Category Archives: AI

The History Machine Credit: Joe Neary

The History Machine: Filtering History’s Bias with Neural Networks

Amanda Christensen, ideaXme guest contributor, deepfake and fake news researcher and Marketing Manager at Cubaka, interviews Niall Donnellan, co-founder (with Cathal O’Gorman) of The History Machine Podcast, a project which uses a neural network to answer some of the “what ifs” of military history. Amanda Christensen comments: Fake news and media bias have been some […]

Dr. Hamed Faridi

Food Science and Technology: Dr. Hamed Faridi

 Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Dr. Hamed Faridi, Chief Science Officer of McCormick. Ira Pastor comments: Throughout the 20th century, natural products, especially those from the plant kingdom, formed the basis for a majority of all pharmaceuticals, biologics, and consumer healthcare products used by patients around the globe, […]

Food Security and Agro-Terrorism: Protecting Against Zoonotic Viruses

Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Christopher Bomgaars, founder of EveryPig. Ira Pastor comments: Today, we have an ideaXme episode at the epicenter of a fascinating set of topics. But first, some background numbers and definitions: Antibiotic resistance is when germs (i.e., bacteria, fungi, etc.) develop the ability to defeat the […]

Amanda Christensen

The Deep Fake Dilemma: Fake News, Deepfakes, and the Post-Truth Era of Hyper-Realty

Dr. Shima Beigi founder of Mindfulness Engineering™️ and ideaXme Rich Connectedness™ ambassador interviews Amanda Christensen, content creator and media and communications scholar specialising in the symbiotic relationship between humanity and media. Dr. Shima Beigi comments: Challenged by the overwhelming spread of fake information, in this episode of ideaXme Rich Connectedness Podcast series, I, Dr. Shima Beigi […]

Nina Khera, Credit: Nina Khera

Nina Khera, 13 year old Biotech Superstar

Ira Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador and founder f Bioquark, interviews Nina Khera, 13-year-old longevity and genomics researcher and Founder and CEO of Biotein. Ira Pastor comments: Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) is a term used to group together four key academic disciplines used extensively when addressing education policy and curriculum choices in schools […]

Dr. William Pruett with mentor Robert Hester, credit University of Mississippi Medical Center.

Virtual Physiological Humans For Virtual Clinical Studies

Ira Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Dr. William Pruett, from the Physiology and Biophysics Department of the University of Mississippi Medical Center. Ira Pastor comments: The year is now 2019, and we have surpassed $7 trillion in total annual healthcare expenditures around the globe. As part of that $7 trillion, […]

Dr Alice Parker, Professor of Viterbi School of Engineering

Building a Synthetic Brain: Dr. Alice C. Parker’s Work

Ira Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Dr. Alice C. Parker, Dean’s Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California. They talk of Dr Parker’s work to build a synthetic brain. Ira Pastor comments: On the last several shows we have spent time […]

Dr. Shai Shen-Orr, Founder and Chief Scientist of CytoReason and Associate Professor Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.

CytoReason: Artificial Intelligence Crunches Data and Speeds Up Drug Discovery

Ira Pastor, ideaXme longevity and aging ambassador and founder of Bioquark interviews Dr. Shai Shen-Orr, Founder and Chief Scientist of CytoReason and Associate Professor Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. Ira Pastor comments: The year is now 2019 and we have surpassed $7 trillion in total annual healthcare expenditures around the globe. As part of that […]

Steve Furber Brain

Super ‘Human Like’ Computer

Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme, interviews Stephen Furber, ICL Professor, Computer Engineering at the University of Manchester and Creator of SpiNNaker. SpiNNaker is short for Spiking Neural Network Architecture. It is a super ‘human like’ computer, which has been in the planning for 20 years. It is a neural network computer, the current main focus […]

Multi universes

Multi Universes, Dark Matter, a New Dance Starts and a Case for Optimism?

A case for optimism explored How does the human story move forward? What is forward? What is real progress? Is there a case for optimism as humanists maintain? Or, does science according to Yuval Noah Harari’s book, Homo Deus have the capacity to undermine human progress one day?  Sheefali Asija, artist joins ideaXme as humanism ambassador […]