Generations in Dialogue: Bridging Perspectives in AI is a podcast from AAAI featuring thought-provoking discussions between AI experts, practitioners, and enthusiasts from different age groups and backgrounds. Each episode delves into how generational experiences shape views on AI, exploring the challenges, opportunities, and ethical considerations that come with the advancement of this transformative technology. In the fourth episode of this new series from AAAI, host Ella Lan chats to Professor Marynel Vázquez about what inspired her research direction, how her perspective on human-robot interactions has changed over time, robots navigating the social world, potential for using robots in education, modeling interactions as graphs, addressing misunderstandings with regards to robots in society, getting input from target users, the challenge of recognising when errors happen, making robots that adapt, and more. Marynel Vázquez is a computer scientist and roboticist whose research focuses on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), particularly in multi-party settings. She studies social group dynamics--such as spatial behavior and social influence--in HRI, and develops perception and decision-making algorithms that enable autonomous, socially aware robot behavior.

Generations in Dialogue: Bridging Perspectives in AI is a podcast from AAAI featuring thought-provoking discussions between AI experts, practitioners, and enthusiasts from different age groups and backgrounds. Each episode delves into how generational experiences shape views on AI, exploring the challenges, opportunities, and ethical considerations that come with the advancement of this transformative technology. In the third episode of this new series from AAAI, host Ella Lan chats to Professor Roberto Martín-Martín about taking a screwdriver to his toys as a child, how his research focus has evolved over time, how different generations interact with technology, making robots for everyone, being inspired by colleagues, advice for early-career researchers, and how machines can enhance human capabilities. Roberto Martín-Martín is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin, where his research integrates robotics, computer vision, and machine learning to build autonomous agents capable of perceiving, learning, and acting in the real world. He previously worked as an AI Researcher at Salesforce AI and as a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Stanford Vision and Learning Lab with Silvio Savarese and Fei-Fei Li, leading projects in visuomotor learning, mobile manipulation, and human-robot interaction.

Generations in Dialogue: Bridging Perspectives in AI is a podcast from AAAI featuring thought-provoking discussions between AI experts, practitioners, and enthusiasts from different age groups and backgrounds. Each episode delves into how generational experiences shape views on AI, exploring the challenges, opportunities, and ethical considerations that come with the advancement of this transformative technology. In the second episode of this new series from AAAI, host Ella Lan chats to Professor Andreea Bobu about choosing her research direction, working with humans in-the-loop, things to consider when working with data, system design challenges, the gap between what we think we're programming and what we've actually programmed, privacy and personalisation, and advice for early-career researchers interested in human-centric AI. Andreea Bobu is an Assistant Professor at MIT and leads the Collaborative Learning and Autonomy Research (CLEAR) Lab, where she develops autonomous agents that learn to act for, with, and around people. Her research focuses on aligning robot behavior with human expectations by studying how agents can acquire the right supervision--whether from direct human input or priors--build shared task representations with users, and address misalignment from differing human models.

Generations in Dialogue: Bridging Perspectives in AI is a new podcast from AAAI featuring thought-provoking discussions between AI experts, practitioners, and enthusiasts from different age groups and backgrounds. Each episode delves into how generational experiences shape views on AI, exploring the challenges, opportunities, and ethical considerations that come with the advancement of this transformative technology. In the first episode of this new series from AAAI, host Ella Lan chats to Professor Manuela Veloso about her research journey and path into AI, the history and evolution of AI research, inter-generational collaborations, teamwork, AI to assist humans, AI in finance, advice for early-career researchers, and her excitement about connecting human knowledge with computers. Manuela Veloso is a renowned computer scientist and a pioneer in artificial intelligence, with influential work in multi-agent systems, robotics, and human-AI collaboration. She is currently the Head of AI Research at JPMorgan Chase, where she leads efforts to integrate AI into financial services.

The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) is thrilled to announce the launch of a new podcast series, "Generations in Dialogue: Bridging Perspectives in AI." Through this series, we aim to represent diverse perspectives across generations, fostering rich conversations about the ever changing landscape of AI. "Generations in Dialogue" aims to feature unique outlooks from AI experts, practitioners, enthusiasts of all backgrounds. Each episode will cover topics ranging from the history of AI, the latest research, to exploring the future ethical implications of its newest technologies. We will delve into how generational experiences shape views on AI, exploring the challenges, opportunities, and ethical considerations that come with the advancement of this transformative technology. We welcome you to join us on this exciting journey. Whether you are an AI professional, researcher, or student, we hope this platform will be invaluable in discovering unique perspectives of AI with a global audience, bridging existing generational gaps in the understanding of AI and expanding your network beyond your local communities.