AI Overdrive: Navigating the future of work Kevin Holditch, Vladimir Setka & Viktor Peacock

In this episode of the AI Overdrive podcast, the hosts discuss their recent use cases of AI, including using ChatGPT to draft a will and using AI to find car parts. They also explore the topic of AI-generated music, sharing songs they created using Udio (https://www.udio.com/) and Suno (https://suno.com/). The hosts discuss the potential ramifications of this technology, including its impact on the music industry and the ability for artists to collaborate and create new sounds. The conve...

In this episode of the AI Overdrive podcast, the hosts discuss their recent use cases of AI and delve into the concept of artificial general intelligence (AGI). They explore the Chinese room problem as an analogy for AI, where a man in a room blindly follows a book to write Chinese poems without understanding the language. They question whether this man is intelligent and draw parallels to AI systems like ChatGPT. The hosts also discuss the importance of consciousness and the ability to ...

Unfortunately, Kevin won't be joining us this time as he's in exile in Wales, but he'll be back with us next episode. Join Viktor and Vlad this week on AI Overdrive as they explore the implications of voice cloning. Discover how these innovations are revolutionising the way we interact with digital content, from personalised audio books to fully voiced games. Ethical question are raised - how will the fraudsters use this?

Kevin uses AI as a pairing buddy to take an idea for a course to teach people X509 certificates and turn it into a presentation. Conversation moved on to how UIs could change to incorporate AI to make your life easier.Imagine if AI remembered every conversation you ever had and everything you had ever said. Then you would be able to ask it questions about your life. Would that be a good technology? What would be the ramifications of that technology?

The guys kicked off the episode discussing their uses of AI. Viktor used AI to help fix medical machines in the hospital and help the night staff know how to use an ultrasound machine. Vlad used AI to draw pictures of a sci-fi book so that he could visualise the scenes and Kevin's daughter used AI to design a teddy bear that she could learn to knit.The team then discussed the topic on ethnic equality in AI generated content. Focussing on the example where Gemini generated an...

Vlad uses AI to plan a road trip around the East coast of the US for a family visit, Viktor analyses his home network logs with AI to troubleshoot a performance issue and Kevin gets advice on how to bleed his radiators and repressurise the system.In AI news the team talks about how we are starting to see lots of companies cut jobs due to being able to fill the productivity gap with AI.The team finishes up the show by discussing what AI is and how it differs from machine learning and automation.