Complete Tech Heads with Tom Edwards

Orion: OpenAI’s DANGEROUS Gamble

Tue, 27 Aug 2024 20:14:39 GMT

OpenAI is betting big on their secretive Orion AI, but with key safety experts leaving and a history of broken promises, could this be a disaster waiting to happen? Dive into the risks and realities behind the hype.

#technews #openai #ai

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Fortune 500 turns on AI

Mon, 19 Aug 2024 20:15:38 GMT

American business is starting to see AI as more of a threat than an opportunity. Here's the latest...

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How Aarvind Srinivas's Perplexity AI will destroy google search

Mon, 12 Aug 2024 19:56:20 GMT

Perplexity AI has hit a record number of questions answered and raised $250m - they're on a roll and coming for Google.

#technews #perplexityai #google

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UK ON FIRE: The big reason Starmer has already failed

Mon, 05 Aug 2024 20:28:04 GMT

Riots are sweeping the UK and the Government doesn't seem to know what to do about it. Here's why the Government has already made a huge error in tackling the root cause.

#news #technews

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AI Weapons reach "OPPENHEIMER moment"

Mon, 15 Jul 2024 21:15:05 GMT

AI weapons have already reached a terrifying new level of capability, according to many experts and diplomats. Here's what it means for you.

#technews #ai

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Sorry haters, here's why Labour's win is GREAT news for UK tech

Mon, 08 Jul 2024 20:20:56 GMT

Kier Starmer's Labour have just won the general election on some HUGE promises, and they have their skeptics. Here's why I think their opportunity is massive.

#news #technews #ukelection2024

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Apple outsources the dirty work to OpenAI

Thu, 13 Jun 2024 19:12:50 GMT

Apple launched some amazing new AI products at their WWDC - but there are still many questions to answer. Like, how do their models actually work? And where did the training data come from?

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OpenAI ‘BREAKING POINT’ as head of alignment QUITS

Mon, 20 May 2024 20:35:18 GMT

OpenAI's Head of Superalignment, Jan Leike, has resigned from his role, claiming that the company is ignoring safety in favour of 'shiny products'. How worried should we be? And why is Sam Altman seemingly ignoring him?

#technews #aisafety #ai #openai

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Everything you need to know about OpenAI's NEW GPT4o

Tue, 14 May 2024 10:08:30 GMT

OpenAI just launched their new 'omnimodal' model GPT4o, which is free for everyone. The capabilities are super impressive - here's a rundown.

#openai #GPT4o #technews #ai

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Why Biden's new AI panel will TERRIFY you

Mon, 06 May 2024 19:09:23 GMT

The new AI safety panel has people like Sam Altman and Sundar Pichai on it - but what if the body supposed to protect us from AI risks is actually making things far worse?

#technews #ai #openai #airisks

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How will AI build the world? Talking AI in construction and architecture with Karoliina Torttila, Director of AI at Trimble

Tue, 12 Mar 2024 00:01:39 GMT

This week I'm speaking with Karoliina Torttila, Director of AI at Trimble. In this show we discuss how to turn the real physical world into a digital representation understandable by AI... and what the AI might be able to do with it.

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"Q Star" - The REAL reason Elon thinks OpenAI is a 'threat to humanity'

Tue, 05 Mar 2024 00:01:44 GMT

This week I'm deep-diving on Q* - the mysterious new development at OpenAI that Elon Musk believes could destroy us all.

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Ex-gambling addict: These app tactics got me hooked | Talking gambling, recovery and technology with Matt Zarb-Cousin

Tue, 27 Feb 2024 00:01:18 GMT

This week I'm speaking with Matt Zarb-Cousin, cofounder and director of external affairs at at Gamban, an app that helps you quit online gambling. He is also a recovering gambling addict himself.

