Complete Tech Heads with Tom Edwards

OpenAI has fully imploded - I'm talking with Liron Shapira about what it means for tech and the world. Liron is my first returning guest, and regular listeners may remember him as being someone who is extremely concerned about the potential existential dangers of AI. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A run down of everything we know so far about Sam Altman's shocking departure from OpenAI. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week I’m speaking with Alex Ker, Founder and Chairman of p-ai, fellow at Bessemer, 8vc and Bloomberg Beta, former editor at at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, and a content creator. In the show we discuss Grok, Elon, OpenAI’s dev day, AI job displacement, Open Source, and brain-computer interfaces.  And apologies for any sound issues! It appears my mic cut out soon after we...

The UK AI Safety Summit and Joe Biden's AI Safety Executive Order happened within a few days of each other, kicking off a global drive to regulate AI. But will either of them achieve their stated aims? This week I'm trying to find out. Time stamps: 00:00 - Intro 00:45 - Rishi Sunak and Elon Musk 02:00 - The Bletchley Declaration 03:45 - Joe Biden's Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy...

This week I'm the good, the bad, and the ugly of AI with researcher and thought leader David Shapiro. David is an incredibly knowledgeable man who goes into great depth on many of the most pressing issues around AI facing us as a species on his YouTube channel. In this show, we discuss:  00:00 - Intro 02:00 - The fourth industrial revolution 08:30 - How should we prepare? Congress, the UN &am...

Whose responsibility is it if an AI goes haywire and causes damage to a human? And how should we think about their rights, responsibilities, and morality? These are serious questions we're going to have to grapple with far more often in the future. Prof David Gunkel, this week's guest, argues we need to be thinking about it now. In this conversation, we cover: 00:00 - Intro 01:45 - Defining a pers...

This week I'm speaking with James Richards, founder of moobs, a non-profit dedicated to male breast cancer, a disease that 400 men are diagnosed with every year in the UK. In it, we cover James's journey with cancer, the issues he found with female-centric support options, as well as some of the exciting technologies that will hopefully make cancer a thing of the past in coming years.  You ca...

The GOAT of YouTube MrBeast has recently been at the centre of a terrifying deepfake scam sweeping the internet. Here's what to watch out for... and what might come next. PS. Sorry for the late upload - I'm on holiday! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My conversation with Thomas H Chapin IV, an AI Engineer who wants to use technology to improve human #healthspan, #longevity, and overall quality of life. In it, we discuss: 00:00 - Intro 02:45 - Thomas's background 10:00 - Questioning the certainty of death 12:00 - AI curing cancer 17:00 - Digital twins and replacing bits of your body 22:00 - Death as a choice 23:30 - Longevity vs healthspan 24:3...

My conversation with AI consultant and X AI influencer LyleAI, in which we discuss getting started using AI tools, prompt engineering, super prompts, how to make sure you ride the AI wave rather than getting drowned by it, and the technology sector more generally. #ai #technews #airisks #business #entrepreneurship Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My full conversation with Joseph Jacks, founder and General Partner at OSS Capital - a VC dedicated to funding open-source software companies. In it, we discuss: 00:00 - Intro to JJ, OSS Capital, and Commercial Open Source 03:25 - The concept of COSS, how it works, how it differs from traditional VC 04:30 - Open core companies vs closed core companies 08:30 - How can you maintain a competitive pos...

Interview with Dr Pauldy Otermans, neuroscientist, psychologist, and founder of the Otermans Institute. Dr Pauldy helped build the first independent AI teacher - OIAI - with the mission to upskill 750 million underserved students globally by 2030. She was named one of the ‘22 most influential women in the UK of 2022’ by Start-Up Magazine UK and has also been awarded by the UK Prime Minister in 202...

This week I'm going solo talking about why one of my favourite companies, Tesla, should invest some of their hard-earned cash on a comms team. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week I'm talking all things integrated marketing and B2B SaaS with Lisa Vecchio, VP Marketing at Aircall. In it, we discover whether there's really any magic to demand gen, how social platforms are converging, how to integrate your marketing, and how AI is going to change the industry in coming years... 00:00 - Intro 05:40 - Convergence of social platforms 08:45 - Is threads dead? 12:50 - How...

Robin Hanson is an associate professor of economics at George Mason University and a research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University. He is the author of The Age of Em and The Elephant in the Mind, and recently wrote an article titled AIs Will Be Our Children for Quilette, which makes up much of the focus of this episode...

Matt Navarra is one of Europe's most well-known and in-demand social media consultants. With 20+ years of industry experience, Matt has worked with some of the world’s most popular brands. In this episode we discuss Musk, Zuck, X, Threads, Meta, AI, and the future of social media, in the following order: - Intro - X rebrand - Paid-for blue ticks - Reaction of advertisers - Elon's effect of the ove...

My conversation with Anton Tarasyuk about the startup he co-founded, Mantis Analytics. Mantis are based in Kyiv and are experts in analyzing the flow of information and disinformation, particularly with regards to the Russo-Ukraininan war. In the show, we cover: 00:00 - Intro 03:11 - Russian invasion and company formation 09:28 - How the cofounders met 11:46 - Keeping presence of mind in a war 16:...

My conversation with Alex Northstar, ex-Google AI facilitator who did his masters in chatbots. We discuss all things AI, with a particular focus on entrepreneurialism and turning generative AI tools to the task of upskilling yourself and building a business. 00:00 - Intro 05:15 - What is an AI Facilitator? 10:45 - ChatGPT meta skills 14:00 - AI upskilling 15:30 - Writing a book in a month 20:25 -...

This week I'm talking with Liron Shapira, founder, technologist, and self-styled AI doom pointer-outer. In the show, we cover an intro to AI risk, thoughts on a new tier of intelligence, causally mapping goals to outcomes (and why that's dangerous), a variety of rebuttals to Marc Andreesen's recent essay on AI, thoughts on how AI might plausibly take over and kill all humans, the rise and danger o...

My discussion with Paul Matthews, teacher and founder of educational AI startup, MyTeacherAide. Paul discusses all things AI in education, including: Intro - 00:00 A huge step forward - 3:50 Cheater or tutor? - 5:45 Students using ChatGPT - 7:20 The increasing knowledge gap - 8:30 The end of coursework? - 13:15 The biggest threat of AI - 17:30 The biggest mistake educators make - 19:15 Advice for...

There's been lots of speculation over this last week about the potential 'Twitter killer' Threads app, just launched by Meta. Here's my take on why they won't kill Twitter, and may not even want to. #technews #twitter #threadsapp #threadsvstwitter #elonmusk #markzuckerberg Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Alex Selles is a technology marketing expert who has spent his career working in-house at a variety of early-stage startups. He's currently Head of Marketing at Klyk, a circular economy sustainable hardware business. In this conversation, we talk about: The London technology world Tech marketing pitfalls Impostor syndrome and empathy His advice on getting into the industry AI in marketing The futu...

A conversation with Joe Ducarreaux from Lead Forensics, where we cover all the latest innovations in marketing AI - from Midjourney imagery, to intellectual property concerns and, of course, those mad AI ads. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Benji Vaughan is founder and CEO of Disciple Media, as well as being a former musician, producer, record label promoter and all-round creative thinker. In this inaugural episode, we talked about his company, Disciple, the limitations of social media, AI in the arts, training LLMs, how to build human connections in the digital age, and other topics. Hope you enjoy it! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com...