AI & Machine Learning

The podcast’s next chapter begins this week.

Accruing income at home from land and power abroad has an old name: empire

A.I. valuations, Trump’s money train and how “family values” got co-opted all over again.

In tonight’s edition: Africa’s richest man breaks ground on a $16 billion oil refinery in Kenya. Also, at universities across Cameroon, programming is overshadowed with uncertainty amidst an indefinite strike by lecturers. Plus we speak to Ethiopian-born computer scientist and pioneering AI ethicist Timnit Gebru as she is honoured with the Swedish Right Livelihood Award

Behold the paragons of rank incompetence.

Clairity Breast, an A.I. tool that can predict five-year risk of developing breast cancer, is rolling out nationwide. Here’s what experts want you to know.

Nick Bostrom is no longer worried about the apocalypse. Now he’s worried about utopia.

Patients and providers are processing their uncertainty in real time.

Jason Jones, the reclusive game designer behind “Halo,” wrote a novel about killer robots. Now the story is the basis for an ambitious new entertainment company.

If we want to figure out the proper way to control A.I. models, we need to recognize what they really are.