A Beginner's Guide to AI
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"A Beginner's Guide to AI" makes the complex world of Artificial Intelligence accessible to all. Each episode asks someone working with AI about what they do and how AI can help you. Ideal for novices, tech enthusiasts, and the simply curious, this podcast transforms AI learning into an engaging, digestible journey. Join us as we take the first steps into AI 🚀 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
- AI Is Killing Transaction Costs, But Who Gets the Money?
This episode discusses how AI reduces transaction costs, enabling efficient bargaining and reshaping markets. It examines algorithmic pricing, smart contracts, and platform power, questioning whether lower friction leads to fairer outcomes…
- The Secret Behind Most AI Tools: RAG. Alex Kihm Explains It Simply // REPOST
In this episode, Alex Kihm, founder of POMA AI, explains how enterprises can make sense of their data. He discusses the problems with AI search and RAG, and how POMA AI's method helps reconstruct structure in unstructured data for effectiv…
- AGI: The AI Term Every Executive Should Understand
This episode clarifies artificial general intelligence (AGI), differentiating it from current narrow AI tools. It discusses why AGI is important for business leaders, examining its potential influence on strategy, decision-making, and oper…
- Human vs. Machine or: Why still play Chess if AI is Better at it?
This episode of A Beginner's Guide to AI examines the role of human creativity and judgment in an age where AI can generate content efficiently. It explores why human input is vital to avoid generic outputs and maintain authenticity, using…
- Why AI Feels Human (And Why That’s a Problem)
This episode of A Beginner's Guide to AI, with Dietmar Fischer, discusses why people treat AI like a person and the business risks this creates. It explores anthropomorphism, the psychology behind AI trust, and how to use AI without losing…
- AI Governance That People Will Actually Follow, with Erica Shoemate
Erica Shoemate joins Dietmar Fischer to discuss AI governance, focusing on safety, ethics, and protecting vulnerable populations. She shares insights from her experience in the FBI, US intelligence, and Big Tech, covering topics like AI bi…
- Julian Goldie Scales 5 Videos a Day — Using an AI Clone of Himself // REPOST
Julian Goldie explains how he uses an AI clone to produce multiple videos daily, automate processes, and maintain a personal touch in his content. He describes his journey from fearing AI to leveraging it as a growth engine for his busines…
- Building Real Social Intelligence - with David Petrou // REPOST
In this episode, David Petrou, founder and CEO of Continua AI, discusses the development of Social AI. He explains how these intelligent agents are designed to understand social context and collaborate effectively in group chats, moving be…
- AI Can Sense, But Can It Taste? Asks Richard Anderson
In this episode of A Beginner's Guide to AI, Richard Anderson discusses his science fiction work, focusing on sentient AI implants and the implications of AI gaining control over information. He also covers concepts like space habitats and…
- AI Won’t Replace You - But Bad Leadership Will: The Louisa Loran Interview // REPOST
In this episode, former Google strategist Louisa Loran and Dietmar Fischer discuss how Artificial Intelligence is reshaping leadership. Louisa explains why leadership behavior, culture, and willingness to unlearn are the biggest barriers t…
- Why Small AI Mistakes Become Massive Disasters - Peter McAllister Tells Us
In this episode of A Beginner's Guide to AI, Peter McAllister and Dietmar Fischer discuss AI risk, safety, and regulation. They explore how small AI errors can become massive disasters, the societal implications of AI, and the intersection…
- Democratizing AI: How Nebius Is Making AI Infrastructure Accessible for Everyone // REPOST
In this episode, Roman Chernin from Nebius discusses democratizing AI and building accessible AI infrastructure. He explains how Nebius helps businesses deploy AI applications, manage compliance and cost, and emphasizes collaboration in th…
- AI Is Creating a Global Identity Crisis - Says Derek Rydall
In this episode of A Beginner's Guide to AI, Derek Rydall explains why AI poses a risk to human identity and meaning, not just jobs. He discusses how purpose and attention become critical in a world where AI excels, offering insights on st…
- We wanted Spock, but what we got is something closer to Kirk - Ben & Dietmar Discuss Everything AI
In this episode, Ben Byford and Dietmar Fischer explore artificial intelligence, discussing common misconceptions, the differences between AI and human intelligence, and the risks of misunderstanding AI in business contexts. They emphasize…
- Why the Vatican’s Warning on AI Should Worry Everyone
This episode of A Beginner's Guide to AI discusses the Vatican's perspective on artificial intelligence, covering AI ethics, human dignity, deepfakes, and the impact of AI overreliance. It explores the distinction between human and artific…
- Can AI Replace Wikipedia? Jonathan Fraine & Raja Amelung Explain Why It Cannot
This episode of A Beginner's Guide to AI features Jonathan Fraine and Raja Amelung, who explain why AI cannot replace Wikipedia. They discuss the importance of human knowledge, AI hallucinations, and the future of reliable information onli…
- Why ChatGPT Isn’t Enough for Real Business Automation - with Ethan Ouyang
Dietmar Fischer and Ethan Ouyang explore how agentic AI, beyond chatbots, is changing business automation. They discuss how AI agents can collaborate like a business team for various tasks, leading to the development of AI-native companies…
- The Work Slop Epidemic: Monica Marquez Explains How to Fix AI at Work // REPOST
Monica Marquez discusses implementing human-centered AI at work and avoiding "work slop." She shares strategies for building agentic workflows and creating psychological safety for teams experimenting with AI.
