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What's the latest research say about our future? How will businesses and humans be enhanced by algorithmic advances? AI Today is your gateway to the rapidly evolving world of artificial intelligence. Each episode explores groundbreaking research and real-world applications, offering listeners expert insights into how AI is reshaping industries and daily life. From technical deep-dives to ethical considerations, AI Today demystifies complex concepts for curious minds. Join our inspired hosts to find out how life's about to get more silicon-fabulous...
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- The collapse of training · 20 minWhen AI ingests all your company's documents and makes it easy for every colleague to get answers on every facet of their job, are we empowering people - or lobotomising them? Is…
- Who Taught the Machine to Forget? · 27 minThree companies. Three crises. One unsettling question about what happens when you let machines do the remembering. In this episode: how a cheese shop and a 313-ship fleet solved…
- Why Your Company is a Giant, Amnesiac Goldfish (And How to Finally Build It a Brain) · 53 minYour organisation generates a staggering mountain of data every single day. Slack threads ping, Jira tickets multiply, and emails fly back and forth at the speed of light. You…
- 10x your AI results with this ultimate context engineering lesson · 49 minOn today's show we create a business to show you the huge improvements in gravitating beyond prompt engineering to the new community of practice we call context engineering…
- When's the right time to go all-in with AI? · 14 minTwo of the most important voices in AI spoke out this week. Andrej Karpathy, one of the algorithm's greatest philosophers, was in conversation with Dwarkesh Patel talking…
- ELephantLM: the AI that never forgets! · 38 minIf only that was the real name. After all this time begging frontier labs to build an LLM that learns from its mistakes and applies its discoveries at inference time... Welcome…
- brAIn: thinking of the future? · 30 minThe Dragon Hatchling is a remarkable research paper that reboots modern AI as a model that approximates how our brains work. Today's show is a fascinating discussion and I…
- Does AI work? · 27 minIt's the one thing every business leader needs to know. If I put AI to work in my organisation, will it screw everything up? While we should all be in experiment mode right now…
- Have we finally figured out how to make efficient AI? · 22 minA fantastic research paper published in this month's Nature Computational Science suggests a solution may be in our midst for the incredible inefficiency in generative AI. Large…
- China's got AI in the bag · 24 min30 years in journalism has sharpened my mind. I've spent years in AI. And months researching China and the US as they fight silently for AI supremacy. $500bn in The Stargate…
- I'm working on the Zeitgeist · 19 minI've been working on a business intelligence platform leveraging AI and 30 years in journalism and content strategy. It's the toughest professional project of my career. And I…
- What happens when AI fires all the hirers? · 1 h 5 minRecruitment is being radically remodelled by AI. And according to a brand new piece of research, AI is already humiliating humans at hiring. Hear the story behind the headlines…
- DeepMind's wet dream is M3-Agent's reality: how long-term multimodal memory is modelling the real world · 57 minGoogle DeepMind's Demis Hassabis and his team have a bold mission: penetrating the 4D chess game that's AI embracing our ever-changing biological, physical world. Taking a…
- The AI revelation: unlocking simpler, superior LLMs · 40 minWrestling with the 'Wild West' of Large Language Models (LLMs)? While LLMs are poised to redefine business, the crucial 'secret sauce' of reinforcement learning (RL) has become a…
- Faster, Smarter, Better: How vibe coding transforms product development · 54 minBusinesses are looking at vibe coding all wrong. They're trying to brute force products using 0 engineers, all vibe coding. It's a bugger's muddle. You can't win. AI doesn't…
- Secrets of writing with AI - from a 30-year journalist · 47 minThat journalist is me, your host and producer of AI Today - Dave Thackeray. I was approached by a researcher from the data labs at London School of Economics who wanted to find…
- ASI made easy? · 16 minASI-ARCH is an Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) that's a game-changer for AI research. Like a tireless super-scientist, it has autonomously invented 106 ground-breaking AI…
- The secret of AI mastery that no one wants to share... · 53 minWe have long conspired on the manifold ways to converse with our machine brethren - but could pseudocode, the long-existing, human-readable equivalent of computer programming…
- Meet the team: AI agents running The Grand Serenity Hotel · 14 minI just finished the second part of my presentation on agentic AI in hotel operations. It's impossible to overlook the immense opportunities in AI across any business. People…
- Room for agentic AI? How hotels become smooth operators with the technological touch · 43 minAI Today creator Dave Thackeray today presented his own deep dive into how agentic AI is ready to be the key to efficient hotel operations - giving staff more time to deliver…
