AI For You

Facial Recognition: Where do we go from here?

podcast@aiforanyone.org (Mac McMahon, Adam Lindquist, Aneekah Uddin) — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 14:30:00 +0000

Where do we go from here? Today we dive into how to address the harm that comes from facial recognition technology, by asking lots of different experts from our past episodes. They talk about current regulations and systems of power surrounding the technology.

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— Guests: Darren Byler, Jameson Spivack, Ella Jakubowska, Vic Harkness, and Hellen Wu —

Darren Byler is an Anthropologist and incoming professor at Simon Fraser University who focuses on Uyghur dispossession, infrastructural power, and "terror capitalism."

Jameson Spivack is an Associate at Georgetown Law Center on Privacy and Technology focused on the use of algorithmic technologies like face recognition, predictive policing, and risk assessment in the criminal legal system

Ella Jakubowska is a Policy Advisor at European Digital Rights with a strong focus on facial recognition, biometrics, and fundamental rights

Vic Harkness is a security researcher at F-Secure, based in the South of England.

Hellen Wu is Chinese American and has encountered facial recognition in China.

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Facial Recognition: What if it hurts more than it helps?

podcast@aiforanyone.org (A.I. For Anyone) — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 10:30:00 +0000

What if facial recognition causes more harm than help? We dive into the bias embedded in facial recognition technology itself and the bias in the use of these tools by law enforcement and the government through stories, conversations, and lots of research.

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— Guests: Darren Byler, Jameson Spivack, and Ella Jakubowska —

Darren Byler is an Anthropologist and incoming professor at Simon Fraser University who focuses on Uyghur dispossession, infrastructural power, and "terror capitalism."

Ella Jakubowska is a Policy Advisor at European Digital Rights with a strong focus on facial recognition, biometrics, and fundamental rights

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Brought to you by Adam Lindquist, Aneekah Uddin, Mac McMahon and the rest of the AI4A team

Facial Recognition: From Bathrooms to Clearview AI to Jaywalking Cams

Thu, 27 May 2021 10:30:00 +0000

How can a camera and a few lines of code identify who we are? On the show, we dive into facial recognition, how it works (neural networks and all that jazz), and how/why it's being used in the US and China, especially by the government and police.

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— Guests: Vic Harkness, Sargeant Jason Webb, Hellen Wu—

Vic Harkness is a security researcher at F-Secure, based in the South of England. (LinkedIn / Twitter)

Sargeant Jason Webb is an intelligence officer and Sargeant in Oxford, Alabama, who uses Clearview AI.

Hellen Wu is Chinese American and has encountered facial recognition in China.

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Brought to you by Adam Lindquist, Aneekah Uddin, Francisco Nawrath, Mac McMahon, and the rest of the AI4A team

Why you should care about GPT-3

Thu, 20 May 2021 10:00:00 +0000

GPT-3 is a language model — a tool that is impressively generates synthetic text when given something to start with. We talk with Zack from Copy AI and Akshay from Georgian about how they currently use GPT-3 at work, what it's good at, and what we should watch out for.

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— Guests: Zack Lee and Akshay Budhkar —

Zack Lee is currently the lead AI engineer at Copy AI where he manages how GPT-3 powers their product. He's interested in deep learning tech and NLP and currently lives in Brooklyn, NY with his 3 cats.

Akshay Budhkar is an applied research scientist at Georgian and a member of the R&D team, where he focuses on engagements with portfolio companies, mainly in NLP. Akshay holds an MSc. in Computer Science at the University of Toronto, affiliated with the Vector Institute.

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Experiment with GPT-Neo, an open-source version of GPT-3 straight from your browser
Join the waitlist to access GPT-3 by requesting on Open AI's website

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Brought to you by Jacky Zhao, Mac McMahon, Serena Chao, William Overton and the rest of the AI4A team

AI For You is Back!

Thu, 6 May 2021 12:00:00 +0000

Welcome back to AI For You, a podcast hosted by AI for Anyone — a non-profit dedicated to helping anyone learn about artificial intelligence.

Season 2 is all about the deep dives. This season, we're focusing on the intersection of AI with other fields. You'll hear from us on exciting topics like Facial Recognition, GPT-3, Education, and Music - just to name a few.

We dive into how AI impacts our communities, where AI is currently at, and we give you the tools to think about your relationship with AI. Listen along to conversations with experts, open-ended discussions, and more as we get to know AI better as a friend that's here to stay.

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Special thanks to Ella Jukabowski, Sergeant Jason Webb, and Liz O'Sullivan. Brought to you by Mac McMahon, Adam Lindquist, Jacky Zhao (_jzhao), Serena Chao (@coriils), and the rest of the AI4A team

Viewing AI Through a Holistic Lens (with Abhishek Mathur)

podcast@aiforanyone.org (Abhishek Mathur, Mac McMahon, Serena Chao) — Fri, 2 Oct 2020 11:00:00 +0000

Abhishek Mathur highlights how critical it is to approach the field of AI with a holistic lens - in the training data, the applications, and the team behind it. He also discusses the increasing need for AI ethicists, his transition from consulting into product, and the varying skillsets and roles needed in the AI industry that expand beyond technical development.

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— Guest: Abhishek Mathur —

Abhishek is a product management leader, an artificial intelligence practitioner, and an educator. He has led product management and engineering teams at Clarifai, IBM, and Kasisto, to build a variety of artificial intelligence applications within the space of computer vision, natural language processing, and recommendation systems. Abhishek enjoys having deep conversations about the future of technology, and helping aspiring product managers enter and accelerate their careers.

