The All Turtles Podcast

In this episode, we reveal All Turtles’ highly scientific approach to classifying early-stage products: the Flying-shoe, the Costner, and the Play-doh. We also examine the most common reasons for failure -- and success -- of these products. Along the way, we describe being insulted by chatbots and how to improve Netflix recommendations. Show Notes Welcome (0:13) Everyday encounters with artificial intelligence (3:03) Phil: Making an online restaurant reservation (3:52) Resy app - “The conversation has ended.”   Jessica: Text messaging with a political action program that uses a bot (8:30)    Blaise: Netflix recommendations (13:51) How to create separate Netflix profiles for more accurate suggestions The All Turtles taxonomy for early-stage products and their potential failure points (15:20) The Blockchain - it’s not solving a real problem (18:38) Flying Shoe - Whoa, is it possible?! (19:27) Failure modalities: DaVinci - Can be imagined, but it can't be built (21:06) Jetpack - Doesn't deliver on its promise (22:10) H.W. Bush - Already exists and we just didn't know about it (22:43) Costner - Totally possible! But if you build it, will they come? (24:27) Failure modalities: Waterworld - Too long to get to market and costs too much money (25:00) Golf - Boring and we don't care (e.g. ad tech use case) (25:27) New Coke - There's already a better version of this (26:40) Timeshare - No plausible exit or sustainable financial path forward (27:24) Segway - People don't actually want it (28:30) Play-Doh - What is it? How will it work? What's the experience like? (30:04) Failure modalities: No particular failure modalities, but the product idea must become a Flying Shoe or a Costner to continue (31:19) Spot: record and report workplace harassment (32:30) Listener questions (35:42) What does the crew find most useful in building a customer base as a product is introduced and gains traction? (35:55) In mystical episode 23, you mentioned you’re hiring. As a developer myself, finding awesome people to hire is always a challenge. Can you talk a bit about your hiring process? How do you interview technical people? (39:07) We want to hear from you Please send us your comments, suggested topics, and questions for future episodes: Email: hello@all-turtles.com Twitter: @allturtlesco with hashtag #askAT For more from All Turtles, follow us on Twitter, and subscribe to our newsletter on our website.

Imagine if you could skip college and learn to program for free. Kwame Yamgnane, co-founder and managing director of 42 Silicon Valley, joins this episode to describe how his school’s tuition-free approach to coding instruction is disrupting higher education. Your hosts also examine the importance of physical dexterity when considering AI for IKEA furniture assembly and Tesla’s manufacturing process. And drumroll, please: We announce our next book club selection. (Hint: It’s not Norse Mythology.) Show Notes Welcome (0:45) All Turtles Book Club selection (1:48) Conversational Design by Erika Hall (available for purchase at A Book Apart) Join the book discussion on the All Turtles subreddit. Discussion: AI, physical dexterity, and robotic automation (3:14) Robots assembling IKEA furniture (The Economist) (3:21) Elon Musk admits to excessive automation at Tesla factory (Futurism) (5:10) Elon Musk says that “humans are underrated” (The Next Web) (5:40) Video of trained eagles taking down drones (YouTube) (7:00) Video of drone dexterity from ETH Zurich (YouTube) (7:12) Guest: Kwame Yamgnane, managing director and co-founder of 42 Silicon Valley (12:02) 42 Silicon Valley (12:08) 42 Paris (20:40) 42 Silicon Valley admissions (22:36) Documentary series Foundation about Station F, and part 1 of our analysis (31:07) Listener questions (36:54) Is Israel on All Turtles’ roadmap? Why did you choose Paris and Tokyo as the next locations (other than San Francisco) for All Turtles offices? (37:08) I was wondering if you have an internship program, and if not, whether you plan to take on interns in the future? (40:01) We want to hear from you Please send us your comments, suggested topics, and questions for future episodes: Email: hello@all-turtles.com Twitter: @allturtlesco with hashtag #askAT For more from All Turtles, follow us on Twitter, and subscribe to our newsletter on our website.  

