Tag: Social Media
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#50: The 50th Episode Spectacular
Our first 50 episodes are in the can! In this milestone episode, Ian and Michael discuss AI-guided road trips, using AI to create the perfect beer and the perfect chocolate (and what else do you need in life, really?) and an AI-created utopia, as well as looking forward to the topics to be covered in the next 50 episodes!
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#49: AI and Politics
In this episode of the podcast, Ian and Michael explore the intersection of AI and politics. The two discuss how AI is being used in political campaigns, from the use of avatars to represent candidates virtually, to the use of AI-generated political speeches written by ChatGPT. They also delve into how AI can be used to make policy decisions, with examples such as creating optimal tax policies. If you're curious about the ways that AI is transforming the political landscape, this episode is a must-listen. (This description was generated using ChatGPT)
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#44: The Next AI Winter
AI research and development have over the years fallen prey to hype cycles, resulting in two longer so called AI winters in the 1970s and the late 1980s/early 1990s. Is there a risk that we are heading towards another AI winter, or a bubble akin to the dotcom bubble of the early 2000s?
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#41: The 2022 Retrospective
AI Unfiltered is back from holiday break! Ian and Michael kick off 2023 by looking back and discussing some of the biggest stories of 2022, including text and image generators, the metaverse hype, Twitter, and much more!
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#38: Decentralisation, Web3, Social Media
Ian and Michael discuss Web3, social media, and a decentralised Internet - is it necessarily a good thing?
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#35: Recommenders and Finding Online Content
Recommender systems are all around us in the digital realm. We're constantly bombarded with automatic recommendations for what to watch, what to listen to, what to read, what to buy, what to eat, or where to travel to. Chances are that's how you found this very podcast! Ian and Michael discuss recommenders and their flaws, and the difficulties both for consumers to find good online content and for creators to find an audience for their content.
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#33: Communication in the Digital Age
Ian and Michael discuss how human communication has changed in the digital age, from the use of emojis to communicate whole sentences to the ability to send a message to a person on the other side of the planet nearly instantaneously.
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#32: Doomscrolling and the Mental Impact of Constant Connectedness
Ian and Michael discuss the concept of doomscrolling and how being constantly online and connected affects our mental health.
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#31: Controlling Your Life with AI
Ian and Michael give up on humanity and discuss the prospects of just letting the machines run the show. In previous episodes, we have discussed the role of AI in automating your life, and how AI is used by various actors (with varying degrees of malevolence) to manipulate you. But what if you could deliberately and consciously use AI to control your behaviour? And what if we automated the politicians away (imagine the savings!)?
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#22: The AI Resort, Personalised Books, Documenting Peoples’ Life Stories
With summer in full swing, Ian and Michael discuss the idea of a completely automated, AI-powered holiday resort. The discussion then turns to using AI to create completely individualised and personalised books, and using AI to document peoples' life stories.