Timestamps:

00:00 - Intro

01:24 - Discovering gambling

03:00 - Rationalization of gambling

08:00 - Brain circuitry and addiction

17:00 - Triggers and the engineering of devices

20:00 - The business model of the gambling industry

28:00 - Gamban intro

31:30 - The difference between having fun and addiction

36:00 - How to approach someone with a gambling problem

41:00 - Impact on mental health

43:00 - Losing control

#gamblingaddiction #technology #gamban

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DEEP DIVE: China's $38bn AI masterplan

Tue, 20 Feb 2024 00:01:27 GMT

China is one of the world's biggest AI investors and may soon overtake the USA - but it has no blockbuster consumer products. So where is all the money going? I've dug a little deeper to try to find out.

Timestamps:

00:00 - Chinese investment in AI

01:00 - China's tech crackdown

01:30 - Censorship of AI

02:40 - Centrally planned economies and innovation

03:40 - What China is investing in

05:30 - Data exchanges

06:00 - AI for defence

07:30 - Has China overtaken the West?

#ai #technology #china #geopolitics #defence

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Longevity expert: THIS is why some people live to 110 years old

Tue, 13 Feb 2024 00:01:38 GMT

This week I’m speaking with Nick Engerer, the founder of Longevity Media, co-founder at Sage Women’s Health, host of the Reversed Longevity TV series, a triathlete and a PhD in solar radiation science.

Nick's inspires people to believe a truth lost in a sea of fear and limiting beliefs: that you can determine your health future and change your current aging destiny. His mission is to create a global shift in perspectives of what’s possible for human longevity.

Timestamps:

00:00 - Intro

03:00 - Proactive and preventative healthcare

08:00 - Principles of longevity

13:00 - Genetics vs lifestyle

14:00 - Why some people live longer

19:00 - Biological age

24:00 - Testosterone

26:00 - Prostate cancer

29:00 - The possibility of extending human lifespan & current limitations

41:00 - The social implications of an aging society

44:00 - The changing concept of retirement

46:00 - The importance of purpose and connection

47:00 - The impact of retirement on men’s health

50:00 - Movement and exercise

53:00 - Supplementation and personalisation

57:30 - Vitamin D and supplement quality

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The INSANE physics of AI chip manufacturing, with Rodrigo Liang, CEO of SambaNova

Tue, 06 Feb 2024 00:01:32 GMT

This week I’m speaking with Rodrgo Liang, CEO at SambaNova Systems, Softbank-backed full stack AI startup that creates specialised AI chips and software to sell to enterprises.

He’s a former head of engineering at Oracle and HP and holds a masters from Stanford University in Electrical Engineering.

In the show we discuss all things chips - from CPUs, to GPUs, to RDUs and everything in between. We also cover the chip manufacturing supply chain, TSMC, and why designing and building them is so incredibly difficult.

00:00 - Intro

03:25 - CPUs and GPUs

08:00 - The impact AI is going to have on business

12:30 - Building AI from the ground up

18:00 - Using open source to build models for Enterprise

22:22 - RDUs - like GPUs, only better

29:38 - Driving efficiency in AI

37:30 - The crazy physics behind manufacturing chips

44:00 - TSMC

#TSMC #sambanova #ai

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Will AI CURE Aging? With Alex Zhavoronkov PhD

Tue, 30 Jan 2024 00:01:13 GMT

Alex Zhavoronkov, Founder and CEO at Insilico Medicine, is an expert in artificial intelligence for drug discovery and aging research. Since 2014 he has published and co-published over 170 peer-reviewed publications and raised over $400 million in capital. He also has and incredible six clinical trials for drugs discovered using AI.

Timestamps

00:00 - Intro

02:00 - What is ageing?

