Artificial children to love
American infant simulators help traumatised Polish youths learn to be parents.
Monika Redzisz
Bartkowski: Another world is possible
We want to draw attention to how inhumane the world of algorithms is, to talk about malpractices of digital corporations and to expose the truth about the technology everybody admires, says Wiesław Bartkowski, head of Creative Coding at SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, in conversation with Monika Redzisz.
Pan-Cancer or Oncological Large Hadron Collider
Every day 1,300 scientists and 700 research institutes collect massive amounts of data. Their goal is track down cancer. Jan Komorowski, a bioinformatician involved in the project, in conversation with Monika Redzisz.
Science fiction becomes reality
As soon as I achieve my goal, I will connect my brain to external interfaces. I am most interested in what would happen if I connected to another person and to their brain, says Andrzej Banburski, PhD, from MIT in conversation with Monika Redzisz.
Corinthian column algorithm
Buildings, whole cities packed with sensors and video surveillance systems are generating an increasing amount of data. The more data we are able to gather, the more sense it will make to use machine learning in architecture, says Kacper Radziszewski in conversation with Monika Redzisz.
Ivona, Alexa, Vika or intelligent girls from Gdańsk
We were in our early twenties and we were bold. We knew that everyone in the world was working on speech synthesizers of better quality. And there was us: five guys from Gdańsk struggling to make ends meet, recalls Łukasz Osowski, a co-creator of the Amazon voice assistant, in conversation with Monika Redzisz.
Data, bias and harmful algorithms
If an algorithm has been used to make a decision that concerns us, we have the right to know about it. We can’t simply give up and say: “This is artificial intelligence and only artificial intelligence knows what to do”, says Agata Foryciarz, an IT specialist from Stanford University, in conversation with Monika Redzisz.
It’s not Hollywood, it’s a hospital
Above the patient’s body, suspended in the air, levitates his magnified, semi-transparent heart. Ideas straight out of science-fiction movies are becoming the reality of 21st century medicine before our very eyes.
Robin Hood-like robots
“Would you like us to create our own surgical robot?” doctor Nawrat asked professor Religa. “When will I be able to use it to operate?” replied professor. That was how Robin Heart came into being.