Episodes

  • S3 Ep64: How to Learn the Piano Online with Sunghee Park, Founder and CEO of SYNKii

    S3 Ep64: How to Learn the Piano Online with Sunghee Park, Founder and CEO of SYNKii
    Oct 3 2024
    In this week’s episode of Tech Can’t Save Us, hosts Paul David and Maya Dharampal-Hornby are joined by Sunghee Park, Founder and CEO of SYNKii

    Online teaching surged during Covid-19. But with music lessons requiring students and teachers to play in synchronicity, lags in connections that were commonplace on video calling platforms like Zoom, made it nearly impossible for music students to learn remotely. As an experienced private tutor of piano herself, Sunghee faced these challenges first hand, and so she decided to build a solution: SYNKii.



    Tune into this episode now to hear why platforms like Zoom are inadequate for music learners, how data-driven insights can be used by teachers to personalise their music lessons, and the opportunities for and limitations of AR technologies in music education.

    Find out more about SYNKii here: https://www.synkii.com/
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    24 mins
  • S3 Ep63: Personalised AI Tools with Cien Solon, co-founder and CEO of LaunchLemonade and Director of Scale That Thing!

    S3 Ep63: Personalised AI Tools with Cien Solon, co-founder and CEO of LaunchLemonade and Director of Scale That Thing!
    Sep 26 2024
    In this week’s episode of Tech Can’t Save Us, hosts Paul David and Maya Dharampal-Hornby are joined by Cien Solon, co-founder and CEO of LaunchLemonade and Director of Scale That Thing!.

    AI advocate Cien Solon is fighting to make AI a tool at everyone’s disposal - an “AI for All” as Cien so pithily calls it. To help individuals and organisations harness the power of AI, Cien has founded Scale That Thing!, which offers more tailored services to help businesses scale with AI, and LaunchLemonade, a no-code platform for users to turn their ideas into an AI-powered business.

    Tune into this episode now to hear how AI co-pilots can save you time, how LaunchLemonade is breaking barriers for women in AI, and the importance of diversifying investment.

    Find out more about LaunchLemonade here: https://launchlemonade.app/

    Find out more about Scale That Thing! here: https://www.scalethatthing.com/

    Find out more about Cien’s work here: https://ciensolon.com/

    Get in touch with Cien here: ai@ciensolon.com
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    31 mins
  • S3 Ep62: How AI can Better Represent Voters in Parliament with Steve Endacott, Chairman of Neural Voice and Neural River

    S3 Ep62: How AI can Better Represent Voters in Parliament with Steve Endacott, Chairman of Neural Voice and Neural River
    Sep 19 2024
    In this week’s episode of Tech Can’t Save Us, hosts Paul David and Maya Dharampal-Hornby are joined by Steve Endacott, Chairman of Neural Voice and Neural River.

    Neural Voice is a spin-off from incubator Neural River, a genAI platform enabling businesses to develop customer-assistance voicebots.

    Tune into this episode now to hear Steve how Steve leveraged Neural Voice’s technology to make a bid for Parliament in the UK’s General Election, and how he believes AI will change the political landscape in the UK.

    Find more about Neural River here: https://www.neuralriver.ai/

    Find more about Neural Voice here: https://www.neural-voice.ai/

    Find more about AI Steve here: https://www.ai-steve.co.uk/
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    33 mins
  • S3 Ep61: AI in Bioacoustics with Mickey Pardo, research fellow at Cornell University

    S3 Ep61: AI in Bioacoustics with Mickey Pardo, research fellow at Cornell University
    Sep 12 2024
    In this week’s episode of Tech Can’t Save Us, hosts Paul David and Maya Dharampal-Hornby are joined by Mickey Pardo, research fellow at Cornell University and former Postdoctoral Associate at Colorado State University.

    Mickey studied the rumbles of savannah elephants in partnership with Save the Elephants, discovering that elephants’ naming system is very similar to the way in which human names work - much more than dolphins and parrots who have been previously touted as having the most human-like naming system.

    Tune into this episode now to hear Mickey discuss the research and how he hopes it might help conservation efforts for elephants.

