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machine learning
| # | Episode Title | Description | People | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Season Finale: AI selection box | In the final episode of our series, we’re looking back at the themes we’ve discussed so far, and forward into the likely development of AI. | Gil McVean, Sandra Wachter, Nigel Shadbolt, Peter Millican | 08 Jan 2019 | |
| 2 | Is China leading the way in AI? | In the penultimate episode of series one of Futuremakers, we’re looking at the development of AI across the globe. | Peter Millican, Mike Wooldridge, Xiaorong Ding, Sophie-Charlotte Fischer | 19 Dec 2018 | |
| 3 | What does AI mean for the future of humanity | Join our host, philosopher Professor Peter Millican, as he explores this topic with three experts from Oxford University. | Peter Millican, Allan Dafoe, Mike Osborne, Jade Leung | 12 Dec 2018 | |
| 4 | Has AI changed the way we find the truth? | Around the world, automated bot accounts have enabled some government agencies and political parties to exploit online platforms in dispersing fake messages. | Peter Millican, Rasmus Nielsen, Vidya Narayanan, Mimie Liotsiou | 06 Dec 2018 | |
| 5 | From Ada Lovelace to Alan Turing, the birth of AI? | Many developments in science are achieved through people being able to ‘stand on the shoulders of giants’ and in the history of AI two giants in particular stand out. | Peter Millican, Ursula Martin, Andrew Hodges, Jacob Ward | 19 Nov 2018 | |
| 6 | Is AI good for our health? | Join our host, philosopher Peter Millican, as he explores the topic "Is AI good for our health?" | Peter Millican, Alison Noble, Paul Leeson, Jessica Morley | 02 Nov 2018 | |
| 7 | Creative Commons | Computational Literary Studies and Mental Health | A project combining English literature, experimental psychology, and computational linguistics, with a focus on entropy, abstraction, and mental health. | James Carney, Emily Troscianko | 12 Sep 2018 |
| 8 | How do we find planets around other stars? | The 3rd Wetton lecture, 19th June 2018 delivered by Professor David W. Hogg, Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics, New York University | David W Hogg | 02 Jul 2018 | |
| 9 | How do you teach a robot social cues? | As robots are increasingly deployed in settings requiring social interaction we asked the Big Question: How do you teach a robot social cues? To find out we visited Shimon Whiteson, Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science | Shimon Whiteson | 19 Jun 2018 | |
| 10 | Creative Commons | How do you teach a machine to a drive a car? | Autonomous cars have been a staple of science fiction for years featuring in films like Minority Report and I Robot. But how far away are we really from enjoying a hassle-free driving journey? To find out the answer we visited Dr Ingmar Posner, Associate | Ingmar Posner | 28 Mar 2017 |
| 11 | Strachey Lecture - Probabilistic machine learning: foundations and frontiers | Professor Zoubin Ghahramani gives a talk on probabilistic modelling from it's foundations to current areas of research at the frontiers of machine learning. | Zoubin Ghahramani | 15 Mar 2017 | |
| 12 | At a Physics Info/Sci Intersection | Physics Colloquium 30th October 2015 delivered by Professer Paul Ginsparg | Paul Ginsparg | 03 Nov 2015 | |
| 13 | 'Artificial Intelligence' part 2 - How to create machines that learn | Professor Nando de Freitas explains that understanding how our brains work has helped us create machines that learn, and how these learning machines can be put to completing different tasks. | Nando de Freitas | 19 May 2015 | |
| 14 | 'Artificial Intelligence' part 1 - Using artificial intelligence to spot patterns | Professor Stephen Roberts explains how machines, whose job it is simply to learn, can help researchers spot scientific needles in data haystacks, which will help us solve some grand challenges. | Stephen Roberts | 15 Apr 2015 |