A Beginner's Guide to AI
"A Beginner's Guide to AI" makes the complex world of Artificial Intelligence accessible to all. Each episode asks someone working with AI about what they do and how AI can help you. Ideal for novices, tech enthusiasts, and the simply curious, this podcast transforms AI learning into an engaging, digestible journey. Join us as we take the first steps into AI 🚀 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Why Eliezer Yudkowsky Thinks AI Could Be Dangerous Without Being Evil
<p>🤖🧠⚠️</p><p>What if the biggest AI risk is not that machines become evil, but that they become powerful, strategic, and completely indifferent?</p><br><p>In this episode of A Beginner’s Guide to AI, we explore the worldview of Eliezer Yudkowsky, one of the most intense and influential voices in the AI safety debate. Yudkowsky does not warn us about Hollywood robots or dramatic machine rebellion. His concern is much sharper: humanity may build artificial intelligence smarter than humans before we know how to control it.</p><br><p>This episode explains AI alignment, the control problem, superintelli...
Why Fritz Lang's 'Metropolis' Still Explains the Real Danger of AI
<p><br></p><p>What can a silent film from 1927 teach us about artificial intelligence, deepfakes, and the future of business trust? In this episode of A Beginner’s Guide to AI, we look at Fritz Lang’s legendary film Metropolis and use it as a surprisingly sharp lens for understanding modern AI. The robot Maria is not dangerous because she is made of metal. She is dangerous because she borrows a trusted human face.</p><p>And that is exactly why today’s AI-generated voices, synthetic avatars, and deepfake videos matter.</p><br><p>This episode explores how AI can im...
Why Every Business Will Need An AI Agent - Inside the Agentic Economy with Humayun Sheikh // REPOST
<p>Humayun Sheikh on the Agentic Web, Trust, and the Agentic Economy</p><br><p>Humayun Sheikh joins Dietmar Fischer to explain what happens when AI stops recommending and starts doing. We explore the Agentic Web, a new layer where personal AI agents and verified brand agents collaborate to complete tasks like booking travel, coordinating meetings, and shopping with trust built in.</p><br><p>You will learn what makes a real AI agent, why autonomy matters, and how multi-agent systems unlock an agentic economy. We also tackle the marketer’s question: what happens to SEO when the buyer becomes an...
Why Google DeepMind Changed How Businesses Think About AI
<h3>🧠🤖 Stop Using AI Just for Content. Start Using It for Discovery</h3><p>Most businesses still treat AI like a faster writing assistant: useful for summaries, captions, reports, and endless slightly polished LinkedIn posts. But Google DeepMind points to something much bigger. From AlphaGo’s historic victory over Lee Sedol to AlphaFold’s breakthrough in protein structure prediction, DeepMind shows us that AI is becoming a tool for discovery, not just automation.</p><br><p><br></p><p>💡💡💡</p><p>Don't forget to go to Nebius, as they help us keeping up the good work!</p><p>Have a look at their Token...
AI At Work: Agents Are Already Here - A Conversation with Sam Ransbotham // REPOST
<p>AI agents are rapidly becoming one of the most influential technologies inside modern organizations — often without leaders even realizing the shift. In this episode, Dietmar Fischer sits down with MIT Sloan podcast host Sam Ransbotham to uncover why AI agents and agentic AI systems are spreading through enterprises at remarkable speed.</p><br><p>Based on a global study of 2,100 executives across 116 countries, Sam shares how AI agents improve productivity, increase job satisfaction, and fundamentally reshape how companies work. From Chevron’s proactive exploration tools to the rise of autonomous knowledge assistants, we explore the surprising ways enterprise AI adop...
AI Will Never Be A Leader - Says Sally Bendersky
<p>What happens to leadership when AI can analyze faster, structure better, and answer almost anything in seconds?</p><br><p>In this episode of Beginner’s Guide to AI, Dietmar Fischer speaks with Sally Bendersky, engineer, executive coach, leadership expert, and founder of New Leadership, about why AI makes human leadership more important, not less.</p><br><p>Sally argues that AI is a phenomenal assistant. It can recognize patterns, organize information, support better questions, and help leaders think more deeply. But it cannot replace the human parts of leadership: trust, intention, values, emotional intelligence, purpose, and responsibility.</p><br...
The Cost of Being Invisible in ChatGPT - With Joseph Levi
<p>AI search is changing how customers discover, evaluate and choose brands. In this episode of Beginner’s Guide to AI, Dietmar Fischer speaks with Joseph Levi, CEO of Noise Media, about Generative Engine Optimization, AI brand visibility and why appearing in ChatGPT, Gemini or Perplexity answers may soon matter as much as ranking on Google.</p><br><p>Joseph explains why GEO is not just another marketing abbreviation. It marks a shift from an internet read mainly by humans to an internet increasingly interpreted by AI agents. Instead of fighting only for blue links, brands now need to make su...
AI Is Killing Transaction Costs, But Who Gets the Money?
<p><br></p><p>Stop Thinking of AI as a Content Machine, Start Seeing It as a Bargain Machine</p><p>AI is not just changing how businesses write content, automate tasks, or analyse data. It is changing how markets work. In this episode of A Beginner’s Guide to AI, we connect artificial intelligence with the Coase Theorem, the classic economic idea that explains how people bargain over resources when transaction costs are low.</p><br><p>This episode looks at AI transaction costs, algorithmic pricing, smart contracts, platform power, and the hidden cost of frictionless automation. You will le...
The Secret Behind Most AI Tools: RAG. Alex Kihm Explains It Simply // REPOST
<p>In this episode of Beginner’s Guide to AI, we sit down with Alex Kihm, founder of POMA AI, to explore how enterprises can finally make sense of their data. AI search is broken, RAG often fails, and corporate documents are notoriously hard for LLMs to interpret.</p><p>Alex explains how POMA AI’s patented method reconstructs structure inside unstructured data, enabling powerful, accurate enterprise search.</p><p>You’ll hear how his journey from engineering to legal tech to big-data econometrics led to a breakthrough in information structuring. Alex shares why PDFs confuse AI systems, how chunking destro...
AGI: The AI Term Every Executive Should Understand
<p>AGI Is Not Just a Better Chatbot</p><br><p>Artificial general intelligence, or AGI, may be one of the most important ideas in artificial intelligence, but it is also one of the easiest to misunderstand. In this episode of A Beginner’s Guide to AI, we look at what AGI really means, why it is different from today’s narrow AI tools, and why business leaders, founders, marketers, and executives should care before the hype takes over completely.</p><br><p>Today’s AI can already write emails, generate images, summarise reports, analyse customer feedback, suggest campaign ideas, and su...
