In Machines We Trust: The AI of the beholder (Encore)
Computers are ranking the way people look—and the results are influencing the things we do, the posts we see, and the way we think. Ideas about what constitutes “beauty” are complex, subjective, and b...
20 Jan 202222min
In Machines We Trust: What’s behind a smile (Encore)
Researchers have spent years trying to crack the mystery of how we express our feelings. Pioneers in the field of emotion detection will tell you the problem is far from solved. But that hasn’t stoppe...
5 Jan 202224min
In Machines We Trust: Attention shoppers, you’re being tracked (Update)
Cameras in stores aren’t anything new—but these days there are AI brains behind the electric eyes. In some stores, sophisticated systems are tracking customers in almost every imaginable way, from rec...
23 Des 202127min
In Machines We Trust: How AI is giving a woman back her voice
Voice technology is one of the biggest trends in the healthcare space. We look at how it might help care providers and patients, from a woman who is losing her speech, to documenting healthcare record...
8 Des 202122min
In Machines We Trust: What is AI? We made this to help.
Defining what is, or isn’t artificial intelligence can be tricky (or tough). So much so, even the experts get it wrong sometimes. That’s why MIT Technology Review’s Senior AI Editor Karen Hao created ...
24 Nov 20217min
In Machines We Trust: I Was There When... Facebook put profit over safety
In this episode, we meet Sophie Zhang—a former data scientist at Facebook. Before she was fired, she had become consumed by the task of finding and taking down fake accounts that were being used to sw...
10 Nov 202114min
In Machines We Trust: How pricing algorithms learn to collude
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...
27 Okt 202125min
In Machines We Trust: I Was There When... Face recognition was commercialized
I Was There When is an oral history project that's part of the In Machines We Trust podcast. It features stories of how breakthroughs in artificial intelligence and computing happened, as told by the ...
13 Okt 202113min
