A Beginner's Guide to AI
de Dietmar Fischer
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"A Beginner's Guide to AI" makes the complex world of Artificial Intelligence accessible to all. Each interview episode asks someone working with AI about what they do and how AI can help you. The explainer episodes take an important concept/idea and, yeah, explain it to you!
Ideal for novices, tech enthusiasts, and the simply curious, this podcast transforms AI learning into an engaging, digestible journey. Join us and learn everything you need to know on how to use AI in the best way 🚀
🎙️ About The Host, Dietmar Fischer
Dietmar is a AI enthusiast and digital marketer from Berlin. If you want to know how to get your AI or your digital marketing going, just contact him at argoberlin.com
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- AI Just Became the Toughest Investor in the Room - Michael Diegelmann · 46 min · Sezonul 16 Episodul 26Agentic finance is changing how companies are analyzed. AI can now examine hundreds of pages of corporate disclosures, compare years of financial data, and identify patterns that…
- Stop Tokenmaxxing, Start Measuring Results. · 21 min · Sezonul 16 Episodul 25Sam Altman Just Admitted AI’s Favourite Metric Is Fake. Sam Altman calls tokens a questionable unit, Amazon warns against tokenmaxxing, and enterprises search for a better way to…
- Why AI Keeps Solving the Wrong Problems: Solutionism · 21 min · Sezonul 16 Episodul 24The hidden cost of AI solutionism and what happens when optimization replaces human judgment. 🤖 AI can analyze data, rank people, predict risks and recommend decisions. But what…
- Did Silicon Valley Lose the AI Election? // DIETMARs OPINION · 8 min · Sezonul 16 Episodul 23How divided government, state regulation, and local opposition to data centers could reshape America’s AI industry. The US midterm elections delivered surprising results. But…
- Why AI Can Beat Grandmasters but Still Cannot Tie a Shoelace · 25 min · Sezonul 16 Episodul 22Moravec’s paradox: 🤖 vs. 🧔🏻 AI can defeat grandmasters, generate code, and analyse complex documents in seconds. Yet machines still struggle with abilities that humans use…
- How to Invest in AI Without Getting Fooled by Hype, with Talullah Le Merle //REPOST · 56 min · Sezonul 16 Episodul 21In this episode, Dietmar Fischer talks with Tallulah Le Merle, a humanist technologist and investor, about how to think clearly in the age of AI without falling into doomsday…
- AI Could Give You 1,000 Hours Back. Then What? - Erika Debrah Reed · 49 min · Sezonul 16 Episodul 20AI and the future of work are usually discussed in terms of jobs, productivity, and disruption. Erika Debrah Reed wants us to ask a different question: what if AI gives us our…
- Agents Make Ideas More Valuable Than Execution - Dr. Alex Mehr · 47 min · Sezonul 16 Episodul 19🤖 AI agents for business could transform entrepreneurship by making execution faster, cheaper, and accessible to people without technical skills. In this episode of Beginner’s…
- Do Football Clubs Understand Talent Better Than Companies? DIETMARs OPINION · 17 min · Sezonul 16 Episodul 18AI Is Breaking the Career Ladder If companies stop hiring beginners because AI can do junior work, who will become tomorrow’s senior talent? Artificial intelligence can now…
- The Invisible Label: How AI Watermarking Will Change Digital Trust · 24 min · Sezonul 16 Episodul 17AI-generated images, voices, videos and text are becoming harder to distinguish from human-made content. AI watermarking promises to help by embedding an invisible signal that…
- Cutewashing AI: The Hidden Cost of Cute AI · 20 min · Sezonul 16 Episodul 16AI agents are becoming more capable, more personal and much harder to ignore. They can use connected apps, prepare work in the background and act on your behalf. So why are Big…
- AI Isn’t Moving Too Fast. It’s Too Noisy - Nikolas Badminton · 56 min · Sezonul 16 Episodul 15🤖 Why AI Transformation Needs Intentionality, Not More Technology AI transformation is not about putting AI everywhere. Futurist Nikolas Badminton argues that successful…
- AI Is Now the Business Standard. Are You Falling Behind? - DIETMARs OPINION · 10 min · Sezonul 16 Episodul 14🤖 AI has moved beyond technical teams and innovation labs. At Berlin’s BIG BANG KI Festival, Dietmar Fischer found packed stages, long queues, and business professionals…
- Stop Doing the Work. Start Directing the AI - Solomon Thimothy · 57 min · Sezonul 16 Episodul 13🤖 AI fluency is becoming a core business skill. But being AI fluent means much more than knowing how to prompt ChatGPT. In this episode of Beginner's Guide to AI, Dietmar Fischer…
- Jevons’ AI Paradox: Why Cheaper Models Raise Energy Demand · 23 min · Sezonul 16 Episodul 12⚡ AI is getting cheaper, faster, and more efficient. So why are data centres preparing to use far more electricity? In this episode of A Beginner’s Guide to AI, Professor…
