RADIO AI - A Public Resource for AI Literacy (for Everyone)
Radio AI is an AI public literacy series for all ages. Have fun listening to AI experts talking in a friendly way about topics like undersea robotics, software agents, and machine learning. Each light hearted podcast gives easy to understand short question and answer formats that make learning about AI a snap. There are 12 Radio AI episodes, each hosted by Radio AI Director Cindy Mason, who has 14 nieces and nephews! Dr. Mason trained in AI and Machine Learning at UC Berkeley and Stanford, and worked with Dr. John McCarthy, father of AI, and Prof. Lotfi Zadeh, father of fuzzy sets.
RADIO AI - A Public Resource for AI Literacy (for Everyone)
RADIO AI Ep. 1 Under Sea Robot Explorers for Sustainability
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Cindy Mason and Hans Thomas
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Season 1
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Episode 1
Radio AI is a collection of podcasts for public literacy on AI and is for all ages.
In this episode, AI researcher and Radio AI host, Dr. Cindy Mason, talks with Undersea Robotics specialist Hans Thomas live from research vessel off the coast of California.
Hans and his crew along with 2 cranes and 3 robots are on a 3 week expedition at sea mapping and exploring the sea floor to find out if it will support a new kind of energy with windmills.
Cindy and Hans were in the same robot research lab at NASA and are old friends.
They talk about basic ideas of undersea robots like, how does it navigate? What happens
if it gets lost? What's it like to live on a boat with robots?