Posted by Following on from yesterday’s Deep Dive Episode 1. Today, we are having a look at the big picture of www.ruthstalkerfirth.com. Here’s the podcast:
In it, based on the information from this website, the podcasters, Sophia and Todd, talk about my beginnings in AI, from seeding mutants in the knowledge based testing process and creating AI and big data systems for structural monitoring, to my latest mission of demystifying AI which includes talking about the hidden people of computing from Artificial AI to the first computers who were women.
It’s a great podcast with quite a sobering yet smart ending as Sophia asks:
If we accept her premise that modern tech should meet a high bar for reliability like those structural systems she started with, then maybe we should ask ourselves:
The Deep Dive, Episode 2 on Dr Ruth Stalker-Firth
How often are our anxieties about technology, you know, the ghost in the machine fear actually masking deeper worries, deeper worries about maybe about socioeconomic things like labour? Value?
Who’s accountable when things go wrong?
Are we just projecting our cultural fears onto the technology itself?
And how much does the story we choose to believe shape the tech we actually build?
It’s a great episode. Check out the trailer below:
