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 š Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Why Small AI Mistakes Become Massive Disasters - Peter McAllister Tells Us
<p>In this episode of Beginnerās Guide to AI, Dietmar Fischer talks with Peter McAllister about AI risk, AI safety, AI sentience, regulation, and the strange overlap between science fiction and current reality. </p><br><p>Peter is the author of The Code: If Your AI Loses its Mind, Can it Take Meds?, a near-future novel about an AI on the moon that begins dismantling it with catastrophic consequences. Peter describes the book as a story about Gene, an AI developed for asteroid-belt mining tests, whose instability turns into a race against time for humanity. Peter also has a ba...
Democratizing AI: How Nebius Is Making AI Infrastructure Accessible for Everyone // REPOST
<p>In this episode of A Beginnerās Guide to AI, host Dietmar Fischer talks with Roman Chernin from Nebius, about how AI democratization is reshaping the enterprise world. </p><p>Roman reveals what it really takes to move from prototype LLMs to reliable, scalable AI platforms - and why most companies donāt need to train their own models to harness AIās potential. </p><br><p>š§šš§ </p><p>Tune in to get my thoughts and all episodes - donāt forget to subscribe to our Newsletter: ā beginnersguide.nlā </p><p>š§šš§</p><br><p>From his early years at Yandex, where machine learning...
AI Is Creating a Global Identity Crisis - Says Derek Rydall
<p>š The Hidden Cost of AI: Losing Meaning, Not Jobs</p><br><p>AI is not just automating work. It is challenging the very foundation of human identity.</p><br><p>In this episode, Derek Rydall breaks down why the biggest risk of AI is not unemployment, but a global meaning crisis. As intelligence becomes cheap and abundant, the real question becomes: what are humans for?</p><br><p>Youāll learn why purpose is becoming the ultimate competitive advantage, how attention is being hijacked by algorithms, and what it takes to stay relevant in a world where machines outperform us.<...
We wanted Spock, but what we got is something closer to Kirk - Ben & Dietmar Discuss Everything AI
<p>šļø Machine Ethics Podcast x Beginner's Guide to AI</p><br><p>AI is everywhere. But almost nobody agrees on what it actually is.</p><br><p>In this episode, Ben Byford from the Machine Ethics Podcast and Dietmar Fischer explore why AI feels intelligent while fundamentally being something very different.</p><br><p>From AI misconceptions to generative AI risks, this conversation breaks down the gap between perception and reality and why it matters for business leaders, marketers, and decision-makers.</p><br><p>Youāll learn why AI literacy is becoming essential, how misunderstanding AI creates real business risks, and wha...
Why the Vaticanās Warning on AI Should Worry Everyone
<p>What does the Catholic Church actually think about artificial intelligence? A lot more than you might expect.</p><br><p>In this episode of A Beginnerās Guide to AI, Prof. GepHardT explores the Vaticanās surprisingly sharp position on AI ethics, human dignity, deepfakes, truth, and the growing risk of letting machines replace judgment rather than support it. This is not a sermon against technology, and it is not a blessing over every shiny new model either. It is a serious look at AI as a human tool that can do real good, but only if it stays in i...
Can AI Replace Wikipedia? Jonathan Fraine & Raja Amelung Explain Why It Cannot
<h3>Artificial intelligence can generate answers fast, but can it generate knowledge you can trust?</h3><p><br></p><p>In this episode of Beginnerās Guide to AI, Dietmar Fischer talks with Jonathan Fraine and Raja Amelung about why human knowledge still matters in the age of LLMs. Together they explore Wikipedia, Wikimedia, AI hallucinations, trust in AI, free knowledge, and the future of reliable information online.</p><br><p>This is not another generic AI hype conversation. It is a grounded discussion about what happens when people confuse fluent machine output with verified truth. Jonathan and Raja explain wh...
Why ChatGPT Isnāt Enough for Real Business Automation - with Ethan Ouyang
<p>AI is no longer just a chatbot that helps you write emails faster. In this episode of Beginnerās Guide to AI, Dietmar Fischer sits down with Ethan Ouyang to explore how agentic AI is changing the way businesses are built, managed, and scaled. Ethan is publicly identified with ATOMS, and the platformās official site is atoms.dev, where it is described as a multi-agent AI workflow for building products without code.</p><br><p>This conversation goes far beyond simple prompting. Ethan explains how AI agents can work together like a business team, handling research, planning, product crea...
The Work Slop Epidemic: Monica Marquez Explains How to Fix AI at Work // REPOST
<p>Human-Centered AI at Work with Monica Marquez: A Practical Adoption Playbook</p><p>If youāre still treating AI like a shiny gadget, this episode will be a polite intervention.Monica Marquez (Flipwork) shows how to build a human-centered AI adoption playbook that actually sticks.We dig into AI as a partner, not a tool; psychological safety for teams; and the one-workflow-per-month rule that turns experimentation into measurable AI ROI.Youāll learn how to avoid work slop, build agentic workflows, and translate machine output into authentic intelligence that reflects your expertise. š¤</p><br><p>What youāll learn</p>Shift i...
How AI Voice Agents Are Replacing IVRs and Redefining Customer Experience // REPOST
<p>In this episode of A Beginnerās Guide to AI, Dietmar Fischer talks with Alex Levin, the Co-Founder and CEO of Regal.io, about how Voice AI is bringing real human conversation back to customer service.</p><p>For years, businesses have been hiding behind IVRs and chatbots - cutting off the personal touch that customers crave. Alex explains how AI voice agents are transforming the experience, allowing brands to actually talk to their customers again, at scale, with empathy, emotion, and precision.</p><p>We dive into whatās behind this transformation - from the technology (OpenAI, Google, Anth...
How to Invest in AI Without Getting Fooled by Hype, with Talullah Le Merle
<p>In this episode, Dietmar Fischer talks with Tallulah Le Merle, a humanist technologist and investor, about how to think clearly in the age of AI without falling into doomsday panic or blind optimism. Youāll get a practical mental model of the AI stack, a grounded take on AI alignment risk, and a refreshing argument for hope as a strategic posture that shapes what gets built. š¤šš§ </p><br><p><br></p><br><p>What youāll learn</p><p>ā Why fear based AI narratives can freeze action and distort decisions</p><p>ā How the future of work may shift from routine cogn...