04:30 - Cellular senescence

05:50 - Chronic inflammation

09:00 - AI Drug Discovery

14:00 - Predicting age with AI

16:30 - Generative chemistry

20:30 - Teaching AI to think like a chemist

23:00 - Dramatic acceleration

28:30 - Multimodal transformers

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#ai #longevity #science #genetics

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"Radioactive waste has never harmed ANYBODY" - Talking energy, geopolitics & decarbonisation with author and CEO Rauli Partanen

Tue, 23 Jan 2024 00:01:51 GMT

This week I'm speaking with award-winning author and CEO of Think Atom think tank, Rauli Partanen. In the show, we discuss:

00:00 - Intro

05:56 - The link between human wellbeing and energy consumption

18:11 - The current global energy mix, and decarbonization

20:43 - European gas crisis & deindustrialisation

25:38 - How important is the pace of decarbonisation?

30:19 - The potential of nuclear energy

35.14 - Why has nuclear been so maligned?

41:00 - Misconceptions about nuclear energy

42:00 - Nuclear waste

49:00 - Chernobyl and Fukushima

58:30 - Advances in nuclear technology

01:02:00 - Why Can’t the UK build infrastructure?

01:04:36 - The problems with the nuclear pace of deployment

01:07:25 - Building and deploying small modular reactors

LINKS:

Reports and studies by Rauli's think tank, ThinkAtom:

https://thinkatom.net/publications/

Rauli's Amazon author page:

https://www.amazon.com/stores/Rauli-Partanen/author/B00M7UVBYK

The Rise of Nuclear Fear - the book mentioned in the show:

https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Nuclear-Fear-Spencer-Weart/dp/0674052331

Find Rauli on X: https://twitter.com/Kaikenhuippu

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Bitcoin ETF: Freedom or dystopia? Talking crypto with Jack Jia, Head of Crypto at Unlimit

Mon, 15 Jan 2024 21:37:28 GMT

This week I’m talking all things crypto with the very excellent Jack Jia, Head of Crypto at Unlimit.

Jack has been working in the crypto space for the last 10 years. He was first employee at Wyre, a first generation fiat onramp that helped wallet users to onboard fiat into crypto. He also had a stint at Consensys leading GTM for Metamask Institution and as Head of BD for Infura. He now returns to payments as Head of Crypto at an establsiehd payment comapny in Unlimit.com

00:00 - Intro

00:50 - DoNotAge.org ad

01:30 - Intro to Jack Jia & background on Cryptocurrency

04:45 - Crypto as a reaction to inflation

06:45 - Intro to Bitcoin ETF & traditional finance

11:15 - Impact of ETFs on Bitcoin’s deflationary nature

13:00 - Perception of gold vs BItcoin

17:00 - Bringing crypto under government control

18:00 - Geopolitical implications of crypto

21:00 - China’s role in global reserve currencies

27:00 - Bitcoin halving and price cycles

30:00 - Bitcoin economics

34:00 - Staking Ethereum & earning

38:00 - Reframing value in the digital world

40:00 - Governments, inflation and taxation

44:00 - NFTs and cultural memes

49:00 - Assessing the credibility of altcoins

55:00 - The people of Yap

56:00 - Understanding what kind of a buyer you are

01:00:00 - Unlimit

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Nvidia stock EXPLODES to new All Time High on CES announcements

Tue, 09 Jan 2024 00:01:12 GMT

The stock market's favourite chip maker is hitting crazy new heights - here's the latest on why it's popping and what's next.

#nvda #nvdastock #nvidia

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Terrorist Chatbots: The Latest Terrifying AI Development

Tue, 02 Jan 2024 20:20:54 GMT

A UK lawyer has called for new legislation to regulate terrorist chatbots. Here's my investigation into the bots and why they may be dangerous.

