A Beginner's Guide to AI

Dietmar Fischer
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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.

  1. Why ChatGPT Isn’t Enough for Real Business Automation - with Ethan Ouyang

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    Why ChatGPT Isn’t Enough for Real Business Automation - with Ethan Ouyang

    AI is no longer just a chatbot that helps you write emails faster. In this episode of Beginner’s Guide to AI, Dietmar Fischer sits down with Ethan Ouyang to explore how agentic AI is changing the way businesses are built, managed, and scaled. Ethan is publicly identified with ATOMS, and the platform’s official site is atoms.dev, where it is described as a multi-agent AI workflow for building products without code. This conversation goes far beyond simple prompting. Ethan explains how AI agents can work together like a business team, handling research, planning, product creation, workflow automation, iteration, and even revenue optimization. The result is a shift from “vibe coding” to something much bigger: building real businesses with AI. You’ll hear:✨ Why ChatGPT-level use cases are only the beginning ✨ How AI agents can support founders, solo operators, and managers ✨ Why judgment, taste, and domain knowledge still matter ✨ What it means to become an AI native company ✨ How leadership changes when your team includes AI workers ✨ Why custom AI tools may beat bloated SaaS products 📧💌📧 Tune in to get my thoughts and all episodes, don't forget to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠subscribe to our Newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: ⁠⁠⁠⁠beginnersguide.nl⁠⁠⁠⁠ 📧💌📧 🎙️ About Dietmar FischerDietmar is a podcaster and AI marketer from Berlin. If you want to know how to get your AI or your digital marketing going, just contact him at argoberlin.com 💬 Quotes from the Episode“Atoms is fundamentally different. This is not code. It is decision.” “You have a team, not just an engineer.” “The trivial work, the tedious work, should belong to AI.” 🕒 Chapters00:00 Welcome and what ATOMS actually does 02:26 From prompting AI to building a real business 05:33 Why AI agents matter more than coding alone 10:18 Who uses ATOMS: founders, managers, and operators 13:03 How to integrate AI agents into real workflows 23:22 Leadership, hiring, and managing AI workers 27:13 The future of agentic AI and autonomous systems 31:37 What an AI native company looks like 35:18 China, the US, and the AI application race 40:03 Safety, the Terminator question, and responsible AI 42:14 Where to find Ethan and ATOMS 🔗 Where to find Ethan OuyangPlatform: ATOMS.dev Company: DeepWisdom.AI X: com/atoms_dev YouTube: youtube.com/@atoms_dev LinkedIn: Ethan Ouyang 🎵 Music credit: "Modern Situations" by Unicorn Heads Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    48 Min.
  2. The Work Slop Epidemic: Monica Marquez Explains How to Fix AI at Work // REPOST

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    The Work Slop Epidemic: Monica Marquez Explains How to Fix AI at Work // REPOST

    Human-Centered AI at Work with Monica Marquez: A Practical Adoption Playbook If you’re still treating AI like a shiny gadget, this episode will be a polite intervention.Monica Marquez (Flipwork) shows how to build a human-centered AI adoption playbook that actually sticks.We dig into AI as a partner, not a tool; psychological safety for teams; and the one-workflow-per-month rule that turns experimentation into measurable AI ROI.You’ll learn how to avoid work slop, build agentic workflows, and translate machine output into authentic intelligence that reflects your expertise. 🤖 What you’ll learn Shift identity first: “I experiment with AI daily.”Redesign workflows before adding tools.Create psychological safety so teams can try, fail, and improve.Kill work slop and layer your context for quality.Build agentic workflows that scale judgment and consistency.Track time saved and quality gains to prove ROI. 📧💌📧 Tune in to get my thoughts and all episodes, don’t forget to subscribe to our Newsletter.📧💌📧 Quotes from the Episode “The real danger isn’t killer robots. It’s disengaged humans.”“Don’t ship work slop. Turn artificial intelligence into your authentic intelligence.”“Redesign your workflow first, then layer AI. Otherwise you just automate the old mess.”“Stop treating AI like a tool. Treat it like a partner.”“Adoption starts with identity: I experiment with AI every day.”“Use AI for five-dollar tasks so you can solve five-thousand-dollar problems.” Chapters 00:00 Welcome, who is Monica Marquez and what is Flipwork 02:59 AI as a partner, not a tool 05:34 Practical example: recruiting, prompts, and human judgment 07:02 Generational beliefs, “artificial intern,” and mindset shifts 11:24 From effort to impact: redefining success with AI 12:46 Redesigning workflows before layering AI 14:44 Psychological safety and daily experiments 16:55 Leaders model usage, run side-by-side experiments 18:37 Avoiding “work slop” and building authentic intelligence 21:44 Doing more of your “zone of genius” with AI 24:39 The one-workflow-per-month rule 29:25 Industry adoption patterns, lessons from Blockbuster vs Netflix 33:12 Personal AI use cases and voice-based workflows 36:32 Matrix, Terminator, and Monica’s real fear: disengaged humans 37:58 Where to find Monica and Flipwork Where to find Monica Marquez Her Agency: FlipworkMonica’s site: themonicamarquez.comNewsletter: Ay Ay Ay, AI About Dietmar Fischer Host of Beginner’s Guide to AI. Economist and digital marketer helping teams turn AI from hype into workflows.Training, talks, and courses with thousands of participants. 🎙️ Go to argoberlin.com to see how we can help you! Music credit: “Modern Situations” by Unicorn Heads 🎵 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    45 Min.
  3. How AI Voice Agents Are Replacing IVRs and Redefining Customer Experience // REPOST

