Robots for the Rest of Us Podcast

All about the robots and AI that are appearing in our day-to-day lives, doing things that people used to do. robots4therestofus.substack.com

Robots for the Rest of Us Podcast is a technology podcast hosted by David Berreby, with 21 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

David Berreby hosts Robots for the Rest of Us Podcast, a technology show with 21 episodes published.

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  What Does a Humanoid Robot Do? I Asked a Humanoid Robot

  May 21, 20255 minS0

  <p>I am at ICRA – the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, aka 7,000 roboticists from all over the world converging to discuss every robot-related topic on Earth. </p><p>More posts are coming, but for now, day-of, here is a quick podcast interview (the first with video) with, and about, one of the robots I saw in action today – Ameca, by Engineered Arts.</p><p>After many an online video, this was my first time interacting with an Ameca robot in the (gray rubber) flesh. It was a different experience than watching a video, in much the same way a co...

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  The Work AI Can't Help With

  Mar 31, 202555 minS0

  <p>Why hasn’t workplace artificial intelligence made life easier for everyone? Some surveys see a vast majority of employees saying AI adds to their workload, for a variety of reasons (having to check what the AI does, having bosses who expect increased output). And the extra stress of AI adoption is often worse for women, says leadership consultant Julie Donley. </p><p>Why? Because AI is often oriented toward things men tend to focus on (like maximizing efficiency at all costs) and not the jobs that fall much more on women (for example, the emotional labor of office politics, an...

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  How to Manage AI Therapists, Robot Friends, AI Ghosts

  Feb 16, 202552 minS0

  <p>Most people agree there’s something wrong with an AI pretending to be a human being. And especially wrong about an AI telling you it’s a human therapist. In fact, a California legislator introduced a bill the other day to ban AIs from doing that. It stemmed in part from an incident where a mental health platform had users thinking they were getting counsel from humans when in fact the messages were written by GPT-3.</p><p>Here’s the thing, though: The patsies (I mean, users) actually rated the responses quite highly – until they learned they were machine...

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  Before AI Permeates Our Lives, We Need a New Deal for Privacy

  Jan 14, 202551 minS0

  <p>Data scientist Wes Chaar was at home a few years ago, working with the tools of his trade, when he had an “aha!” moment. He realized the information he was looking at would let him predict not only what people would buy and how they’d vote, but also how they’d feel about their choices. Those people might not have shared those feelings with anyone, but Chaar could foresee they’d be there. </p><p>How are people supposed to defend their privacy in the face of that power? All those user agreements we click without reading, and those assu...

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  Sometimes You Just Need a Robot to Scratch That Spot You Can't Reach

  Nov 13, 202459 minS0

  <p></p><p>We’re an aging society, with a shortage of young-ish people to do the work, paid and unpaid, of helping others get through life. (Immigration crackdowns will make this shortage more acute.) Inevitably, robots are coming to help us in the home.</p><p>Maybe they’ll be 5-foot, 8-inch tall imitation people, as Elon Musk predicts. But arms, legs and torsos are expensive to build, complex to operate and kind of frightening/creepy. So in the years just ahead home robots will likely be simpler devices. They’ll be designed to do useful jobs in their own ro...

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