OM DENNE EPISODE
Introducing The Augmented Mind Podcast (The AM Podcast). We explore techniques for building AI models that collaborate with people and augment human intelligence. In Episode 0, we share who we are, why we started this podcast, and what we're looking forward to.
Outline:
0:00 - Prelude: the problems we care about
1:48 - Host introduction
2:03 - Why we started the AM Podcast
2:31 - Hot takes on human-centered AI
2:45 - Hot take #1: learning on outcome rewards over long horizons will directly solve human-agent collaboration
5:48 - Hot take #2: even with an automation-vs-augmentation view, as AI gets stronger, there will be less for us to work on
10:45 - Format of our podcast
11:28 - Unique technical challenges in human-centered AI
11:43 - Example #1: human variation
13:58 - Example #2: revolution of annotation and data collection
15:10 - Example #3: making sense of noisy data
16:45 - Let the journey begin!
External Clips Referenced:
Eric Horvitz; 1:02:38 - 1:03:07 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddjNTxtyEnw
Fei-Fei Li ; 12:40 - 12:58 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be0gLzeBX5w
Podcast Links:
Podcast website: https://augmented-mind.github.io/
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/augmented-mind-podcast/id1868102170
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/40KculkYTe2tOpqJm6TAYr?si=PU_UncsMT4mXjVNCRwoXog
RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/10dbf5b7c/podcast/rss
About the Hosts:
The AM Podcast is hosted by Yijia Shao, Shannon Shen, and Michael Ryan, CS PhD students at Stanford University and MIT.
