AI-Curious with Jeff Wilser

Can AI make you rich? Or, more to the point, can AI make investment banks, hedge funds, and financial services companies even richer?

Not so fast...

Vasagi Kothandapani is an expert in helping financia…

As our quick appetizer, a quick dispatch from the Sundance Film Festival, where AI was seemingly *everywhere*.

For our entrée, we speak with Hilke Schellmann, author of the new book "The Algorithm: Ho…

What are the most important stories in AI right now? Today we chat with Sharon Goldman, Senior Writer at Venture Beat, who covers all things artificial intelligence.

Sharon and I get into:

Why the race…

We all know AI has tons of potential, but how do you *actually* use ChatGPT in your daily life?

Sam Stevens is the cofounder of Catalist AI, an AI-powered project management assistant. She’s also the …

As deep fakes get easier and the truth gets murkier, how will AI impact the 2024 election?

We’re joined by election expert David Becker, the founder and Executive Director of the non-partisan and non-…

Where is AI headed next year?

I curated some of my favorite AI predictions -- and give a few of my own -- from some of the year-end AI roundups and prediction articles.

We cover deep fakes, further AI …

So what did we learn about AI in 2023? What are the most important trends?

To make sense of this wild new space, I’m joined by tech strategist and AI consultant George Kamide, who’s also the co-host o…

You get a FaceTime from a loved one. They're in trouble. Big trouble.  Their life is in danger. They need you to Venmo you $, they have no choice.

Except...it's not them you're FaceTiming with, it's a…

Now it's time for the flip side of AI.

What could go wrong?

Daniel Colson is the Executive Director of The AI Policy Institute, which has a mission of helping policy-makers create smart regulation. The…

Send in the clones. They're here. 

Don Bosco is the founder and CEO of BHuman, a start-up that is, well.... creating human clones. For real! Don has cloned himself and he can easily clone you. (Digita…

When the AI hype began in earnest, "marketing and advertising" was one of the industries seen as most likely to be disrupted. 

This is already happening. Enter Deniz Ozgur, partner at AI marketing fir…

Some of the best use cases of AI are when we think of it not as Artificial Intelligence, but "Augmented Intelligence."

That's what Bryan Murphy, CEO of Smartling, is effectively doing: Using AI to enh…

The most important, wide-reaching, and profound use case for AI might just be drug discovery. Normally it takes YEARS for scientists to develop drugs; AI can slash the timeline.

Kennedy Schaal is the …

By now you've heard the question, "Can AI create art?"

Mario Klingemann had a more provocative question: "Can an AI machine be an artist?"

So Mario set out to do just that. He created an ingenious AI-p…

Will AI kill the newsroom? Possibly. But today’s guest has a different goal. Winston Chen, the co-founder of Nano Media, is using AI to try and *save* the newsroom, or at least to save local newsroom…

For many, the first "gateway drug" for generative AI is text-to-image, using tools like DALL-E and Midjourney to instantly flex your creative muscles.

Heather Cooper is a master of AI visual art and s…

What should be the role of AI in education?  Cheating is an obvious concern. But can AI be used to accelerate, personalize, and even empower education? 

That's the path taken by All Star Code, a non-p…

If AI becomes conscious, you could argue this is the most important inflection point in the history of humanity.

So how will we know if and when that happens?

Professor Grace Lindsay, a neuroscientist,…

If AI becomes sentient, what are the moral, ethical, and legal implications?
 
This is a tricky question with many, many, *many* follow-up questions. So here to help is philosopher Jeff Sebo -- a profe…

You can now use AI to create a digital clone, or "digital twin" of yourself or loved one or anyone, really. Why would you do this? What's the benefit? And why do some digital twin enthusiasts view th…