In Machines We Trust: AI Reads Human Emotions. Should It?
AI can read your emotional response to advertising and your facial expressions in a job interview. But if it can already do all this, what happens next? In part two of a series on emotion AI, Jennifer...
7 Okt 202024min
In Machines We Trust: What’s Behind a Smile
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...
23 Sep 202027min
In Machines We Trust: AI in the Driver’s Seat
Automated driving is advancing all the time, but there’s still a critical missing ingredient: trust. Host Jennifer Strong meets engineers building a new language of communication between automated veh...
9 Sep 202023min
In Machines We Trust: Down and Dirty with Covid Genes
What weird bugs did you pick up last time you rode a subway train? A global network of scientists mapping the DNA of urban microbes and using AI to look for patterns pivots to tracking covid-19. Join ...
26 Aug 202022min
In Machines We Trust: When an Algorithm Gets It Wrong
What happens when an algorithm gets it wrong? In the first of a four-part series on face recognition, Jennifer Strong and the team at MIT Technology Review explore the arrest of a man who was falsely ...
12 Aug 202019min
In Machines We Trust: Land of a Billion Faces
Clearview AI has built one of the most comprehensive databases of people’s faces in the world. Your picture is probably in there (our host Jennifer Strong’s was). In the second of a four-part series o...
12 Aug 202020min
In Machines We Trust: What Happens in Vegas… Is Captured on Camera
The use of facial recognition by police has come under a lot of scrutiny. In part-three of our series, host Jennifer Strong takes you to Sin City, which actually has one of America’s most buttoned-up ...
12 Aug 202023min
In Machines We Trust: Who Owns Your Face?
Police have a history of using face recognition to arrest protestors—something not lost on activists since the death of George Floyd. In the last of a four-part series on facial recognition, host Jenn...
12 Aug 202020min