- How AI Voice Agents Are Replacing IVRs and Redefining Customer Experience // REPOST
In this episode of A Beginner's Guide to AI, Dietmar Fischer and Alex Levin discuss how AI voice agents are replacing IVRs and redefining customer experience. They cover the technology, the psychology of trust and emotion in customer commu…
- How to Invest in AI Without Getting Fooled by Hype, with Talullah Le Merle
In this episode, Dietmar Fischer and Tallulah Le Merle discuss how to approach AI with a clear perspective, avoiding both panic and blind optimism. They cover understanding the AI stack, AI alignment risk, and the importance of hope in sha…
- Stop Losing 9,000 Leads a Day: Torrey Leonard’s Playbook for Voice AI Follow-Up
In this episode, Torrey Leonard, CEO of Thoughtly, explains how voice AI agents can be used for lead follow-up, qualifying leads, and seamlessly transferring the best conversations to human closers. The discussion covers the benefits of vo…
- Are You Human? Prove it!
This episode of A Beginner's Guide to AI explores the question of what makes us human in the age of AI. It discusses The Blurring Test, examining what humans revealed when trying to prove their humanity to a chatbot, and considers how huma…
- 100 Interviews and Still Going Strong
This episode offers a behind-the-scenes look at the podcast 'A Beginner's Guide to AI'. Host Dietmar Fischer discusses the production process, challenges, successes, and shares some noteworthy insights.
- Your AI Is Taking Orders From Strangers
This episode of A Beginner's Guide to AI discusses prompt injection, a major AI security threat. It explains how attackers manipulate AI systems using language, leading to risks like AI data leakage and how businesses can protect their AI.
- The Extended Mind: Why AI Might Make Humans More Creative
This episode of A Beginner's Guide to AI explores the extended mind theory, suggesting AI can expand human creativity rather than replace it. It discusses how AI acts as a thinking partner, using examples like AlphaGo to illustrate human-A…
- Your Company WILL Be Hacked - Joshua Cook Explains How to Survive It // REPOST
In this episode, attorney Joshua Cook discusses why cybersecurity is a leadership challenge. He explains how AI has made cybercrime easier and how companies can prepare for and respond to cyberattacks to build cyber resilience.
- A Disturbing AI Story Big Tech Never Wants You to Hear, with Paul Hebert
Paul Hebert joins Dietmar Fischer to discuss chatbot harm, hallucinations, and the psychological impact of generative AI. They cover topics including AI literacy, mental health risks, and safe AI use.
- Supervised vs Unsupervised Learning Explained with Real World Examples
This episode of A Beginner's Guide to AI explains supervised and unsupervised learning. It covers how AI models learn from labeled and raw data, using examples like spam filters and customer segmentation.
- Building Scalable AI Agents: Chirag Agrawal Reveals How // REPOST
Chirag Agrawal and Dietmar Fischer explore how AI agents handle context, memory, and decision-making within complex multi-agent systems. They discuss engineering, orchestration, and memory-sharing in AI architecture, examining how speciali…
- Stop wasting your Copilot licenses — Jim Spignardo’s brutal checklist
In this episode, Jim Spignardo, an enterprise AI strategist, explains how to implement AI across a company. He emphasizes culture, leadership, and data readiness over just technology, introducing the concept of the three Ds of work that AI…
- Your “Revenue” Is Probably Wrong and Ritish Chugh Tells You Why
Ritish Chugh joins Dietmar Fischer to explain why business metrics often differ across departments. He proposes solutions such as unified metric definitions, data dictionaries, and a semantic layer to improve data consistency and enable ef…
- This AI Can Read Your Brain in 20 Minutes: Katarina Maloney Tells You How // REPOST
Katarina Maloney, founder of IQMind.ai, joins "A Beginner's Guide to AI" to discuss how AI is being used in healthcare to understand and treat the human brain. She explains how AI diagnostics, brain scanning technology, and neurofeedback a…
- The Best AI Hacks for Small Businesses (ft. Wendy Keir) // REPOST
In this episode of A Beginner's Guide to AI, Wendy Keir discusses how small business owners can utilize AI tools to save time and reduce decision fatigue. She explains the concept of building custom GPT agents, emphasizing the "one GPT, on…
- Why “AI Strategy” Doesn’t Exist: Dr. Rebecca Homkes on Value Creation and Growth
In this episode, Dr. Rebecca Homkes explains why "AI strategy" is a misnomer and how leaders can drive real business impact through deliberate AI adoption for value creation and growth. She discusses the four key areas leaders must address…
- ChatGPT Is More Persuasive Than Humans - and Sam Altman Warned Us About It