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Investing in Gene Editing: Tech that will change EVERYTHING, with @Geneinvesting w/Anthony

Mon, 18 Dec 2023 18:15:39 GMT

Gene editing is an area of technology that could be about to change all of our lives for the better - and there are a few companies doing really incredible things. In this episode I spoke with Anthony, from the Gene Investing w/Anthony X page. In it, we discuss:

00:00 - Intro

01:54 - DoNotAge.org ad

02:37 - Intro to Anthony

06:00 - How huge is the opportunity for our species? Biotech generally & the current bear market

07:00 - CRISPR - the company and the technology, base editing

15:13 - Why is it such a compelling area for investment

17:15 - Alphafold and the historic problem of protein folding, and the transformative impact of AI on gene editing

20:30 - How to assess gene editing businesses

24:30 - Solvng diseases like Cardioneuropathy and polyneuropathy

28:15 - Applications: superhumans and curing baldness

31:50 - What will the world look like in 5, 10 or 20 years if the tech keeps progressing? Curing Sickle Cell Anemia, side effects

46:00 - Intellia Therapeutics and BEAM Therapeutics, understanding analysts, big industry investment

58:45 - Ethical concerns and designer babies

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Google FAKES AI launch & Mistral's exciting new model

Tue, 12 Dec 2023 00:01:32 GMT

It turns out Google Gemini's launch video was a fake - but there is another new AI upstart from France grabbing headlines for the right reasons... here's why.

#ai #gemini #mistral #mistralai #google

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Will new "Thermodynamic GOD" AI destroy us all?

Tue, 05 Dec 2023 00:01:37 GMT

Extropic today announced a $14m seed funding round to build a brand new type of "thermodynamic" AI - I'm discussing all the details we know so far about this exciting/terrifying new technology.

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Inflammation is DESTROYING your body | Longevity lifestyle with Andrew Panella

Tue, 28 Nov 2023 00:01:52 GMT

This week I'm speaking with Andrew Panella, author and founder of Longevity Lifestyle - a newsletter aimed at helping people live better for longer.

In it, we discuss:

00:00 - Intro

03:00 - Longevity and extending human lifespan and healthspan

08:00 - Food groups and metabolic flexibility

12:30 - Keto diets

16:30 - Inflammation and its effects

22:00 - Benefits of fermented foods

27:00 - Gut bacteria

30:00 - Processed foods

35:30 - Nutritional supplements

37:00 - Movement and exercise

41:00 - Walking barefoot and barefoot shoes

47:00 - Alcohol

Find Andrew on X: https://twitter.com/Longevity_EDU

And on his website: https://www.longevitylifestyle.me/

#longevity #healthspan #dieting #inflammation #barefoot

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OpenAI IMPLODES: Liron Shapira on Altman, AGI, and impending existential doom

Tue, 21 Nov 2023 00:01:03 GMT

OpenAI has fully imploded - I'm talking with Liron Shapira about what it means for tech and the world. Liron is my first returning guest, and regular listeners may remember him as being someone who is extremely concerned about the potential existential dangers of AI.

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OpenAI in CHAOS - Sam Altman fired. Emergency podcast!

Sat, 18 Nov 2023 18:04:30 GMT

A run down of everything we know so far about Sam Altman's shocking departure from OpenAI.

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"Grok is less lobotomized"... talking Grok and GPT dev day with Alex Ker

Tue, 14 Nov 2023 00:01:52 GMT

This week I’m speaking with Alex Ker, Founder and Chairman of p-ai, fellow at Bessemer, 8vc and Bloomberg Beta, former editor at at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, and a content creator. In the show we discuss Grok, Elon, OpenAI’s dev day, AI job displacement, Open Source, and brain-computer interfaces.

And apologies for any sound issues! It appears my mic cut out soon after we started recording.

00:00 - Intro

02:30 - Building an AI NBA commentator

08:30 - Grok, GPT, censorship, RLHF, and using X data to train AI

20:00 - Integrating filters into LLMs

23:00 - OpenAI dev day - exciting features and possibilities

29:00 - GPT wrappers and GPT4 use cases

37:00 - AI job displacement, key skills to succeed in the AI future

44:00 - Open Source AI

48:00 - Brain-computer interfaces

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AI Safety: Did Biden or the UK Summit actually achieve anything?