    Read the full paper authored by Mickey Pardo, Kurt Fristrup, David S. Lolchuragi, Joyce Poole, Petter Granli, Cynthia Moss (Elephant Trust), Lain Douglas-Hamilton and George Wittemyer, here: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.08.25.554872v1.full

    And check out the work of Mickey’s collaborating partners:

    https://www.savetheelephants.org/

    https://www.elephantvoices.org/
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    28 mins
  • S3 Ep60: Courses on AI Safety and Biosecurity with Will Saunter, Co-Founder and Biosecurity Lead at BlueDot Impact

    S3 Ep60: Courses on AI Safety and Biosecurity with Will Saunter, Co-Founder and Biosecurity Lead at BlueDot Impact
    Sep 5 2024
    In this week’s episode of Tech Can’t Save Us, hosts Paul David and Maya Dharampal-Hornby are joined by Will Saunter, Co-Founder and Biosecurity Lead at BlueDot Impact.

    The social enterprise offers 12-week, part-time courses in AI Alignment, AI Governance and Biosecurity. Alumni have gone on to pursue high impact ventures in AI and biosecurity, such as leading safety teams at top labs, becoming senior government policy makers and facilitating the courses themselves.

    Tune into this episode now to hear how Will turned a university reading group into a learning offering that, to date, over 2500 people have completed from all over the world.

    Find out more about BlueDot Impact here: https://bluedot.org/

    Find out more about the Pandemics course here: https://biosecurityfundamentals.com/pandemics/

    Apply to the Pandemics course before September 15 2024 here: https://forms.bluedot.org/aBTNsdSm31iVur7uf1Nz

    Find out more about the AI Alignment & Governance courses here: https://aisafetyfundamentals.com/

    Apply to the AI Alignment course before October 6 2024 here: https://forms.bluedot.org/NliceQmUvMTfPDkVIYJy
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    30 mins
  • S3 Ep59: Transforming Data for Educators with AI with Ben Dodson, Co-Founder & CEO of Doowii

    S3 Ep59: Transforming Data for Educators with AI with Ben Dodson, Co-Founder & CEO of Doowii
    Aug 29 2024
    In this week’s episode of Tech Can’t Save Us, hosts Paul David and Maya Dharampal-Hornby are joined by Ben Dodson, co-founder and CEO of Doowii.

    Helping teachers harness AI to better understand and address their students’ needs, Doowoi helps non-technical users access data they previously couldn't, improving workflows and decision-making.

    Tune into this episode now to hear Ben discuss the problems with AI plagiarism detectors, how personalise data science improves student outcomes, and how what he learnt about work culture at Google and Snapchat.

    Find more about Doowii here: https://www.doowii.io/
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    45 mins
  • S3 Ep58: Reshaping Biosecurity with Kevin Flyangolts, Founder & CEO of Aclid

    S3 Ep58: Reshaping Biosecurity with Kevin Flyangolts, Founder & CEO of Aclid
    Aug 22 2024
    In this week’s episode of Tech Can’t Save Us, hosts Paul David and Maya Dharampal-Hornby are joined by Kevin Flyangolts, Founder & CEO of Aclid.

    With biotechnology becoming increasingly digital and automated, biosecurity guidelines are constantly changing. Aclid enables end-to-end compliance for gene synthesis providers by automating biosecurity screenings, promoting education in the life science sector, and building trust between companies and customers.

    Tune into this episode now to hear Kevin discuss how biosecurity concerns have evolved since covid-19, and explain why adaptive regulations, responsible practices, and automated screenings and verifications are the future of biosecurity.

    Find more about Aclid here: https://www.aclid.bio/

    Get in touch with Kevin here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevfly/
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    30 mins
  • S3 Ep57: Revolutionising Machine Learning for Research & Development with Brad Magnetta, Co-Founder of modlee

    S3 Ep57: Revolutionising Machine Learning for Research & Development with Brad Magnetta, Co-Founder of modlee
    Aug 15 2024
    In this week’s episode of Tech Can’t Save Us, hosts Paul David and Maya Dharampal-Hornby are joined by Brad Magnetta, co-founder of modlee.

    With a growing demand for in-house AI and ML solutions, modlee automates, simplifies and pools insights about machine learning development.

    Tune into this episode now to hear Brad discuss the distinction between knowledge loss and preservation, modlee’s plans to work with the developers of tomorrow, and why he’s excited about businesses building generative AI solutions.

    Find out more about modlee here: https://www.modlee.ai/
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    34 mins