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Podcast: The Future of Everything
Episode: Maneesh Agrawala: Artificial intelligence comes to multimedia
Description: As the digital world grows, the sheer amount of video and audio in our lives has become overwhelming.
It is easy to shoot and record, but few have the patience to endure the tedium of editing all that content into cogent stories. But, says Maneesh Agrawala, Forest Baskett professor of computer science, all that is about to change.
Agrawala is director of the Brown Center for Media Innovation at Stanford and says that advances in software and in artificial intelligence are making the editing of sound and images more like editing words with a word...