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William Jones: Aging, Technology, and Keeping Found Things Found

William Jones is a Research Associate Professor Emeritus in the Information School at the University of Washington. He continues to work on the challenges of “Keeping Found Things Found” both as a research topic and in his own life. Currently he has been working on the relationships between information, knowledge and successful aging. William has published in the areas of personal information management (PIM), human-computer interaction, information retrieval (search), and human cognition/memory. He wrote the book Keeping Found Things Found: The Study and Practice of Personal Information Management and, more recently, the three-part series, on the The Future of Personal Information. He is lead editor on a book scheduled for publication in 2025 by Cambridge Press. Chapters: 0:00 - Introduction 1:16 - Keeping found things found 3:44 - Storing information 5:20 - Using folders 8:44 - New ways of searching 13:38 - Embodied information and search 16:20 - Value of memorization 20:20 - Personal AI assistants 30:20 - Language and thought 35:30 - Thriving in Time 42:44 - Aging gracefully 55:16 - Contract between generations 1:02:44 - What to look forward to ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

#11 Åsa Unander-Scharin: Opera, dance & robotics

Åsa Unander-Scharin is a professor of music performance at Luleå university of technology. Her works is with the study of the intersection between opera, dance, music, interactive technology and robotics.  Her artistic work started in 1998 when she created the first choreography for an industrial robot, with many acclaimed works to follow. She has choreographed the Nobel Banquette and two dance films Elevation and Artificial Body Voices produced by the Swedish Television. Her most recent works include two experimental operas Callas:Medea for the Croatian National Opera and The Tale of the Great Computing Machine commissioned by the KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Chapters: 0:00 - Introduction 1:02 - History of Opera 4:02 - Current technics in Opera  6:02 - Evolution in the arts 8:16 - Creating new works 12:12 - TheTale of the Great Computing Machine 17:06 - Machines in performative arts  26:04 - Anthropomorphism  29:02 - AI art 39:09 - The artistic experience  40:45 - Choreography  43:35 - The modern experience  48:47 - New operas 53:00 - Artists and Robots 1:01:02 - Robot performers  1:07:56 - Artistic freedom  1:10:48 - Humanoid robots  1:13:18 - Robots enjoying art 1:15:00 - Future works  ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

#10 Mario Romero: Visualisation & AI

Mario Romero is an Associate Professor in Visualisation at the Department of Computational Science and Technology at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at KTH. He is the national technical manager and local node coordinator of the Swedish Research Council National Research Infrastructure in Visualisation InfraVis. He is also a technical co-founder of BrailleTouch, a smartphone keyboard for blind users, and Anymaker, a tablet application for sketching in 3D. Chapters: 0:00 - Introduction 1:52 - Visualisation & AI 7:46 - Visualising complex systems 14:28 - Understanding & recognition 17:50 - Understanding in LLMs 25:48 - Respecting AI models 32:20 - Humanoid robots 36:20 - Visualising AI models 46:30 - Real cost of AI 50:36 - Educating about AI 56:15 - Transduction 1:00:20 - Science & pseudo science 1:04:58 - Multimodality 1:10:18 - Humans & AI 1:27:25 - Brailletouch 1:42:46 - Quality of life 1:47:46 - Accessibility 1:51:00 - Risk assessment 2:00:50 - AI in medicin 2:03:08 - Human influence 2:07:46 - AGI ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

#9 Magnus Boman: AI and Health

Professor Magnus Boman is the lead of AI and health at Department of Medicine, Solna, Division of Clinical Epidemiology at the Karolinska Instituted. His research spans in a variety of subjects such as the use cases of AI for precision medicine and multimodal prediction and prevention, assisting humans learn over time for cross-domain applications and saving and sharing those learned structures, how AI should take on energy-efficient forms that address the von Neumann bottleneck, and how it can can help translate the output from quantum sensors into meaningful and actionable information. Chapters: 0:00 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDokI_jYwGg&t=0s] - Introduction 0:49 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDokI_jYwGg&t=49s] - AI in health 11:40 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDokI_jYwGg&t=700s] - AI models 30:00 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDokI_jYwGg&t=1800s] - New techniques 45:20 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDokI_jYwGg&t=2720s] - Licensing 55:00 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDokI_jYwGg&t=3300s] - Data collection Reach out to me: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/avid_fayaz/ X: https://twitter.com/AvidFayaz LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/avid-fayaz-98825a252/ ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

#8 Haluk Akay: Design, Sustainability, and AI

Haluk Akay is a postdoc at KTH Royal Institute of technology working with AI and design principles to utilise engineering knowledge in decision making in sustainable manufacturing. He has received his phd in mechanical engineering from MIT. He has also conducted research in microelectronic mechanical systems, MEMS, and their use cases. The AI Pod is supported by KTH Innovation. Chapters: 0:00 - Introduction 0:47 - Design principles 4:10 - Good design 11:00 - AI in design 16:50 - Training AI design models 19:30 - Data availability 23:50 - Sustainability & AI 34:34 - Access to AI 43:46 - AI arms race 47:20 - Supervision over AI 50:00 - AI & human bias 52:16 - Timeline for AI 55:06 - Future of work 58:30 - Global equality & AI 1:05:30 - MEMS 1:09:32 - MEMS in space 1:11:20 - Personal hopes and concerns Video link to the podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@theaipod Write to me on: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/avid_fayaz/ X: https://twitter.com/AvidFayaz LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/avid-fayaz-98825a252/ ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.