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Wierd AI

Adrian Spataru, Bohdan Andrusyakwierd.ai
The podcast for uncommon weird Artificial Intelligence applications and news.
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Saving Elephants with AI

Poaching is a multi-billion dollar illegal industry, and AI is being used to combat it. Techniques such as infrared cameras, game theory, sound analysis, reinforcement learning, drones, and 3D printers are being employed to identify and track animals, detect poachers, disrupt the poaching market, and preserve wildlife. Other solutions such as trap cameras and existing datasets are being used to help with the preservation of wildlife and stop poaching. This episode was recorded 2 weeks before the...

Mar 16, 202324 minEp. 16

AI - Friend & Companion

Can AI be our Friend? In this episode, we talk how AI is used as a companion. We talk about the good, bad and ugly of AI from healthcare to personal development. References: https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.05382 https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.07404 https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.08261 https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.04913 https://replika.ai/ https://www.askui.com/ Twitter Adrian https://twitter.com/adrian_spataru Linkedin Adrain : https://www.linkedin.com/in/spataru Linkedin Bohdan : https://www.linkedin.com/in/b...

Dec 24, 202127 minEp. 15

AI & Modern Warfare

Over the last few years, military funding for artificial intelligence has increased steadily. In this podcast, we talk about current applications of AI in modern warfare, as well as the current state of affairs with AI in the military. References: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/347631413_Artificial_Intelligence_Aided_Electronic_Warfare_Systems-Recent_Trends_and_Evolving_Applications https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR3100/RR3139-1/RAND_RR3139-1.pdf https://ww...

Nov 22, 202135 minEp. 14

AI & Agriculture

Milk? Tomatoes? In this episode, we talk how AI help us in agriculture. From seed generation to harvesting and more in this episode. Strawberry Picker: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/rob.21889 Survey on CV and Agriculture https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.11391v1.pdf Landscape Vegetation https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.03743v1.pdf Detecting weeds froms crops https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.05750v1.pdf WeedNet https://arxiv.org/pdf/1709.03329v1.pdf Find new Corn Species: DeepCorn https://arxiv.o...

Jun 19, 202124 minEp. 13

AI - Psychology & Mental Health

How can AI help our mental health? Can it identify depression better than humans? What is the impact of current algorithm on our health? We answer these questions and more in this episode. Great Ted talk on how to build embedding of psychiatrist session https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkTvw3usMw4 Papers Overview of articles analysing chatbots for helping with mental health Depression Detection for Social Media http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2523/paper26.pdf Face Detection Emotions (and detecting fake em...

Jun 05, 202123 minEp. 12

AI - The Meme Lord

Can AI create memes? Be funny? In this episode, we explore the dank world of AI generated content. GPT-3 Actually useful for explaining jokes. https://medium.com/ml-everything/using-gpt-3-to-explain-jokes-2001a5aefb68 Actually Jokes https://www.gwern.net/GPT-3#navy-seal-copypasta Papers https://github.com/schesa/ai-memes https://ai.facebook.com/blog/hateful-memes-challenge-and-data-set/ https://arxiv.org/pdf/1806.04510.pdf Questions? Adrian Spataru Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/spataru/ ...

May 22, 202117 minEp. 11

AI & Regulation

Should AI be left alone by legal scrutiny? In this episode, we talk about the regulatory frameworks in the USA & EU regarding Artificial Intelligence, what technologies are banned and how the future (from the legal perspective) will look like. References: EU AI Regulations: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_21_1682 USA AI Regulations: https://www.bakermckenzie.com/-/media/files/people/chae-yoon/rail-us-ai-regulation-guide.pdf Questions? Adrian Spataru Linkedin: https:/...

May 08, 202120 minEp. 10

AI - The Politician of the future

Can AI lead our country? In this episode, we explore how AI is helping politicians getting elected, create policies and make our governments more efficient. References The AI Economist:Improving Equality and Productivity with AI-Driven Tax Policies https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.13332.pdf Examples of data-driven policies https://www.liberalforum.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/PUBLICATION_AI-in-e-governance.pdf Microsoft Report on AI and the public sector https://info.microsoft.com/rs/157-GQE-382/imag...

