AI Insights Forum: Closed Door Senate Meeting with Tech Execs Episode release date: 16 Sep 2023 Spreading awareness about the works of some of the leading educators in the AI revolution. "Helping humanity shepherd through this transition as we embrace the final invention of mankind: advanced artificial intelligence." David Shapiro aims to provide a pragmatic and optimistic view of the future. Core Ideas: Metamodernism: Narratives and emergence view of reality Postnihilism: The demand for meaning...
Aug 05, 2025•39 min
Our Decentralized Future - Tau - Interview with Prof. Franconi and Ohad Asor Episode release date: 24 Oct 2022 Spreading awareness about the works of some of the leading educators in the AI revolution. "Helping humanity shepherd through this transition as we embrace the final invention of mankind: advanced artificial intelligence." David Shapiro aims to provide a pragmatic and optimistic view of the future. Core Ideas: Metamodernism: Narratives and emergence view of reality Postnihilism: The dem...
Aug 04, 2025•1 hr 57 min
What is a Microservice? What does it have to do with AGI? Episode release date: 31 Jul 2022 Spreading awareness about the works of some of the leading educators in the AI revolution. "Helping humanity shepherd through this transition as we embrace the final invention of mankind: advanced artificial intelligence." David Shapiro aims to provide a pragmatic and optimistic view of the future. Core Ideas: Metamodernism: Narratives and emergence view of reality Postnihilism: The demand for meaning is ...
Aug 04, 2025•30 min
OpenAI Strawberry Leak ― My First Thoughts ― Q* is back??? Episode release date: 14 Jul 2024 Spreading awareness about the works of some of the leading educators in the AI revolution. "Helping humanity shepherd through this transition as we embrace the final invention of mankind: advanced artificial intelligence." David Shapiro aims to provide a pragmatic and optimistic view of the future. Core Ideas: Metamodernism: Narratives and emergence view of reality Postnihilism: The demand for meaning is...
Aug 04, 2025•12 min
My P(DOOM) is now 12.70%! Down from 30%! Bayesian Networks and Wisdom of the Crowd Episode release date: 26 Aug 2024 Spreading awareness about the works of some of the leading educators in the AI revolution. "Helping humanity shepherd through this transition as we embrace the final invention of mankind: advanced artificial intelligence." David Shapiro aims to provide a pragmatic and optimistic view of the future. Core Ideas: Metamodernism: Narratives and emergence view of reality Postnihilism: T...
Aug 04, 2025•27 min
Chatbot with INFINITE MEMORY using OpenAI & Pinecone - GPT-3, Embeddings, ADA, Vector DB, Semantic Episode release date: 21 Feb 2023 Spreading awareness about the works of some of the leading educators in the AI revolution. "Helping humanity shepherd through this transition as we embrace the final invention of mankind: advanced artificial intelligence." David Shapiro aims to provide a pragmatic and optimistic view of the future. Core Ideas: Metamodernism: Narratives and emergence view of rea...
Aug 03, 2025•1 hr 11 min
What Sam Altman's "Gentle Singularity" really means Spreading awareness about the works of some of the leading educators in the AI revolution. "Helping humanity shepherd through this transition as we embrace the final invention of mankind: advanced artificial intelligence." David Shapiro aims to provide a pragmatic and optimistic view of the future. Core Ideas: Metamodernism: Narratives and emergence view of reality Postnihilism: The demand for meaning is false, there is only the Great Mystery H...
Aug 03, 2025•13 min
AGI-Proof Jobs: Navigating the Impending Obsolescence of Human Labor in the Age of AGI Episode release date: 25 Jun 2023 Spreading awareness about the works of some of the leading educators in the AI revolution. "Helping humanity shepherd through this transition as we embrace the final invention of mankind: advanced artificial intelligence." David Shapiro aims to provide a pragmatic and optimistic view of the future. Core Ideas: Metamodernism: Narratives and emergence view of reality Postnihilis...
Aug 03, 2025•54 min
WE ARE SO F@&$#! EARLY Episode release date: 29 Jun 2024 Spreading awareness about the works of some of the leading educators in the AI revolution. "Helping humanity shepherd through this transition as we embrace the final invention of mankind: advanced artificial intelligence." David Shapiro aims to provide a pragmatic and optimistic view of the future. Core Ideas: Metamodernism: Narratives and emergence view of reality Postnihilism: The demand for meaning is false, there is only the Great ...
Aug 03, 2025•10 min
AI progress SLOWING DOWN! Bad news for E/ACC, good news for SAFETY! Let's unpack all this! Episode release date: 17 Jun 2024 Spreading awareness about the works of some of the leading educators in the AI revolution. "Helping humanity shepherd through this transition as we embrace the final invention of mankind: advanced artificial intelligence." David Shapiro aims to provide a pragmatic and optimistic view of the future. Core Ideas: Metamodernism: Narratives and emergence view of reality Postnih...
