Welcome to the Machine Commons podcast, where we explore the various and far reaching impacts of machine learning - the software approach better known as artificial intelligence (or, AI). The world has teetered over an invisible edge, where more of our lives are governed by software that is decreasingly coded and increasingly trained - a world where our governing software 'learns'. It is the technology at the cross section of multiple advanced fields. Come hang out with Alex and Lucie, as they ask the smart and the dumb questions about this profound technology.