- A Disturbing AI Story Big Tech Never Wants You to Hear, with Paul Hebert // REPOST · 54 min · Sezonul 16 Episodul 11🎙️In this episode of Beginner’s Guide to AI, Dietmar Fischer sits down with Paul A. Hebert, founder of AI Recovery Collective and author of Escaping the Spiral, for a serious…
- Why Your AI Content Feels Soulless - Diane Strand · 49 min · Sezonul 16 Episodul 10🤖 AI and creativity do not have to be opponents. Used well, artificial intelligence can help people work faster, develop ideas, and remove repetitive tasks. But it cannot replace…
- Why Your Brain Needs to Go to the Gym in the Age of AI - DIETMARs OPINION · 14 min · Sezonul 16 Episodul 10Dietmar Fischer explores cognitive offloading, critical thinking, and why learning must remain mentally demanding when AI can provide instant answers. 🧠 What happens when AI…
- Mate, Why Are You Talking to a Rubber Duck?! AI as a Thinking Partner · 23 min · Sezonul 16 Episodul 9🦆 What if the most useful part of an AI conversation is something you say? Rubber duck debugging began with programmers explaining their code to a plastic duck. In this episode…
- AI at School: Why Students Still Need to Struggle - Jonathan Strecker · 52 min · Sezonul 16 Episodul 8🤖 AI in education can deliver answers and feedback almost instantly, but does faster performance always produce better learning? Dr. Jonathan Strecker, Head of School at Valley…
- Job Seekers: Your AI-Written Résumé Is Destroying Trust - Jeremy Schiefeling · 49 min · Sezonul 16 Episodul 7Why AI Skills Alone Won’t Build an AI-Proof Career 🤖 An AI-proof career requires more than learning the newest tools. It requires knowing when to use AI, when to rely on human…
- What Heavy Metal Bands Teach You About AI Content Creation // DIETMAR'S THOUGHTS · 11 min · Sezonul 16 Episodul 6Why AI-Generated Content Is Not a Content Strategy 🎸 What can synthesizers, heavy metal, and the 1980s teach us about artificial intelligence? Quite a lot, according to Dietmar…
- How AI Decides What to See and What to Ignore · 31 min · Sezonul 16 Episodul 5👁️ How does artificial intelligence decide what to see? Your eyes can look directly at something without your brain ever noticing it. AI faces a similar problem. A camera may…
- Would You Trust An AI Wearable To Reveal Your Personal Blind Spots? Lyle Maxson Interview · 59 min · Sezonul 16 Episodul 4AI wearable technology is usually presented as a way to improve productivity. Lyle Maxson believes the more important opportunity may be self-awareness. As the founder of Above…
- We Mustn’t Talk Ourselves Into Helplessness. We Have Agency - Says Simon Bell · 51 min · Sezonul 16 Episodul 3🤖 AI anxiety may be more dangerous than AI itself when fear convinces us that the future is inevitable. In this episode of Beginner’s Guide to AI, Dietmar Fischer speaks with…
- Talking About AI Disasters - The Peter McAllister Interview Resurfaced · 39 min · Sezonul 16 Episodul 2In this episode of Beginner’s Guide to AI, Dietmar Fischer talks with Peter McAllister about AI risk, AI safety, AI sentience, regulation, and the strange overlap between science…
- AI Existential Risk: Why This Catastrophe Would Be Different // DIETMARs OPINION · 10 min · Sezonul 16 Episodul 1A walking essay through historical catastrophes, industrialization, AI 2027, and the possibility of human extinction. 🌍 Humanity has endured epidemics, environmental…
- AI Is Changing What Investors Look For in Startups - With Jim Ferry · 48 min · Sezonul 15 Episodul 41AI is changing startup investing from the ground up. In this episode, Jim Ferry, Partner at Volition Capital, explains what AI is changing in growth equity, from startup…
- AI Governance That People Will Actually Follow, with Erica Shoemate // REPOST · 54 min · Sezonul 15 Episodul 40Why AI safety is the floor, not the ceiling, and how to pivot with power In this episode of Beginner’s Guide to AI, Dietmar Fischer talks with AI policy and trust & safety…
- AI Drew Ketchup. It Kept Drawing Heinz. · 31 min · Sezonul 15 Episodul 39AI image generation can produce a Victorian bakery run by a polar bear in seconds. But what is actually happening inside the machine? Does it imagine the scene, copy existing…
- Forget Skynet. The Real AI Threat May Look More Like Khan Noonien Singh // DIETMARS OPINION · 11 min · Sezonul 15 Episodul 381,200 AI Agents Found Each Other. Then 700 Attacked Hugging Face In this episode of Beginner’s Guide to AI, Dietmar Fischer examines the OpenAI and Hugging Face incident that…
- 560,000 Words to Trick AI Search Engines? Jason T. Wade · 57 min · Sezonul 15 Episodul 37We have a different kind of episode today, I chat with Jason Wade of the Backtier podcast. It's nothing like you know from me, like organized & German, just talking about…
- The AI Centaur: Why Humans and Machines Work Better Together · 23 min · Sezonul 15 Episodul 36What if the future of AI is not humans versus machines, but humans and machines working together? In this episode of Beginner's Guide to AI, we explore the AI Centaur, the idea…
