The promises of Artificial Intelligence

It's always good to put in perspective all the findings in AI, in order to clear some of the most common misunderstandings and promises. In this episode I make a list of some of the most misleading statements about what artificial intelligence can achieve in the near future.

Posted on December 20, 2018

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Neural networks that can reason

Today’s episode will be about deep learning and reasoning. There has been a lot of discussion about the effectiveness of deep learning models and their capability to generalize, not only across domains but also on data that such models have never seen. But there is a research group from the Department of Computer Science, Duke University that seems to be on something with deep learning and interpretability in computer vision.

Posted on August 5, 2018

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AI winter is coming

Hype around AI can be extremely dangerous, because it raises expectations that cannot be satisfied. In this episode I have a conversation with an AI researcher who thinks that deeplearning is not sufficient to solve the problem of intelligence. He doesn’t seem to share the vision of folks like Elon Musk who claimed that we are going to see...

Posted on June 23, 2018

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(Long Story Short) Encrypt your Gmail

Gmail is great. Until they tell you that Google can read all your emails anytime they want. What if you needed confidentiality and your Gmail too?

Posted on April 25, 2018

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(Long Story Short) Productivity in a hyperconnected world

If you think that Slack, Messanger, WhatsApp, Telegram, Emails, etc. are doing good to you, it's time to watch this.

Posted on April 22, 2018

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(Long Story Short) A honest crypto and blockchain conversation

Let's have a honest conversation about cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. If we want blockchain to succeed and really make a difference we need to at least two of the three tasks I expand on here.

Posted on April 20, 2018

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