Public discourse around artificial intelligence continues to focus on self-driving cars, especially in the wake of fatal crashes. Yet data shows autonomous vehicles to be significantly safer than those controlled by people. One day, perhaps soon, the notion of human drivers will seem as absurd as child chimney sweeps. This episode also includes a rant about security questions, “advice to politicians” about immigration, and listener questions about All Turtles in Mexico City and Spot’s research. Show Notes Welcome (0:46) Book club nominations (1:10) Vote for your book club choice on our Twitter poll: Blaise’s pick: Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman (1:16)  Jessica’s pick: Conversational Design by Erika Hall (1:58) Phil’s pick: Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman (2:27) Rant: The problem with security questions (3:16) Time to kill security questions -- or answer them with lies (Wired) Discussion: Self-driving cars and AI (6:36) How a self-driving Uber killed a pedestrian in Arizona (New York TImes) (6:41) Tesla: Autopilot was on during deadly Mountain View crash (San Jose Mercury News) (6:47) Advice to politicians: tariffs and immigration (17:16) Trump announces tariff on Chinese imports (CNN) (17:42) Trump wants to build a 30-ft-high wall at Mexican border (CNBC) (17:44) Coding school in Mexico for students who were pushed out of the U.S. (Wall Street Journal) (17:57) Coding bootcamps in Mexico (EdSurge) (17:57) Listener questions (26:57) The Mexican Entrepreneurship Association recommended you as the best incubator for AI projects. Do you cover Mexico City? If so, can one work remotely? (27:03) Mexican Entrepreneurship Association (28:29) Does Spot plan to make its research publicly available? It would be interesting to read statistics about harassment by industry, gender, age, etc. Whatever (if anything) is appropriate to share. (29:05) Episode 15: Conversation with Spot’s Dr. Julia Shaw (29:07) Spot (31:00) We want to hear from you Please send us your comments, suggested topics, and questions for future episodes: Email: hello@all-turtles.com Twitter: @allturtlesco with hashtag #askAT For more from All Turtles, follow us on Twitter, and subscribe to our newsletter on our website.  

Pundits and politicians are stirring up fears about an artificial intelligence “arms race” between nations. But AI projects should be judged by the products they develop and the problems they solve, rather than their countries of origin. Joining the show is UX expert Susan Farrell to discuss user testing and her paper, “Computer-Assisted Embarrassment.” Show notes Welcome (0:42) Discussion: AI as an arms race between US and China (Russia, too) (1:48) China’s plans to be world’s leader in AI by 2030 (New York Times) (2:05) Putin: “Artificial intelligence is the future” (Wired) (2:30) China vs. the U.S. as an AI “showdown” (Technology Review) (2:45) China's remote-controlled vehicles (Defense News) (2:49) France’s $1.8B to fund a national program around AI development (Reuters) (4:55) Macron positioning France to use AI for people, not companies (Technology Review) (5:04) Google employees want their company to withdraw from Pentagon contracts, AI being used in drones (New York Times) (8:22) Shameless plug: All Turtles Newsletter (12:30) Subscribe to the All Turtles newsletter here, for a weekly collection of news and analysis about AI and entrepreneurship, complete with AT job listings! Guest: Susan Farrell, UX Research and Strategy at All Turtles (13:13) Susan’s paper Computer-Assisted Embarrassment (18:49) Listener questions (40:54) I'm a listener to your Podcast in South Africa. Do you work with non-profits? And how would you work with someone in South Africa? (40:58) Fast Forward, the accelerator for tech non-profits (43:40) Do you have any plan to visit Mexico or establish an office in Mexico? How should entrepreneurs in Mexico embrace artificial Intelligence? (45:22)  We want to hear from you Please send us your comments, suggested topics, and questions for future episodes: Email: hello@all-turtles.com Twitter: @allturtlesco with hashtag #askAT For more from All Turtles, follow us on Twitter, and subscribe to our newsletter on our website.  