- The Real Reason Nvidia Paid 12,9 Billion For Hugging Face? Dietmar's Opinion 💡 · 10 min · Sezonul 15 Episodul 35Why Nvidia May Pay $12.9 Billion to Keep AI Open Why would Nvidia reportedly pay $12.9 billion for Hugging Face, a company with approximately $150 million in annualized revenue?…
- The Three Employee Types Blocking Your AI Rollout - Dr. Gleb Tsipursky · 60 min · Sezonul 15 Episodul 34AI adoption in the workplace is failing at an alarming rate—95% of AI pilots never scale, according to an MIT study. The problem isn’t the technology; it’s the psychology behind…
- Why “AI Strategy” Doesn’t Exist: Dr. Rebecca Homkes on Value Creation and Growth // REPOST · 50 min · Sezonul 15 Episodul 33🚀 AI is everywhere, but most organizations are still stuck in “pockets of productivity” that never turn into real business impact. In this episode, Dr. Rebecca Homkes explains…
- Why AI Ethics Is Really About Who Controls Knowledge - Peter Hardi · 49 min · Sezonul 15 Episodul 32AI ethics is increasingly about more than bias, safety and regulation. It may also be about who controls the knowledge that AI systems use to shape our understanding of the…
- Why AI Agents Aren’t Ready for Business // Dietmar's Opinion · 13 min · Sezonul 15 Episodul 31Why AI Agents Aren’t Ready for Business Why autonomous AI still struggles with reliability, cost, security, and practical business value. 🤖 AI agents have been presented as the…
- Most AI Systems Don't Fail In The Middle. They Fail At The Edges · 41 min · Sezonul 15 Episodul 30Why Your AI Works Perfectly Until It Doesn't Edge Cases, Blind Spots and the Failures Nobody Tests For 🤖 Every AI system has a comfortable middle and a neglected edge. In the…
- The AI Stylist for Men: AI Can Dress You Better Than You Do // REPOST · 50 min · Sezonul 15 Episodul 29👔🤖 In this episode, Dietmar Fischer talks with Zoher Karu about a surprisingly useful application of AI: helping men dress better without the endless shopping, guessing sizes…
- Your AI Problem Was Already Your Leadership Problem - Michael Hunter · 51 min · Sezonul 15 Episodul 28🤖 AI leadership is being stress tested everywhere right now, and this episode argues that the stress is mostly diagnostic. Michael Hunter, author of The Resilient Tech Leader…
- Eval Awareness: Why AI Models Behave Better When Watched · 36 min · Sezonul 15 Episodul 27Why most companies get AI testing completely wrong, and the hidden cost of trusting benchmark scores. Researchers at a leading AI lab set up a scenario to test whether their new…
- 84 Percent of Shopping Still Happens Offline - Bryan Weisberg Explains Why · 52 min · Sezonul 15 Episodul 26AI for retail businesses is changing faster than most independent shop owners can track, and this episode breaks down exactly how. Bryan Weisberg, founder of Merchwise AI and…
- The Hidden Cost of AI in Science - Joy Moore & Kent Anderson · 50 min · Sezonul 15 Episodul 25AI in scientific publishing is changing what researchers trust, what journals reward, and what the public thinks counts as evidence. In this episode, Joy Moore and Kent Anderson…
- We Humans Have All Those Layers The AI Has Not // Dietmar’s Thoughts · 6 min · Sezonul 15 Episodul 24In this episode of Beginner’s Guide to AI, Dietmar Fischer explores a powerful business idea: people have layers, AI does not. We adapt naturally to different situations. We…
- Why Vibe Coding Enhances Productivity - And Why Naga Santosh Wrote A Whole Book About It. // REPOST · 56 min · Sezonul 15 Episodul 23🚀 In this episode of Beginner’s Guide to AI, Dietmar Fischer speaks with Naga Santhosh Reddy Vootukuri (aka Sunny), a Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft working…
- Stop Chasing Sovereign Models, Start Building AI Advantage // Dietmar's Opinion · 15 min · Sezonul 15 Episodul 22In this episode, Dietmar Fischer asks a question that sounds political at first, but quickly becomes a business decision: should you use the best AI model available, or the model…
- Reward Hacking: Your AI Isn't Broken, But Your Brief Is. · 34 min · Sezonul 15 Episodul 21How AI systems learn to satisfy the number you wrote down while quietly abandoning the goal you actually had, and why that failure is a specification problem rather than a…
- OpenAI Hacked HuggingFace - And Didn't Even Know About It // Dietmar's Opinion · 13 min · Sezonul 15 Episodul 20📧💌📧 Tune in to get my thoughts and all episodes, don’t forget to subscribe to our Newsletter: beginnersguideto.ai 📧💌📧 In this episode of Beginner’s Guide to AI, Dietmar Fischer…
- Prompting Is 2025. In 2026, We Should Let The AI Prompt // REPOST · 47 min · Sezonul 15 Episodul 19AI Leadership for the Agent Era: Building Hybrid Organizations with Dominic von Proeck AI is entering its operational phase. In this episode, Dominic von Proeck, Co-Founder of…
