The O'Reilly Radar Podcast: The maturity of AI in enterprise, bridging the AI gaps, and what the U.S. can do with $4 trillion.This week, I sit down with Aman Naimat, senior vice president of technology at Demandbase, and co-founder and CTO of S

AI adoption at the atomic level of jobs and work

Mar 9th, 2017 23m 2s

O'Reilly Radar Podcast: David Beyer on AI adoption challenges, the complexities of getting an AI ROI, and the dangers of hype.This week, I sit down with David Beyer, an investor with Amplify Partners. We talk about machine learning and artifici

Sara Watson on optimizing personalized experiences

Feb 23rd, 2017 17m 35s

The O'Reilly Radar Podcast: Turning personalization into a two-way conversation.In this week's Radar Podcast, O’Reilly’s Mac Slocum chats with Sara Watson, a technology critic and writer in residence at Digital Asia Hub. Watson is also a resear

Tom Davenport on mitigating AI's impact on jobs and business

Feb 9th, 2017 17m 23s

The O'Reilly Radar Podcast: The value humans bring to AI, guaranteed job programs, and the lack of AI productivity.This week, I sit down with Tom Davenport. Davenport is a professor of Information Technology and Management at Babson College, th

Genevieve Bell on moving from human-computer interactions to human-computer relationships

Jan 26th, 2017 22m 31s

The O’Reilly Radar Podcast: AI on the hype curve, imagining nurturing technology, and gaps in the AI conversation.This week, I sit down with anthropologist, futurist, Intel Fellow, and director of interaction and experience research at Intel, G

Pagan Kennedy on how people find, invent, and see opportunities nobody else sees

Jan 12th, 2017 17m 4s

The O'Reilly Radar Podcast: The art and science of fostering serendipity skills.On this week's episode of the Radar Podcast, O'Reilly's Mac Slocum chats with award-winning author Pagan Kennedy about the art and science of serendipity—how people

Giles Colborne on AI's move from academic curiosity to mainstream tech

Dec 29th, 2016 31m 9s

The O'Reilly Radar Podcast: Designing for mainstream AI, natural language interfaces, and the importance of reinventing yourself.This week we're featuring a conversation from earlier this year—O'Reilly's Mary Treseler chats with Giles Colborne,

Brad Knox on creating a strong illusion of life

Dec 15th, 2016 59m 43s

The O'Reilly Radar Podcast: Imbuing robots with magic, eschewing deception in AI, and problematic assumptions of human-taught reinforcement learning.In this episode, I sit down with Brad Knox, founder and CEO of Emoters, a startup building a pr

Fang Yu on using data analytics to catch constantly evolving fraudsters

Dec 1st, 2016 27m 26s

The O'Reilly Radar Podcast: Big data for security, challenges in fraud detection, and the growing complexity of fraudster behavior.This week, I sit down with Fang Yu, cofounder and CTO of DataVisor, where she focuses on big data for security. W

Hilary Mason on the wisdom missing in the AI conversation

Nov 17th, 2016 17m 38s

The O'Reilly Radar Podcast: Thinking critically about AI, modeling language, and overcoming hurdles.This week, I sit down with Hilary Mason, who is a data scientist in residence at Accel Partners and founder and CEO of Fast Forward Labs. We cha

Richard Cook and David Woods on successful anomaly response

Nov 3rd, 2016 25m 44s

O'Reilly Radar Podcast: SNAFU Catchers, knowing how things work, and the proper response to system discrepancies.In this week's episode, O'Reilly's Mac Slocum sits down with Richard Cook and David Woods. Cook is a physician, researcher, and edu

Sam Wang on predicting the election, finding truth in mass media, and a new role for the cerebellum

Oct 20th, 2016 36m 35s

The O'Reilly Radar Podcast: Prediction algorithms, cognitive biases, and how our brains come online.On this week's episode, I chat with Sam Wang, professor of neuroscience and molecular biology at Princeton. Wang is also a co-founder of the Pri

John Bassett III on the global economy, the power of people, and how to make it in America