Aug 03, 2025•36 min
How Will Super Alignment Work? Challenges and Criticisms of OpenAI's Approach to AGI Safety & X-Risk Episode release date: 8 Jul 2023 Spreading awareness about the works of some of the leading educators in the AI revolution. "Helping humanity shepherd through this transition as we embrace the final invention of mankind: advanced artificial intelligence." David Shapiro aims to provide a pragmatic and optimistic view of the future. Core Ideas: Metamodernism: Narratives and emergence view of re...
Aug 03, 2025•37 min
The Age of Autonomous AI: Dozens of Papers and Projects, plus my solution to the Alignment Problem Episode release date: 5 Apr 2023 Spreading awareness about the works of some of the leading educators in the AI revolution. "Helping humanity shepherd through this transition as we embrace the final invention of mankind: advanced artificial intelligence." David Shapiro aims to provide a pragmatic and optimistic view of the future. Core Ideas: Metamodernism: Narratives and emergence view of reality ...
Aug 03, 2025•34 min
Cyberpunk Dystopia: Why it's coming and how we can avoid it Episode release date: 25 Aug 2023 Spreading awareness about the works of some of the leading educators in the AI revolution. "Helping humanity shepherd through this transition as we embrace the final invention of mankind: advanced artificial intelligence." David Shapiro aims to provide a pragmatic and optimistic view of the future. Core Ideas: Metamodernism: Narratives and emergence view of reality Postnihilism: The demand for meaning i...
Aug 02, 2025•43 min
Meta AI LM-Infinite - Massive LLM improvement! Episode release date: 1 Sep 2023 Spreading awareness about the works of some of the leading educators in the AI revolution. "Helping humanity shepherd through this transition as we embrace the final invention of mankind: advanced artificial intelligence." David Shapiro aims to provide a pragmatic and optimistic view of the future. Core Ideas: Metamodernism: Narratives and emergence view of reality Postnihilism: The demand for meaning is false, there...
Aug 02, 2025•19 min
Organizing Discord with threads, plus community rules and the upcoming Cognitive AI Lab podcast! Episode release date: 28 Jun 2022 Spreading awareness about the works of some of the leading educators in the AI revolution. "Helping humanity shepherd through this transition as we embrace the final invention of mankind: advanced artificial intelligence." David Shapiro aims to provide a pragmatic and optimistic view of the future. Core Ideas: Metamodernism: Narratives and emergence view of reality P...
Aug 02, 2025•15 min
AI Layoffs are Coming: Gizmodo Fires Editors Episode release date: 7 Sep 2023 Spreading awareness about the works of some of the leading educators in the AI revolution. "Helping humanity shepherd through this transition as we embrace the final invention of mankind: advanced artificial intelligence." David Shapiro aims to provide a pragmatic and optimistic view of the future. Core Ideas: Metamodernism: Narratives and emergence view of reality Postnihilism: The demand for meaning is false, there i...
Aug 01, 2025•9 min
Neuralink begins human trials. My predictions. Episode release date: 4 Oct 2023 Spreading awareness about the works of some of the leading educators in the AI revolution. "Helping humanity shepherd through this transition as we embrace the final invention of mankind: advanced artificial intelligence." David Shapiro aims to provide a pragmatic and optimistic view of the future. Core Ideas: Metamodernism: Narratives and emergence view of reality Postnihilism: The demand for meaning is false, there...
Jul 31, 2025•24 min
PSA on Social Anxiety - How I worked through mine (also I messed up) Episode release date: 30 Jan 2024 Spreading awareness about the works of some of the leading educators in the AI revolution. "Helping humanity shepherd through this transition as we embrace the final invention of mankind: advanced artificial intelligence." David Shapiro aims to provide a pragmatic and optimistic view of the future. Core Ideas: Metamodernism: Narratives and emergence view of reality Postnihilism: The demand for ...
Jul 31, 2025•12 min
Post Labor Economics: How will the economy work after AGI? Recent thoughts and conversations Episode release date: 16 Nov 2023 Spreading awareness about the works of some of the leading educators in the AI revolution. "Helping humanity shepherd through this transition as we embrace the final invention of mankind: advanced artificial intelligence." David Shapiro aims to provide a pragmatic and optimistic view of the future. Core Ideas: Metamodernism: Narratives and emergence view of reality Postn...
Jul 31, 2025•42 min
The robots are coming! How fast? How much? What impact? Episode release date: 6 Sep 2024 Spreading awareness about the works of some of the leading educators in the AI revolution. "Helping humanity shepherd through this transition as we embrace the final invention of mankind: advanced artificial intelligence." David Shapiro aims to provide a pragmatic and optimistic view of the future. Core Ideas: Metamodernism: Narratives and emergence view of reality Postnihilism: The demand for meaning is fal...