Mark Zuckerberg’s Congressional testimony left many people scratching their heads. Was it an earnest effort to explain Facebook’s plans to prevent another Cambridge Analytica data scandal? Or was it part of a well-orchestrated apology tour? Riffing off Phil Libin’s 7-step analysis of the Facebook hearings, your hosts reveal a fundamental problem with the social network’s dependence on advertising and raise important questions about creating the kind of world we want to live in. Show notes Welcome (0:41) Submit book club suggestion to hello@all-turtles.com (1:50) Discussion: Mark Zuckerberg’s Congressional testimony (2:41) Phil Libin’s 7-point plan for making sense of Zuckerberg’s Congressional testimony (LinkedIn post) (4:01) Day 1 Senate testimony: video link and transcript House testimony: video link and transcript 1. The big picture (4:21) Hearing clip: “Yes or no, will you commit…?” (6:45) 2. A review of Mark Zuckerberg’s performance (8:05) Mark Zuckerberg couldn’t stop mentioning his Harvard dorm room during Facebook testimony (Boston Globe) (10:48) Hearing clip: One of Mark Zuckerberg’s “dorm room” mentions (10:51) 3. Facebook’s misaligned business model (12:01) Hearing clip: “My top priority has always been our social mission…” (13:25) Advertising comprises 97% of Facebook’s revenue (Business Insider) (15:50) 4. Fixes already underway (20:28) Was your data shared with Cambridge Analytica? (21:48) Hearing clip: “What is Facebook doing to prevent foreign actors from interfering in U.S. elections?” (24:48) Russians promoted about 130 rallies through 13-Russian linked pages (New York Times) (26:44) 5. Should Facebook be regulated? (30:21) Hearing clip: “What do we tell our constituents, given what’s happened here, why we should let you self-regulate?” (30:34) Facebook’s most popular Black Lives Matter page was a scam run by a white Australian, report says (Washington Post) (36:11) 6. Fake news and fake accounts (36:56) “Facebook had previously announced that $100,000 was spent on Facebook ads from June 2015 to May 2017 by Russian-linked disinformation sources, while an additional $50,000 was spent by Russians that signals indicate weren’t or were only weakly connected to an organized disinformation campaign.” (37:44) Trump and Clinton spent $81M on US election Facebook ads, Russian agency $46K (TechCrunch) (37:50) 7. The problem of the attention economy (41:59) Hearing clip: “Let me outline the way that we approach fighting fake news.” (42:05) Listener question (53:04) Submitted via the All Turtles subreddit: As AI gets better and better at analyzing data, and predicting patterns in humans, what happens to our sense of individuality? Is there a future in which AI and data mining will be predicting most of my decisions and outcomes? My generation has been told that we are all unique, and big data and AI seems to be learning and proving that we are all much less unique than maybe we’ve grown up believing. Do advancements in this field make us feel less like individuals? We want to hear from you Please send us your comments, suggested topics, and questions for future episodes: Email: hello@all-turtles.com Twitter: @allturtlesco with hashtag #askAT For more from All Turtles, follow us on Twitter, and subscribe to our newsletter on our website.  

Artificial intelligence may never do away with life’s two guarantees: death and taxes. But AI is changing the way people process them; memorial chatbots, for example, can take a loved one’s emails, social media, texts, and videos to create a digital facsimile of the dearly departed. And there are so many ways that AI, in theory, could make paying taxes less painful. Along the way hosts Phil Libin, Jessica Collier, and Blaise Zerega respond to listener questions about Walmart’s patent for drone bees and AI in France. Show notes Welcome Ready Player One trailer (1:37) Isle of Dogs trailer (1:45) Dogs in the All Turtles office (1:58) Listener correction (2:45) All Turtles Podcast Episode 21, where “barrel” instead of “bunch” was used to describe those affected by the actions of one bad individual (skip to 16:30) Memorial chatbots discussion (4:42) Swedish funeral agency seeks participants for memorial chatbots (4:50) Wired cover story on James Vlahos’s Dadbot (5:53) The Verge story on Eugenia Kyuda’s Roman bot (6:40) Shameless plug (19:33) Subscribe to the All Turtles newsletter here, for a weekly collection of news and analysis about AI and entrepreneurship, complete with AT job listings! Taxes and practical AI  (20:58) IRS Audits Drop To Lowest Level Since 2002 news report on WBUR(21:19) H&R Block using Watson to process tax returns (21:54) Credit Karma using AI (21:59) Conversation with Josh Browder from DoNotPay from Episode 21 (skip to 14:34) (22:27) Listener questions (29:11) What’s up with Walmart patenting drone bees? Do they really intend on stepping into the AI arena, or do you think it’s just a ploy to remain relevant to consumers in a retail apocalypse environment? (29:20) Last week, President Macron of France made a public announcement of €1.5 billion to support AI projects and called for the creation of a national program. Previously, he attended the opening of Station F and has been very public of his support for tech. What’s All Turtles’ French strategy, and how will it give value and visibility to French developers in light of this recent news? (31:01) We want to hear from you Please send us your comments, suggested topics, and questions for future episodes: Email: hello@all-turtles.com Twitter: @allturtlesco with hashtag #askAT For more from All Turtles, follow us on Twitter, and subscribe to our newsletter on our website.  

