Generative AI can struggle to create realistic animals and 2D representations often have mistakes like extra limbs and tails. If... more

Today, we sat down with Dr. Ignacio Escalante Meza to learn about opiliones and treehoppers. Opiliones, known as “daddy long... more

Human shipping operations have increased significantly in the past few decades.  While that means international trade and cheap goods for... more

Robbie Moon from the Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business joins us to discuss the analysis of unstructured data and... more

Have you ever participated in citizen science? Do you want to? One of the most popular platforms for crowdsourcing biodiversity... more

Do you code or are you interested in learning to code? Join us today and hear from three individuals that... more

You’ve heard of Human Computer Interaction (HCI), now get ready for Animal Computer Interaction (ACI). Ilyena has made a career... more

Cat observes great apes in the wild and in the lab to crack the code of their gestural communication. We... more

In this episode, Kozzy discusses his endeavors to compare the cognitive abilities of humans, animals, and AI programs. Specifically, we... more

Théo Michelot has made a career out of tackling tough ecological questions using time-series data. How do scientists turn a... more

Brian Taylor shares his research on magnetoreception. Animals like birds and sea turtles use magnetoreception to use the Earth’s magnetic... more

Modeling evolutionary processes goes way beyond the Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium we all learned in biology class. Natural selection comes from many... more

It’s almost impossible to think about animal behavior without thinking of dogs! Our canine friends are a subspecies of wolf... more

In this episode, we are joined by Barbara Webb and Anna Hadjitofi. Barbara runs the Insect Robotics lab at the... more

Many researchers and students have painstakingly labeled precise details about the body positions of the creatures they study. Can AI... more

Our guest in this episode is Sebastien Motsch, an assistant professor at Arizona State University, working in the School of... more

Our guest in this episode is Ryan Hanscom. Ryan is a Ph.D. candidate in a joint doctoral evolution program at... more

We are joined by Hank Schlinger, a professor of psychology at California State University, Los Angeles. His research revolves around... more

On today’s episode, we are joined by Aimee Dunlap. Aimee is an assistant professor at the University of Missouri–St. Louis... more

We are joined by Tamar Gutnick, a visiting professor at the University of Naples Federico II, Napoli, Italy. She studies... more

Claire Hemmingway, an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Tennessee... more

On today’s show, we are joined by our co-host, Becky Hansis-O’Neil. Becky is a Ph.D. student at the University of... more

On this episode, we are joined by Stephen Larson, the CEO of MetaCell and an affiliate of the OpenWorm foundation.... more

Our guest is Becky Hansis-O’Neil, a Ph.D. student at the University of Missouri, St Louis, and our co-host for the... more

Kyle is joined by friends and former guests Pramit Choudhary and Frank Bell to have an open discussion of the... more

We are joined by Darren McKee, a Policy Advisor and the host of Reality Check — a critical thinking podcast.... more

It took a massive financial investment for the first large language models (LLMs) to be created.  Did their corporate backers... more

We celebrate episode 1000000000 with some Q&A from host Kyle Polich.  We boil this episode down to four key questions:... more

In this episode, we are joined by Amir Netz, a Technical Fellow at Microsoft and the CTO of Microsoft Fabric.... more

Our guest today is Eric Boyd, the Corporate Vice President of AI at Microsoft. Eric joins us to share how... more

We are excited to be joined by Aaron Reich and Priyanka Shah. Aaron is the CTO at Avanade, while Priyanka leads... more

In this episode, we are joined by Jenny Liang, a PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University, where she studies the... more

We are joined by Aman Madaan and Shuyan Zhou. They are both PhD students at the Language Technology Institute at... more

In this episode, we have Alessio Buscemi, a software engineer at Lifeware SA. Alessio was a post-doctoral researcher at the... more

On the show today, we are joined by Jianan Zhao, a Computer Science student at Mila and the University of... more

Today, we are joined by Rajiv Movva, a PhD student in Computer Science at Cornell Tech University. His research interest... more

We are excited to be joined by Josh Albrecht, the CTO of Imbue. Imbue is a research company whose mission... more

On today’s show, we are joined by Thilo Hagendorff, a Research Group Leader of Ethics of Generative AI at the... more

Nieves Montes, a Ph.D. student at the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute in Barcelona, Spain, joins us. Her PhD research revolves... more

We are joined by Maximilian Mozes, a PhD student at the University College, London. His PhD research focuses on Natural... more

Our guest today is Vid Kocijan, a Machine Learning Engineer at Kumo AI. Vid has a Ph.D. in Computer Science... more

Today, We are joined by Petter Törnberg, an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science at the University of Amsterdam and... more

In this episode, we are joined by Carlos Hernández Oliván, a Ph.D. student at the University of Zaragoza. Carlos’s interest... more

Hongyi Wang, a Senior Researcher at the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University, joins us. His research is in... more

On today’s episode, we have Daniel Rock, an Assistant Professor of Operations Information and Decisions at the Wharton School of... more

We are excited to be joined by J.D. Zamfirescu-Pereira, a Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley. He focuses on the intersection... more

In this episode, we are joined by Ryan Liu, a Computer Science graduate of Carnegie Mellon University. Ryan will begin... more

The creators of large language models impose restrictions on some of the types of requests one might make of them. ... more

Our guest today is Maciej Świechowski. Maciej is affiliated with QED Software and QED Games. He has a Ph.D. in... more

Today on the show, we are joined by Lin Zhao and Lu Zhang. Lin is a Senior Research Scientist at... more