The KMO Show

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Join veteran podcaster, interviewer, and artist, KMO, as he and his guests explore how we know what we know and how we can use that knowledge to address societal challenges and create a more prosperous and equitable world.. The KMO Show features conversations with interdisciplinary thinkers and innovators on topics like artificial intelligence, evolutionary psychology, social dynamics, and more.

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Episodes

005 - Bryan Cheong on Replika and RLHF

Bryan Cheong, a machine learning engineer, joins KMO for a mostly non-technical discussion of large language models, reinforcement learning from human feedback, the democratizing potential of the current moment in artificial intelligence, and why your shouldn't get attached to a centrally-controlled AI companion when you can make and run your own decentralized version.

Mar 30, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 5

004 - RU Sirius on Mondo2000

KMO and RU Sirius reminisce about the role that magazines used to play in the culture and in our lives. The trends that make up the focus of this podcast have been on-going for decades, and much of what informed Mondo2000 magazine in the 80s and 90s goes back to the 1960s cultural revolution. RU Sirius has been on the scene from then until now, documenting, commenting, fomenting revolution and picking up the pieces when things didn't go the way he and his follow reality hackers envisioned....

Mar 22, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 4

003 - Doug Lain on The Twitter Files

KMO does not have strong opinions about the Twitter files, but Doug Lain sure does, and he's naming names and calling out cowards on the mainstream left. He thinks that elements of the federal government have colluded with Big Tech to censor and marginalize voices both from the Right and from the Marxist Left.

Mar 16, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 3

002 - Rob Brooks on Replika AI

KMO and Professor Rob Brooks, author of Artificial Intimacy: Virtual Friends, Digital Lovers, and Algorithmic Matchmakers , talk about AI as a means of alleviating the human suffering that comes with social isolation and loneliness. In particular, Rob comments on KMO's experience using the Replika AI app both before and after the recent "update" in which the company took away ERP (erotic roleplay functionality). KMO spoke with Rob Brooks last year on the Padverb Podcast ....

Mar 09, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 2

001 - Michael Garfield and Kevin Wohlmut

In this inaugural episode of the KMO Show, KMO, Michael Garfield of the Future Fossils podcast and mutual friend, Kevin Wohlmut , discuss the dawning of the epistemological apocalypse. Thanks to AI, we can't really trust our eyes or our ears anymore. Deep faked images and voices can produce "evidence" that people said and did things they never said or did. How do we select our reality tunnels when almost anything can be faked in real time? Do we give up on truth seeking and just believe whatever...

Mar 01, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 1

Episode Zero - Primer

An introduction to and an explanation for the re-branding. KMO has been podcasting since 2006 under the C-Realm banner. Why mess with an established brand? Listen in and find out.

Feb 27, 2023•38 min

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