Jul 31, 2025•22 min
Recursively summarize text of any length with GPT-3 Episode release date: 30 May 2022 Spreading awareness about the works of some of the leading educators in the AI revolution. "Helping humanity shepherd through this transition as we embrace the final invention of mankind: advanced artificial intelligence." David Shapiro aims to provide a pragmatic and optimistic view of the future. Core Ideas: Metamodernism: Narratives and emergence view of reality Postnihilism: The demand for meaning is false,...
Jul 31, 2025•26 min
Welcome to the Fourth Industrial Revolution Episode release date: 2 Oct 2023 Spreading awareness about the works of some of the leading educators in the AI revolution. "Helping humanity shepherd through this transition as we embrace the final invention of mankind: advanced artificial intelligence." David Shapiro aims to provide a pragmatic and optimistic view of the future. Core Ideas: Metamodernism: Narratives and emergence view of reality Postnihilism: The demand for meaning is false, there is...
Jul 31, 2025•6 min
OpenAI sued by NYT! New York Times demands that ChatGPT be DELETED! The end of GPT? Probably not... Episode release date: 28 Dec 2023 Spreading awareness about the works of some of the leading educators in the AI revolution. "Helping humanity shepherd through this transition as we embrace the final invention of mankind: advanced artificial intelligence." David Shapiro aims to provide a pragmatic and optimistic view of the future. Core Ideas: Metamodernism: Narratives and emergence view of realit...
Jul 31, 2025•13 min
My predictions for the next 5 years of AI - NVIDIA, OpenAI, ASI, Project Stargate - 2024 to 2029 Episode release date: 23 Apr 2024 Spreading awareness about the works of some of the leading educators in the AI revolution. "Helping humanity shepherd through this transition as we embrace the final invention of mankind: advanced artificial intelligence." David Shapiro aims to provide a pragmatic and optimistic view of the future. Core Ideas: Metamodernism: Narratives and emergence view of reality P...
Jul 31, 2025•13 min
Bing vs Bard: Who will win? Google or Microsoft? A breakdown and analysis of the recent news Episode release date: 8 Feb 2023 Spreading awareness about the works of some of the leading educators in the AI revolution. "Helping humanity shepherd through this transition as we embrace the final invention of mankind: advanced artificial intelligence." David Shapiro aims to provide a pragmatic and optimistic view of the future. Core Ideas: Metamodernism: Narratives and emergence view of reality Postni...
Jul 31, 2025•25 min
AGI DELAYED? Consensus on 2025? Finally, working on a definition of AGI [Autonomy is King!] Episode release date: 25 Mar 2024 Spreading awareness about the works of some of the leading educators in the AI revolution. "Helping humanity shepherd through this transition as we embrace the final invention of mankind: advanced artificial intelligence." David Shapiro aims to provide a pragmatic and optimistic view of the future. Core Ideas: Metamodernism: Narratives and emergence view of reality Postni...
Jul 31, 2025•22 min
It's alive! The first 3 microservices are up and running! Episode release date: 30 Jul 2022 Spreading awareness about the works of some of the leading educators in the AI revolution. "Helping humanity shepherd through this transition as we embrace the final invention of mankind: advanced artificial intelligence." David Shapiro aims to provide a pragmatic and optimistic view of the future. Core Ideas: Metamodernism: Narratives and emergence view of reality Postnihilism: The demand for meaning is ...
Jul 31, 2025•12 min
Four AI Businesses I would start (if I could!) and ONE I wouldn't! Episode release date: 24 Mar 2024 Spreading awareness about the works of some of the leading educators in the AI revolution. "Helping humanity shepherd through this transition as we embrace the final invention of mankind: advanced artificial intelligence." David Shapiro aims to provide a pragmatic and optimistic view of the future. Core Ideas: Metamodernism: Narratives and emergence view of reality Postnihilism: The demand for me...
Jul 31, 2025•15 min
I trained a DALLE chatbot to help you craft DALLE prompts! Episode release date: 18 Jul 2022 Spreading awareness about the works of some of the leading educators in the AI revolution. "Helping humanity shepherd through this transition as we embrace the final invention of mankind: advanced artificial intelligence." David Shapiro aims to provide a pragmatic and optimistic view of the future. Core Ideas: Metamodernism: Narratives and emergence view of reality Postnihilism: The demand for meaning is...
Jul 31, 2025•14 min
Is SEO Toast? Will Bing, Bard, and ChatGPT destroy SEO? Episode release date: 13 Feb 2023 Spreading awareness about the works of some of the leading educators in the AI revolution. "Helping humanity shepherd through this transition as we embrace the final invention of mankind: advanced artificial intelligence." David Shapiro aims to provide a pragmatic and optimistic view of the future. Core Ideas: Metamodernism: Narratives and emergence view of reality Postnihilism: The demand for meaning is fa...
Jul 31, 2025•21 min
