Diffusion Science Radio

Diffusion Science Radio is broadcast each week from Sydney, Australia.

Episodes

Total: 1029

Listen to the first part of Professor Nick Dirks talk about Science, policy and trust with Ian Woolf

The Long-Term Threat

2023/4/24

The Long-Term Threat - the open letter to pause AI research, and who wrote it, News of plagiarising

Waluigi Alignment

2023/4/23

The Waluigi Effect and The Alignment Problem, News of AI Copyright Shenanigans by Ian Woolf Produced

Listen to part 2 of the audience question and answer session of the Frontiers of Science Forum. Prof

Listen to part 1 of the audience question and answer session of the Frontiers of Science Forum. Prof

2011 Ignobel prizes reported by Ian Woolf, discussion from Therese Chen and Julie-Anne Popple. Victo

Anna Romanov talks about what equals means - when is a knot not a knot? Pure maths in the everyday w

Professor Robert Booy talks about infectious diseases, vaccines, epidemics and pandemics. Hosted and

David Bishop explains how labs identify poisons diseases and minerals with mass spectrometers. Ian W

Modelling to Mars!

2023/2/27

Susanna Guatelli uses models to shield astronauts from radiation on their way to Mars, and during th

AI Art controversy and lawsuits. Can you sue for what someone might be able to do in the future? Can

Stable Diffusion?

2023/2/13

How does AI art software work? Ian Woolf attempts a clear explanation in plain English. News of AI s

Listen to Adrian Frenulovich talk about the joys and challengers of curating ancient computers, and

Listen to Adrian Franulovich talk about the history of Australian computing and the 40th anniversary

Fly Singularity

2023/1/26

From 2010, Ian Woolf explains how Gregory Benford uses flies and artificial intelligence to slow age

SETI reset

2023/1/18

From 2010, why the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence has been doing it wrong! The discovery

2022 Ig Nobel Prizes

2023/1/11

Prizes for science that first makes you laugh, and then makes you think, from the Annals of Improbab

Listen to tales of online scams, zapping mosquito bites, and sperm that can smell, in this episode f

From 2009, the red dust storm hit Sydney, rats on twitter, and how smart are dogs? Fun science with

Sydney Space suits part 2

2022/12/19

Join founder Kiriti Rambhalta on a tour of the Metakosmos Space suit facility in Sydney with host Ia