Artificial intelligence can render the concept of scale meaningless and enable startups to compete with global giants. Investor Hemant Taneja explains how size becomes a liability in his new book, Unscaled. Hosts Phil Libin, Jessica Collier, and Blaise Zerega also share everyday encounters with AI including autocomplete successes and disasters. Along the way, they respond to a listener question about regulating Facebook following the Cambridge Analytica data scandal. Show notes Everyday encounters with artificial intelligence Google sheet autocomplete on iOS (2:21) Email autocomplete fail (4:24) The Amy meeting scheduler bot fail (6:36) Conversation with General Catalyst managing director Hemant Taneja, author of Unscaled (10:19) General Catalyst  A venture capital firm with offices in Silicon Valley, New York, and Boston. Unscaled: How A.I. and a New Generation of Upstarts Are Creating the Economy of the Future, by Hemant Taneja  (10:36) AngelList (16:35) Livongo  A service for people with chronic illnesses to monitor their health. (18:32) Ep. 5: Raging Bull  Maybe it’s kind of B.S.: Personalization (skip to 15:35) (21:51) Hemant’s three bits of advice for entrepreneurs (30:10) Listener Questions Facebook was already operating under a 2011 consent decree with the FTC about sharing people’s data without their permission. Given the Cambridge Analytica scandal, and the fact that this week Zuckerberg stated that he was open to being regulated, should Facebook’s use of AI be regulated? What might that look like? (32:39) Zuckerberg open to being regulated (New York) Finally! For a while, I thought the All Turtles Subreddit was in the same category as flying unicorns and Daft Punk playing at the trash fence... but I finally found it! Seriously though... this is super hard to find, and you don't link to it from anywhere else. (39:10) The All Turtles Subreddit We want to hear from you Please send us your comments, suggested topics, and questions for future episodes: Email: hello@all-turtles.com Twitter: @allturtlesco with hashtag #askAT For more from All Turtles, follow us on Twitter, and subscribe to our newsletter on our website.  

The Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal. It’s not a breach, it’s not artificial intelligence. Instead, it’s a logical result of the social network’s business model where users and their data are the product being sold. Also, our in-house patent expert Leonid Kitainik provides advice for entrepreneurs seeking to protect their intellectual property. Listener questions include whether Bitcoin will become the world’s single currency and how voice interfaces may change computing and work. Show Notes  The Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data scandal (1:41) The Cambridge Analytica files: the story so far (The Guardian) (1:50) How to delete apps from your Facebook profile (Facebook) (4:45) Mark Zuckerberg’s statement on “the Cambridge Analytica situation” (Facebook) (9:42)   Conversation with Leonid Kitainik, vice president of intellectual property at All Turtles (17:12) 10 million patents (18:38) Previous discussion on patents - Episode 14: Pillow Fort Apache, The Bronx (17:24) (skip to 4:24) Patent requirements (29:20)   Listener questions (42:37) How do we have to rethink creating work for the Internet when a big chunk of it will be interfaced via voice? What new challenges come up that upend almost 30 years of UX knowledge for a mostly visual and type- and touch-based interaction with machines? How will work change with voice interface? (42:45) Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said in an interview that he believes Bitcoin will become the world’s single currency. Is @Jack on crack? What do you think of this prediction? (46:15)   We want to hear from you Please send us your comments, suggested topics, and questions for future episodes: Email: hello@all-turtles.com Twitter: @allturtlesco with hashtag #askAT For more from All Turtles, follow us on Twitter, and subscribe to our newsletter on our website.  

