TechRadio Best of 2017

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We often talk about the work people won’t have to do thanks to technologies like automation and AI. However, there are plenty of jobs out there that people shouldn’t be doing in the first place. This week Niall Kitson is joined by Anybotics' senior product manager and Swiss chapter co-lead of Women in Robotics Kateryna Portmann, and technical project manager for Verity Nazrin Aliyeva to talk about the state of the art.

Kateryna Portmann and Nazrin Aliyeva on new directions in robotics

In this episode we look at the many shapes of artificial intelligence, from companies that don’t love us back, to optiistic valuations, and Accenture head of technology in Ireland Austin Boyle shares his thoughts on how AI agents have yet to fulfill their promise. Finally, as Pac-Man turns 45 Niall and Dusty revisit the golden age of arcade games.

Accenture’s Austin Boyle on agentic AI and beyond

This week Google drops a new series of devices including Pixel phones, watches and true wireless ear buds.
Plus, we find out more about AI and the science of longevity with our special guest Kennedy Schaal, CEO & founder of Rejuve.

Google gets smarter with the Pixel 10 and Rejuv's Kennedy Schaal on longevity

This week we look at the role of AI in the tragic death of an American teen and Nvidia’s financials continue to impress.
Later, Orivium’s Emma Clarke talks about her company’s method of extracting and reusing rare earth materials to give new life to devices beyond repair.

Artificial intelligence and a real tragedy

Ireland just made space history with its first satellite successfully completing its mission and de-orbiting as we speak. We find out more about some of the serious science it pulled off including gamma-ray burst detection and advanced satellite control systems that would make Nasa jealous.
Elsewhere, we discover why Google’s latest multi million dollar privacy slap actually matters to you and we dig as far as we can into a spyware story involving the Garda Siochana and an Israeli spy firm.
Plus, researchers from Dublin City University, Dawood University in Pakistan, and Munster Technological University are working on an AI content moderation tool designed to protect children from grooming online. We get the lowdown on Project EdgeAIGuard and the three new agentic LLMs it uses with DCU Project Lead Dr Sunder Ali Khowaja.

Eirsat-1 de-orbits, and DCU's Dr Sunder Ali Khowaja on protecting children with AI

This week Niall meets Accenture Digital managing director Paul Pierotti to talk about how analytics and machine learning are bringing a new slant to this year's 6 Nations Championship. 
Back in the studio we cover Donald Trump's migrant ban and how it could be good news for tech companies in Ireland.

Accenture Digital's Paul Pierotti talks machine learning at the 6 Nations

In this extended interview Niall Kitson meets Bank of Ireland head of design thinking Lesley Tully to find out how business can benefit from a more creative approach to problem solving.

TechRadio Extra: The value of design thinking with Bank of Ireland's Lesley Tully

This week Google gets hit by a record EU fine; ransomware (Not)Petya goes international; and Dusty talks to astronaut Dan Tani as part of Cork Institute of Technology's 2017 Space Studies Programme.

One step beyond with astronaut Dan Tani

Do you have a licence for that hydraulic hand? Can your employer decide how you shouild be rebuilt after an accident on the job? We explore these ideas and more with legal researcher Shane P. McNamee.

Legally cyborg with Shane P. McNamee

Can you be tricked into handing over personal information? Have you ever gotten into a concert without a ticket? How secure are help desks? Jenny Radcliffe is an expert in social engineering who knows all about getting what you want through the power of persuasion. This week Jenny got Niall Kitson to devote an entire show to interviewing her.

Hacking the human with Jenny Radcliffe

Where does the science of data end and the art of data begin? This week Niall explores this idea with Jer Thorp, co-founder of The Office for Creative Research, Adjunct Professor at New York University's ITP programme and innovator in residence at the Library of Congress.
In other news, Facebook, Google and Twitter get a grilling over Russia.

Jer Thorp on the art and science of data

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