Digital Village
From 2019 to 2022 I took over as head producer and co-host of Digital Village, the longest running public radio show covering technology based in Los Angeles. It featured multiple segments, including A View from the Outside by Joanna Miller, Conversations on AI with Peter Eckersley, and Nothing is Secure with Roy Natian. I left at the end of 2022 to focus on my work at the AI Objectives Institute full time.
Below are some of my favorite episodes.
Cloaking Your Photos with Fawkes & Large Language Models (GPT-3)
In the first part of the show, we talk to Shawn Shan, a PhD student at University of Chicago, who works in privacy and security. Shawn is one of the researchers behind Fawkes, which is software that makes subtle changes to images to make it harder for machines to recognize images as the same, even if to the human eye they appear identical.
In the second half of the show, Dr. Peter Eckersley is back to talk about Language Models. Back in July, Open AI, the AI research and deployment company based in San Francisco, released the 3rd generation of their language model, GPT-3. This version has garnered a lot of excitement. There’s been people who have used it to generate conversations between computing pioneers Claude Shannon and Alan Turing or having it generate entire stories with just a one sentence prompt.
A View from the Outside - Conversations on AI - Nothing is Secure
A View From the Outside
What does mindfulness look like for startups? Joanna Miller’s, A View From the Outside interviews Tan Huiwoon about that and Brave New World Ideas.
How AI Learns
Peter Eckersley discusses advances and some limitations of AI
Nothing Is Secure: Passphrases & Password Managers
Roy Natian explains how to protect yourself information with better passwords and password managers.