Hundred Year Podcast

Hundred Year Podcast Ep. 66: In this episode, Adario Strange meets Ph.D. AI expert Kirill Solodskikh, the founder of TheStage.ai, a new AI startup that just raised $4.5 million to help other AI companies optimize how they deploy their models. After discussing Kirill’s unique experience as a researcher at China’s Huawei technology giant, he explains why he thinks humans will be able to not only peacefully coexist with AI but eventua...

Hundred Year Podcast Ep. 65: In this episode, computer scientist and author Andriy Burkov joins Adario Strange to unpack the secrets of AI that many have overlooked. In his new book, “The Hundred-Page Language Models Book,” Andriy breaks down what AI actually means, how the space has developed over the last few decades, and how even non-AI engineers can begin to understand even the most complicated aspects of AI.

Later, t...

Hundred Year Podcast Ep. 64: The stock market has been rocked! But that hasn’t stopped AI startups from raising billions in new funding as the wave of innovation refuses to be slowed by economic uncertainty. Investing expert Jeffrey Fidelman joins Adario Strange to explain what’s happening in the market, whether it’s the beginning of a larger downturn, and if AI companies are in peril just as they’re gaining traction. 

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Hundred Year Podcast Ep. 63: AI progress is only speeding up, leading some to wonder what place humans may have in a new world dominated by AI agents. Host Adario Strange is joined by Irreverent Labs insiders Chloe Loughridge, a machine learning researcher with experience at MIT and Harvard, and Thomas Tobin, a veteran of the 3D development space, previously of Unity and Ubisoft. The two experts join us to debate whether our AI fut...

In this episode, we are joined by the fascinating Andrew Mayne. A former OpenAI team member, he has also hosted documentaries on the Discovery Channel and worked with some of the world's most famous illusionists. 

Along with host Adario Strange, the two explore what China’s DeepSeek AI effort really means to Silicon Valley tech giants, whether OpenAI, Meta, and Google can catch up, and if this major development will continue to...

OpenAI, Anthropic, and others promise that 2025 will be a pivotal year for AI. So does that mean that artificial general intelligence (AGI) is here? Is AI superintelligence coming soon? And when these milestones do occur, what will humans be able to do to compete? Which, if any, jobs will be left? Will AI take over, or will it continue to serve us? In this episode of the Hundred Year Podcast, we present some of the leading AI exper...

The next phase of artificial intelligence is agents and robotics, but in the real of tangible scientific and medical breakthroughs, quantum computing combined with AI is where the future is headed. To introduce us to this new frontier of super-powered AI, SandboxAQ vice president Fernando Dominguez Pinuaga joins the pod to explain the possibilities. 

From new medicines and treatments for disease, to improving defenses agai...

The year 2025 is guaranteed to reveal new surprises and advancements in artificial intelligence, but what about the human hands guiding that progress? Can we trust ourselves to wield this new power responsibly? Dr. Christopher DiCarlo, the author of “Building A God: The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence and the Race to Control It” has a few answers to these important questions. 

Host Adario Strange and Dr. DiCarlo investigate the cu...

The year 2024 experienced an explosion of AI video tools from existing players, Chinese tech giants, and even European startups. But how can you pick which one is right for you? Viral AI video creator Blaine Brown returns to The Hundred Year Podcast to help us pick the best AI video creation tools released this year, as well as what we can expect in the year 2025.

Guest website: Blizaine.com

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Artificial intelligence can optimize our work and social lives, but without security measures, it can potentially destroy both. Joining Adario Strange is Ian Swanson, the founder and CEO of Protect AI, a company devoted to helping major companies and individuals alike guard against malicious AI models and other nefarious exploits attempting to leverage AI against its users. After testifying in front of the U.S. Homeland Security co...

The recent election season proved that many traditional mainstream media businesses have lost their way, as social media and independent creators suck up much of the attention and revenue. The rise of generative artificial intelligence would seem to threaten to deepen the news media’s woes, but Nota CEO Josh Brandau has a different vision for how journalists and publishers can harness the power of AI to evolve into the next era of ...

Hugging Face is one of the leading names in artificial intelligence and now they've launched an initiative to harness AI in the medical field. Leading these efforts is Dr. Cyril Zakka, a fellow at Stanford's Hiesinger Lab where a team of researchers have been creating new intersections between AI, cardiac imaging, and robotic surgery. 

Dr. Zakka joins Adario Strange to explain his childhood experience as a coder ...

Veteran security expert Perry Carpenter joins Adario Strange to talk about his new book "FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions." The book is an in-depth but easy-to-grasp dive into how hackers, criminals, and even governments are using AI to deceive you and what you can do to defend yourself as AI keeps improving. 

Guest website: ThisBookIsFAIK.com

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In this episode, Adario Strange, who began researching and testing smart glasses over a decade ago, and Farbod Shakouri, the UK-based founder of AI smart glasses startup Phantom, join forces to break down the recent past, present, and near future of the emerging market of smart glasses powered by artificial intelligence.
 
The two delve into the many AI smart glasses offerings from Snapchat, Meta, Amazon, as well as the new...

This episode brings us to the often-overlooked tech startup region of Western Europe, where Letz.ai founder Misch Strotz is building an AI social network that puts the power of creating AI models in the hands of mainstream users. Bootstrapped from Luxembourg, Misch and his team have leveraged AI open source tools to create a commercial business that has already gone viral for its ability to perfectly put people, animals, and produc...

Aside from AI engineers, the next best guess at how AI will impact humanity will likely come from science fiction authors. Alex Shvartsman is tackling this mission through an elite collection of science fiction short stories called “The Digital Aesthete: Human Musings on the Intersection of Art and AI.” 

Among the science fiction masters included in the book are Ken Liu, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Marina and Sergey Dyachenko, Aus...

One of the pioneers of digital imaging joins us to unpack the secrets Adobe has in store for AI imaging in 2024 and beyond. Alexandru Costin is Adobe’s Vice President of Generative AI and he’s been helping to lead the company’s digital art mission for decades. Adario Strange gets Costin to compare the early ‘90s concerns over Photoshop possibly destroying art to the new fears around AI art and video.

Then the two take a d...

Hundred Year Podcast Ep. 49: Peter Cohan is a veteran of the tech book publishing space with 17 titles to his name that map out the past and future of the technology business landscape. In his latest book, "Brain Rush: How to Invest and Compete in the Real World of Generative AI," he offers the ultimate cheat sheet for those still discovering how to succeed in business using generative artificial intelligence. In this epi...

Duncan Eddy has spent years working in the realm of space satellite communications, and now he’s directing his talents toward AI as the Executive Director of the Stanford Center for AI Safety. In this episode, Duncan speaks with Adario Strange to explain why the commercialization of space will continue to fuel our explorations into the Moon and Mars, and how AI-powered robots may be the primary method for deep space exploration in ...