Hot Takes | Cold Proofs

Every field has its hot takes — the things people in the room believe, argue about and repeat, but rarely have to defend in public. Hot Takes | Cold Proofs is the podcast from the School of Computing and Engineering at the University of West London. Each episode puts two academics in a room to say what they actually think about AI and technology, then asks the harder question: what's the cold proof? Hosted by Atiyeh Ardakanian and Nino Auricchio. No press-release positivity, no doom. Just people who know their subject, disagreeing productively.

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  Episode #7

  Episode 7: You Always Take Yourself With You

  Sep 2, 202638 minS1

  <p>He opens by taking away the word the whole subject is built on. There is no such thing as a gamer, he says, because on personality, values and how they handle the hassles of ordinary life, gamers are indistinguishable from everybody else. They are just people who do this thing. We don't talk about badminton players or cyclists so much. And the industry is bigger than film and music combined.</p><p>So the question is not who plays. It is what happens to you while you do.</p><p>Professor Mark Coulson studies the traffic between a person...

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  Episode #6

  Epidode 6: The Person Who Can Help You Is in the Next Room

  Aug 25, 202631 minS1

  <p>Every research culture has a version of the same problem. The people with the least power are the ones who most need to be in the room, and they are the first thing cut when the diary is full.</p><p>This episode is about what a university does about that. Dr Livia Lantini coordinates UWL's Early Career Researcher Network, which began as a conversation with the head of school: Professor Phil Cox asked why there wasn't something for people at the start of their careers, and she went and built it. It started in the School of Computing...

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  Episode #5

  Episode 5: Can You Build an AI That Isn't Biased?

  Aug 19, 202634 minS1

  <p>Professor Julie Wall and Dr Nasim Dadashi Serej on where bias actually comes from, and what you can do about it</p><p><br></p><p>Nobody in this episode claims you can build an AI with no bias in it. The interesting question is what you do once you accept that.</p><p>Dr Nasim Dadashi Serej's answer runs through the whole episode as one long metaphor: you train a model the way you raise a child. You feed it your own opinions and your own insights, you reward what you like and discourage what you don't, and...

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  Episode #4

  Episode 4: How Do You See What's Under the Ground?

  Aug 12, 202628 minS1

  <p>Professor Fabio Tosti, the director of UWL's Faringdon Research Centre on how you survey a bridge, a road or a ruin without laying a finger on it, why Heathrow behaves like a city in miniature, and the question his team is still trying to answer — whether the communities living with that infrastructure can actually use any of the data.You can learn a great deal about a bridge without drilling into it. Ground-penetrating radar sends electromagnetic waves into the subsurface and reads what comes back — moisture, cracks, cavities, decay — in much the same spirit as an X-ray, and without touchi...

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  Episode 3: Who Decides the Right Way to Speak?

  Aug 4, 202640 minS1

  <p>Daniel Tweddle and Dr Eugenio Donati on accents, AI and who gets understood.</p><p><br></p><p>Speech technology has a data problem. Almost every benchmark dataset used to train systems that assess pronunciation is American English — so if you speak with a Geordie, Glaswegian or Brummie accent, the technology was never built with you in mind.</p><p>Daniel Tweddle is building the British English speech datasets that don't exist yet, annotating every mispronunciation by hand. His supervisor, Dr Eugenio Donati, has been through the same thing — he collected his PhD data during lockdown by recording himself.</p><p...

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