Finetuning GPT-3 101: Synthesizing Training Data Episode release date: 16 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 false, th...
Aug 15, 2025•22 min
Neuroscience for AI - Every book I've read to become a world leader in AI Episode release date: 21 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: The demand...
Aug 15, 2025•16 min
ChatGPT4 - Sparse Priming Representations, Hierarchical Memory Consolidation, and Implied Cognition! Episode release date: 19 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 reali...
Aug 15, 2025•17 min
Maximizing Agent Swarm Performance with Signal-to-Noise Optimization Episode release date: 12 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 demand for ...
Aug 14, 2025•18 min
Metaprompting with GPT-3 (getting GPT-3 to write its own prompts) RECURSIVE NLP PROGRAMMING!! Episode release date: 19 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...
Aug 13, 2025•12 min
Many of you have asked for it: Join my new research Discord! Link in description Episode release date: 25 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 Postnihilism: The...
Aug 13, 2025•7 min
Generative AI for CEOs: How to think about AI today, and how to get the most ROI from it Episode release date: 9 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 Postnihili...
Aug 13, 2025•54 min
Life and Education After Work 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 Imperatives: ...
Aug 13, 2025•1 hr 13 min
GPT-3 Marketing Aid Chatbot with Long Term Memory (easiest way) Episode release date: 4 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 demand for meanin...
Aug 13, 2025•30 min
Generative AI for Product Owners: The Rise of Polymorphic Applications! Episode release date: 17 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: The demand f...
Aug 13, 2025•42 min
Life under UBI: Work, hobbies, and wellbeing without work Episode release date: 18 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 meaning is ...
Aug 13, 2025•53 min
Why I canceled my Anthropic Claude account Episode release date: 12 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...
Aug 12, 2025•14 min
4IR 005 - Finding Meaning and Purpose in Work Navigating the Paradox of Choice in an AI-Driven World Episode release date: 8 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 realit...
Aug 12, 2025•1 hr 26 min
ChatGPT for Absolute Beginners - What is it and how does it work? Episode release date: 3 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 mean...
Aug 12, 2025•23 min
The Automation Paradox: Why AGI is closer than you think Episode release date: 9 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 demand for meaning is fa...
Aug 12, 2025•6 min
AI Winters & Gartner Hype Cycle: A Deep Dive into the Future of Artificial Intelligence Episode release date: 18 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 Postni...
Aug 12, 2025•27 min
US Government AI Regulation BOMB DROPPED! RAAIA Act - The end of Open Source? Regulatory Capture? Episode release date: 15 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 ...
Aug 11, 2025•26 min
OpenAI Blog: Sam Altman "Planning for AGI and beyond" Episode release date: 25 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 fals...
Aug 10, 2025•17 min
State of the Industry: Decentralized Everything plus NVIDIA announces Beta of NeMo! Episode release date: 21 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: ...
Aug 09, 2025•25 min
I'm an accelerationist Episode release date: 16 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: The demand for meaning is false, there is only the Great Myst...
Aug 09, 2025•35 min
The Manhattan Project for AI Has Begun - Cold War 2.0 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...
Aug 08, 2025•14 min
Claude 3 Review - LLMs are finally good at fiction and prose! [Cyberpunk Fanfic] Episode release date: 6 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 ...
Aug 07, 2025•36 min
How OpenAI Strawberry Works ― "ONE TEXTBOOK TO RULE THEM ALL" ― My Educated Guess Episode release date: 30 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: Th...
Aug 07, 2025•14 min
Pro's Finetuning Guide for GPT and LLMs Episode release date: 25 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 is on...
Aug 07, 2025•16 min
Python & PowerShell for Absolute Beginners - Scrape Text from PDF and DOCX [bulk operation] Episode release date: 15 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 Po...
Aug 06, 2025•16 min
Learn AI: A Step By Step Guide (At least, this is how I did it) This is the way... Episode release date: 17 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: T...
Aug 06, 2025•14 min
"Teams of AI agents working together" ― The Sci-Fi Future Being Built RIGHT NOW Episode release date: 31 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 ...
Aug 06, 2025•55 min
Why is Bing unhinged? Let's talk about Alignment (and how to fix it!) 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...
Aug 06, 2025•33 min
Preventing War With AGI: How Energy Hyper-Abundance and Renewables will Save Us Episode release date: 11 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 ...
Aug 06, 2025•1 hr 3 min
AI Experts Revise Predictions by 48 YEARS - We're in the endgame now! Episode release date: 5 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 ...
Aug 06, 2025•14 min
