Is AI repeating the dot-com era or are we misreading what’s happening?

In this episode of Machine Dreams, we sat down with Guy Dassa, who leads AI investing at OurCrowd, Israel’s most active VC with over $2B in assets under management, for a candid conversation about AI valuations, infrastructure versus applications, and why the bubble debate may be missing the point.

Full episode coming out soon on Machine Dreams Podcast.

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Ofir Mulla spends his days inside the uncomfortable edge cases of AI perception, where systems misread shadows as people, mistake celebration for aggression, and struggle to understand why context matters more than pixels.

As cofounder and CTO of Lumana, Ofir joins Machine Dreams to explain why most AI-driven cameras still fail at understanding real-world human behavior and what it actually takes to build systems that can learn context, adapt to environments, and reduce dangerous false alerts.

From kindergartens flagged in the middle of the night to stadium crowds misread as threats, this conversation explores the limits of visual AI, the role of historical data, the risks of blind automation, and why trustworthy physical AI requires more than a single model or a flashy demo.

If you care about safety, security, deepfakes, or how AI systems will operate in physical spaces we all share, this episode offers a rare, grounded look at what is working, what is failing, and what needs to change.

We keep talking about smarter models and better benchmarks. But one big question that we don’t see many talk about is whether AI actually understands the world it’s being asked to operate in.

In this episode of Machine Dreams Podcast, we sit down with Ofir Mulla, CTO of AI video security leader Lumana, to unpack why visual AI still misreads everyday reality and what it would take for machines to truly understand context, behavior, and intention.

Roger Camrass has spent more than 50 years advising Global 500 companies through every major technology shift — from the birth of the Internet to mobile data to today’s AI revolution. In this episode, he joins Machine Dreams to explain, with rare clarity, what AI will actually mean for your life, your career, and your identity.

He breaks down the real risks, the opportunities, the jobs that may disappear, and the human skills that will matter most in a machine-driven world. This is a wide-open, deeply honest conversation with someone who has watched entire industries rise and fall, and now sees AI reshaping society in ways few people are ready for.

The AI revolution is here, but most people still don’t understand what’s really changing.

Our next episode breaks it open with Roger Camrass, a technologist who helped pioneer the internet and has lived through five decades of disruption and says AI will reshape work, identity, and opportunity in ways no one is ready for.

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The AI revolution isn’t running on magic. It’s running on databases, and most were never built for what’s coming.

In this first episode of Machine Dreams, hosts Kolawole Samuel Adebayo and Leah Stern sit down with SurrealDB cofounder Tobie Morgan Hitchcock to explore the unseen engine behind modern AI systems.

From chaotic tech stacks to multi-model queries to why AI agents need fast, unified access to data across time, relationships, and context, Tobie breaks down the bottlenecks shaping the future of intelligent machines.

Whether you’re an engineer, a founder, a policy thinker, or someone trying to understand how AI actually works behind the scenes, this conversation is a deep dive into the infrastructure the industry doesn’t often talk about, but absolutely depends on.

Here’s your first glimpse into Machine Dreams. In this episode preview, we sit down with Tobie Morgan Hitchcock, cofounder and CEO of SurrealDB, one of the leading new-generation databases designed for modern AI workloads, to explore why AI’s future depends on better data systems and why the real story is wilder than the current hype.