DoNotPay is a chatbot that has helped people beat more than 500,000 parking tickets and can now help you get a lower airfare after you’ve booked a flight. We talk with the startup’s founder and CEO Josh Browder about also helping refugees apply for visas and his vision for a lawyer-free future. Phil Libin, Blaise Zerega, and guest host Cathy Dinas recap a trip to Japan, debate the portrayal of AI in the Netflix series Black Mirror, and consider whether hiring a PR firm early in a product’s lifecycle is really just, well, BS. Show notes Postcard from Japan (3:43) Phil’s hotel room key in Osaka Pocketalk translation device used by Phil and Cathy Pocketalk, SourceNext Releases 50 Languages Translation Device Pocketalk audio featured in All Turtles Podcast Episode 2 (skip to 6:55) Conversation with Josh Browder, Founder and CEO of DoNotPay (14:34) DoNotPay.com (company web site) Josh Browder on the Daily Show with Trevor Noah: Disrupting the Legal System with Robots (video) A new tool uses legal loopholes to get you cheaper flights by checking prices 17,000 times a day (Business Insider) Phil’s refugee story (video) Listener questions Black Mirror - does it interest you? What AI shown in the series is most attainable or realistic? (36:00) Black Mirror Season 4 Trailer (video) Is hiring a PR firm bullshit early in the product’s lifecycle? (42:17) We want to hear from you Please send us your comments, suggested topics, and questions for future episodes: Email: hello@all-turtles.com Twitter: @allturtlesco with hashtag #askAT For more from All Turtles, follow us on Twitter, and subscribe to our newsletter on our website.  

How close are we to an “Infocalypse” when AI-created audio and video present an alternative version of history? What happens to trust when facts are indistinguishable from fiction? Who controls the message? It’s a topic with roots in an early American novel when the fear wasn’t AI, but -- get this -- ventriloquism. Hosts Phil Libin, Jessica Collier, and Blaise Zerega debate the potential for this scenario and possible solutions. They also explain why the studio model is well-suited for building AI products. Listener questions include the origins of the All Turtles name and whether we’re living in a simulation. Show notes The threat of AI-generated audio and video to produce fake news (01:32) He Predicted The 2016 Fake News Crisis. Now He's Worried About An Information Apocalypse. (Buzzfeed) Synthesizing Obama: Learning Lip Sync from Audio -- video teaser (YouTube) Synthesizing Obama: Learning Lip Sync from Audio (University of Washington) Wieland and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist by Charles Brockden Brown (Goodreads) Fake Voices Will Become Worryingly Accurate (The Rand Blog) Discussion of Human voice or AI-generated voice? (Episode 14, 18:17) Defining your terms: Studio (12:16) The Silicon Valley method isn’t enough: A better way to build products by Phil Libin (All Turtles) Phil Libin exits General Catalyst for All Turtles, a new AI ‘startup studio’ (TechCrunch) Listener questions Where does the name All Turtles come from and why don’t you have more fun with it? (20:18) Are we living in a simulation? (24:04)  Elon Musk on Simulation Theory, at Code Conference 2016 (YouTube)  A Dream Within a Dream by Edgar Allan Poe (Poetry Foundation)  Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard (Goodreads) Credits Paul Hardcastle’s 1985 song “19” (YouTube) We want to hear from you Please send us your comments, suggested topics, and questions for future episodes: Email: hello@all-turtles.com Twitter: @allturtlesco with hashtag #askAT For more from All Turtles, follow us on Twitter, and subscribe to our newsletter on our website.  

