AI-Curious with Jeff Wilser

As most people who have played with AI know, it can make stuff up, or what’s often referred to as “hallucinate.” (I like to think of it as “bullshitting.”

It’s one of the trickiest problems vexing the…

The health care system in the US is a mess. Few will argue this. Can AI make it better?

That's the thesis of Rajeev (Raj) Ronanki, CEO of Lyric, which is working to build AI that will simplify and str…

Petra Molnar is a Harvard Faculty Associate, lawyer, human rights activist, and author of the just-released book The Walls Have Eyes: Surviving Migration in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.

Publish…

Before launching the AI-Curious podcast, I spent a bunch of years writing about bitcoin, blockchain, crypto, and web3, often for CoinDesk, the space’s main publication. I still write about it. So I’m…

I'm going to guess that most people listening to this podcast are not lawyers. Fair. I'm not either!

But there are *massive* questions about how AI impacts the law -- new questions about IP, copyright…

Many have been worried about AI safety. But the stakes were just raised: OpenAI and Google just announced new capabilities that look likely to usher in the new era of “AI agents,” meaning tools that …

Sherlock Bioscience is developing medical diagnostic tests that are dramatically faster, cheaper, and easier to distribute than traditional models.

The impact? This could make health care more inclusi…

No tech is just about the tech. True adoption — or lack thereof — is often about issues of culture, which is why I’m thrilled to speak to today’s guest: Adam Bai, who’s an anthropologist as well as t…

How will AI impact education?

One university isn't passively waiting to see how the dust settles, but is instead aggressively incorporating AI into its curriculum. That would be American University's …

Boston Dynamics just unveiled their new robot, "Atlas." The AI space was floored. Some were excited, some startled, some terrified, all fascinated.

Whether we like it or not, thanks to the rapid accel…

We've all heard "AI will transform the world!!!"

But how are AI experts *actually* using AI now, today, for reals, in their day-to-day lives?

I've collected some wisdom and insights from prior guests o…

Dmitry Shaprio has been in the space for decades; he was a product lead at Google and the CTO of MySpace. 

Now he's the CEO of MindStudio, a company that helps companies create custom apps to integrat…

At a recent hackathon, Ian Laffey was part of a team that designed, created, 3D-printed, and assembled a drone in 24 hours... and for under $500.

The drone's breakthrough: It doesn't need a signal for…

There are many AI doomsdayers.

Kevin Surace is not one of them.

Kevin has been in a pioneer in the AI space since the 1990s, went he helped develop the tech that would directly influence Siri and Alexa…

If you need to get a puppy, what's the best way to go about it?

Harnessing AI,  of course.

I recently decided to get a puppy. I didn't know what to get or how to do it. (I've never owned a dog.)

So I ma…

AI might change the world. But it can it help change you? 

You could argue that AI coaching, fundamentally, might be the most important impact of the entire tech. In today’s world, professional career…

If AI gets super intelligent and super powerful, will it be benevolent? Or will it want to crush us like ants?

Perhaps they’ll be benevolent. Maybe they’ll be “aligned” with our interests. But if not?…

The cover of this week’s TIME Magazine has a bold headline: “The First AI War.” The subtitle: “Palantir and other tech giants are building the future of battle in Ukraine.”

The writer of this cover st…

Confession: I don't really care about cars. But I *love* the idea of self-driving cars.

So what's the status of this idea? There's now a fleet of self-driving cars in San Francisco.  How good are they…

Eric Siegel is a longtime expert on machine learning, and is the author of the new book "The AI Playbook: Mastering the Rare Art of Machine Learning Deployment."

Eric has been a professor at Columbia …