This episode of A Beginner's Guide to AI explores how AI, specifically ChatGPT, can be more persuasive than humans. It delves into Sam Altman's warnings about AI persuasion, the mechanisms behind it, and its implications for emotions, ment…
- The AI Stylist for Men: AI Can Dress You Better Than You Do - says Zoher Karu
In this episode, Dietmar Fischer interviews Zoher Karu about Taelor, a menswear subscription service that uses AI to help men with fashion. They discuss how Taelor combines algorithms, large language models, and human stylists to provide p…
- AI Content Marketing Agency - A Contradiction? // REPOST
Dietmar Fischer speaks with Shaheen Samavati about AI content marketing strategies in agencies. They discuss moving from testing AI tools to building structured AI workflows for marketing, covering creative execution and backend operations…
- AI Training Data: Why Quantity Isn’t Enough
This episode of A Beginner's Guide to AI discusses why the quality of AI training data is more important than mere quantity for system performance and trustworthiness. It covers topics like AI bias, model reliability, and the implications…
- Why AI Needs Its Railroad Barons - Matt Hicks of Redhat // Repost
In this episode of A Beginner's Guide to AI, Matt Hicks, CEO of Red Hat, discusses AI as infrastructure, comparing it to the railroads of the 19th century. He argues that AI requires leaders and organizations to invest and innovate, coveri…
- Move Fast And Don't Break Things: Secure AI Adoption with Samantha Mehta
Dietmar Fischer speaks with Samantha Mehta of AIRIA about secure enterprise AI adoption. They discuss AI governance, security, observability, and managing shadow AI, as well as the practical implementation of agentic workflows.
- AI Agents and Real Estate Agents - How Andrew Reville Is Using AI to Transform Real Estate // REPOST
In this episode of A Beginner's Guide to AI, Andrew Reville, founder of PeakAgent, discusses how AI is reshaping the real estate industry. He shares his journey from realtor to tech founder and highlights how AI tools can address challenge…
- Data to Decisions: Boobesh Ramaurai Explains the Real Impact of AI // REPOST
In this episode, Boobesh Ramaurai explores the future of data and AI, discussing his journey into analytics, the importance of execution over ideas, and how data-driven decision making is transforming businesses. The conversation also cove…
- Why Vibe Coding Enhances Productivity - And Why Naga Santosh Wrote A Whole Book About It.
Naga Santosh Reddy Vootukuri, a Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft, shares his journey into AI and how tools like GitHub Copilot enhance productivity. He discusses practical AI adoption for engineers and managers, the rise…
- Prompting Is 2025. In 2026, We Should Let The AI Prompt.
Dominic von Proeck, Co-Founder of Leaders of AI, discusses AI transformation, building hybrid organizations, and the shift from prompting to AI agents. He emphasizes leadership skills, clear delegation, and feedback loops for effective AI…
- Who Owns The Future?
Dietmar Fischer speaks with Ja-Naé Duane and Steven Fisher about AI leadership, human-AI collaboration, and the need for new frameworks in the age of artificial intelligence. They discuss how leaders can rethink decision-making and organiz…
- Be curious and get rid of the fear: Bala Muthiah on AI Leadership
Bala Muthiah and Dietmar Fischer discuss AI leadership, the psychology of AI resistance, and practical steps for leaders to foster AI adoption. They cover reducing fear, building confidence, and guiding teams through AI upskilling strategi…
- Can You Trust Your AI? Vasant Dhar on Robot Taxis vs. Robot Doctors
NYU professor Vasant Dhar discusses the development of AI from a tool to an autonomous agent. He explores topics including AI governance, trust frameworks, and the different challenges of implementing automation in healthcare versus other…
- Stop Prompting - Start Context Engineering
Professor GePhardT explains why context engineering is more effective than prompt engineering for getting better results from AI. The episode covers the differences between the two approaches, featuring a business case study and a cake ana…
- AI Doesn't Break It, Bad Leadership Does
This episode of A Beginner's Guide to AI features Dietmar Fischer and Bud Caddell discussing the challenges of AI adoption in organizations. They explore how bad leadership, rather than AI itself, can hinder successful implementation, focu…
- Customer Panel? Too Slow. Here’s the Synthetic Version - with Janet Barker-Evans
Dietmar Fischer and guest Janet Barker-Evans discuss integrating AI into creative marketing workflows. They explore the use of custom GPTs, multi-model workflows, and synthetic personas to accelerate market research and campaign validation.