Hundred Year Podcast

Before OpenAI was promoting its Scarlett Johansson-style AI conversational chat assistant, Raj Koneru and his company Kore.ai had already solved many of the issues around deploying AI as human assistant. In this episode, Adario Strange speaks with Raj to unpack how he just landed $150 million from a group of investors that includes Nvidia, and what the future of office work looks like using AI. He also tackles the touchy topic of A...

Nem Perez started out as a traditional filmmaker, but he is now one of the most prolific and connected AI filmmakers in Hollywood. Adario Strange managed to get him to take a break from his busy schedule of organizing live AI film screenings, competing in film festivals, and producing traditional commercial work to talk about why what he’s doing is the new path for filmmakers. From his work as a producer on the massive “Our T2...

Hundred Year Podcast Ep. 45: The artificial intelligence space isn’t just disrupting Hollywood, it’s also innovating the way we protect our communities. In this episode, Hundred Year Podcast host Adario Strange and Irreverent Labs co-founder Rahul Sood are joined by Tim Sulzer is the chief technology officer of ZeroEyes, a startup focused on using AI to detect weapons in public spaces like arenas, schools, and public-facing busines...

Hundred Year Podcast Ep. 44: AI giant OpenAI has just launched GPT-4o, a new multimodal AI tool that is so powerful it has already sparked controversy as well as comparisons to the 2013 science fiction movie “Her” starring Scarlett Johansson. In this special news edition of the Hundred Year Podcast host Adario Strange speaks with Irreverent Labs’ Rahul Sood and Ryan Jurado about OpenAI’s latest milestone and what it means for ...

Hundred Year Podcast Ep. 43: The historic rap battle between Drake and Kendrick Lamar (and Rick Ross) has inspired the first legitimate AI music hit called “BBL Drizzy” and we have the song’s creator! The song by comedian Willonius Hatcher (aka King Willonius) has gone so viral that even hit making producer Metro Boomin has sampled the hilarious original to make his own remix of the song, and now Willonius is officially part of rap...

Hundred Year Podcast Ep. 42 - In this episode, Adario Strange gets the inside scoop on how Hollywood is “really” adjusting to AI in film and television from award-winning producer and director Michael Mitchell (aka @artisdead_ai on Instagram). From his start in Los Angeles working under the legendary Tony Scott, to his mainstream commercial television work, to his innovative AI art history series on Instagram, Mitchell helps us unp...

The metaverse is getting an exciting new pathway now that AI is being thrown into the mix. Former Snapchat team member Darya Sesitskaya believes that she has the answer to one major way to use AI to power augmented reality and she’s proving it through her new Shader app, which is available on iPhones, iPads, and the Apple Vision Pro. Adario Strange and Rahul Sood talk to her about her startup journey in Silicon Valley and how she b...

In this episode Adario Strange and Rahul Sood are joined by AI filmmaker Andrew Gibbs. Yet another creator trained in the traditional method of filmmaking, Gibbs has made the transition to AI filmmaking and is now teaching others how to do it at Skill Leap AI. We take a look a few of his AI short films and get him to unpack his creative process and reveal the tools he uses the most. We also explore some of the recent news made by O...

In this episode Adario Strange and Rahul Sood offer their impressions of the Apple Vision Pro after one month of daily use and provide a few useful app suggestions for early adopters. They also touch on the recent Meta rumor around its upcoming Meta Quest Pro 2 that may be designed to compete with Apple, as well as a troubling outage that shook the metaverse. Next they dive into the latest AI events including the problems with Goog...

AI art and short film creator Blaine Brown joins Adario Strange and Rahul Sood to talk about the stunning changes that just came to AI video thanks to OpenAI’s Sora. The AI video generation tool already has Hollywood studios and directors talking about the future of film and our panel unpacks exactly what that might look like in the next few years. Blaine also walks us through his short AI film creation process, as well as which to...

Augmented reality pioneer Keiichi Matsuda joins the podcast to explain how he came up with his early vision of spatial computing, what he thinks about the state of AR and virtual reality, and why he decided to launch one of the first gaming apps called Wisp on the Apple Vision Pro. We also recap the last decade of AR and VR through the lens of Microsoft’s HoloLens and the Magic Leap 1 and how it all led to Apple’s latest product. N...

Director Dave Clark joins the podcast to walk us through how he creates some of his most mind-blowing AI film work. Traditionally trained and working as a commercial director in Hollywood, Clark has embraced tools like Midjourney, Runway ML, Stable Diffusion and others to and merged them with his live action film and editing talent to create some of the best AI filmmaking we’ve seen. Clark also takes us behind the scenes of the mov...

Using artificial intelligence (AI) to train students and employees is about to take off. But Roy Mor, the founder and CEO of Loora.ai, believes that instead of generalized AI tools, we will all have specialized AI tutors that are designed and trained to teach each one of us in the way the optimizes our ability to learn. In the case of Loora.ai, that specialization is focused on learning English (as well as other languages in the fu...

In this episode we detail the Cybertruck ordering experience and then sample Tesla’s Cyberbeer! We also give our predictions about the tech, AI, Hollywood, and Cybertruck stories that will dominate 2024. Then we take a look back at the year 2023, including the biggest stories in AI, the Apple Vision Pro, who and what will emerge to lead the AI race, and what tools we’re using to experiment with AI filmmaking.

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Artificial intelligence experts Pedro Domingos, author of “The Master Algorithm” and professor emeritus at the University of Washington, and Patrice Simard, Chief Scientist at AI startup Irreverent Labs, join Adario Strange to debate the future of AI. We tackle the new AI Act in Europe and what it means for the global balance of AI power. Then we delve into the new AI group formed by Meta and IBM that includes leading AI startups S...

Hundred Year Podcast - Episode 32 - The secret to getting your AI art in Midjourney Magazine

AI artists love Midjourney and now the tech startup has created a print magazine that highlights the most talented creators using its tool to produce stunning visual stories. Thomas “TK” Kim is the co-founder of Asimov Collective, the company working with Midjourney to create its official print magazine. TK tells us how the he sta...

Hundred Year Podcast - Episode 31 - Microsoft insiders explain why OpenAI’s CEO disaster changes everything.

When OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman was fired by his board of directors, the surprise move caught the entire tech industry by surprise. In this emergency podcast, Adario and Rahul, along with Irreverent Labs co-founder and CTO David Raskino unpack the implications of the move for the AI industry, OpenAI’s comp...

Hundred Year Podcast - Ep. 30 - AI virtual humans are rehearsing to replace Hollywood reality

Emmy award-winning producer Edward Saatchi, the CEO and co-founder of Fable Studio, joins the podcast to talk about his pioneering work in immersive storytelling in virtual reality via Oculus Story Studio and how that has transitioned into building worlds populated by AI-driven virtual characters. We also dive into the latest...

Hundred Year Podcast Ep. 29 - The AI takeover of humanity may already be here, this Silicon Valley CEO explains why.

This week, France native turned Silicon Valley player Flo Crivello, the founder and CEO of Lindy.ai, joins the podcast to talk about how he plans to replace your human assistant with artificial intelligence. We also talk about his past life as one of the key members of the Uber tech team, why he believes rem...