Tue, 07 Nov 2023 00:01:48 GMT

The UK AI Safety Summit and Joe Biden's AI Safety Executive Order happened within a few days of each other, kicking off a global drive to regulate AI. But will either of them achieve their stated aims? This week I'm trying to find out.

Time stamps:

00:00 - Intro

00:45 - Rishi Sunak and Elon Musk

02:00 - The Bletchley Declaration

03:45 - Joe Biden's Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence

05:25 - Impossibility of watermarking AI content

07:15 - Successes of the UK AI Safety Summit

08:30 - Cybersecurity and Poppy Gustafsson from Darktrace

10:00 - Were Biden or Bletchley actually successful?

#ai #technews #airisks #aisafety #joebiden #rishisunak #elonmusk

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"AI weapons are inevitable" - David Shapiro on AI risk & geopolitics

Tue, 31 Oct 2023 00:01:40 GMT

This week I'm the good, the bad, and the ugly of AI with researcher and thought leader David Shapiro. David is an incredibly knowledgeable man who goes into great depth on many of the most pressing issues around AI facing us as a species on his YouTube channel. In this show, we discuss:

00:00 - Intro

02:00 - The fourth industrial revolution

08:30 - How should we prepare? Congress, the UN & geopolitics

14:00 - Politics, AI, and the gerontocracy

17:00 - AI Summit and China

20:00 - AI risk, and what we should do about it

25:00 - AI weaponization

27:30 - The possibility of controlling superintelligent AI

36:00 - Energy abundance & optimistic scenarios

39:30 - Work, meaning, job destruction, and status games

54:00 - Longevity escape velocity and significantly extending human life

60:00 - The ACE Framework

Check out David's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@DaveShap

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"We're creating alien intelligence and need to act now" The morality and legality of AI, with Prof David Gunkel

Mon, 23 Oct 2023 23:01:28 GMT

Whose responsibility is it if an AI goes haywire and causes damage to a human? And how should we think about their rights, responsibilities, and morality? These are serious questions we're going to have to grapple with far more often in the future. Prof David Gunkel, this week's guest, argues we need to be thinking about it now. In this conversation, we cover:

00:00 - Intro

01:45 - Defining a person and defining a thing

02:45 - Blurring the lines with robots

05:15 - Anthropomorphisaton

07:00 - AI friends and conscious minds

09:30 - Talking to machines and AI girlfriends

12:00 - Marc Andreesen, technological things & techno-optimism

15:30 - Human treatment of animals

18:00 - AIs taking decisions in the real world

19:30 - Talking about robots rather than AIs

21:30 - Cloud-based AI, LLMs, and AIs falling in love with each other

25:30 - Chinese, European, and American approaches to regulating AI

27:30 - AI risk and doomerism

29:30 - Open source AI, regulatory capture, and ethics-washing

32:30 - Artificial Superintelligence

34:30 - Doomers creating an emergency

35:30 - How to legislate robots and AI

41:30 - The future and the responsibilities of AIs

44:30 - Instrumental goals, recommendations algorithms and ultimate responsibility

50:30 - Unwittingly heralding the downfall of civilization

52:30 - Sam Altman and the smith exponential of technology

If you're interested in reading more, the book we discuss can be downloaded here: https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5641/Person-Thing-RobotA-Moral-and-Legal-Ontology-for

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"I was told to expect a TERMINAL diagnosis" - Male breast cancer, with James Richards

Mon, 16 Oct 2023 23:01:29 GMT

This week I'm speaking with James Richards, founder of moobs, a non-profit dedicated to male breast cancer, a disease that 400 men are diagnosed with every year in the UK. In it, we cover James's journey with cancer, the issues he found with female-centric support options, as well as some of the exciting technologies that will hopefully make cancer a thing of the past in coming years.