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Yes! Machine Learning Is Fun!
Andrew Ng’s intro to AI on Coursera: AI For Everyone
- Next, consider taking his Machine Learning course as well!
Big Tech AI Blogs: Facebook, Microsoft, Google, Apple
Open AI’s GPT-3, the most powerful language model to date, can be used to design websites, write creative fiction, and more.

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Brought to you by Haroon Choudery (@haroonchoudery), Mac McMahon, Serena Chao (@coriils), Nandana Yadla, Jacob Ludwig, and the rest of the AI4A team

The Human Element of AI (with Henry Zhang)

podcast@aiforanyone.org (Mac McMahon, Henry Zhang, Serena Chao) — Mon, 21 Sep 2020 10:00:25 +0000

Henry Zhang joins Mac in conversations about his past AI-related projects throughout his undergraduate career which includes the human element in AI and how AI is used as a safety mechanism on YouTube. As a recent grad, Henry also shares how he found his way into the AI space, and how you can find yours.

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— Guest: Henry Zhang —

With a degree in robotics engineering, Henry pursued AI internships at Google and Bloomberg, as well as research opportunities in data integration and deep reinforcement learning. At Google, Henry leveraged natural learning processing (NLP) and active learning to make YouTube a safer place, and at Bloomberg, he researched NLP algorithms to understand news articles. Academically, Henry published an algorithm to allow for inferences across multiple data sources.

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Intro to Artificial Intelligence (with A.I. For Anyone)

podcast@aiforanyone.org (Serena Chao) — Thu, 3 Sep 2020 13:51:38 +0000

We’ve heard from experts and industry leaders about how computer vision is applied to self-driving cars and the implications of bias in AI. But let's go back to the basics first. For a foundation to artificial intelligence, we take inspiration from our successful Intro to AI workshop with the Mark Cuban Foundation to bring you this bonus episode today.

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How to Manage the Powerful Risk of AI (with Liz O’Sullivan)

Fri, 21 Aug 2020 10:00:27 +0000

What would you do if your company crossed ethical lines? Liz O’Sullivan tells her transformational moment of speaking up for the need for human oversight that has pushed her work to focus on fairness and transparency in AI today and tomorrow. Among a deep discussion of the implications of bias, the importance of transparency, and the responsibility of the individual, they highlight how our pursuits of innovation can and should thrive but only in a way that doesn’t put our planet at risk.

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— Guest: Liz O’Sullivan —

Liz O’Sullivan is an AI activist who is the Technology Director at S.T.O.P., an organisation fighting surveillance from a policy perspective, and co-founder and vice president of commercial operations at Arthur AI, an AI model monitoring startup.

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Tech Inquiry, ACLU, Tech Workers Coalition - a few organisations to help tackle abuses in the tech industry
Start with Rachel Thomas’ articles and talks to understand how cool AI is, and what happens when it messes up.

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Backing Up to Machine Learning Basics (with Matt Barnes)

Thu, 30 Jul 2020 10:00:09 +0000

What’s the relationship between robotics and machine learning? Pulling from an impressive set of projects, Matt first helps us understand a few basics in this field including reinforcement learning and computer vision. Matt shares about his PhD project that helped combat human trafficking, sheds some light around the "what ifs" around self-driving cars, and how mechanical engineering led him to machine learning.

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— Guest: Matt Barnes —

Matt Barnes is an applied machine learning scientist with a PhD in robotics from Carnegie Mellon University who is now working at Google.

LinkedIn: Matt Barnes

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Becoming Limitless with AI and Mentorship (with Sidney Madison Prescott)

Wed, 22 Jul 2020 10:00:12 +0000

“To achieve true diversity within the technology sector, we need to fundamentally change what it means to be a technologist.” Sidney Madison Prescott grounds us to better understand who we’re missing in our current picture, the importance of mentors who can help you position your value, and how firms should approach implementing cognitive automation.

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— Guest: Sidney Madison Prescott —

Sidney Madison Prescott is a Global Intelligent Automation Leader (RPA, ML, AI) at Spotify who is based in New York City.

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Out of Sight, AI in Mind (with Hod Lipson)

podcast@aiforanyone.org (Mac McMahon, Haroon Choudery, Hod Lipson) — Thu, 2 Jul 2020 10:30:09 +0000

The ultimate engineering challenge - to build a machine that can build something else, that is what Professor Hod Lipson is after. He describes roboticists as reincarnations of ancient alchemists who are working to breathe life into matter, exploring self-awareness, and participating in a quest to understand what it means to be human.

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— Guest: Hod Lipson —

Hod Lipson is a Columbia University professor, author and entrepreneur who works in the areas of robotics and artificial intelligence.

Creative Machines Lab
TED Talk: Building self-aware robots
Award winning book “Fabricated” on 3D Printing, and “Driverless” on Autonomous cars

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Introducing: AI For You

podcast@aiforanyone.org (Mac McMahon, Haroon Choudery) — Thu, 18 Jun 2020 21:54:09 +0000

Welcome to AI For You, a podcast hosted by A.I. for Anyone, a non-profit dedicated to helping you learn about AI.

2020 has been a big year for us from online webinars to launching this podcast! We’re always looking for ways to share the latest and greatest from the world of AI in a way that’s easy to understand and follow. Tune in as we explore the boundless reach of AI, how society is adapting - and resisting, and what your role could be in an increasingly automated world.

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Brought to you by: Haroon Choudery, Mac McMahon, Serena Chao, Kaira Villanueva, Nandana Yadla, Dimitryus Graziani, and the rest of the AI4A team