Welcome to yet another episode of Info Under the Radar. Let me ask you, what’s common between Russia-Ukraine war, American Presidential election, and Tom Cruise.. nope not another Hollywood movie but rather they are all victims of DeepFakes. Under the hood, DeepFakes is a technology that comes under the AI umbrella. As the name suggests, it uses Deep Learning to generate Synthetic or Fake media. To understand it better, we invited the very people who were responsible for popularising the term in the research community Prof. Sebastian Marcel and Dr. Pavel Korshunov. They helped us understand: What is a DeepFake and what is not a DeepFake? Does it even have some use-cases outside the research community? How are social media companies fighting with deepfakes? What is the future of the tech and what excites the researchers in the near future? and much more Tune in to understand the technology, the myth, the innovation that DeepFakes is. Timestamps: (00:00)  Intro (06:06)  Welcoming our guests. What is DeepFakes and what is not a DeepFakes (21:45)  Are there any positive use cases of DeepFakes (31:25)  Can we create people’s faces out of nothing OR do we need some actual human faces to create DeepFakes (37:53)  What is the success rate of these fake human faces creation? (44:31)  What are some use cases for people outside of Research community (45:55)  Star Wars has also used DeepFakes (47:30)  How accurate humans are in detecting DeepFakes? (53:45)  Ethical boundaries of DeepFakes (61:40)  Social media companies and DeepFake detection Reach out to our guests: Prof. Sebastian Marcel: https://www.idiap.ch/~marcel/professional/Welcome.html Dr. Pavel Korshunov: https://www.idiap.ch/~pkorshunov/ Reach out to us with your comments, suggestions or critique here: Twitter: @infounderradarInstagram: @infoundertheradar Your hosts on twitter: Devendra: @InDevOutVishwajeet: vishwajeets3 Music Credits: Origami by Johny Grimes https://soundcloud.com/johny-grimesCreative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/_-origamiMusic promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/m-pdlZ7VaDE Late Night Latte by Purrple Cat | https://purrplecat.comMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/info-under-radar/message

Welcome to the third part of our 3 part series on Personal Identity. In the first part, we talked about how one associates their identity with language and race. In the second part we talked about identities that don’t really have a strong association and one’s association of identity with their work in lack of any special hobbies, how does the perception of ethnicity shape future planning for inter-racial couples, and how does a not-so-decided relationship with God look like. In this episode, we are talking about strong religious identity and how it shapes other parts of one’s identity. We are also talking about and understanding strong gender and sexual identity by listening to the story of someone from a transgender community. Timestamps (00:00) Intro (08:10) Hearing the story of a person with strong religious faith and how it defines his Identity (24:24) What leads to one questioning their faith and deciding to be not religious (29:55) How does one develop their religious identity (39:45) Story of a person about how his views and his own gender/sexual Identity are shaped by religion (50:50) What if the above-mentioned person’s future kid will be Homosexual and how will that affect his views on Homosexuality (65:20) Understanding what it means to be assigned the “wrong gender” at birth and the story of the gender transition of this person (76:00) How can parents/caretakers of young kids contribute to the journey of gender and sexual identity of their kids? (81:25) How does suppression impact one’s Identity? (85:20) How does this person’s ethnic Identity impact his gender Identity and what happens when two identities conflict with each other? (94:50) Is he happy after his transition? (95:30) Our final thoughts on the Identity series Link to Prof Theo Klimstra’s Home page: https://as.tufts.edu/epcshd/people/faculty/theo-klimstra Reach out to us with your comments, suggestions, or critique here: Twitter: @infounderradar Instagram: @infoundertheradar Your hosts on Twitter: Devendra: @InDevOut Vishwajeet: @vishwajeets3 Music Credits: Origami by Johny Grimes https://soundcloud.com/johny-grimes Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/_-origami Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/m-pdlZ7VaDE Late Night Latte by Purrple Cat | https://purrplecat.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/info-under-radar/message

