In the Star Trek Voyager episode 'Critical Care', the Doctor – well, actually, the mobile emitter that produces him as a hologram – is stolen and sold to an alien hospital ship. There, he discovers that the complex computer algorithm that deter

The recommendation algorithm

Dec 3rd, 2019 40m 9s

My music streaming service works a whole lot better than it used to.There's a reason for that, and it's the decisive tilt that Apple made a few months ago towards algorithmic playlists on Apple Music. Having branded itself on the virtues of hu

Ben Reid

Oct 13th, 2019 24m 39s

Here's a thing you probably didn't know: if you've sought ACC cover in the past couple of years, your claim was very likely processed by artificial intelligence.More precisely, your likelihood of cover was assessed by an algorithm trained on a

Ana Arriola

Sep 12th, 2019 24m 51s

Ana Arriola's talk at the recent Future of the Future seminar – about intersectionality, surveillance capitalism and the risks of AI – might not have been the stuff of your Dad's (or Steve Ballmer's) Microsoft, but it was actually a great refle

Te Aroha Grace explains the Iwi Algorithm

Aug 20th, 2019 23m 21s

At this year's AI conference in Auckland the way technological developments would affect law, business, politics, and our everyday lives was at the forefront of the conversation. But then the conference moved into an entirely new space - the sp

Actually Interesting: machines can make decisions, but can it understand why?

Jul 31st, 2019 39m 6s

In the second episode of Actually Interesting, The Spinoff’s new monthly podcast exploring the effect AI has on our lives, Russell Brown explores how aware machines really are with Aware Group's head data Scientist Kane O'Donnell.Learn more ab

"Artificial Intelligence" it’s already affecting our lives

Jul 2nd, 2019 40m 24s

When you hear the words "Artificial Intelligence" your mind might turn to science fiction – a vast army of robots with aspirations to rule over us – but we already experience AI in our lives every day. When Netflix recommends something we might

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