Europe should invest more in AI
Kye Andersson, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Canucci and also author of the recently published Sifted article on the technological, and especially AI gap, between the EU and the US and China. Kye argues that we have too much focus on regulations, especially on less likely scenarios, and we are making the innovation in the EU more difficult. He underlines the fact that there are more urgent topics to discuss when it comes to regulations and societal impacts, rather than the focus of making it extremely difficult to innovate in the field of AI. Kye and Ather discuss how the EU should approach AI developments and regulations, what benefits we may get in the future, and what a future society might look like.
Hosted by Ather Gattami, AI-podden has become a central voice in the Swedish conversation on artificial intelligence. This isn't a dry technical lecture; it's a series of grounded discussions that explore how these rapid technological shifts are reshaping our world in real time. Each episode brings in a different perspective, featuring guests from across the spectrum of society-from researchers and entrepreneurs to policymakers and cultural critics. You'll hear thoughtful analysis on the latest developments, but also practical conversations about ethics, societal impact, and the human stories behind the algorithms. Tuning into this podcast means getting a clearer, more nuanced picture of the forces defining our future, moving beyond the headlines to understand the true stakes and opportunities of AI. It’s that commitment to diverse, substantive dialogue that has made it one of the country's most popular listens in technology and news.
Podcast Episodes
Financial trading as a game
In this episode of the AI Podcast, host Ather Gattami interviews Michal Sustr, co-founder of EquiLibre, a company that uses game theory and reinforcement learning for trading. Michal discusses the company's approach to t…
Generalisation vs Reasoning
Reinforcement learning is a type of machine learning that allows agents to learn by interacting with their environment. DeepMind researcher, David Abel is interested in using reinforcement learning to understand and buil…
AI-podden News - January
In this episode, Mimi and Ather delve into the impact of AI on elections and political communication as well as deepfakes and cybercrime. They address OpenAI's suspension of a developer for creating a politician-imperson…
The inventor of LoRA - Edward Hu
Edward Hu, Researcher at OpenAI, known for his invention of LoRA, a widely used machine learning method to fine-tune Large Language Models (LLMs) which he co-invented at Microsoft, shares his views on LoRa. Together with…
AI-podden News — Dec 23
Mimi Billing, European editor at Shifted and Ather highlight the latest news in AI in December and take a look back at 2023. In this episode, you will hear the latest on the release of Google DeepMind's Gemini in its Ult…
The Future AI City
Andy Karvonen, Prof. of Urban Design and Planning at Lund University talks of the "Urban Brain", where we have some kind of smart city control room managing all aspects, from traffic to transportation and the management…
Personalized medicine with AI
Mika Gustafsson, Prof., and David Martinez, PhD student, both at Linköping University conduct research in Bioinformatics and precision medicine. They are exploring how to use complex patient data, both clinical and envir…
AI-podden News — 29 Nov
Let's start with the company behind chatGPT, OpenAI. No one has missed the last couple of weeks' happenings at OpenAI, where the CEO and cofounder Sam Altman was fired on Friday the 17th and then on Monday evening reinst…
Optimize the food industry with AI
Agnes Lindell, Head of Data Driven Business at Elvenite shares her experience in building data driven tools in the food industry, all from some of their most successful use cases to how they managed to do it. She mention…
AI-podden News - 10 Nov
In this special episode of AI-podden, we have the pleasure to introduce Mimi Billing from Sifted who will be co-hosting AI-podden in this special format where we get updates of the recent AI developments. In this episode…