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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 - Introduction1:16 - Keeping found things found3:44 - Storing information 5:20 - Using folders8:44 - New ways of searching13:38 - Embodied information and search16:20 - Value of memorization 20:20 - Personal AI assistants 30:20 - Language and thought 35:30 - Thriving in Time42:44 - Aging gracefully 55:16 - Contract between generations1:02:44 - What to look forward to

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 - Introduction1:02 - History of Opera4:02 - Current technics in Opera 6:02 - Evolution in the arts8:16 - Creating new works12:12 - TheTale of the Great Computing Machine17:06 - Machines in performative arts 26:04 - Anthropomorphism 29:02 - AI art39:09 - The artistic experience 40:45 - Choreography 43:35 - The modern experience 48:47 - New operas53:00 - Artists and Robots1:01:02 - Robot performers 1:07:56 - Artistic freedom 1:10:48 - Humanoid robots 1:13:18 - Robots enjoying art1:15:00 - Future works 

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 AI56:15 - Transduction 1:00:20 - Science & pseudo science1:04:58 - Multimodality1:10:18 - Humans & AI 1:27:25 - Brailletouch 1:42:46 - Quality of life1:47:46 - Accessibility 1:51:00 - Risk assessment 2:00:50 - AI in medicin 2:03:08 - Human influence 2:07:46 - AGI

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 - Introduction0:49 - AI in health11:40 - AI models30:00 - New techniques45:20 - Licensing55:00 - Data collectionReach out to me:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/avid_fayaz/X: https://twitter.com/AvidFayazLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/avid-fayaz-98825a252/

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 - Introduction0:47 - Design principles4:10 - Good design11:00 - AI in design16:50 - Training AI design models19:30 - Data availability23:50 - Sustainability & AI 34:34 - Access to AI43:46 - AI arms race47:20 - Supervision over AI50:00 - AI & human bias52:16 - Timeline for AI55:06 - Future of work58:30 - Global equality & AI1:05:30 - MEMS1:09:32 - MEMS in space1:11:20 - Personal hopes and concerns Video link to the podcast:https://www.youtube.com/@theaipodWrite to me on:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/avid_fayaz/X: https://twitter.com/AvidFayazLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/avid-fayaz-98825a252/

Hedvig Kjellström is a Professor in the Division of Robotics, Perception and Learning, KTH, and also affiliated with Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Silo AI, Swedish e-Science Research Centre, and Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Germany. The general theme of her research is the study of methods for enabling artificial agents to interpret human and animal behavior. These studies have been applied in the study of human aesthetic bodily expressions such as in music and dance, modeling and interpreting human communicative behavior, and the understanding of animal behavior and experiences.Chapters:0:00 - Introduction0:40 - AI-Human interaction11:00 - Study of humans15:10 - Developing AI models19:08 - Creativity and AI23:20 - AI & understanding28:36 - Thought without language37:00 - Non-human Intelligence41:00 - Projecting feelings on AI46:18 - Regulations51:56 - Open source models54:34 - Watermarking55:34 - Hopes & concerns59:20 - AGI and embodied models1:01:10 - Future of jobsVideo link to the podcast:https://www.youtube.com/@theaipodWrite to me on:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/avid_fayaz/X: https://twitter.com/AvidFayazLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/avid-fayaz-98825a252/

Per Andersson is a professor at Stockholm School of Economic. His research focuses on the organisational effects of implementation of AI and its different applications in businesses and government organisations. Chapters:0:00 - Introduction0:56 - AI in organisations2:05 - AI & Digitalisation 5:18 - Different uses 6:56 - Business applications12:06 - Accessibility to AI16:48 - Finding AI solutions20:00 - Customer obsession24:20 - Ethics, transparency & sustainability32:14 - Regulations33:38 - Public sentiment 37:46 - Education on AI39:20 - Front-end uses42:06 - Large and small companies44:06 - Traditional businesses vs Startups48:48 - Global equality54:48 - Future of jobs57:36 - Business management59:48 - AGI1:05:06 - Future of AISocial:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/avid_fayaz/Twitter: https://twitter.com/AvidFayazLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/avid-fayaz-98825a252/

Clàudia Figueras is a researcher and doctoral student at the Department of Computer and Systems Sciences (DSV) at Stockholm University. Through her research, she works with studying how practitioners in AI apply ethics in their work.Link to the YouTube version of the Podcast:https://www.youtube.com/@theaipodSocial:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/avid_fayaz/Twitter: https://twitter.com/AvidFayaz