Laurence Moroney (Developer Advocate) meets with James McLurkin (Hardware Engineer) to talk about AIY — Artificial Intelligence-it Yourself, a project from Google that is designed to ‘build engineers’, by giving you hands-on skills in building a device that uses Google’s Artificial Intelligence technologies.
With AIY Projects, Makers can use artificial intelligence to make human-to-machine interaction more like human-to-human interactions. The goal is to put AI into the maker toolkit, to help you solve real problems that matter to you and your communities.
Laurence Moroney is the best-selling author of dozens of computer books and hundreds of technology articles. As well as the author of three popular Young Adult Novels ‘The Fourth World’, ‘The Million Year Journey’ and ‘The Legend of the Locust’, Moroney has authored many screenplays, the first of which to be produced is ‘The Ties that Bind’, the pilot episode of ‘untethered’, a science fiction TV series from Glass Forest Entertainment.
James McLurkin is a robotics engineer with 20+ years of experience in the field, both as an industry project lead and an award-winning researcher at MIT and Rice University. He’s thought leader in multi-robot systems, having led engineering teams in building 2 different swarms with 100+ robots each. His interests are broad; but He’s only happy working on challenging projects involving electrical / mechanical / computational integration. He’s at Google now, developing cool new gizmos, returning to my roots as a hardware engineer.
