The Transformative Ideas Podcast

In this episode, we are joined by our first artificial guest: OpenAI's new large language model based ChatGPT. After discussing large language models in several of the latest episodes and OpenAI releasing ChatGPT two weeks ago, it felt like the perfect time for this experiment. I tried showcasing some of  ChatGPT different talents, from giving detailed essay-like scientific explanations to speaking other languages to making puns and improvising rap battles. To make the episode more entertaining, I adjusted some of the prompts and cut some of the responses. However, all of the responses are 100% real. ChatGPT's text output was then transformed via Polly from AWS to spoken word, which was further edited to make it sound more realistic. The thumbnail portrait was also generated artificially, using a GAN based on StyleGAN2. The recent advances in AI remain simultaneously impressive and slightly disconcerting. For inquiries, reach out to [email protected]

In this episode, our host Manuel Brenner is joined by Alejandro Daniel Noel. Alejandro got his masters from TU Delft working with Acitive Inference and the Free Energy Principle, and is now a full time software engineer at Google in Zürich, specializing on machine learning engineering of language models for conversational AI.

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In this episode, host Manuel Brenner is joined by Jonathan Banks, international director the Global Super Pollutants program for the Clean Air Task Force.

This is the final episode of a 4-part miniseries that ACIT is hosting together with the CATF. The Clean Air Task Force (CATF) is a global non-profit organization working to safeguard against the worst impacts of climate change by catalyzing the rapid global development and deployment of low-carbon energy and other climate-protecting technologies through research, analysis, public advocacy leadership, and partnership with the private sector.

In this episode, we primarily discuss the super pollutant methane. We discuss where methane emissions primarily come from, its impact on the climate, and how reducing emissions could have significant effects on reducing global warming. We cover why incentives are surprisingly aligned around methane, the role the gas and oil industry plays, detecting leaks via cameras and satellites, an increasing awareness around methane emissions, and a strong increase in political action in recent years.

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In this episode, host Manuel Brenner is joined by Carlos Leipner, international director the Global Nuclear Energy Strategy for the Clean Air Task Force.

This is the third episode of a 4-part miniseries that ACIT is hosting together with the CATF. The Clean Air Task Force (CATF) is a global non-profit organization working to safeguard against the worst impacts of climate change by catalyzing the rapid global development and deployment of low-carbon energy and other climate-protecting technologies through research, analysis, public advocacy leadership, and partnership with the private sector. 

In this episode, we discuss nuclear energy, recent technological developments and third and fourth generation reactors, the important role nuclear could play in developing a carbon free energy sector, scaling and streamlining production, nuclear for hydrogen production, Europe vs. Asia, the risks of nuclear and how to assess them in light of recent developments in Ukraine, how the Ukrainian war has changed uranium prizes and changed the landscape again, how nuclear waste factors in, how European is changing its attitude towards nuclear energy, and many more topics.

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