Will AI Surpass Human Intelligence Forever? Cognitive Horizons Explained. Episode release date: 27 May 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...
Jul 22, 2025•12 min
Microsoft: Resurrect Clippy with ChatGPT! - But also let's talk education and ChatGPT Episode release date: 9 Jan 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:...
Jul 22, 2025•13 min
Will AGI Abolish Money? My predictions about crypto and the future of money Episode release date: 20 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 dema...
Jul 22, 2025•42 min
Are Machines Sentient? How will we know? What would it matter if they were? Episode release date: 9 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 deman...
Jul 22, 2025•37 min
Sam Altman WRECKS OpenAI - Jan Leike joins Anthropic - Brain Drain from OpenAI Episode release date: 29 May 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 d...
Jul 22, 2025•16 min
"AGI within 18 months" explained with a boatload of papers and projects Episode release date: 28 Mar 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 f...
Jul 22, 2025•29 min
State of the Industry: Short-circuiting Reward Functions Episode release date: 15 Sep 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 f...
Jul 22, 2025•31 min
When AGI? Episode release date: 11 Jan 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 only the Great Mystery Heuristic...
Jul 22, 2025•43 min
Health-LLM - 83.3% diagnostic accuracy with RAG, XGBoost, and more: New Cognitive Architectures! Episode release date: 2 Feb 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 Po...
Jul 21, 2025•13 min
BOMBSHELL: Mustafa Suleyman "AI will reshuffle society" Episode release date: 6 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 fal...
Jul 21, 2025•14 min
BONUS! Paper Wizard AI - "ask me anything" like ChatGPT - a Virtual David Shapiro Bot Episode release date: 25 Dec 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...
Jul 21, 2025•7 min
AI is Slowing Down! What does this mean? — Gary Marcus and Narrowing Status Games — Follow the Money Episode release date: 8 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 realit...
Jul 21, 2025•23 min
How Will AI Escape? - "No intelligent entity optimizes for a single number!" [Escaped Sapiens] Episode release date: 20 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 Pos...
Jul 21, 2025•14 min
Escaped Sapiens: David Shapiro on AI alignment, safety, and the future of humanity Episode release date: 26 May 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: T...
Jul 21, 2025•17 min
Write an entire blog post with GPT-3 fully automatically Episode release date: 24 Sep 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 f...
Jul 21, 2025•1 hr 7 min
ChatGPT was lobotomized for coding and GitHub Copilot is broken... So I made my own! Episode release date: 9 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 Postnihilism: ...
Jul 20, 2025•13 min
State of the Industry: Meta moves PyTorch to Linux Foundation Episode release date: 13 Sep 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...
Jul 20, 2025•10 min
RAVEN Update: 2023-02-17 - Consensus, Kialo, & Architecture Episode release date: 17 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 meani...
Jul 20, 2025•20 min
Reinforcement Learning with Heuristic Imperatives (RLHI) - Ep 01 - Synthesizing Scenarios Episode release date: 26 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 Postnihi...
Jul 20, 2025•14 min
Sam Altman GRILLED by Congress - GATO does a roundtable debrief! Episode release date: 21 May 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 mean...
Jul 19, 2025•1 hr 40 min
Python & GPT-3 for Absolute Beginners #1 - Setting up your environment Episode release date: 1 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...
Jul 19, 2025•19 min
AutoMuse: Working on Character and Scene Simulations (GPT-3 Finetuning Project) Episode release date: 15 Sep 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 ...
Jul 19, 2025•45 min
Doomerism, Denialism, and Optimism. Introducing the GATO Framework. AI Avengers... Assemble!! Episode release date: 7 May 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 19, 2025•1 hr 3 min
AutoMuse3: Generate fiction with text-based simulation and cognitive architecture for characters Episode release date: 10 Sep 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...
Jul 19, 2025•14 min
OpenAI Strawberry Livestream - Metaprompting, Cognitive Architecture, Multi-Agent, Finetuning Episode release date: 13 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 Post...
Jul 19, 2025•1 hr 30 min
America to hit 82% Unemployment: I have the data to back it up Episode release date: 21 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 Postnihilism: The demand for meanin...
Jul 19, 2025•28 min
AutoMuse: Synopsis GAN (Generative Adversarial Network) for self-improving synopsis generators! Episode release date: 23 Sep 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 Po...
Jul 19, 2025•37 min
ChatGPT API with Salience and Anticipation of User Needs: Towards a fully autonomous assistant Episode release date: 9 Mar 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 Post...
Jul 18, 2025•27 min
Fixing "goldfish memory" with GPT-3 and external sources of information in a chatbot - part 2 Episode release date: 1 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 Postn...
Jul 18, 2025•54 min
Is Q* leaked as SUS-COLUMN-R? Did OpenAI achieve Level 2 or not? Strawberry might be rotten! Episode release date: 8 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 Postni...
Jul 18, 2025•10 min
