Complete Tech Heads with Tom Edwards

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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

American business is starting to see AI as more of a threat than an opportunity. Here's the latest... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week I'm deep-diving on Q* - the mysterious new development at OpenAI that Elon Musk believes could destroy us all. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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...

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 - D...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 retur...

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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 &am...

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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 bacter...