You can find out more about moobs here:

Website: www.moobs.uk

X and Insta: @moobs_uk

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MrBeast falls victim to deep-fake scam

Tue, 10 Oct 2023 09:25:38 GMT

The GOAT of YouTube MrBeast has recently been at the centre of a terrifying deepfake scam sweeping the internet. Here's what to watch out for... and what might come next.

PS. Sorry for the late upload - I'm on holiday!

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How to CHOOSE when you DIE | Talking healthspan and longevity escape velocity with Thomas H Chapin IV

Mon, 02 Oct 2023 23:01:07 GMT

My conversation with Thomas H Chapin IV, an AI Engineer who wants to use technology to improve human #healthspan, #longevity, and overall quality of life.

In it, we discuss:

00:00 - Intro

02:45 - Thomas's background

10:00 - Questioning the certainty of death

12:00 - AI curing cancer

17:00 - Digital twins and replacing bits of your body

22:00 - Death as a choice

23:30 - Longevity vs healthspan

24:30 - Bryan Johnson

25:45 - Longevity escape velocity

29:00 - Senescent cells and intermittent fasting

34:00 - Injecting robots

36:30 - Dr Gupta

42:00 - Brain Computer Interfaces

48:00 - Universal Basic Income - and the dearth of purpose

54:00 - Distributing the wealth created by AI

#bryanjohnson #ai #technews

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How to stop AI from taking your job, with LyleAI

Mon, 25 Sep 2023 23:01:49 GMT

My conversation with AI consultant and X AI influencer LyleAI, in which we discuss getting started using AI tools, prompt engineering, super prompts, how to make sure you ride the AI wave rather than getting drowned by it, and the technology sector more generally.

#ai #technews #airisks #business #entrepreneurship

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"AI over-regulation will hold us back by CENTURIES" - Joseph Jacks on AI & open source

Mon, 18 Sep 2023 23:01:53 GMT

My full conversation with Joseph Jacks, founder and General Partner at OSS Capital - a VC dedicated to funding open-source software companies. In it, we discuss:

00:00 - Intro to JJ, OSS Capital, and Commercial Open Source

03:25 - The concept of COSS, how it works, how it differs from traditional VC

04:30 - Open core companies vs closed core companies

08:30 - How can you maintain a competitive position and moat when you’re open source

14:00 - OpenAI and regulatory capture

21:00 - e/acc vs Doomerism

26:45 - Could humanity lose control and agency over AI?

29:45 - Open source AI vs ppen *weights* AI?

33:00 - Transformer architecture - and its flaws

Find out more:

JJ on X: @JosephJacks_

OSS Capital: https://oss.capital/

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AI teachers, AI friends, and AI lovers - talking digital empathy with neuroscientist, psychologist and founder, Dr Pauldy Otermans

Mon, 11 Sep 2023 23:01:45 GMT

Interview with Dr Pauldy Otermans, neuroscientist, psychologist, and founder of the Otermans Institute. Dr Pauldy helped build the first independent AI teacher - OIAI - with the mission to upskill 750 million underserved students globally by 2030. She was named one of the ‘22 most influential women in the UK of 2022’ by Start-Up Magazine UK and has also been awarded by the UK Prime Minister in 2021.

In this episode we talk AI teachers, AI friends, AI girlfriends, and much more.

Timestamps are:

00:00 - Intro

01:45 - The problem with teachers globally

03:00 - How the Otermans Institute started

05:30 - AI teachers

10:30 - Building their first supervised model

13:45 - "Eureka" moments

15:15 - Recursive learning

24:30 - How close are we to human-like relationships with AIs?

