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.
New technologies are going to further polarize the labor market. We are going to have extremely well-paid, highly skilled people and “replaceable employees” working for peanuts. Professor Katarzyna Śledziewska and professor Renata Włoch in conversation with Maciej Chojnowski.
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.
The question about the future of artificial intelligence should be looked at in a broader context: Where is this all going? Why do we need it? Do we do that only to make money or to improve the quality of life? Conversation with Jarosław Protasiewicz, PhD, director of the National Information Processing Institute.
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.
In a world of superhumans with computer implants and all knowledge at their fingertips, what it means to be human will change. The nature of human rights will have to evolve too – claims Roch Głowacki, a lawyer who advises on AI and new technologies, in an interview with Anna Zagórna.
According to the 2019 Global AI Talent Report, there is the same number of talents in Poland and in the Czech Republic. Only that the Czech Republic is several times smaller than our country, says professor Piotr Sankowski, Institute of Informatics, University of Warsaw, in conversation with Maciej Chojnowski.
“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.
The discussion on how universities should look like in the era of artificial intelligence is a red herring. Instead, we should concentrate on how to function as a society in the world where AI-based solutions will play an increasingly important role. Mateusz Gaczyński, Deputy Director of the Department of Innovation and Development, Ministry of Science and Higher Education, in conversation with Maciej Chojnowski.