This episode kicks off our book club discussion of Brotopia, which reveals that sex parties are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to gender discrimination in Silicon Valley. Hosts Phil Libin, Jessica Collier, and Blaise Zerega share their strong reactions to the reporting, history, and advocacy contained in Emily Chang’s book. Along the way, they delight in the ways AI improves reading the New York Times, our grammar, and keeping track of one’s schedule. Responding to listener questions, your hosts lay bets on a timeline for human birth in space, and how to maintain privacy in an age of Alexa. Show notes Everyday encounters with artificial intelligence New York Times (2:35) 100 Notable Books of 2017 (NYT)   Like Grammarly but it shouts at you (5:18) Grammarly (company web site)   Auto-suggested events in calendars (8:20) How to create calendar events from emails (LifeWire) Book club discussion: Brotopia by Emily Chang (13:11) Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys’ Club of Silicon Valley (GoodReads) In ‘Brotopia,’ Silicon Valley Disrupts Everything but the Boys’ Club (NYT Book Review) “Oh my God, this is so f--ed up”: Inside Silicon Valley’s Secretive, Orgiastic Dark Side (Vanity Fair) Apple’s “1984” television commercial (YouTube)   Listener Questions When do you think someone will be born in space? (31:07) What percentage of the population is concerned with their privacy in a time of Alexa devices, Nest cameras, and the like? (33:19) We want to hear from you Please send us your comments, suggested topics, and questions for future episodes: Email: hello@all-turtles.com Twitter: @allturtlesco with hashtag #askAT For more from All Turtles, follow us on Twitter, and subscribe to our newsletter on our website.  

At age 42, after co-founding one of the world’s largest wireless carriers and leading it to an IPO, Augie Fabela enrolled at a police academy. Today, Fabela serves as a Chief of Police for the Cook County’s Sheriff Department. Hosts Phil Libin, Jessica Collier, and Blaise Zerega talk with Chief Fabela about using community engagement to reduce gun violence, including an esports project (with involvement from All Turtles). In a “Maybe it’s kinda B.S.” segment, your hosts dissect so-called ID theft protection services. Listener questions include ways to learn new things and to become more efficient. Show notes Phil Libin: “I retire a joke.” (0:20) Time travel (Wikipedia) ID theft protection: Maybe it’s kinda bullshit? (2:59) Millions of People Post Comments on Federal Regulations. Many Are Fake. (Wall Street Journal) LifeLock (company website) Credit Karma (company website) Part two of our conversation with Augie Fabela, Co-founder and CEO of FastForward.ai, and Chief of Police at the Cook County Sheriff’s Department (10:16) Augie K. Fabela II bio (LinkedIn) DECIDE: Tactical Crisis Decision Making: A Framework For Law Enforcement by Augie Fabela (Amazon)   On Chicago’s South Side, Shootings Are Way Down...And Here’s The Reason Why (HuffPost) (Left to right) Sheriff of Cook County Tom Dart, All Turtles CEO Phil Libin, Chief of Police at the Cook County Sheriff Department Augie Fabela. FastForward.ai (company website) Listener questions What tactics do you use for learning new things and being more efficient? (30:14) Halo Neuroscience (company website) What are you looking for in founders who want to join All Turtles? (38:38) We want to hear from you Please send us your comments, suggested topics, and questions for future episodes: Email: hello@all-turtles.com Twitter: @allturtlesco with hashtag #askAT For more from All Turtles, follow us on Twitter, and subscribe to our newsletter on our website.  

Outside the United States, about 4.5 billion people use prepaid wireless phone services. We check in with Augie Fabela, co-founder and CEO of FastForward.ai, which aims to reinvent the prepaid customer experience. Along the way, Phil Libin, Jessica Collier, and Blaise Zerega offer “Advice to Politicians” about social media and the recent U.S. indictment of 13 Russians for interference in the 2016 election. Your hosts also explore the connection between artificial intelligence and issues of race, gender, and inequality. Show notes Advice to politicians: Get off Facebook and Twitter (2:10) 13 Russians Indicted as Mueller Reveals Effort to Aid Trump Campaign (New York Times) After Florida School Shooting, Russian ‘Bot’ Army Pounced (New York Times) Part one of our conversation with Augie Fabela, co-founder and CEO of FastForward.ai, and Chief of Police at the Cook County Sheriff’s Department (15:45) Augie Fabela (LinkedIn) VEON Motorola brick phones from the early 1990s (Wikipedia) FastForward.ai USSD codes and menus for prepaid calling services (Wikipedia) Sample USSD codes for Thailand   Prepaid card market expected to reach $3,653 billion by 2022 (Allied Market Research) Listener comment and question Why do you focus so much on the issues of race, gender, and inequality? (38:46) We want to hear from you Please send us your comments, suggested topics, and questions for future episodes: Email: hello@all-turtles.com Twitter: @allturtlesco with hashtag #askAT For more from All Turtles, follow us on Twitter, and subscribe to our newsletter on our website.  

