The Artificial Intelligence Podcast | BNR

Popular fiction is nice and all, but it needs a soundtrack.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

From New York Drew Silverstein from Amper Music joins is. In the most amazing conversation we had on AI ... ever! You think you know how it works, but you really don't!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

And is it something we should be scared of? Spike Jonze gave us the beatiful 2013 movie HER, with a not so distant future is intelligent operating systems. Let's take a look at the status of the tech then and now. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Euro Beinat is Global Lead Data Science and AI for Naspers which gives him an unique position with a worldwide overview of all the Naspers subsidiaries. Where as David Lin, Global Head of Data Science for PayU works with that local knowledge to create more freedom with microcredits in India.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The loss of students gets greater with the loss of professors and research fellows to the big companies who are scouting talent non stop. The future of artificial intelligence starts with a proper education, but with not enough people able to teach them, where will the knowledge and talent come from in the near future? At the University of Amsterdam AI research master, Cees Snoek has the difficult task as director to reform the master and keep the eye on the ball: more students getting the proper education for a bright AI future.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We already discussed Jurassic Park and now it's time for Westworld! Or... is there a better theme park out there?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Let me tell you a story about storytelling. And how Ai tells us the real story.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

For some people AI is like Lego; building blocks, which you can stake together, and solve real problems. AI as Lego looks like a box with apparently the same blocks, but when put together, you get different buildings, solving different problems. Bruno Jakic, co-founder of AI Applied and KeenCorp makes artificial intelligence and all its possibilities look real easy.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jean-Paul van Oosten, Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Target Holding explains how to transform words into math, to make dictionaries from and for resumes, for use in human resources and at recruitment agencies. Which is very different from implementing AI for selection within a company, as a single company will almost always have a biased dataset.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Isaac Asimov the father of science fiction? Nah... He gets beat by a 200 year old story which is still relevant today. Come and take a look at the herstory of the mother of science fiction: Mary Shelley.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.