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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 - Introduction
1:16 - Keeping found things found
3:44 - Storing information
5:20 - Using folders
8:44 - New ways of searching
13:38 - Embodied information and search
16:20 - Value of memorization
20:20 - Personal AI assistants
30:20 - Language and thought
35:30 - Thriving in Time
42:44 - Aging gracefully
55:16 - Contract between generations
1:02:44 - What to look forward to
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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 - Introduction
1:02 - History of Opera
4:02 - Current technics in Opera
6:02 - Evolution in the arts
8:16 - Creating new works
12:12 - TheTale of the Great Computing Machine
17:06 - Machines in performative arts
26:04 - Anthropomorphism
29:02 - AI art
39:09 - The artistic experience
40:45 - Choreography
43:35 - The modern experience
48:47 - New operas
53:00 - Artists and Robots
1:01:02 - Robot performers
1:07:56 - Artistic freedom
1:10:48 - Humanoid robots
1:13:18 - Robots enjoying art
1:15:00 - Future works
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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 AI
56:15 - Transduction
1:00:20 - Science & pseudo science
1:04:58 - Multimodality
1:10:18 - Humans & AI
1:27:25 - Brailletouch
1:42:46 - Quality of life
1:47:46 - Accessibility
1:51:00 - Risk assessment
2:00:50 - AI in medicin
2:03:08 - Human influence
2:07:46 - AGI
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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 - Introduction
0:49 - AI in health
11:40 - AI models
30:00 - New techniques
45:20 - Licensing
55:00 - Data collection
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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 - Introduction
0:47 - Design principles
4:10 - Good design
11:00 - AI in design
16:50 - Training AI design models
19:30 - Data availability
23:50 - Sustainability & AI
34:34 - Access to AI
43:46 - AI arms race
47:20 - Supervision over AI
50:00 - AI & human bias
52:16 - Timeline for AI
55:06 - Future of work
58:30 - Global equality & AI
1:05:30 - MEMS
1:09:32 - MEMS in space
1:11:20 - Personal hopes and concerns
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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 - Introduction
0:40 - AI-Human interaction
11:00 - Study of humans
15:10 - Developing AI models
19:08 - Creativity and AI
23:20 - AI & understanding
28:36 - Thought without language
37:00 - Non-human Intelligence
41:00 - Projecting feelings on AI
46:18 - Regulations
51:56 - Open source models
54:34 - Watermarking
55:34 - Hopes & concerns
59:20 - AGI and embodied models
1:01:10 - Future of jobs
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André Holzapfel is an associate professor of Media Technology with a specialisation in sound & music at KTH, Royal Institute of Technology. His work also encompasses the ethical and sustainability aspects of AI. He has also studied the relation of dance and music, with a focus on the island of Crete, through his work in ethnomusicology.
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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 - Introduction
0:56 - AI in organisations
2:05 - AI & Digitalisation
5:18 - Different uses
6:56 - Business applications
12:06 - Accessibility to AI
16:48 - Finding AI solutions
20:00 - Customer obsession
24:20 - Ethics, transparency & sustainability
32:14 - Regulations
33:38 - Public sentiment
37:46 - Education on AI
39:20 - Front-end uses
42:06 - Large and small companies
44:06 - Traditional businesses vs Startups
48:48 - Global equality
54:48 - Future of jobs
57:36 - Business management
59:48 - AGI
1:05:06 - Future of AI
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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.
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Fredrik Strand is an associate professor of radiology at Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. Through his research, with his team, he works with studying the applications of AI in mammography and breast cancer detection.
Link to Fredriks research: https://ki.se/en/onkpat/research-team-fredrik-strand
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Bob Sturm is a professor of computer science at the department of Speech, Music and Hearing at KTH in Stockholm. Through his research he has studied the uses of AI in creation, analysis, and transcription of music.
He is also PI of MUSAiC, a research project which studies the impacts of AI on music as an art form. Through his personal blog he performs music that has been generated by AI. The links to which can be found here:
MUSAiC: https://musaiclab.wordpress.com/
Blog: https://tunesfromtheaifrontiers.wordp...
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Gabriel Skantze is a professor Communication and Technology, with a specialisation in Conversational Systems at KTH. He is also one of the cofounders and chief scientist of Furhat Robotics, a startup company focused on developing social robots.
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