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Shift: A podcast about mobility

Who's afraid of AI? (Season 3, Episode 2)

Shift: A podcast about mobility

Automotive News

Business

4.637 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2018

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

In our second episode of Season 3, "Who's Afraid of AI?" we explore this technology that's affecting nearly every aspect of the auto industry and beyond. Host Shiraz Ahmed interviews Maya Pindeus, the 27-year-old CEO of Humanizing Autonomy, an AI startup focused on human-machine interactions with autonomous cars. Pindeus met a Daimler executive at Ars Electronica, a conference that focuses on the nexus of arts and technology, in Austria, and later began collaborating on a project.

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0:00.0

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0:28.4

this is Futurismo your podcast on tomorrow's cars.

0:32.1

I'm sure I'm sure I'm Hannah's cars. I'm Shuraz Amad.

0:33.6

I'm Hannah Letts, and I'm Sharon Cardi.

0:36.2

This season, we're looking at how the race

0:38.3

to build the self-driving car is fundamentally

0:41.1

changing the auto industry.

0:42.8

Last time, we took you to Austin, Texas

0:48.8

for South by Southwest's accelerator pitch competition.

0:52.4

Today, we're continuing our exploration there. Here's Sharon and I

0:56.0

chatting about a panel we both sat in on covering artificial intelligence and its role in the auto

1:01.1

industry.

1:02.6

One thing I took away from one panel I went to

1:05.7

about humanizing autonomy that had

1:09.0

Daimler's futurist on it and blanking on his name

1:11.6

but I'll look it up later and mention it, was that to advance some of this technology, you can't just rely on, say, an engineer with a machine learning degree.

1:21.0

You need this kind of interdisciplinary approach where he and

1:25.2

others on this panel will go to these kind of huge arts festivals and stuff and just look for

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