The Gareth and Billcast

Bill Thompson

The Gareth and Billcast (and also old archive from Bill, including the podcasts made for the Cambridge Film Festival from 2006 onwards)

  1. 07/12/2024

    The End of the Cast Show

    And that's a wrap.. Gareth and Bill wind up the GBCast with a conversation about generative reality recorded at the Digital Planet meetup that took place in March, with special guest Ghislaine Boddington. Thanks for all the downloads, and we both look forward to sharing time together elsewhere on the interwebs.

    17 min

  2. 02/26/2024

    Getting the Gang Back Together

    To celebrate/commemorate a year since the last World Service broadcast of Digital Planet Gareth, Bill, Ghislaine, Angelica (online) and Ania are meeting up in a wine bar in central London on the evening of March 28 and we'd love to see old listeners and new friends there. Sign up on Eventbrite (search Digital Planet).  And Gareth wants to tell you all about it..

    4 min

  3. 11/27/2023

    Series finale, faking data vs synthetic data, and your views on photography

    In this final episode of the series (we'll be back in the new year) Gareth and Bill muse on the ways generative AI can be used to fake experimental data, the uses of synthetic data, and we pick up the online conversation about 'computational imaging'.

    34 min

  4. 11/19/2023

    Computational imaging, data recovery.. and some rapid scheduled disassembly

    In this episode we reflect on SpaceX's latest mission and OpenAI's apparent implosion, muse on the nature of photography in an age of computational imaging, and discuss how the Super Pressure Balloon Imaging Telescope managed to get its data safely back to earth using Raspberry Pi computers.

    31 min

  5. 11/12/2023

    eLORAN and GNSS, and the potential tricksiness of GPT-4

    In this episode Gareth eulogises the radio-based LORAN navigation system, and Bill wonders if GPT-4 is pulling a fast one. Or not. With an accelerated sketch and quite a lot of self-referential wittering.

    30 min

  6. 11/05/2023

    Network security in cafes and pubs, and AI safety

    In this episode Gareth picks up on a survey showing british people worry about wifi security in pubs - but is it just lazy marketing of VPNs? And our take on the UK AI Safety Summit. Plus more input from our esteemed listeners!

    25 min

  7. 10/29/2023

    Can You Fix It? Only if they let you...

    In this episode we discuss cars,tractors, smartphone and laptops, and why the right to repair the stuff you own matters, practically and philosophically. We find time to read out some comments from listeners, while the Gazmotron continues to wreak havoc.

    30 min

  8. 10/22/2023

    Darker Skies and Pulsating Lights

    This week, once you're through the 'sketch', Gareth discusses a novel approach to countering light pollution by making LEDs flicker 150 times per second, and Bill looks forward to this year's Lumiere festival in Durham, England which will feature Rafael Lozano-Hemmer's Pulse Topology and brings back memories of the Venice Biennale in 2007 (the photo is Gareth and Colin interviewing Rafael)

    24 min
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The Gareth and Billcast (and also old archive from Bill, including the podcasts made for the Cambridge Film Festival from 2006 onwards)

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  • Creator
    Bill Thompson
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2024
  • Episodes
    100
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © (c) Bill Thompson & Gareth Mitchell
  • Show Website
    The Gareth and Billcast