Apr 20, 202126 minEp. 9

AI in Cooking

What are we eating today? A questions which we ask our self everyday. What if AI can help us answer this questions. We will explore cooking robots, nutrition detection and more. References Samsung Robot Chef - https://www.techradar.com/news/samsungs-bot-chef-made-me-a-salad-at-ces-2020-and-i-ate-it Towards Automatic Nutritional Understanding of Generic Food - https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.03375 Formation of Social Ties Influences Food Choice - https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.08755 Uncovering the nutriti...

Apr 04, 202125 minEp. 8

AI - The Criminal of the Future

AI is a just a tool. It can be used for good or evil. Today, we will talk about the later and the different ways criminals are using AI for profit. References https://www.europol.europa.eu/sites/default/files/documents/malicious_uses_and_abuses_of_artificial_intelligence_europol.pdf https://crimesciencejournal.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/s40163-020-00123-8.pdf Questions? Adrian Spataru Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/spataru/ Bohdan Andrusyak Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/b...

Mar 14, 202127 minEp. 7

AI in Fashion & Clothing

From designing clothes to selling them online. We talk how AI is currently changing the Fashion Industry & the ethical implications. Adrian Spataru Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/spataru/ Bohdan Andrusyak Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bandrusyak/ References Startups https://www.reactivereality.com/ https://www.detego.com/ https://datagrid.co.jp/en/ www.holition.com www.intelistyle.com www.snap.vision www.genostyle.com https://www.stitchfix.com/ https://www.zalando.at/ Papers h...

Feb 27, 202128 minEp. 6

AI in Teaching & Learning

References Procrastinating Students: https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.00089 Evaluating Teachers: https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.01633 Video Summarization of online classes: https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.06328 Knowledge tracing and performance prediction https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.12218 Improving performance of students: https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.01187 Do online courses provide good education https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.06994 Gamification and Education: https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.05473 Our Data Science Course...

Feb 12, 202125 minEp. 5

AI in Football & Sports + Interview with Strykerlabs

#References https://strykerlabs.io/ What AI can do for Football, and What Football can do for AI - Liverpool Research (enough for this podcast..quite dense) https://arxiv.org/pdf/2011.09192v1.pdf Evaluating Soccer Player: from Live Camera to Deep Reinforcement Learning https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.05388v1 TrackNet: A Deep Learning Network for Tracking High-speed and Tiny Objects in Sports Applications https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.03698v1 SoccerNet-v2 : A Dataset and Benchmarks for Holistic Understan...

Feb 01, 202126 minEp. 4

AI in Music Production & Distribution

Adrian's Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/spataru/ Bohdan's Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bandrusyak References: https://heartofnoise.com/products/galaxynth/ https://nsynthsuper.withgoogle.com/ https://ailabs.tw/human-interaction/compound-word-transformer-generate-pop-piano-music-of-full-song-length/ https://ailabs.tw/human-interaction/guitar-transformer-and-jazz-transformer/ https://openai.com/blog/jukebox/ https://magenta.tensorflow.org/studio https://magenta.tensorflow.org/onsets...

Jan 18, 202128 minEp. 3

AI in Video Games & Bots

References The AI of Alien Isolation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nt1XmiDwxhY AlphaGo: https://deepmind.com/research/case-studies/alphago-the-story-so-far AlphaMu/AlphaZero Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.01815 OpenAI Hide & Seek: https://openai.com/blog/emergent-tool-use/ Game Balancing Software: https://machinations.io/ Robust Motion In-betweening: https://static-wordpress.akamaized.net/montreal.ubisoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/09155337/RobustMotionInbetweening.pdf Deep Reinfor...

Jan 07, 202132 minEp. 2

How AI is used in Anime & Manga

With a $19 billion market cap, the Anime industry can benefit from machine learning methods. We will talk about current methods and the future of the industry as a whole.

Dec 29, 202024 minEp. 1
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