Welcome to the second part of our 3 part series on Personal Identity. In the first part we talked about how one associates their identity with language and race. This time we are making an attempt to understand identities that don’t really have a strong association like the one we saw in the previous episode.  We talk one’s association of identity with their work in lack of any special hobbies, how does perception of ethnicity shape future planning for inter-racial couples and how does a not-so-decided relationship with God looks like. Timestamps (00:00) Intro  (04:52) How does Theo defines identity in general?  (09:10) Change in one’s identity and factors that determine that  (16:30) Difference in struggles faced by one’s identity vs personality? Is there something called as personality crisis?  (21:23) Clip from Hannes: A more relatable take on identity  (25:30) Is workoholism associated with one’s identity or is it a part of your personality?  (31:20) Clip about how does an inter-racial couple thinks about identity of their child?  (42:20) At what age do we start developing certain stereotypes? (43:45) How does parenting defines or pre-determines your identity? (47:00) Are stereotypes inherently good or bad? (53:35) Clip: Worldview of a person for whom religion has never been a thing, neither for him nor his parents. (63:40) Does pondering about identity always involves worry? (67:10) Clip: Raised religiously but not has a “figuring out” status when it comes to relationship with God (70:15) Religion isn’t all that bad! Link to Prof Theo Klimstra’s Home page : https://as.tufts.edu/epcshd/people/faculty/theo-klimstra Reach out to us with your comments, suggestions or critique here:  Twitter: @infounderradarInstagram: @infoundertheradar Your hosts on twitter: Devendra: @InDevOut Vishwajeet: vishwajeets3 Music Credits:  Origami by Johny Grimes https://soundcloud.com/johny-grimes Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/_-origami Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/m-pdlZ7VaDE Late Night Latte by Purrple Cat | https://purrplecat.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/info-under-radar/message

Welcome to the first episode of our three part series on Understanding Personal Identity. This is a special one for us since we are talking about a topic that everyone has thought about at some point but more often than not we are left with more questions that we initially started with. Figuring out one’s identity is a life long process and it’s an ever evolving process. We tried to cover some really important aspects of it in this series. Prof. Theo Klimstra who is an expert in the field of personal identity joined us and helped us dive deep into various aspects of identity. This entire series will have a lot of clips from people sharing their personal opinion and stories, so it was new format for us and we would happy to receive your comments on how did you receive it. Timestamps (00:00) Intro  (06:52) Why did Theo choose to pursue a career in the field of Personal Identity?  (13:06) Clip: A rather strange association with a language that was never learned  (26:50) Does one see the world differently when speak more than one languages? (29:50) Clip: An incidence that made a Black/Mixed personal realize more of their racial identity  (36:00) Interesting study about a massive 93% of Black girls associating their identity with their hairs  (48:40) Personal space and Culture  (51:30) Clip: Do children understand Racial differences/identity?  (57:45) Thought experiment: If a child were to be raised in Religion, Race agnostic way, would it be better?  (60:25) If one didn’t actively choose religion/language as part of their identity but was rather endowed upon them, would it still be considered their identity? Reach out to Prof. Klimstra on his Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/theo-klimstra-6141a3b/ You can find more about Prof. Klimstra and his work here: https://as.tufts.edu/epcshd/people/faculty/theo-klimstra  Reach out to us with your comments, suggestions, or critique here: Twitter: @infounderradar Instagram: @infoundertheradar Your hosts on Twitter: Devendra: @InDevOut & Vishwajeet: @vishwajeets3 Music Credits:  Origami by Johny Grimes https://soundcloud.com/johny-grimes Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/_-origami Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/m-pdlZ7VaDE Late Night Latte by Purrple Cat | https://purrplecat.comMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/info-under-radar/message

In this short episode, we are discussing the economic cost of war. Starting from the GDP of a country and the amount of tax that goes into military funding to how much individual war equipment costs, to give you a very concrete idea of why wars are so expensive. We are talking about this in the context of the current invasion of Ukraine by Russia but the calculations we mentioned in the episode can be easily expanded to other such wars. Some of the references used in this episode: http://old.cost.ua/en/budget/revenue/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/810835/ratio-of-military-expenditure-to-gross-domestic-product-gdp-ukraine/#:~:text=In 2020%2C military expenditure in,percent of gross domestic product. https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/the-cost-of-war-how-russias-economy-will-struggle-to-pay-the-price-of-invading-ukraine-2821235 https://www.kyivpost.com/business/ukraine-collects-nearly-40-billion-in-taxes-relies-heavily-on-vat-for-budget.html https://nation-creation.fandom.com/wiki/Modern_Day_Military_Pricing_List#RUSSIAN_MILITARY_EQUIPMENT https://twitter.com/michaeldweiss/status/1502203487685328898?s=21 Reach out to us with your comments, suggestions, or critique here:  Twitter: @infounderradar Instagram: @infoundertheradar Your hosts on Twitter: Devendra(@InDevOut) & Vishwajeet(@vishwajeets3) Music Credits: Origami by Johny Grimes https://soundcloud.com/johny-grimes Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/_-origami Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/m-pdlZ7VaDE --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/info-under-radar/message

