Alberta's Top AI Researcher on What the Hype Gets Wrong - Matthew Taylor

Alberta's Top AI Researcher on What the Hype Gets Wrong - Matthew Taylor

April 21, 2026 · 46 min · Episode 161

About this episode

In this episode, Ayush Prakash interviews Professor Matthew Taylor about AI, Canadian policy, and the implications of ChatGPT's release.

For this episode, I'm joined by Professor Matthew Taylor, an Amii Fellow and Canada CIFAR AI Chair at Amii and a Professor of Computing Science at the University of Alberta. He is the Director of the Intelligent Robot Learning (IRL) Lab and a Principal Investigator at the Reinforcement Learning & Artificial Intelligence (RLAI) Lab, both at the University of Alberta. In this episode, we basically sprint. I don't think there is a breath taken between questions on AI, Canadian policy, Russian disinformation strategies, and the emotional turbulence of ChatGPT's release from the perspective of an AI researcher. Connect with Matthew: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewedmundtaylor/Website: https://drmatttaylor.netPodcast Info: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1ILhje5HSua1FEOlTyFAhGApple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3qXL37WConnect: Website: https://ayushprakash.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prakash-ayush/ Instagram: instagram.com/ayushprakashofficialBooks: AI for Gen Z: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0981182135

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