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The key workforce skills for 2026, with Mike Howells
Season 1 Episode 39
One of the questions audiences frequently used to ask futurists was, which careers are most likely to be future-proof? However, that question has cha…
2 years, 11 months ago
How to use GPT-4 yourself, with Ted Lappas
Season 1 Episode 38
The last few episodes of our podcast have explored what GPT (generative pre-trained transformer) technology is and how it works, and also the call fo…
2 years, 11 months ago
GPT: To ban or not to ban, that is the question
Season 1 Episode 37
On March 14th, OpenAI launched GPT-4 , which took the world by surprise and storm. Almost everybody, including people within the AI community, was st…
3 years ago
The AI suicide race, with Jaan Tallinn
Season 1 Episode 36
The race to create advanced AI is becoming a suicide race.
That's part of the thinking behind the open letter from the Future of Life Institute which…
3 years ago
A defence of human uniqueness against AI encroachment, with Kenn Cukier
Season 1 Episode 35
Despite the impressive recent progress in AI capabilities, there are reasons why AI may be incapable of possessing a full "general intelligence". And…
3 years ago
Against pausing AI research, with Pedro Domingos
Season 1 Episode 34
Should the pace of research into advanced artificial intelligence be slowed down, or perhaps even paused completely?
Your answer to that question prob…
3 years ago
Facing our Futures, with Nikolas Badminton
Season 1 Episode 33
2023 is still young, but there's already a change in the attitudes of many business people regarding the future. Previously, businesses expressed occ…
3 years, 1 month ago
GPT-4 and the Two Singularities
Season 1 Episode 32
In the last few weeks, the pace of change in AI has been faster than ever before. The changes aren't just announcements of future capabilities - anno…
3 years, 1 month ago
Creating Benevolent Decentralized AGI, with Ben Goertzel
Season 1 Episode 31
Ben Goertzel is a cognitive scientist and artificial intelligence researcher. He is CEO and founder of SingularityNET, leader of the OpenCog Foundati…
3 years, 1 month ago
What the good future could look like, with Gerd Leonhard
Season 1 Episode 30
At a time when many people find it depressingly easy to see how "bad futures" could arise, what is a credible narrative of a "good future"? That ques…
3 years, 1 month ago