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    How AI Voice Agents Are Replacing IVRs and Redefining Customer Experience // REPOST

    In this episode of A Beginner’s Guide to AI, Dietmar Fischer talks with Alex Levin, the Co-Founder and CEO of Regal.io, about how Voice AI is bringing real human conversation back to customer service. For years, businesses have been hiding behind IVRs and chatbots - cutting off the personal touch that customers crave. Alex explains how AI voice agents are transforming the experience, allowing brands to actually talk to their customers again, at scale, with empathy, emotion, and precision. We dive into what’s behind this transformation - from the technology (OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, ElevenLabs, Deepgram) to the psychology of trust and emotion in customer communication. Alex shares how Regal.io helps enterprises in healthcare, insurance, and finance use AI-powered voice agents that can outperform human representatives while lowering costs and improving satisfaction. From replacing call center frustration with warm, natural conversations to the rise of empathetic AI agents, this episode explores what happens when voice meets intelligence. 📧💌📧 Tune in to get my thoughts and all episodes — and don’t forget to subscribe to our Newsletter: beginnersguide.nl 📧💌📧 Quotes from the Episode “If a customer wants to talk to you, you’re lucky - and if they want to do it by voice, you should let them.” “The personalization possible with AI agents is more human than humans.” “Everyone told me voice was dead - they were wrong.” CHAPTERS 00:00 Introduction - Why Voice AI Is Making a Comeback 00:54 Alex Levin’s Journey from Startups to Voice AI 03:42 “Voice Isn’t Dead” - The Moment That Sparked Regal.io 06:25 How Voice AI Actually Works Behind the Scenes 08:47 Using AI Agents to Talk to Customers at Scale 10:58 Data, Scripts, and What Makes a “Good” AI Conversation 13:33 Legal Hurdles and Privacy in Voice AI 15:50 Why Healthcare and Insurance Are Early Adopters 18:26 How Customers React When They Realize It’s an AI 21:12 Real Use Cases - From Banks to Everyday Services 24:19 Human in the Loop: When AI Hands Over to People 26:55 Can Small Businesses Afford Voice AI Yet? 28:48 The AI Startup Boom and Smarter Investment Strategies 32:20 Leadership in the Age of AI - New Skills, New Metrics 35:12 Why Young Professionals Must Learn AI Tools Now 37:45 How Alex Personally Uses AI (and Where It Saves Time) 39:24 The “Terminator Question” - Should We Be Worried? 42:08 Closing Reflections and Where to Find Regal.io Where to Find Alex Levin 🌐 Website: www.regal.io 🧑🏻 LinkedIn: Alex Levin 🎙 About Dietmar Fischer: Dietmar is a podcaster, AI marketer, and economist from Berlin. If you want to get your AI or your digital marketing going - just contact him at Argoberlin.com! 🎵 Music credit: “Modern Situations” by Unicorn Heads Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    48 Min.
  4. How to Invest in AI Without Getting Fooled by Hype, with Talullah Le Merle

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    How to Invest in AI Without Getting Fooled by Hype, with Talullah Le Merle

