Tuesday, September 5, 2023Racing Toward Utopia or Dystopia? The High-Octane Ideas of Effective Accelerationism
Today's episode explored the futuristic ideology of Effective Accelerationism. This movement advocates hastening progress towards benevolent artif...
Saturday, September 2, 2023Commander Data: To Boldly Go Where No Algorithm Has Gone Before
This episode explores AI ethics through the iconic character of Commander Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation. We examine Data's quest to und...
Thursday, August 31, 2023Prompt Engineering: The Secret Sauce for AI Success
This episode unpacked why crafting excellent prompts is critical to get the most out of AI systems. Prompts act as instructions that steer the AI'...
Tuesday, August 29, 2023Predictive AI - Your Crystal Ball for the 21st Century
Today we explore predictive AI - systems that analyze data to forecast future outcomes. We learn how techniques like machine learning help uncover pat...
Saturday, August 26, 2023Be My Eyes - How AI can help the Disabled
This episode explored how AI is transforming assistive technology to expand accessibility for the disabled. We learned how modern AI enables advanced ...
Thursday, August 24, 2023Back to School, Version 2.0: How AI is Disrupting Education
This episode explores how schools are adapting to powerful new AI technologies like ChatGPT that can generate remarkably human-like text and content. ...
Tuesday, August 22, 2023The Terminator Movies: From Sci-Fi Nightmare to AI Safety Blueprint
The Terminator films have profoundly shaped how society thinks about artificial intelligence. This episode analyzes concepts like artificial general i...
Friday, August 18, 2023Can Machines Truly Think? And Can They Pass The Turing Test?
Today we explore the age-old question of whether machines can think. Looking at definitions of "thinking", philosophical perspectives, and A...
Wednesday, August 16, 2023Instagram and the Dangers of Non-Transparent AI: Mechanistic Interpretability
In this episode, we explore the AI concept of mechanistic interpretability - understanding how and why an AI model makes certain decisions. Using Inst...
Monday, August 14, 2023Why does ChatGPT hallucinate?
This episode explores the concerning phenomenon of AI hallucination - when chatbots like ChatGPT confidently provide false or fabricated information. ...
Saturday, August 12, 2023Military Drones & AI's Life-or-Death Decisions
This episode explores how militaries around the world are beginning to integrate artificial intelligence into their capabilities, from surveillance dr...
Wednesday, August 9, 2023Asimov's Robot Stories & AI: Bridging Fiction and Reality
In this episode of 'A Beginner's Guide to AI', we journey into the captivating world of Isaac Asimov's Robot Stories and their profoun...
