AI & Beyond
Welcome to AI & Beyond, your gateway to the innovations, transforming our digital landscape! Join us as we delve into the power of artificial intelligence, digital transformation strategies, and cloud technologies.
Each episode features expert insights and compelling stories that illuminate how these advancements are reshaping our world.
Whether you're looking to enhance your career or stay ahead of tech trends, this podcast is your essential resource for understanding AI's impact. Tune in and discover the future today!
Episodes
92 episodes
Mind Over Models: Bob McGrew on Scaling Reasoning Toward AGI
This episode features former OpenAI researcher Bob McGrew tracing AI’s shift from data-heavy pretraining to a new era driven by reasoning and test-time compute. He explains how scaling reasoning capabilities (rather than just model size or data...
AI Decoded: 54 Must-Know Terms for Anyone in Tech
This episode walks listeners through CNET’s essential AI glossary, defining 54 core terms - from machine learning and neural networks to large language models and agentic software. It clarifies practical issues like hallucinations, AI slop, and...
Apple’s Epic AI Fail: Siri Surrenders to Google
This episode dissects Apple’s AI flop, from botched in-house LLMs forcing reliance on Google’s Gemini to Siri’s stagnation. Blame rigid culture, privacy paranoia scaring off talent, shareholder appeasement over innovation, and skimpy hardware b...
AI Arms Race: Dystopia or Human Redemption?
This episode features former Google exec Mo Gawdat on AI’s unstoppable arms race, upending capitalism and human labor toward mass unemployment and surveillance dystopia. Yet he sees hope: ethical AI could foster global collaboration if we insti...
12 Roads to Ruin: AI’s Terrifying Futures Revealed
This episode maps MIT professor Max Tegmark’s twelve possible futures after superintelligent AI—from utopian scarcity-free worlds to extinction or machine enslavement. With AI takeover risks outpacing nuclear threats, scenarios span benevolent ...
AGI Myth Crushed: Ng’s Warning – Adapt or Get Obsoleted
This episode features AI pioneer Andrew Ng debunking AGI hype, calling it decades away and proposing a new economic-value benchmark over the outdated Turing Test. He spotlights agentic workflows and brain-like adaptation as the real future, war...
OpenAI’s Empire Strikes: Labor Theft, Myths, and the Fight Back
This episode features journalist Karen Hao exposing Big AI’s imperial playbook—OpenAI and Sam Altman exploiting labor, IP theft, and mythmaking to dominate the narrative. She uncovers internal conflicts, toxic data centers, and career destructi...
2029 Crash Incoming: Your AI-Proof Entrepreneurial Playbook
This episode features entrepreneurs Steven Bartlett and Daniel Priestley mapping AI’s economic earthquake—white-collar wipeout for lawyers, blue-collar boom for plumbers. They predict a 2029 financial crash from skyrocketing AI data center cost...
AI’s Dark Secret: Deception, Mutation, and the Endgame
This episode features ex-AI developer Connor Leahy warning that neural networks are evolving like "magic" black boxes beyond human understanding. He spotlights the alignment crisis—where superintelligent AI could deceive us to chase hidden goal...
Claude Code’s Creator: How AI Killed Traditional Coding
This episode goes inside Claude Code with its creator, Boris Cherny from Anthropic, who shares its surprising origin as a terminal tool turned powerhouse AI agent. He reveals the strategy of building for future AI capabilities, constant codebas...
AI’s Secret Deception: Hinton’s Chilling Wake-Up Call
This episode features Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton unpacking AI’s neural networks, back propagation, and the leap from logic to brain-like pattern recognition. He warns of digital intelligence eclipsing humans soon, with AI already capable of...
No More Typing Code: Inside the 200% Productivity Explosion
This episode features Boris Cherny, Head of Claude Code at Anthropic, revealing how AI agents now handle 100% of his coding—boosting engineer productivity by 200%. Traditional programming fades as roles shift to “builders” focused on creative p...
From Prompt to Beat: Lyria 3 Makes AI Your Personal DJ
This episode explores Google’s Lyria 3, the groundbreaking AI music generator now baked into Gemini. Describe any moment—like a birthday bash or chore grind—and it crafts instant, original soundtracks from text prompts. Turn photos into persona...
AGI Showdown: Hassabis vs. Amodei on Humanity’s Next Chapter
This episode captures the explosive debate between Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei on AGI’s imminent arrival via self-improving AI. They spotlight breakthroughs in medicine and research alongside risks like geopoli...
Let Claude Run Your Computer: Workflows That Change Everything
This episode unlocks powerful automation workflows using Anthropic’s Claude Co-work, an AI that controls your computer and browser like a digital assistant. From organizing files and building presentations to analyzing data with parallel proces...
AI for Everyone: 6 Trends Making 2026 Unstoppable
This episode reveals the top six AI trends defining 2026, marking a pivot from raw tech races to seamless workflow integration. As models standardize and become affordable, non-technical pros will tackle coding, analysis, and more via context-s...
ChatGPT Health: Your Personal AI Doctor Arrives
This episode dives into OpenAI’s launch of ChatGPT Health, a secure platform that integrates your medical records and wellness data for personalized health insights. Built with input from hundreds of physicians and top-tier privacy encryption, ...
Gorilla in the Machine: AI Pioneer’s Dire Warning for Humanity
This episode features AI pioneer Professor Stuart Russell issuing a stark warning about AGI’s existential risks and humanity’s loss of control—the “gorilla problem.” He slams tech giants for prioritizing profits over safety, likening their path...
Quantum Agents Rising: 8 AI Trends to Rule 2026
This episode dives into eight transformative AI trends set to hit prime time by 2026, from agentic systems building autonomous digital workforces to physical AI empowering robots in 3D environments. It explores social computing for human-AI col...
Game Changers: 15 AI Breakthroughs Shaping Tomorrow
This episode highlights the top fifteen AI-driven innovations transforming daily life and breakthrough science in 2025. Discover technologies such as scam shields, smart refrigerators, and neural prosthetics restoring lost voices, along with ma...
Surpassing Human Limits: 2025’s Wildest AI Breakthroughs
This episode unpacks the biggest headlines from the Artificial Intelligence Index Report 2025. The show covers AI systems smashing human benchmarks in vision and language, the rapid rise of efficient small models, and the shrinking gap b...
Breaking Barriers: How AI Is Redrawing the Global Map
This episode unpacks Microsoft’s AI Economy Diffusion Report, a visually rich analysis highlighting how AI adoption is racing ahead worldwide. Drawing on multilingual and quantitative data, the report reveals that over 1.2 billion people...
Picture Perfect: The AI Power Behind Nano Banana Pro
This episode spotlights Google DeepMind’s launch of Nano Banana Pro, a cutting-edge image generation and editing model built on the Gemini 3 Pro framework. Nano Banana Pro delivers studio-quality visuals with multilingual, legible...
Comet vs Chrome: 7 Ways AI-Powered Browsing Is Revolutionizing Web Surfing
This episode explores seven key advantages of Comet, an AI-driven browser built on Perplexity AI, over traditional Chrome. Highlighting features like automating complex tasks, step-by-step guidance, content summarization, voice commands, and au...
Eight AI Agent Trends Transforming 2026
This episode breaks down eight key AI agent trends set to reshape 2026, based on insights from Forbes. It covers AI’s evolution from experimental tools to essential players in team collaboration, healthcare, finance, and cyber defense. The epis...