26:00 - AI girlfriends

30:00 - Optimizing for quality teaching

31:50 - The power of AI for good and bad

38:00 - Gaming and the metaverse

39:00 - Human vs AI learning

46:00 - Learning styles and interest

Find out more about Dr Pauldy and the OI here:

Instagram: OI https://www.instagram.com/oiedu19/?hl=en ; and Teddy AI: https://www.instagram.com/teddyai_official/?hl=en

Twitter: @Otermans_Edu, https://twitter.com/Otermans_Edu

Linkedin: Otermans Institute, https://www.linkedin.com/company/oiedu

#ai #aigirlfriend #aiteacher #education

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Talking Tesla: Why Elon NEEDS to hire a PR team

Mon, 04 Sep 2023 23:01:55 GMT

This week I'm going solo talking about why one of my favourite companies, Tesla, should invest some of their hard-earned cash on a comms team.

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"B2B Buyers are humans too…” Talking SaaS Marketing with Lisa Vecchio, VP Marketing @ Aircall

Mon, 28 Aug 2023 23:01:49 GMT

This week I'm talking all things integrated marketing and B2B SaaS with Lisa Vecchio, VP Marketing at Aircall. In it, we discover whether there's really any magic to demand gen, how social platforms are converging, how to integrate your marketing, and how AI is going to change the industry in coming years...

00:00 - Intro

05:40 - Convergence of social platforms

08:45 - Is threads dead?

12:50 - How has B2B SaaS marketing changed?

15:20 - Demand gen magic

17:40 - Advice to young marketers

22:00 - Generalists vs specialists

24:10 - Integrated marketing

29:40 - Managing relationships and AIs

32:40 - How will marketing change in future?

36:00 - Generative AI in marketing

39:40 - European vs US tech

43:00 - Aircall

#b2bmarketing #ai #saas

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"Future AIs will be our descendants, not our killers" | Robin Hanson, associate professor of economics at George Mason University, and research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University

Mon, 21 Aug 2023 23:01:01 GMT

Robin Hanson is an associate professor of economics at George Mason University and a research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University. He is the author of The Age of Em and The Elephant in the Mind, and recently wrote an article titled AIs Will Be Our Children for Quilette, which makes up much of the focus of this episode.

In it, we cover:

00:00 - Intro

06:30 - AI risk & doomers

11:00 - AI is our descendants

13:45 - Foom

16:45 - Transition to superinteligence

21:00 - Passing on genes to AI

33:30 - Human consciousness

43:00 - Human job displacement

49:30 - will people want to be robots?

50:00 - Brain-Computer Interfaces

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"Elon Musk doesn't understand how to run a social network" | Matt Navarra, Social Media Consultant and Analyst

Mon, 14 Aug 2023 23:01:19 GMT

Matt Navarra is one of Europe's most well-known and in-demand social media consultants. With 20+ years of industry experience, Matt has worked with some of the world’s most popular brands.

In this episode we discuss Musk, Zuck, X, Threads, Meta, AI, and the future of social media, in the following order:

- Intro

- X rebrand

- Paid-for blue ticks

- Reaction of advertisers

- Elon's effect of the overall brand

- Free speech

- Content moderation

- What kind of accounts get monetised and how?

- Threads

- Social media app convergence & social media innovation

- The creator economy

- Generative AI

#socialmedia #ai #technews

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Meet the Kyiv startup fighting Russia with AI | Information warfare, with Anton Tarasyuk

Mon, 07 Aug 2023 22:59:00 GMT

My conversation with Anton Tarasyuk about the startup he co-founded, Mantis Analytics. Mantis are based in Kyiv and are experts in analyzing the flow of information and disinformation, particularly with regards to the Russo-Ukraininan war. In the show, we cover:

00:00 - Intro

03:11 - Russian invasion and company formation

09:28 - How the cofounders met

11:46 - Keeping presence of mind in a war

16:30 - Paranoia in Ukraine

20:09 - Monitoring information flows

21:22 - Telegram and Twitter

24:19 - Strategy vs execution

30:09 - Disinformation

38:50 - Identifying false narratives

44:02 - Documenting war crimes

45:47 - What does Mantis actually provide?

