There's growing urgency to have a global conversation about the future we are forging with artificial intelligence - questions about the benefits and the potential costs need to asked. An upcoming University of Auckland lecture series tries to tackle this subject all throughout the month of May. One of the speakers in the series, Associate Professor Ian Watson from the University's Department of Computer Science, is doing a talk on the 25th of May about the ethics of artificial intelligence. News director Ximena caught up with him earlier this morning to learn more about the focus of his talk.
Aidee, Alex and Joe are involved in different web series pilots, two of the top ten chosen from over 150 submissions, vying in TVNZ's 'New Blood' competition for $100,000 to make their full series a reality. And you, the viewer, get to decide who wins. Mike asks the hard questions: so, are you guys mortal enemies or what?
Can prequels ever really stand alongside their original source material? Dr. Maria asks the question of Westside: Series 3, the popular prequel to NZ cultural juggernaut Outrageous Fortune.
Local filmmaker & photographer Karin Yamasaki talks Mikey through Passion, a documentary series three years in the making where she interviews local, young talented creatives.
"People always talked as if there were no young kids out there killing it - and that's when the idea began.”
Get involved and find out about the series launch HERE.
It’s been a big year for Melodownz. Things really started snowballing around the release of his Avontales EP and since then it seems like he’s become an omnipresent force. Which is just a fancy way of saying he’s popping up everywhere, whether it’s on the Laneway line up, or performing at a gallery opening at the Art Gallery, or he’s on David Dallas’ 64 Bars series or on the German ‘Colours’ series. He still finds time to feature on other tracks and visit us here on Freak The Sheep.
The University of Auckland's 2018 Vice Chancellors Lecture Series and Professor Ginny Braun joins Tess in studio to talk about how she came to choose the topic for this years talks; Beyond discrimination, towards inclusion. Ginny chats to Tess about why this is so prominent in today's society internationally and here in little New Zealand.
Sam's getting ~spooked~ with all these Halloween shows popping up everywhere. After binging the entire series of The Haunting of Hill House, he's well and truly ready for Halloween. Whilst highly recommending the series, he also recommends keeping the light on at night folks...
Can Sandra Oh's latest series, Killing Eve top the many (MANY) seasons of Grey Anatomy? Sam's been watching and so far, he's thoroughly impressed. In a game of cat and mouse Eve and Villanelle go head to head in an equal obsession with each other. But is this enough to get Sam through the entire series? Stay tuned.
Sam Sinnott's been watching Netflix's new series Special, and think's it's pretty damn good. The 8-episode series tells the story of Ryan, a gay man with mild cerebral palsy who decides to rewrite his identity as an accident victim and finally go after the life he wants. Sam reckons he's part of the target audience and rates it highly.
One of the University of Auckland's Honorary Academic's, from the School of Population Health, and Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dr. Nicki Jackson joins Rachel in studio to discuss alcohol policy, how it's made and why she believes it needs to change. You can hear more from Dr. Nicki Jackson at the University of Auckland's Winter Lecture Series tomorrow.
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