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
In Machines We Trust: Harvesting the future with AI and satellites
AI is used in farming in some ways you might not expect, like for tracking the health of crops—from space. We travel from test farms to labs in the second installment of our series on agriculture, AI,...
28 Des 202221min
In Machines We Trust: The future of farming lies in space
AI is used in agriculture to precisely target weeds and optimize irrigation practices. It’s also being used in ways you might not expect, like for tracking the health of cow pastures—from space. We tr...
21 Des 202217min
In Machines We Trust: Optimizing for convenience
We’re in the middle of another major disruption in retail—one that’s been accelerated by the pandemic, and looks to take the convenience of e-commerce and apply it to physical environments. In this ep...
14 Des 202215min
In Machines We Trust: When Your Face is Your Ticket (Encore)
Face mapping and other tracking systems are changing the sports experience in the stands and on the court. In part-three of this latest series on facial recognition, Jennifer Strong and the team at MI...
7 Des 202221min
In Machines We Trust: How pricing algorithms learn to collude (Update)
Algorithms now determine how much things cost. It’s called dynamic pricing and it adjusts according to current market conditions in order to increase profits. The rise of ecommerce has propelled prici...
30 Nov 202225min