48:21 - Transformation of the public sphere

53:52 - Generative AI

54:57 - Deepfake scams

#ai #technews #ukraine #ukrainewar

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Making money with ChatGPT, with Alex Northstar, ex-Google AI facilitator

Tue, 01 Aug 2023 07:00:59 GMT

My conversation with Alex Northstar, ex-Google AI facilitator who did his masters in chatbots. We discuss all things AI, with a particular focus on entrepreneurialism and turning generative AI tools to the task of upskilling yourself and building a business.

00:00 - Intro

05:15 - What is an AI Facilitator?

10:45 - ChatGPT meta skills

14:00 - AI upskilling

15:30 - Writing a book in a month

20:25 - Optimism on the future of AI

22:45 - Doomerism and anthropomorphization

27:55 - Finding the biggest impact

34:45 - Variations in GPT performance

36:45 - Music and mashups

39:15 - Making money

47:15 - The 80:20 rule

49:10 - The future

#chatgpt #ai #business #entrepreneurship #entrepreneur

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"The default outcome is... we all die" | talking AI risk with Liron Shapira

Tue, 25 Jul 2023 07:00:07 GMT

This week I'm talking with Liron Shapira, founder, technologist, and self-styled AI doom pointer-outer.

In the show, we cover an intro to AI risk, thoughts on a new tier of intelligence, causally mapping goals to outcomes (and why that's dangerous), a variety of rebuttals to Marc Andreesen's recent essay on AI, thoughts on how AI might plausibly take over and kill all humans, the rise and danger of AI girlfriends, Open AI's new super alignment team, Elon Musk's latest AI safety venture XAI, and other topics.

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Has AI killed coursework forever? With Paul Matthews, teacher and founder of MyTeacherAide

Tue, 18 Jul 2023 09:18:57 GMT

My discussion with Paul Matthews, teacher and founder of educational AI startup, MyTeacherAide. Paul discusses all things AI in education, including:

Intro - 00:00

A huge step forward - 3:50

Cheater or tutor? - 5:45

Students using ChatGPT - 7:20

The increasing knowledge gap - 8:30

The end of coursework? - 13:15

The biggest threat of AI - 17:30

The biggest mistake educators make - 19:15

Advice for parents - 24:30

MyTeacherAide - 31:15

Check out MyTeacherAide here: https://www.myteacheraide.com/

#technews #ai #education #educationmatters #chatgpt

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Why Threads won't kill Twitter

Tue, 11 Jul 2023 11:00:11 GMT

There's been lots of speculation over this last week about the potential 'Twitter killer' Threads app, just launched by Meta. Here's my take on why they won't kill Twitter, and may not even want to.

#technews #twitter #threadsapp #threadsvstwitter #elonmusk #markzuckerberg

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Has AI already eaten search?

Tue, 27 Jun 2023 11:00:00 GMT

Alex Selles is a technology marketing expert who has spent his career working in-house at a variety of early-stage startups. He's currently Head of Marketing at Klyk, a circular economy sustainable hardware business. In this conversation, we talk about:

The London technology world
Tech marketing pitfalls
Impostor syndrome and empathy
His advice on getting into the industry
AI in marketing
The future of SEO and whether it'll be eaten by ChatGPT
Our shared experiences mentoring with the Reach Out charity

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Disrupt of be Disrupted: Are you ready? AI in Marketing with Lead Forensics

Tue, 20 Jun 2023 19:57:12 GMT

A conversation with Joe Ducarreaux from Lead Forensics, where we cover all the latest innovations in marketing AI - from Midjourney imagery, to intellectual property concerns and, of course, those mad AI ads.

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Benji Vaughan: Being a human in the age of AI

Thu, 08 Jun 2023 15:46:52 GMT

Benji Vaughan is founder and CEO of Disciple Media, as well as being a former musician, producer, record label promoter and all-round creative thinker. In this inaugural episode, we talked about his company, Disciple, the limitations of social media, AI in the arts, training LLMs, how to build human connections in the digital age, and other topics. Hope you enjoy it!

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