In the fourth episode of the second season of IUTR, we are talking about how do beliefs form and what leads to their transformation among other things from the lens of Political Beliefs. We also looked into who are politically sophisticated people (for conciseness referred to as sophisticated during the conversation) and why they tend to be more aligned with their political parties. We invited Dr. Bert Bakker, who is a Political Scientist and an Associate Prof. of Political Communication and Journalism at the University of Amsterdam to understand this very interesting and complicated subject. (07:15) - What is a belief in the first place and how do beliefs are formed? (14:40) - Types of beliefs and how beliefs are seen as a network (29:15) - Can we quantitatively measure the change in our beliefs? (35:35) - What leads to change in beliefs and what does it mean to be politically “sophisticated”? (40:45) - Why do politically sophisticated individuals tend to vote on party lines? (43:55) - “More sophisticated someone is, less is their willingness to change their beliefs” but why? (49:45) - Psychological reasoning behind why sophisticated people might not look to the other side of issues they believe in (i.e. people on the left not willing to understand ideas of the right and vice-versa) and why it's hard to change their beliefs? (57:15) - What leads to drastic shifts in the religious or political beliefs of individuals who grow up in a household of certain beliefs? (63:00) - If you are atheist or agnostic, who do you look up to when things are going bad in life. Reach out to Prof. Bakker on his Twitter: @bnbakker You can find all the work Bert is doing with The Hot Politics Lab: https://www.hotpolitics.eu/ Bert’s personal website: http://www.bertbakker.com/ Reach out to us with your comments, suggestions, or critique here: Twitter: @infounderradar Instagram: @infoundertheradar Your hosts on Twitter: Devendra: @InDevOut & Vishwajeet: @vishwajeets3 Music Credits: Origami by Johny Grimes https://soundcloud.com/johny-grimes Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/_-origami Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/m-pdlZ7VaDE --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/info-under-radar/message

Welcome to the first shortcast of season 2. We will be talking about Quantum Teleportation and the underlying concepts to understand it ground up. We are no experts but Quantum Computation is a topic that excites us a lot and we wanted to share whatever little we know. Here are all the links that helped us understand the topic a bit and will help you if you got interested listening to us Quantum Computing Expert Explains One Concept in 5 Levels of Difficulty | WIRED - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWJCfOvochA Real world applications of quantum computers - https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/2ffle5/what_would_be_some_of_the_real_world_applications/ Quantum Teleportation Video explanation -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb38jozeDOs Animated video from Kurzgesagt - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhHMJCUmq28 A very intuitive explanation of Quantum Teleportation - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuvK-od647c&ab_channel=Veritasium Reach out to us with your comments, suggestions, or critique here: Twitter: @infounderradar Instagram: @infoundertheradar Your hosts on Twitter: Devendra(@InDevOut) & Vishwajeet(@vishwajeets3) Music Credits: Origami by Johny Grimes https://soundcloud.com/johny-grimes Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/_-origami Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/m-pdlZ7VaDE --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/info-under-radar/message

Festivities, cultures, traditions, and enjoyment... The holiday season is all about this! In the same spirit, in lieu of our regular episode, we decided to bring to you a special episode this holiday season. We were joined by some amazing people from different parts of the world, Germany, Ecuador, Poland, Egypt, and Spain (and not to forget your hosts from India as well). They shared their stories and culture with us. So without further ado, let’s step into the shoes of these different cultures and dance our way through these celebratory times. Wishing you all a Merry Christmas, A very Happy new year, and Happy Holidays Timestamps Vishwajeet & Devendra (0:00): Dev talks about the festival of Rakshabandhan and the significance behind it. Jeet tells us about a festival of Ganga Mela, which is similar to Holi from his hometown, and how it's related to India’s independence movement in 1942. Both of them also share the festivals they would like to attend. Fatima (19:25): Spanish girl with African roots. Currently living in Germany. Talked about her experience of celebrating festivals from her culture in a country where those festivals or traditions are not known. Michelle (32:15): Ecuadorean girl, studied in France and now finds herself liking Germany. Walked us through various festivals of her beautiful sunny country and the interesting anecdotes behind the rituals they follow, particularly around New Year's Eve. Julia (42:40): Born and brought up in Southwest Germany(Bavaria), traveled around the globe, and now living in Germany, shared some interesting insights into german traditions of Christmas and New Years’ eve. She also gave us insight into the bavarian festival of Maibaum and everyone’s favorite Oktoberfest. Molly/Tito (58:45): The Egyptian duo, studying in Germany. Walked us through life during festive seasons in Egypt, especially during the month-long festival of Ramadan and the religious backdrop of it. Alex (69:15): German-Polish roots, lived around the globe, and now residing in Germany. Gives us insights into Polish Christmas traditions. Reach out to us with your comments, suggestions, or critique here: Twitter: @infounderradar Instagram: @infoundertheradar Your hosts on Twitter: Devendra: @InDevOut & Vishwajeet: @vishwajeets3 Music Credits: “This is Christmas” by scottholmesmusic.com Creative Commons - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/info-under-radar/message

