AI Saves the World with Jen Campbell and Jag Sharma - E81
We’ve moaned enough about AI, it’s time to realise how it’s going to save the world.
Visual impairment, taxi services, and protecting red squirrels are all on our agenda this week, as Jag and Jen dive deep into the future of AI, plus a peek at social media’s latest missteps with Mastodon and Blue Sky…
This episode of Disconnected covers:
The AI tool protecting the dwindling red squirrel population
How visually impaired people have a new solution for personal assistants
Clash of the robotaxis
Whether Mastodon and Blue Sky’s new aggregator is worth its while
Episode Highlights:
“We always talk about how AI is going to take people's jobs, and actually what they're doing here are tasks in real time that humans just genuinely don't have the bandwidth for.” - 4:55 - Jen Campbell
“Autonomous vehicles are already clocking up millions of miles on public roads, but they face an uphill battle to convince us whether we actually want to get into one of them.” - 12:40 - Jag Sharma
“Waymo wants us to see what the vehicle can see, and it wants us to trust it. It's part of a wider trend within the autonomous ride hailing industry.” - 14:40 - Jag Sharma
“Because I drive a car, and I know how alert you have to be, I'm probably more acutely attuned to all the things that could possibly go wrong.” - 23:45 - Jen Campbell
Links & references:
Jen Campbell:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-m-campbell/
Jag Sharma: