In this episode of Intel on AI host Amir Khosrowshahi talks with Joshua Tucker about using artificial intelligence to study the influence social media has on politics.

Joshua is professor of politics at New York University with affiliated appointments in the department of Russian and Slavic Studies and the Center for Data Science. He is also the director of the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia and co-director of the Center for Social Media and Politics. He was a co-author and editor of an award-winning policy blog at The Washington Post and has published several books, including his latest, where he is co-editor, titled Social Media and Democracy: The State of the Field, Prospects for Reform from Cambridge University Press.

In the podcast episode, Joshua discusses his background in researching mass political behavior, including Colored Revolutions in Eastern Europe. He talks about how his field of study changed after working with his then PhD student Pablo Barberá (now a professor at the University of Southern California), who proposed a method whereby researchers could estimate people's partisanship based on the social networks in which they had enmeshed themselves. Joshua describes the limitations researchers often have when trying to study data on various platforms, the challenges of big data, utilizing NYU’s Greene HPC Cluster, and the impact that the leak of the Facebook Papers had on the field. He also describes findings regarding people who are more prone to share material from fraudulent media organizations masquerading as news outlets and how researchers like Rebekah Tromble (Director of the Institute for Data, Democracy and Politics at George Washington University) are working with government entities like the European Union on balancing public research with data privacy. The episode closes with Amir and Joshua discussing disinformation campaigns in the context of the Russo-Ukrainian War. 

Academic research discussed in the podcast episode:
•	Birds of the Same Feather Tweet Together: Bayesian Ideal Point Estimation Using Twitter Data.
•	Tweeting From Left to Right: Is Online Political Communication More Than an Echo Chamber?

AI, Social Media, and Political Influence – Intel on AI Season 3, Episode 11

In this episode of Intel on AI host Amir Khosrowshahi and co-host Mariano Phielipp talk with Chelsea Finn about machine learning research focused on giving robots the capability to develop intelligent behavior.

Chelsea is Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, whose Stanford IRIS (Intelligence through Robotic Interaction at Scale) lab is closely associated with the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL). She received her Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and her PhD in Computer Science at UC Berkeley, where she worked with Pieter Abbeel and Sergey Levine.
In the podcast episode Chelsea explains the difference between supervised learning and reinforcement learning. She goes into detail about the different kinds of new reinforcement algorithms that can aid robots to learn more autonomously. Chelsea talks extensively about meta-learning—the concept of helping robots learn to learn¬—and her efforts to advance model-agnostic meta-learning (MAML). 
The episode closes with Chelsea and Mariano discussing the intersection of natural language processing and reinforcement learning. The three also talk about the future of robotics and artificial intelligence, including the complexity of setting up robotic reward functions for seemingly simple tasks.

Academic research discussed in the podcast episode:
•	Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning for Fast Adaptation of Deep Networks
•	Meta-Learning with Memory-Augmented Neural Networks
•	Matching Networks for One Shot Learning
•	Learning to Learn with Gradients
•	Bayesian Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning
•	Meta-Learning with Implicit Gradients
•	Meta-Learning Without Memorization
•	Efficiently Identifying Task Groupings for Multi-Task Learning
•	Three scenarios for continual learning
•	Dota 2 with Large Scale Deep Reinforcement Learning
•	ProtoTransformer: A Meta-Learning Approach to Providing Student Feedback

Meta-Learning for Robots – Intel on AI Season 3, Episode 12

In this episode of Intel on AI host Amir Khosrowshahi talks with Jeff Lichtman about the evolution of technology and mammalian brains.

Jeff Lichtman is the Jeremy R. Knowles Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard. He received an AB from Bowdoin and an M.D. and Ph.D. from Washington University, where he worked for thirty years before moving to Cambridge. He is now a member of Harvard’s Center for Brain Science and director of the Lichtman Lab, which focuses on connectomics—mapping neural connections and understanding their development.

In the podcast episode Jeff talks about why researching the physical structure of brain is so important to advancing science. He goes into detail about Brainbrow—a method he and Joshua Sanes developed to illuminate and trace the “wires” (axons and dendrites) connecting neurons to each other. Amir and Jeff discuss how the academic rivalry between Santiago Ramón y Cajal and Camillo Golgi pioneered neuroscience research. Jeff describes his remarkable research taking nanometer slices of brain tissue, creating high-resolution images, and then digitally reconstructing the cells and synapses to get a more complete picture of the brain. The episode closes with Jeff and Amir discussing theories about how the human brain learns and what technologists might discover from the grand challenge of mapping the entire nervous system.

Academic research discussed in the podcast episode:
•	Principles of Neural Development
•	The reorganization of synaptic connexions in the rat submandibular ganglion during post-natal development
•	Development of the neuromuscular junction: Genetic analysis in mice
•	A technicolour approach to the connectome
•	The big data challenges of connectomics
•	Imaging Intracellular Fluorescent Proteins at Nanometer Resolution
•	Stimulated emission depletion (STED) nanoscopy of a fluorescent protein-labeled organelle inside a living cell
•	High-resolution, high-throughput imaging with a multibeam scanning electron microscope
•	Saturated Reconstruction of a Volume of Neocortex
•	A connectomic study of a petascale fragment of human cerebral cortex
•	A Canonical Microcircuit for Neocortex

Evolution, Technology, and the Brain – Intel on AI Season 3, Episode 13

The Intel on AI podcast features interviews with the world’s most interesting AI experts, covering a wide range of topics, including academia, applications, strategy, ethics, policy, entertainment, scientific research, and society’s future. Season 3 is hosted by Amir Khosrowshahi, Ph.D.. Amir is a Vice President at Intel Corporation, co-founder and CTO of Nervana Systems, and a visiting scholar at the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at the University of California, Berkeley.