Welcome to season 2 of Info Under the Radar. New topics, new guests with your familiar hosts. In the third episode of this new season, we are talking about something which everyone talks about but no one really knows how to do it. We are talking about establishing peace in conflicted regions, be it Israel-Palestine or in Afghanistan, Myanmar, or any other regions with conflicts. For this special topic, our guest is Prof. Eran Halperin. Eran is a professor of psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and his research involves understanding how to resolve inter-group conflicts in highly conflicted regions and establish peace. Prof. Eran is a perfect guest to talk about this topic not only because of his work in the field but also because of his personal story. (04:55) - Eran’s personal story, from being an Israeli soldier in special forces to a peace and conflict researcher (12:10) - Is conflict a primal instinct for Humans? (15:05) - How do different types of conflicts look like? (26:05) - How do stronger and weaker groups in a conflict can feel differently about the conflict? (34:30) - How does Eran justify his own biasness coming from Israel and working in the area of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? (39:00) - Pause (40:00) - How to shift the mindset of people living in conflict from fear, anger, and other negative emotions to Hope? (45:05) - How to bring people from different extremes to meet in the middle to create peace? (60:00) - Funny story of an Israeli and a Palestinian’s interaction in the US and how people in the UK are changing their perception of Islam based on their view of footballer Mohammad Salah (63:30) - How does the process of conflict resolution start at the ground and how to scale it? (68:00) - Process of peacebuilding in the active violent areas such as Afghanistan, Yemen, etc. (75:10) - Are there any factors that could determine if a conflict can be resolved for good? Reach out to Eran on his Twitter: @eranh75_era (https://twitter.com/eranh75_eran) You can find all the work Eran is doing on his website: https://www.eranhalperin.com/ Reach out to us with your comments, suggestions, or critique here: Twitter: @infounderradar Instagram: @infoundertheradar Your hosts on Twitter: Devendra: @InDevOut & Vishwajeet: @vishwajeets3 Music Credits: Origami by Johny Grimes https://soundcloud.com/johny-grimes Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/_-origami Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/m-pdlZ7VaDE --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/info-under-radar/message

Welcome to season 2 of Info Under the Radar. New topics, new guests with your familiar hosts. In the second episode of this new season, we are talking about Ethics in the forever growing field of Technology. We talked about various aspects of it from a philosophical, pragmatic and scientific standpoint. Prof. Christoph Lütge is in a special position since he is the head of an ethics institute that is funded by Facebook, so we had to discuss that. We also talked about AI and ethics, Ethics and Politics and many more genres within the subject umbrella. Timestamps (07:25) How does Prof. Lütge define Ethics? (10:44) What are your ethical guiding principles when you're in dilemma? (13:08) Is there diff between Corporate and Academic Ethics? (21:39) How does Prof. Lütge navigates the Ethics Research Arena while being funded by Facebook? (30:07) Is it even Ethical to make a Fully Autonomous Vehicle? (37:00) As a regular person, how NOT to be afraid of AI? (44:20) Racial Bias in AI (47:26) Can we have Smart Features in our apps/devices without sharing our personal data? (51:34) Do we put more expectations on AI systems as compared to humans? (54:41) AI and future of politics (62:19) Ethics or Tech, which one should come first? Reach out to Prof. Christoph Lütge on his Twitter: @chluetge (https://twitter.com/chluetge) Link to Prof Lütge's Home page - https://www.gov.tum.de/en/wirtschaftsethik/team/luetge/ Prof. Lütge's Latest Book: An Introduction to Ethics in Robotics and AI Reach out to us with your comments, suggestions or critique here:  Twitter: @infounderradar Instagram: @infoundertheradar Your hosts on twitter: Devendra: & Vishwajeet: @vishwajeets3 Music Credits: Origami by Johny Grimes https://soundcloud.com/johny-grimes Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/_-origami Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/m-pdlZ7VaDE --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/info-under-radar/message