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Voices in AI – Episode 99 – A Conversation with Patrick Surry

[voices_in_ai_byline] About this Episode On this Episode of Voices in AI Bryon speaks with Patrick Surry of Hopper on the nature of intelligence and the path that our relationship with AI is taking. Listen to this episode or read the full transcript at www.VoicesinAI.com Transcript Excerpt Byron Reese: This is Voices in AI , brought to you by GigaOm. I’m Byron Reese. Today my guest is Patrick Surry. He is the Chief Data Scientist at Hopper. He holds a PhD in math and statistics from the University of Edinburgh. Welcome to the show, Patrick. Patrick Surry: It’s great to be here. I like to start our journey off with the same question for most guests, which is: What is artificial intelligence? Specifically, why is it artificial? That’s a really interesting question. I think there’s a bunch of different takes you get from different people about that. I guess the way I think about it [is] in a pragmatic sense of trying to get computers to mimic the way that humans think about probl

Xbox All Access is Finally Coming to the UK

Xbox All Access is coming to the UK,  Microsoft announced this morning . Players can spread out the cost of a console, a Game Pass Ultimate and Xbox Live with discounted monthly payments over two years. The base bundle starts at $19.99 (UK price TBC), and there will be the option to upgrade your Xbox All Access Xbox One X to the Project Scarlett when it launches late 2020. from gizmodo http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2019/10/xbox-all-access-is-finally-coming-to-the-uk/

Voices in Innovation – Andrew Brust Interviews Sean Knapp of Ascend.IO

[audio_player title=”Voices in Innovation Andrew Brust Interviews Sean Knapp” audio=”https://voices-in-innovation.s3.amazonaws.com/001-ViI-(00-32-06)-AB-Ascend.mp3″] Guest Sean Knapp is the founder and CEO of Ascend.io. Prior to Ascend.io, Sean was a co-founder, CTO, and Chief Product Officer at Ooyala. At Ooyala Sean played key roles in raising $120M, scaling the company to 500 employees, Ooyala’s $410M acquisition, as well as Ooyala’s subsequent acquisitions of Videoplaza and Nativ. He oversaw all Product, Engineering and Solutions, as well as well as defined Ooyala’s product vision for their award-winning analytics and video platform solutions. Before founding Ooyala, Sean worked at Google where he was the technical lead for Google’s legendary Web Search Frontend team, helping that team increase Google revenues by over $1B. Sean has both B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from Stanford University. Transcript Andrew Brust: All right, welcome to this GigaOm podcast. This is

Voices in AI – Episode 98 – A Conversation with Jerome Glenn

[voices_in_ai_byline] About this Episode On this Episode of Voices in AI Byron speaks with futurist and CEO of the Millennium Project Jerome Glenn about the direction and perception of AI as well as the driving philosophical questions behind it. Listen to this episode or read the full transcript at www.VoicesinAI.com Transcript Excerpt Byron Reese: This is Voices in AI brought to you by GigaOm, and I’m Byron Reese. Today my guest is Jerome Glenn. He has for 23 years been the Director and CEO of the Millennium Project. It’s a global proprietary think tank with 63 nodes around the world, producing the annual State of the Future since 1997, and it’s a whole lot more than that as well. I think we’re going to have a great half hour. Welcome to the show, Jerome. Jerome Glenn: Thank you. It’s nice to be here. Well I don’t know that I gave you the full and proper introduction to the Millennium Project, which I’m sure many of my listeners are familiar with, but just bring us all up to d