper, When Will AI Exceed Human Performance?, spanning practical applications like self-driving cars and generating pop songs to longitudinal questions of high-level machine intelligence and artificial general intelligence.

 

Memorable Quotes

"We've recently seen a lot of progress in automating some things that are part of normal human functioning that we hadn't previously been able to do that are key to most work."

"If we have quite good AI and not very good robotics, we might try to push more tasks into virtual places where you don't need to deal with the real world."

"We asked when AI would be able to basically write a new Taylor Swift song as well as Taylor Swift can so that a dedicated Taylor Swift fan would not be able to tell the difference."

"If you make machines that are very good at optimizing for something and don't really know what you care about, then, without any malice, they will end up destroying the things that you cared about."

"I guess the question is are humans as intelligent as a thing can be?"

 

Mentioned in this episode

Katja’s Paper

Angry Birds AI Competition

 

 

Who You'll Hear

Dirk Knemeyer, Social Futurist and Producer of Creative Next (@dknemeyer)

Jonathan Follett, Writer, Electronic Musician, Emerging Tech Researcher and Producer of Creative Next (@jonfollett)

Katja Grace, Researcher, Owner of AI Impacts (@KatjaGrace)

 

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GoInvo, A design practice dedicated to innovation in healthcare whose clients are as varied as AstraZeneca, 3M Health Information Services, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. www.goinvo.com

Design Museum Foundation, A new kind of museum, they believe design can change the world. They’re online, nomadic, and focused on making design accessible to everyone. Their mission: bring the transformative power of design everywhere. You can learn about their exhibitions, events, magazine, and more. www.designmuseumfoundation.org

BIF, As a purpose-driven firm, BIF is committed to bringing design strategy where it is needed most - health care, education, and public service to create value for our most vulnerable populations. www.bif.is

What is the future of lifelong learning? Entrepreneur Jessica Yung joins Dirk and Jon to discuss methods, philosophies, and companies active at the leading edge of self-directed learning.

Entrepreneur Jessica Yung joins Dirk and Jon to talk about trends in lifelong learning. Building from her experience at the University of Cambridge and her current Research Masters studies in Computational Statistics and Machine Learning, Jessica explores the do-it-yourself ethos and tools for both teaching and learning that make knowledge more accessible than ever.

 

Memorable Quotes

"It's much harder to deploy machine learning models on the internet than on a fixed dataset that you have on your computer."

"The main difficulty in having machine learning transform personalization is that it's very hard to get access to all of the data for a person."

"We've shifted more into the age that people are creating things for free but are hoping to reap the rewards later."

"Even if you've just started learning to code for three months, you can create an article that people go to when they start learning to code."

"Now, people often expect everything to be free, because there's so much content on the internet."

"Learners have the incentive to create this content because it helps them learn, helps them create a portfolio, increases their reputation."

 

Who You'll Hear

Dirk Knemeyer, Social Futurist and Producer of Creative Next (@dknemeyer)

Jonathan Follett, Writer, Electronic Musician, Emerging Tech Researcher and Producer of Creative Next (@jonfollett)

Jessica Yung, Entrepreneur, (@JessicaYung17)

 

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Sponsors

GoInvo, A design practice dedicated to innovation in healthcare whose clients are as varied as AstraZeneca, 3M Health Information Services, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. www.goinvo.com

Design Museum Foundation, A new kind of museum, they believe design can change the world. They’re online, nomadic, and focused on making design accessible to everyone. Their mission: bring the transformative power of design everywhere. You can learn about their exhibitions, events, magazine, and more. www.designmuseumfoundation.org

BIF, As a purpose-driven firm, BIF is committed to bringing design strategy where it is needed most - health care, education, and public service to create value for our most vulnerable populations. www.bif.is