The Bot Next Door: Recent Episodes
Nicolò Comparini
Will AI opt for world domination or allow us to sip Piña colada at the beach all day long?
If we’re lucky and it’s the Piña colada, will we prefer an actual beach or the Metaverse’s beach? And if it’s the latter, will we post our avatar's feet on social media?
In this podcast we’ll try to answer questions like these, sometimes in a serious way, sometimes just goofing around. Thanks for listening!
In this episode, I talk to Valeria Pierdominici, a psychologist of the "highly skilled", and Samar Morshedi, a friend and tech founder.
We investigate what drivers make people start companies, and high-risk, high-pressure, projects. We cover ideas like individuation, search for meaning and Jungian archetypes.
In this episode, I talk to Eduardo Miranda, composer and professor of Computer Music, and to Dario Comparini, my brother and emerging pop artist in Italy.
We discuss how AI will impact music, the creative process, live performances, and the "interface" between the musician and his "musical intentions".
In this conversation with Vijay-Pravin Maharajan, CEO & Founder of bitsCrunch, we discuss NFTs, NFTs investments, the relationship between digital art and the metaverse, and influencer-driven NFTs projects.
In this episode, I talk to Mattia Fiorentini about the basics of Quantum Computing: what it is, where it comes from, and how it'll change our life.
In this episode with Ravit Dotan, we talk about how to move AI ethics from theory to action, we discuss the value of "PR-only" corporate programs, the dichotomy of portfolio selection vs monitoring for VC firms, and, at the end, we look at the philosophical problem of "selecting your ethical values".
We had some echo issues in the second half of the episode, apologies about that.
In this episode, we discuss Google's LaMDA, whether AI will ever be conscious, and how philosophy defines consciousness.
We then get into the challenges of online moderation and from there we explore the problematic concept of harm.