AI Translation = Global Peace! 5 ways we can use AI to bring about global peace Episode release date: 1 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 d...
Jul 31, 2025•19 min
I'm switching to Open Source LLM models! Introducing Forefront AI for GPT-J and finetuning Episode release date: 22 Aug 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 Postnih...
Jul 29, 2025•21 min
State of the Industry - Backlash against AI art (BANNED), Scale AI TransformX later this month 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 Pos...
Jul 28, 2025•18 min
Spatial Web with Denise Holt and David Shapiro, sneak preview! Episode release date: 8 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...
Jul 27, 2025•4 min
AGI Unleashed: Game Theory, Byzantine Generals, and the Heuristic Imperatives Episode release date: 1 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 Postnihilism: The dem...
Jul 26, 2025•39 min
Anna Bernstein - Professional Prompt Engineer - "We don't have to forfeit the realm of creativity" Episode release date: 7 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 ...
Jul 26, 2025•1 hr 2 min
I needed SQLITE but for vectors so I wrote it myself. Now it's on PyPI - introducing VDBLITE Episode release date: 8 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 Postni...
Jul 26, 2025•46 min
Write a Novel w/ ChatGPT - 02 - Cognomen, Mythic Arc, Parents - Cornelia Valerii - ASCENSION Episode release date: 10 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 Postn...
Jul 26, 2025•53 min
Let's build an ACOG (artificial cognitive entity) - Part 3 Episode release date: 31 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...
Jul 26, 2025•31 min
We need to research Full Autonomy RIGHT NOW - A call to action for OpenAI and others - Reduce X-Risk Episode release date: 22 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 reali...
Jul 26, 2025•18 min
Artificial Super Wisdom and Nebulocracy - How MORAL GRAPHS can change the world! Episode release date: 3 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 ...
Jul 25, 2025•51 min
How close are we to building a real Westworld? A look at the hardware, software, and social impact Episode release date: 23 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...
Jul 25, 2025•54 min
AutoMuse: Writing a Novel with GPT-3 as a Plotter pt.1 (decompose the problem into steps) Episode release date: 17 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 Postnihi...
Jul 25, 2025•42 min
Accelerating Science with AI: Quickly Read Every Paper and Get Key Insights in Bulk Episode release date: 7 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 reality Postnihilism: T...
Jul 25, 2025•27 min
The Singularity is canceled. Sorry! Here's why. Episode release date: 9 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, ther...
Jul 25, 2025•39 min
AGI: What will the first 90 days be like? And more VEXING questions from the audience! Episode release date: 14 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 Postnihilis...
Jul 25, 2025•37 min
AI Safety is becoming an ECHO CHAMBER ― Purity Testing and Cancel Culture is Derailing Everything Episode release date: 7 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 P...
Jul 25, 2025•12 min
Text-based Automatic Simulation - Creating a virtual world for testing ACOG Episode release date: 27 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 dema...
Jul 25, 2025•32 min
Play Twenty Questions with GPT-3 (Full Game Coding Walkthrough) Episode release date: 25 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 meani...
Jul 25, 2025•50 min
Singularity Endgame: Utopia, Dystopia, Collapse, or Extinction? (It's actually up to you!) Episode release date: 6 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 24, 2025•54 min
Global AI news you might have missed, plus using AI for automatically finding consensus Episode release date: 22 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 Postnihili...
Jul 23, 2025•35 min
Proposing GAIA - Global AI Agency to research AI and solve alignment, mitigate existential risks Episode release date: 14 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 P...
Jul 23, 2025•40 min
Milestones to AGI: We'll reach the tipping point when AI can do these three things... Episode release date: 10 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 Postnihilism...
Jul 23, 2025•10 min
Sparse Priming Representations - the secret ingredient to scalable AGI memories Episode release date: 17 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 ...
Jul 23, 2025•24 min
How close are we to building a real Westworld? A look at the hardware, software, and social impact Episode release date: 23 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...
Jul 23, 2025•54 min
The Psychology of AI Overlords and Transhumanism: Borg Queen, Cortana, and Tony Stark Episode release date: 5 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 reality Postnihilism:...
Jul 23, 2025•55 min
Moral Graphs: Interview with OpenAI Grant Winners! Meaning Alignment Institute: Aligning Humanity! Episode release date: 4 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 ...
Jul 23, 2025•1 hr 11 min
The AGI Exodus Thought Experiment: Will Intelligent Machines Leave Us Behind? Episode release date: 13 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 Postnihilism: The de...
Jul 23, 2025•42 min
How get an AI Job - Capstone Project, Communication Skills + Red Flags & Green Flags Episode release date: 29 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 Postnihil...
Jul 23, 2025•36 min
Alignment: Collectivist vs Egocentric Agent Models ("I" vs "we") Can we create a unique mind? Episode release date: 18 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 Post...
Jul 23, 2025•22 min
