The Unenlightened Podcast

In this episode I explore many of the philosophical themes presented in the movie "The Wild Robot" ranging from AI ethics to consciousness. Listen to this episode on other platforms or follow us on Instagram here : https://linktr.ee/Unenlightenedpodcast. Connect with me on LinkedIn here : https://www.linkedin.com/in/rishirp

In this episode, we reflect on the large gap between capital expenditure and revenue in the field of AI. We emphasize the importance of customer-facing AI products that can generate revenue. As a fun exercise, we brainstorm several AI product ideas that we think would have market (and societal) relevance. Listen to this episode on other platforms or follow us on Instagram here : https://linktr.ee/...

A lot of my views on topics of mindfulness and free will are heavily influenced by people like Sam Harris and Yuval Noah Harari. Check out their work for much better insights on these topics than I can ever muster. https://www.ynharari.com/ https://www.samharris.org/

In this episode we talk about the current states of LLMs, the OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Apple AI keynotes, the hallucination problem, how AI affects society, if LLMs will lead to general intelligence and much more.

The episode has my thoughts on Elon Musk's take on Covid-19 and it's economic consequences.

I had Sidhaarth and Atthulyaa on for this one, both of who are doctors and long time friends of mine. Not surprisingly, we talk about Covid-19, we talk about when life might return to "normal".  We talk about being prepared for future pandemics, AI in medicine and much more. This episode was recorded on May 2, 2020 before the lockdown restrictions were relaxed in India. For comments and feedb...

This is an excerpt from the episode : #1 A conversation on faith and free will. For comments and feedback visit the discussion section of beunenlightened.wordpress.com.

This is an excerpt from the episode : #1 A conversation on faith and free will. For comments and feedback visit the discussion section of beunenlightened.wordpress.com.

This is an excerpt from the episode : #1 A conversation on faith and free will. For comments and feedback visit the discussion section of beunenlightened.wordpress.com.

I had Sudarshan on for this one. This one was all about Pokemon. We talk about how the games need a major overhaul. We talk about the upcoming expansion packs, our favorite Pokemon and much more.  For comments and feedback on this episode, visit the discussion section of beunenlightened.wordpress.com .

I had Hemanth and Sai on for this one. We talk about nationalism and globalism. We talk about misinformation, social media and much more. For comments and feedback on this episode, visit the discussion section of beunenlightened.wordpress.com .

We discuss quite a lot of different things on this one. We talk about AI and automation. We imagine a world with double the average life expectancy as today's world. We inevitably end up talking about football for a bit. We discuss what we are doing to keep ourselves occupied during lock down and much more.  For comments and feedback on this episode, visit the discussion section of beunenligh...

In this podcast we talk about religion (predominantly Hinduism), social media in India, free will, consciousness, and much more.  I do want to forewarn listeners about my misuse of the term "Secular" in certain parts of this podcast. I use the term almost analogous to non-believers at points and in hindsight, I think I could have been more careful to accommodate for the substantial religious...

It's all things football on this podcast. We talk about what we think should happen with the Premier League and about the standout players of the season. We also talk about Liverpool and Manchester United's long and short term futures For comments and feedback visit the discussion section of beunenlightened.wordpress.com .