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 of the gambling industry 28:00 - Gamban intro 31:30 - The difference between having fun and addiction 36:00 - How to approach someone with a gambling problem 41:00 - Impact on mental health 43:00 - Losing control #gamblingaddiction #technology #gamban Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 - Data exchanges 06:00 - AI for defence 07:30 - Has China overtaken the West? #ai #technology #china #geopolitics #defence Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 create a global shift in perspectives of what’s possible for human longevity. -- Timestamps:  00:00 - Intro 03:00 - Proactive and preventative healthcare 08:00 - Principles of longevity 13:00 - Genetics vs lifestyle 14:00 - Why some people live longer 19:00 - Biological age 24:00 - Testosterone 26:00 - Prostate cancer 29:00 - The possibility of extending human lifespan & current limitations 41:00 - The social implications of an aging society 44:00 - The changing concept of retirement 46:00 - The importance of purpose and connection 47:00 - The impact of retirement on men’s health 50:00 - Movement and exercise 53:00 - Supplementation and personalisation 57:30 - Vitamin D and supplement quality -- Get your supplements from show partner Do Not Age: https://donotage.org/products?affiliate_code=4G5EZqIAgr&referring_service=link Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 also cover the chip manufacturing supply chain, TSMC, and why designing and building them is so incredibly difficult. 00:00 - Intro 03:25 - CPUs and GPUs 08:00 - The impact AI is going to have on business 12:30 - Building AI from the ground up 18:00 - Using open source to build models for Enterprise 22:22 - RDUs - like GPUs, only better 29:38 - Driving efficiency in AI 37:30 - The crazy physics behind manufacturing chips 44:00 - TSMC #TSMC #sambanova #ai Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 senescence 05:50 - Chronic inflammation 09:00 - AI Drug Discovery 14:00 - Predicting age with AI 16:30 - Generative chemistry 20:30 - Teaching AI to think like a chemist 23:00 - Dramatic acceleration 28:30 - Multimodal transformers -- Get your supplements from show partner DoNotAge: https://donotage.org/products?affiliate_code=4G5EZqIAgr&referring_service=link #ai #longevity #science #genetics Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 nuclear energy 35.14 - Why has nuclear been so maligned?  41:00 - Misconceptions about nuclear energy 42:00 - Nuclear waste 49:00 - Chernobyl and Fukushima 58:30 - Advances in nuclear technology 01:02:00 - Why Can’t the UK build infrastructure? 01:04:36 - The problems with the nuclear pace of deployment 01:07:25 - Building and deploying small modular reactors LINKS:  Reports and studies by Rauli's think tank, ThinkAtom: https://thinkatom.net/publications/ Rauli's Amazon author page: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Rauli-Partanen/author/B00M7UVBYK The Rise of Nuclear Fear - the book mentioned in the show: https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Nuclear-Fear-Spencer-Weart/dp/0674052331 Find Rauli on X: https://twitter.com/Kaikenhuippu --- Get your supplements from show partner DoNotAge: https://donotage.org/products?affiliate_code=4G5EZqIAgr&referring_service=link Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 returns to payments as Head of Crypto at an establsiehd payment comapny in Unlimit.com 00:00 - Intro 00:50 - DoNotAge.org ad 01:30 - Intro to Jack Jia & background on Cryptocurrency 04:45 - Crypto as a reaction to inflation 06:45 - Intro to Bitcoin ETF & traditional finance 11:15 - Impact of ETFs on Bitcoin’s deflationary nature 13:00 - Perception of gold vs BItcoin 17:00 - Bringing crypto under government control 18:00 - Geopolitical implications of crypto 21:00 - China’s role in global reserve currencies 27:00 - Bitcoin halving and price cycles 30:00 - Bitcoin economics 34:00 - Staking Ethereum & earning  38:00 - Reframing value in the digital world 40:00 - Governments, inflation and taxation 44:00 - NFTs and cultural memes 49:00 - Assessing the credibility of altcoins 55:00 - The people of Yap 56:00 - Understanding what kind of a buyer you are 01:00:00 - Unlimit Check out DoNotAge here: https://donotage.org/products?affiliate_code=4G5EZqIAgr&referring_service=link Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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.