    In this episode, Dietmar Fischer talks with Tallulah Le Merle, a humanist technologist and investor, about how to think clearly in the age of AI without falling into doomsday panic or blind optimism. You’ll get a practical mental model of the AI stack, a grounded take on AI alignment risk, and a refreshing argument for hope as a strategic posture that shapes what gets built. 🤖🌍🧠 What you’ll learn ✅ Why fear based AI narratives can freeze action and distort decisions ✅ How the future of work may shift from routine cognitive tasks to deeper human capabilities ✅ The overlooked forms of intelligence AI cannot easily replace somatic, ecological, communal ✅ How AI investing works in early stage startups and what responsible due diligence looks like ✅ The AI stack explained simply infrastructure, model layer, application layer ✅ What agentic AI means today and where it is heading 📧💌📧 Tune in to get my thoughts and all episodes, don't forget to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠subscribe to our Newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: ⁠⁠⁠⁠beginnersguide.nl⁠⁠⁠⁠ 📧💌📧 About Dietmar Fischer Dietmar is a podcaster and AI marketer from Berlin. If you want to know how to get your AI or your digital marketing going, just contact him at argoberlin.com 🌱🚀 Chapters 00:00 Meet Tallulah Le Merle and why “hope” is her AI stance 03:52 Fear narratives vs hope as a practical posture 08:06 Disruptive to what Rethinking modern work and human thriving 10:14 Jobs replaced vs jobs created and the transition problem 12:36 What’s left for humans Somatic ecological and communal intelligence 18:47 The humanist builder and why ethics should unlock capital 28:55 The AI stack explained infrastructure model layer application layer 32:30 Why apps and agents are the near-term investment boom 40:32 The alignment problem Terminator narratives and the futures we build 46:12 Fantasy, imagination, and why it matters for tech trajectories 49:36 Where to find Tallulah and the upcoming book Quotes from the Episode 💬 “AI is a tool. And like a hammer. Hammer, you could use it to build a house or as a murder weapon.” 💬 “Hope is this sliver of openness to the possibility that something good could happen.” 💬 “Disruptive to what Actually, a lot of the way we live and work and operate as humans today is dystopian.” 💬 “It forces us to ask these existential questions, like, what is a human” 💬 “I actually think it should be a prerequisite for unlocking capital.” 💬 “We are so early We’re in inning one of a nine inning baseball game.” Where to find Tallulah 🔗 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/tallulahlemerle 🔗 Website: tallulahlemerle.com 🔗 Updates on her book: don't forget to follow her on LinkedIn 🚀 Music credit: "Modern Situations" by Unicorn Heads Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    56 Min.
  5. Stop Losing 9,000 Leads a Day: Torrey Leonard’s Playbook for Voice AI Follow-Up

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    Stop Losing 9,000 Leads a Day: Torrey Leonard’s Playbook for Voice AI Follow-Up

    🎙️ In this episode of Beginner’s Guide to AI, Dietmar Fischer sits down with Torrey Leonard, CEO of Thoughtly, to unpack the real business use case for voice AI agents: follow up with every lead, qualify fast, and hand the best conversations to humans. If your funnel generates thousands of leads, the bottleneck is not “lack of interest.” It’s speed, timing, and the grind of dialing. Torrey explains how Thoughtly’s AI phone agents call inbound leads, answer initial questions, build rapport, and then transfer the call to a licensed human closer. Humans stay in the loop for the big life decisions. The AI handles the repetitive first steps that burn out teams. You will also learn: ✅ Why voice beats typing as the fastest interface for human communication ✅ Why customer service voice AI is harder than sales and lead qualification ✅ How onboarding works with CRM integrations like Salesforce and HubSpot ✅ Why A/B testing matters before ramping to 100% lead volume ✅ Why the “moat” is orchestration, workflows, and guardrails, not just a great voice model ✅ What agentic AI and omni-channel “next best action” looks like next 📧💌📧 Tune in to get my thoughts and all episodes, don’t forget to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠subscribe to our Newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: ⁠⁠⁠⁠beginnersguide.nl⁠⁠⁠⁠ 📧💌📧 About Dietmar Fischer: Dietmar is a podcaster and AI marketer from Berlin. If you want to know how to get your AI or your digital marketing going, just contact him at argoberlin.com Chapters 00:00 From Minecraft to voice first AI and the origin of Thoughtly 02:44 What Thoughtly does AI calls that qualify and transfer to humans 07:45 Trust, disclosure, and why customer service voice AI is so hard 12:50 Scaling across verticals dialects and the model orchestration stack 18:12 Onboarding CRM integrations and A/B testing to 100% volume 28:21 The next wave autonomous agents OpenClaw and a sane take on AI risk Quotes from the Episode “After 90 seconds we’ve got a great rapport built. Boom, transferred over to a licensed agent.”“The voice isn’t the unique selling proposition. It’s the orchestration of the whole stuff.”“Nobody needs to worry about the Terminator scenario, unless we humans build Terminator.” Where to find the Guest 🌐 Thoughtly: thoughtly.com 🔗 Torrey Leonard on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/torrey-leonard/ Music credit: “Modern Situations” by Unicorn Heads Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    46 Min.
  6. Are You Human? Proof it!

