In Machines We Trust: AI enters the dogfight
Late last year the US Department of Defense successfully ran a dozen flight tests in which AI agents piloted an experimental fighter jet. We explore the program that got it there and what this milesto...
22 Feb 202320min
In Machines We Trust: Aging with robots
A look at how artificial intelligence is starting to be used to support the elderly. We Meet: Dor Skuler, Intuition Robotics Greg Olsen, New York State Office for the Aging Marie Defrancesco Credits...
15 Feb 202322min
In Machines We Trust: The AI in the newsroom
We asked ChatGPT to summarize this episode and this is what it wrote: "In the episode, the host discussed the increasing use of AI language models like ChatGPT in newsrooms. The host explained that Ch...
8 Feb 202318min
In Machines We Trust: Automating Agriculture (Live)
We're joined on stage by two startup founders working to bring automation to smaller scale farms. A live conversation from Lisbon, Portugal taped at one of the world's largest tech conferences, Web Su...
1 Feb 202319min
In Machines We Trust: House training a robot
A Roomba recorded a woman on the toilet. How did screenshots end up on Facebook? This episode we go behind the scenes of an investigation that uncovered how sensitive photos taken by an AI powered vac...
25 Jan 202316min
In Machines We Trust: How to test a satellite (Audio Postcard)
Our reporting about farming, AI and satellites turned into three episodes of this podcast, which you can find linked here in the show notes, and as part of this reporting we also toured a satellite fa...
18 Jan 202314min
In Machines We Trust: Exploring AI's evolution (Live)
A panel of luminaries join us live on stage at MIT Technology Review’s flagship conference, EmTech MIT, and discuss the path forward for AI research. We Meet: Will Douglas Heaven, Senior Editor of AI...
11 Jan 202323min
In Machines We Trust: How games teach AI to learn for itself (Update)
From chess to Jeopardy to e-sports, AI is increasingly beating humans at their own games. But that was never the ultimate goal. In this episode we dig into the symbiotic relationship between games and...
4 Jan 202327min