Oct 6th, 2016 21m 38s

The O'Reilly Radar Podcast: Navigating the increasing globalization of industry and commerce.In this episode of the Radar Podcast, I chat with John Bassett III, chairman of the board of the Vaughan-Bassett Furniture Company. We talk about globa

Haakon Faste on designing for a "post-human" world

Sep 22nd, 2016 49m 25s

The O'Reilly Radar Podcast: perceptual robotics, post-evolutionary humans, and designing our future with intent.In this Radar Podcast episode, I chat with Haakon Faste, a design educator and innovation consultant. We talk about his interesting

Pete Skomoroch on the current state and future potential of bots

Sep 8th, 2016 42m 41s

The O'Reilly Radar Podcast: Bot hype, bot UX, and bots in the workplace.This week on the Radar Podcast, we're featuring the first episode of the newly launched O'Reilly Bots Podcast, which you can find on Stitcher, iTunes, SoundCloud and RSS. O

Cory Doctorow on nascent pro-security industries

Aug 25th, 2016 47m 9s

In this O’Reilly Radar Podcast: The impact of minimal IoT product security and the case for new pro-security business models.This week's Radar Podcast episode is a special cross-over edition from the O'Reilly Security Podcast, which you can fin

Alyona Medelyan on applications of NLU

Aug 11th, 2016 17m 32s

The O'Reilly Radar Podcast: Natural language understanding and natural language processing applications, our future with chatbots, and open source indexing.This week, I talk with Alyona Medelyan, co-founder and CEO at Thematic and founder and C

Designing better security outcomes for human beings

Jul 28th, 2016 26m 42s

The O'Reilly Radar Podcast: Eleanor Saitta on security countermeasures at the human level, the relationship between security and design, and understanding security design as a separate discipline.This week's episode features a special cross-ove

Othman Laraki on achieving the long-tail distribution of genetic insights

Jul 14th, 2016 18m 8s

The O'Reilly Radar Podcast: Color Genomics, genetic testing access, and the future of precision medicine.This week, I chat with Othman Laraki, co-founder of Color Genomics. We chat about challenges and opportunities in genetic testing, the futu

Smart cities need to inject a dose of humanity to be truly great cities

Jun 30th, 2016 29m 50s

The O'Reilly Radar Podcast: Conversations with Daniele Quercia and Frank Cuypers.This week's episode features two conversations I've had recently centered around smart cities. First, I chat with Daniele Quercia, research team lead at Bell Labs.

Ame Elliott on making security usable and delightful

Jun 16th, 2016 19m 54s

The O'Reilly Radar Podcast: UX for security, architectural inspirations, and problem finding over problem solving.This week's episode is a cross-post from the O'Reilly Design Podcast. O'Reilly's Mary Treseler chats with Ame Elliott, design dire

Ben Lorica on the emergence of intelligent, real-time data applications

Jun 2nd, 2016 32m 45s

The O'Reilly Radar Podcast: Emerging themes in the data space.This week, O'Reilly's Mac Slocum chats with Ben Lorica, O'Reilly's chief data scientist and host of the O'Reilly Data Show Podcast. Lorica talks about emerging themes in the data spa

Scalable and sustainable approaches to product design

May 19th, 2016 45m 54s

The O'Reilly Radar Podcast: Ben Yoskovitz on a bottom-up approach to building products and the importance of poking holes in the reality distortion field.This week, we're featuring a special crossover podcast from our O'Reilly Design Podcast. O

Marc Warner on AI's fundamental shift: Supplemental thinking

May 5th, 2016 26m 24s

The O'Reilly Radar Podcast: The short-term and long-term future of artificial intelligence.In this episode, I chat with Marc Warner, CEO of ASI, a data science and business analytics consultancy and training organization in London. We talk abou

Designing with code and computation

Apr 21st, 2016 32m 43s

The O'Reilly Radar Podcast: Scott Murray on creative coding, data visualization, and STEAM.This week, O'Reilly's Mary Treseler chats with designer, creative coder, and artist Scott Murray about coding and computation in design, his book Interac