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Send us Fan Mail This audio production is intended to bring new technologies that impact our lives, like digital assets, central bank digital currencies and artificial intelligence in an easy to understand way to a larger audience. This episode highlights the tension between the ECB's vision for a comprehensive retail CBDC and concerns from experts regarding its practical implementation, inhe...

Send us Fan Mail This audio production is intended to bring new technologies that impact our lives, like digital assets, central bank digital currencies and artificial intelligence in an easy to understand way to a larger audience. In this episode, we discuss the transformative impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) , particularly focusing on ChatGPT , on economic productivity and business operati...

Send us Fan Mail This audio production is intended to bring new technologies that impact our lives, like digital assets, central bank digital currencies and artificial intelligence in an easy to understand way to a larger audience. In this episode, we discuss key themes and important ideas/facts covered in those publications: 1. The Imperative of AI Dominance and its Pillars 2. AI's Enormous...

Send us Fan Mail This audio production is intended to bring new technologies that impact our lives, like digital assets, central bank digital currencies and artificial intelligence in an easy to understand way to a larger audience. In this episode, we discuss a world models and their impact on the road too AGI. World Models represent a shift in AI, focusing on deeper understanding of causality, en...

Send us Fan Mail This audio production is intended to bring new technologies that impact our lives, like digital assets, central bank digital currencies and artificial intelligence in an easy to understand way to a larger audience. In this episode, we discuss a study by MIT that investigates the cognitive and performance impacts of using Large Language Models (LLMs) and search engines versus no to...

Send us Fan Mail This audio production is intended to bring new technologies that impact our lives, like digital assets, central bank digital currencies and artificial intelligence in an easy to understand way to a larger audience. In this episode, we discuss Google's "Shop with AI" initiative , highlighting a significant shift in e-commerce through "agentic checkout" . Th...

Send us Fan Mail This audio production is intended to bring new technologies that impact our lives, like digital assets, central bank digital currencies and artificial intelligence in an easy to understand way to a larger audience. In this episode, we discuss tensions such as the ease of proof-of-concept creation  versus the difficulty of production deployment , the promise of copilots against the...

Send us Fan Mail This audio production is intended to bring new technologies that impact our lives, like digital assets, central bank digital currencies and artificial intelligence in an easy to understand way to a larger audience. In this episode, we discuss a significant shift in the digital information landscape , highlighting Google's declining dominance in the search engine market. This...

Send us Fan Mail This audio production is intended to bring new technologies that impact our lives, like digital assets, central bank digital currencies and artificial intelligence in an easy to understand way to a larger audience. In this episode, the message is clear: AI is no longer a futuristic concept but a present-day reality profoundly impacting business. Organisations must recognise the wi...

Send us Fan Mail This audio production is intended to bring new technologies that impact our lives, like digital assets, central bank digital currencies and artificial intelligence in an easy to understand way to a larger audience. This episode picks apart the paper "The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity&qu...

Send us Fan Mail This audio production is intended to bring new technologies that impact our lives, like digital assets, central bank digital currencies and artificial intelligence in an easy to understand way to a larger audience. This episode offers a comprehensive overview of the rapid evolution and pervasive impact of Artificial Intelligence based on the latest 340 page AI trends report by the...

Send us Fan Mail This audio production is intended to bring new technologies that impact our lives, like digital assets, central bank digital currencies and artificial intelligence in an easy to understand way to a larger audience. This episode explores 2 reports on artificial intelligence (AI) , with one providing a broad overview of its global state and another detailing a specific study on its...

Send us Fan Mail This audio production is intended to bring new technologies that impact our lives, like digital assets, central bank digital currencies and artificial intelligence in an easy to understand way to a larger audience. This episode explores the debate surrounding open-source artificial intelligence , contrasting it with proprietary systems. It explores the nuances between "free&q...

Send us Fan Mail This audio production is intended to bring new technologies that impact our lives, like digital assets, central bank digital currencies and artificial intelligence in an easy to understand way to a larger audience. This episode explores the significant impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on the workplace, highlighting that it is seen as a transformative technology akin to the s...

Send us Fan Mail This audio production is intended to bring new technologies that impact our lives, like digital assets, central bank digital currencies and artificial intelligence in an easy to understand way to a larger audience. This episode explores the intensifying global competition for AI supremacy , primarily between the United States and China . The US government and private industry are...

Send us Fan Mail This audio production is intended to bring new technologies that impact our lives, like digital assets, central bank digital currencies and artificial intelligence in an easy to understand way to a larger audience. This episode explores the multifaceted relationship between Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the energy sector, highlighting AI's growing energy demands , particul...

Send us Fan Mail This audio production is intended to bring new technologies that impact our lives, like digital assets, central bank digital currencies and artificial intelligence in an easy to understand way to a larger audience. This episode introduces the the subject of Artificial Intelligence and what Google's proposals to the US government are for an AI action plan, building upon their...

Send us Fan Mail Today we explore a future scenario on how AI could influence our world between now and 2028. The document is called "AI 2027" by Daniel Kokotajlo, Scott Alexander, Thomas Larsen, Eli Lifland and Romeo Dean, in which they predict that the impact of superhuman AI over the next decade will be enormous, exceeding that of the Industrial Revolution. They wrote a scenario that...

Send us Fan Mail This audio production is intended to bring new technologies that impact our lives, like digital assets, central bank digital currencies and artificial intelligence in an easy to understand way to a larger audience. This episode introduces the the subject of Artificial Intelligence and what OpenAI's proposals to the US government are for an AI action plan, building upon their...

Send us Fan Mail This audio production is intended to bring new technologies that impact our lives, like digital assets, central bank digital currencies and artificial intelligence in an easy to understand way to a larger audience. This last episode covers chapter 10.19 onward with the subjects of Consensus, Liability, Resilience and Efficiency and concludes with the conclusion of the book Decodin...

Send us Fan Mail This audio production is intended to bring new technologies that impact our lives, like digital assets, central bank digital currencies and artificial intelligence in an easy to understand way to a larger audience. This episode introduces the the subject of Artificial Intelligence and what countries must do not to be left behind. We discuss good strategies for countries to secure...

Send us Fan Mail This audio production is intended to bring new technologies that impact our lives, like digital assets, central bank digital currencies and artificial intelligence in an easy to understand way to a larger audience. This episode covers the subject of XXXXXXXXX. The goal is to bring this important subject closer to the listeners, in an attempt to explain what CBDCs are, how they can...

Send us Fan Mail This audio production is intended to bring new technologies that impact our lives, like digital assets, central bank digital currencies and artificial intelligence in an easy to understand way to a larger audience. This episode introduces the the subject of Artificial Intelligence, by sharing the second and final part of the AI history, covering the evolution 2019 to year end 2024...

Send us Fan Mail This audio production is intended to bring new technologies that impact our lives, like digital assets, central bank digital currencies and artificial intelligence in an easy to understand way to a larger audience. This episode episode covers the next part of the characteristics needed in a CBDC. The focus here is on Fungibility, Inclusion, Income Transparency, Taxability and Offl...

Send us Fan Mail This audio production is intended to introduce new technologies that impact our lives, like digital assets, central bank digital currencies and artificial intelligence in an easy to understand way to a larger audience. This episode discusses design choices for implementing Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), cryptographic primitives and associated issues, offline payment meth...