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    Are You Human? Proof it!

    🎧 What makes us human in the age of AI? This episode of A Beginner’s Guide to AI explores one of the most important questions for business leaders today. As AI becomes more capable, the real challenge is not what it can do, but what we should never outsource. We explore The Blurring Test, a fascinating experiment where thousands of people tried to prove their humanity to a chatbot. What they revealed changes how we should think about AI, business, and identity. You will learn why AI can mimic humans but cannot experience reality, why human judgment becomes more valuable in an automated world, and how to use AI without losing authenticity and meaning. 📧💌📧 Tune in to get my thoughts and all episodes, don't forget to ⁠subscribe to our Newsletter⁠: ⁠beginnersguide.nl⁠ 📧💌📧 👤 About Dietmar Fischer: Dietmar is a podcaster and AI marketer from Berlin. If you want to know how to get your AI or your digital marketing going, just contact him at https://argoberlin.com/ 💡 Quotes from the Episode"AI can follow the recipe, but it cannot taste the cake.""Your humanity is not what you do, but why you do it.""The real risk is not AI replacing us, but us becoming more like AI."⏱ Chapters00:00 The Question That Changes Everything 04:30 The MrMind Experiment 11:20 AI vs Human Identity 19:10 The Cake Test Explained 26:40 AI in Business and Decision Making 34:00 What Makes Us Human 🚀 This episode challenges how you think about AI, business, and yourself. The future will not be about replacing humans. It will be about understanding what makes us irreplaceable. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    41 Min.

  7. 26. MÄRZ

    100 Interviews and Still Going Strong

    If you want to know more about the podcast, about how it's produced, what are the challenges and wins, about some fun facts, a little bit behind-the-scenes, this episode is for you, as I tell you all about it - at least all the things I found noteworthy 😉 📧💌📧 Tune in to get my thoughts and all episodes, don't forget to ⁠⁠subscribe to our Newsletter⁠⁠: beginnersguide.nl 📧💌📧 About Dietmar Fischer: Dietmar is a podcaster and AI marketer from Berlin. If you want to know how to get your AI or your digital marketing going, just contact him at argoberlin.com Music credit: "Modern Situations" by Unicorn Heads Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    23 Min.
  8. Your AI Is Taking Orders From Strangers

    24. MÄRZ

    Your AI Is Taking Orders From Strangers

    Your AI might not be hacked. It might be persuaded. In this episode of A Beginner’s Guide to AI, we unpack one of the most underestimated threats in modern business: prompt injection. As AI systems and AI agents become deeply embedded in workflows, they don’t just process information anymore. They act on it. And that creates a completely new category of AI security risks. We explore how attackers can manipulate AI systems using nothing but language, why AI struggles to separate instructions from data, and how this leads to real-world issues like AI data leakage. This is not a theoretical problem. It is already happening inside enterprise environments. If you are working with AI in marketing, operations, or leadership, this episode will fundamentally change how you think about AI risk management and enterprise AI security. Key highlights: What prompt injection is and why it mattersWhy AI agents introduce new security risksReal-world case of AI data leakageHow AI systems get manipulated through inputWhat businesses must change to stay secure 📧💌📧 Tune in to get my thoughts and all episodes, don't forget to ⁠⁠subscribe to our Newsletter⁠⁠: beginnersguide.nl 📧💌📧 Quotes from the Episode: “Prompt injection is social engineering for machines.”“Your AI can become an insider threat without meaning to.”“Language is no longer just information. It’s control.” Chapters: 00:00 Why AI Security Is Different 05:40 What Prompt Injection Really Is 14:20 How AI Gets Manipulated by Language 23:10 Why AI Agents Increase the Risk 32:45 Real Case Study: AI Data Leakage 44:30 How to Protect Your AI Systems About Dietmar Fischer: Dietmar is a podcaster and AI marketer from Berlin. If you want to know how to get your AI or your digital marketing going, just contact him at argoberlin.com Music credit: "Modern Situations" by Unicorn Heads Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    28 Min.
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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.

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