The Constant: Swimming in the Deep Blue of Business, Technology and Culture

In a new episode of The Constant, the host, German Dziebel, welcomes Abigail Posner. Abigail is anthropologist, brand strategist, an ex-Publicis and ex-Google executive and a recognized thought leader in the space of human behavior, creativity and technology. An intense conversation highlighted the fascinating paradoxes of Artificial Intelligence and the Human Connection (data and depth, technology and instincts, creativity and programming, intelligence and consciousness, LLMs and "world models", AI hype and the perils of the modern world, among others).

The Constant Podcast's co-hosts, Dr. German Dziebel and Juan Napoli, interview James Ehrlich, Director of Compassionate Sustainability Stanford University School of Medicine and Faculty at Singularity University about the future of urban and rural planning. Dr. Ehrlich shares a demo of VillageOS software that uses AI to combine diverse datasets (geological, climatic, geographic, financial and others) to generate an adaptive model for the future of cities.

Dr. German Dziebel and Juan Napoli, ex-IBM, Senior AI Consultant, with 20+years  of experience, discuss the transformation of the enterprise in response to technological revolutions and the changing nature of market competition in the era of AI. Mixing up excerpts from Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani's book Competing in the Age of AI: Strategy and Leadership When Algorithms and Networks Run the World (2020) and their own personal experience transforming competition in business and marketing, German and Juan take the audience on a journey full of social scientific insights, personal reminiscences and historical trivia to paint the broad picture of the incredible future the world has stepped in.

The Constant podcast host, Dr. German Dziebel, and Professor Shi Huang are discussing Huang's Maximum Genetic Diversity Theory and the Out-of-Asia theory of modern human origins and their advantages over the mainstream Neutral Theory and the Out-of-Africa model. From Theodosius Dobzhansky and Luca L. Cavalli-Sforza to the Pongid clade and owl monkeys, from uniparental and autosomal markers and convergence vs. shared descent in genetics, Shi Huang and German Dziebel cover a vast range of issues to challenge dominant paradigms and rejuvenate the debate around human evolution.

In the 6th episode of The Constant, we dive into the essence of Silicon Valley, exploring the key elements that make it a hub of innovation and success. Join hosts German Dziebel, Juan Napoli, and special guest Victoria Mensch as they discuss the importance of risk tolerance, the bias toward action, and the relentless drive for innovation. Discover how these principles have shaped Silicon Valley's unique ecosystem and learn how they can be applied to foster growth and creativity in other regions. Tune in for an insightful conversation that uncovers the secrets behind Silicon Valley's enduring influence.

Dr. German Dziebel hosted Edward and Anna Blinov, co-founders of Bright App Technologies (BAT), a San Francisco startup offering an experiential, self-supervising AI agent that adapts to the world through perception, goal-setting and memory. After grounding the conversation in the growing post-LLM trend in AI research (as represented by Professor and Chief AI Scientist at Meta, Yann Le Cun) and the current understanding of the way the human brain works (through the work of Jeff Hawkins), The Constant's crew reviewed BAT's new cognitive and engineering architecture for Experiential AI that precedes, co-exists and complement LLMs and is designed to help humans adapt to our uncertain, precarious and ever changing world.

Dr. German Dziebel and Alvah Hicks discuss human origins research (archaeology, genetics, linguistics and kinship studies) and outline the innovative Out-of-America theory which celebrates creative, out-of-the-box, non-trivial thinking that Silicon Valley is known for in the technology world but that the science of human origins and dispersals has historically shunned away from.

Stanford alumni and industry leaders Brad Davidson, Andrey Kunov, German Dziebel and Kapa Lenkov discuss progress in traffic control technologies, the use of AI in law enforcement and prevention, the new approaches to solving "cold cases" using DNA and genealogical databases, the de-extinction of the sire wolf and the work that Colossal Biosciences is doing to create an artificial womb.

In the first episode of the new podcast Stanford-trained industry leaders Brad Davidson, Andrey Kunov, Kapa Lenkov and German Dziebel discuss Elon Musk's idea of sustainable abundance and venture into historical comparisons between Elon Musk and J.D. Rockefeller and into the eternal challenges to humans achieving happiness.

The Constant Podcast, with co-hosts Juan Napoli and German Dziebel, welcomed Karl Lillrud, a global technology entrepreneur, digital and AI transformation consultant to Fortune 500 clients, TED talker and podcaster. The episode covers the place of Europe in today's innovation landscape, Sweden's remarkable impact on global tech business, an innovator's mindset critical to success as well as innovation and geopolitics. At the closing, Karl introduces the audience to his upcoming podcast tech breakthrough, Podmanager.ai, that will take the sweat out of podcasting.