Tech entrepreneur Kevin Rose is relaunching Digg, the Reddit-like platform he founded in 2004. He’s doing it with an unlikely partner: Reddit co-founder and former rival Alexis Ohanian. In a moment when bots and AI-generated content are flooding the internet, leading to more division and confusion, they say their goal is to make social media human again. Kev ... Show More
Jul 15
How Fake Videos Are Adding to the Fog of War
In June, violence escalated between Israel and Iran. Footage from this conflict traveled quickly, with images and videos spreading online. The problem is that not all this footage was real. Hany Farid, a professor at UC Berkeley and the Chief Science Officer at GetReal, explains ... Show More
30m 26s
Jul 8
Producing Hit Songs in the Age of AI
AI is poised to transform the way music gets written, recorded, and produced. And it’s possible that you’ve already heard AI-generated music without even knowing it. What does this mean for the future of the music industry? Harvey Mason Jr., CEO of the Recording Academy and the G ... Show More
30m 40s
Jul 1
AI Is Changing the Game for Heart Disease Diagnosis
For doctors, diagnosing diseases early is a huge priority. New AI systems can analyze medical tests and images to help diagnose patients faster and more accurately, potentially picking up on patterns or issues that doctors can’t. Dr. Pierre Elias, NewYork-Presbyterian’s Medical D ... Show More
33m 36s
Jul 2023
Tech and AI: 7. Where is AI working already?
Artificial Intelligence is already here. It's being used in products and services you already use, and is working behind the scenes in medicine, transportation, robotics, science, education, the military, surveillance, finance , agriculture, entertainment, retail, customer servic ... Show More
14m 24s
Mar 2023
Humans vs. Machines with Gary Marcus
From the producers of The World as You’ll Know It, a new series about the perils and promise of artificial intelligence with cognitive scientist, Gary Marcus. For all the progress in artificial intelligence over the last 70 years — computers can now beat people at chess and Go, d ... Show More
3m 33s
Mar 2021
Does Technology Rule Our Lives?
Ben Pring, name one of the top tech thinkers to watch in 2020 by Thinkers 50, discusses his book "Monster" and how technology rules our jobs, lives, and future. Ben is part of the Labor and Work Life program at Harvard Law School. How can we take back control of technology so it ... Show More
26m 16s