As public reckonings with harassment and discrimination abound, it’s becoming clear that the vast majority of these incidents go unreported. We check in with Dr. Julia Shaw, co-founder and Chief Scientist of Spot, a just-launched harassment reporting tool that aims to fix this. Along the way, hosts Phil Libin, Jessica Collier, and Blaise Zerega discuss the likelihoods for artificial general intelligence and artificial super intelligence, which some people have likened to God. We also announce the first selection for our Book Club: Brotopia. Show notes Announcing the All Turtles Book Club’s first selection (1:11) The three nominees were: Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art by Virginia Heffernan How Music Works by David Byrne Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley by Emily Chang   And the winner is: Brotopia. Join us next time for our debut book club discussion. Artificial narrow intelligence, artificial general intelligence, artificial super intelligence (2:42) The AI Revolution: The Road to Superintelligence - Part One (Wait But Why) The AI Revolution: The Road to Superintelligence - Part Two (Wait But Why) Conversation with Dr. Julia Shaw, co-founder and Chief Scientist of Spot (11:03) Spot (website) Spot launches a chatbot to combat workplace harassment (VentureBeat) A new (and free) chatbot may help employees report instances of harassment (Washington Post) This Chatbot Will Take Your Harassment Claims To HR Anonymously (Fast Company) A collision of two realities (33:29) The City & the City by China Miéville   Listener questions How can developers avoid unconscious bias and make sure that AI is respectful to everyone? (34:25) Can practical AI help virtuous people make virtuous products? (40:10) Preparing to sign-off a la Elon Musk (46:24) Live Views of Starman (YouTube) We want to hear from you Please send us your comments, suggested topics, and questions for future episodes: Email: hello@all-turtles.com Twitter: @allturtlesco with hashtag #askAT For more from All Turtles, follow us on Twitter, and subscribe to our newsletter on our website.  

We kick off the show with a call for listener suggestions to select our first read for The All Turtles Book Club. Phil Libin, Jessica Collier, and Blaise Zerega then dive into a “Maybe it’s kinda bullshit?” segment on patents, asking whether they’ve outlived their usefulness. Your hosts also try to distinguish between human and AI-generated voices. This week’s listener questions lead to revelations about Phil’s 100,000 unread emails, Jessica’s knowledge of container ship videos, and whether Blaise is named for St. Blaise or Blaise Pascal. Show notes Listener suggestions for the All Turtles Book Club (1:30) Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art by Virginia Heffernan The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett Safety: Car Crashes Pose Greater Risk for Women by Nicholas Bakalar, New York Times How Music Works by David Byrne Patents: Maybe they’re kinda bullshit? (4:24) U.S. Constitution, Article One, Section Eight: [The Congress shall have power] “To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.” United States Patent and Trademark Office First U.S. Patent issued in 1790 Patent kings: The world's 50 most innovative companies (USA Today) Apple was Granted 39 Patents Today covering Facial Recognition and the iPad Pro's Smart Keyboard Connector and more (Patently Apple) Human voice or AI-generated voice? (18:17) Google’s voice-generating AI is now indistinguishable from humans (Quartz) Fake Voices Will Become Worryingly Accurate (The Rand Blog) Wieland: or, The Transformation: An American Tale by Charles Brockden Brown, published 1798 Audio samples from Tacotron 2 (Google’s Github page) Uncanny valley (Wikipedia) Love in the Time of Robots (Wired) Interrobang in punctuation Lyrebird.ai Listener questions How might AI be used to filter signal to noise? (36:00) Screenshot of Phil Libin’s 100,000+ unread emails: Clapping during President Trump’s State of the Union address Will All Turtles expand to Vancouver, British Columbia? (43:06) Containers podcast by Alexis Madrigal How do you spend your Sundays? (45:30) We want to hear from you Please send us your comments, suggested topics, and questions for future episodes: Email: hello@all-turtles.com Twitter: @allturtlesco with hashtag #askAT For more from All Turtles, follow us on Twitter, and subscribe to our newsletter on our website. Thanks for listening