I was a guest on Episode 132 “AI For Good” of the Cynical Developer Podcast near the end of 2019. We talked about my robotics project, social robots in general and Crohn’s Disease. The Cynical Developer is where I first heard about the Vector robot so the whole thing coming full circle was wonderful! Talking about what I was working on and how I think social / socially assistive...
TWIML #316 – Bridging the Patient-Physician Gap with ML and Expert Systems
Episode #316 of the TWIML AI Podcast is with Xavier Amatriain, Co-founder and CTO of Curai. They discussed the use of Curai’s machine learning models to help improve and augment primary care ultimately resulting in less workload for doctors. Xavier claims their models are as good or better than the “average doctor”. Curai use expert systems for medical data and knowledge...
George Laurer – Barcodes
George Laurer died on Tuesday (10/12/2019). He was the co-inventor of the barcode. Hundreds of millions of people probably use barcodes every single day – groceries, deliveries, medicine, hardware etc – without giving them a second thought. The barcode was the 6th episode in a great series called “50 things That Made The Modern Economy”. Barcodes seem so trivial these days...