Hundred Year Podcast

In this episode Adario Strange and Rahul Sood are joined by AI filmmaker Andrew Gibbs. Yet another creator trained in the traditional method of filmmaking, Gibbs has made the transition to AI filmmaking and is now teaching others how to do it at Skill Leap AI. We take a look a few of his AI short films and get him to unpack his creative process and reveal the tools he uses the most. We also explore some of the recent news made by O...

In this episode Adario Strange and Rahul Sood offer their impressions of the Apple Vision Pro after one month of daily use and provide a few useful app suggestions for early adopters. They also touch on the recent Meta rumor around its upcoming Meta Quest Pro 2 that may be designed to compete with Apple, as well as a troubling outage that shook the metaverse. Next they dive into the latest AI events including the problems with Goog...

AI art and short film creator Blaine Brown joins Adario Strange and Rahul Sood to talk about the stunning changes that just came to AI video thanks to OpenAI’s Sora. The AI video generation tool already has Hollywood studios and directors talking about the future of film and our panel unpacks exactly what that might look like in the next few years. Blaine also walks us through his short AI film creation process, as well as which to...

Augmented reality pioneer Keiichi Matsuda joins the podcast to explain how he came up with his early vision of spatial computing, what he thinks about the state of AR and virtual reality, and why he decided to launch one of the first gaming apps called Wisp on the Apple Vision Pro. We also recap the last decade of AR and VR through the lens of Microsoft’s HoloLens and the Magic Leap 1 and how it all led to Apple’s latest product. N...

Director Dave Clark joins the podcast to walk us through how he creates some of his most mind-blowing AI film work. Traditionally trained and working as a commercial director in Hollywood, Clark has embraced tools like Midjourney, Runway ML, Stable Diffusion and others to and merged them with his live action film and editing talent to create some of the best AI filmmaking we’ve seen. Clark also takes us behind the scenes of the mov...

Using artificial intelligence (AI) to train students and employees is about to take off. But Roy Mor, the founder and CEO of Loora.ai, believes that instead of generalized AI tools, we will all have specialized AI tutors that are designed and trained to teach each one of us in the way the optimizes our ability to learn. In the case of Loora.ai, that specialization is focused on learning English (as well as other languages in the fu...

In this episode we detail the Cybertruck ordering experience and then sample Tesla’s Cyberbeer! We also give our predictions about the tech, AI, Hollywood, and Cybertruck stories that will dominate 2024. Then we take a look back at the year 2023, including the biggest stories in AI, the Apple Vision Pro, who and what will emerge to lead the AI race, and what tools we’re using to experiment with AI filmmaking.

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Artificial intelligence experts Pedro Domingos, author of “The Master Algorithm” and professor emeritus at the University of Washington, and Patrice Simard, Chief Scientist at AI startup Irreverent Labs, join Adario Strange to debate the future of AI. We tackle the new AI Act in Europe and what it means for the global balance of AI power. Then we delve into the new AI group formed by Meta and IBM that includes leading AI startups S...

Hundred Year Podcast - Episode 32 - The secret to getting your AI art in Midjourney Magazine

AI artists love Midjourney and now the tech startup has created a print magazine that highlights the most talented creators using its tool to produce stunning visual stories. Thomas “TK” Kim is the co-founder of Asimov Collective, the company working with Midjourney to create its official print magazine. TK tells us how the he sta...

Hundred Year Podcast - Episode 31 - Microsoft insiders explain why OpenAI’s CEO disaster changes everything.

When OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman was fired by his board of directors, the surprise move caught the entire tech industry by surprise. In this emergency podcast, Adario and Rahul, along with Irreverent Labs co-founder and CTO David Raskino unpack the implications of the move for the AI industry, OpenAI’s comp...

Hundred Year Podcast - Ep. 30 - AI virtual humans are rehearsing to replace Hollywood reality

Emmy award-winning producer Edward Saatchi, the CEO and co-founder of Fable Studio, joins the podcast to talk about his pioneering work in immersive storytelling in virtual reality via Oculus Story Studio and how that has transitioned into building worlds populated by AI-driven virtual characters. We also dive into the latest...

Hundred Year Podcast Ep. 29 - The AI takeover of humanity may already be here, this Silicon Valley CEO explains why.

This week, France native turned Silicon Valley player Flo Crivello, the founder and CEO of Lindy.ai, joins the podcast to talk about how he plans to replace your human assistant with artificial intelligence. We also talk about his past life as one of the key members of the Uber tech team, why he believes rem...

Adario Strange and Rahul Sood unpack the latest AI developments, including Meta’s new AI-powered Ray-Ban smartglasses, the prospects of the Quest 3 versus the Apple Vision Pro, how the Middle East conflict impacts the large number of Israeli AI startups, wearable AI pendants that can become your personal assistant, celebrity AI Chatbots from Snoop, Tom Brady, Kendall Jenner, Mr. Beast, and Naomi Osaka, how Apple’s legendary designe...

AI video director Ben Nash joins Adario Strange on the Hundred Year Podcast to tell us how he moved from a web developer to becoming one of the most prolific AI video directors on social media. In this episode, we talk about the tools traditional video directors need to learn to quickly ramp up to becoming AI film directors, as well as how this will all impact the traditional Hollywood movie and TV system.

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Adario Strange and Rahul Sood unpack the latest AI news, including the recent AI summit in D.C. including Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Sundar Pichai, Sam Altman, and others. Then they discuss Microsoft’s unique approach to fighting its legal battle over AI, which includes defending its users. Finally, the crew dives into the latest AI apocalypse film from Star Wars director Gareth Edwards called “The Creator.”

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The landscape of Hollywood is rapidly being disrupted by generative artificial intelligence (AI) in film and television. Curious Refuge is working to help the production people behind the scenes learn next-gen AI tools as the industry undergoes change. Curious Refuge co-founder, Caleb Ward, joins the podcast to discuss teaching creators to use AI tools to optimize work flow, as well as create concept videos and art, and then we tou...

Serial entrepreneur Dan Siroker joins Adario Strange and Rahul Sood to reveal the secrets of his new startup Rewind.ai, a tool that harnesses AI to give you an infinite memory with context on your laptop and smartphone. Some of the topics covered include when will AGI arrive, was “Her” the movie a preview of reality, how the pandemic changed business, integrating with ChapGPT 4, using unorthodox methods to raise startup funding, an...

Adario Strange and Rahul Sood take a deep dive into the current state of the AI wars between Microsoft, Google, and Meta, then an update on the ongoing Hollywood strikes by SAG-AFTRA and WGA over the future of AI in movies, a look at what Apple’s rumored “Apple GPT” tool might look like, as well as some insight into Elon Musk and his Twitter rebranding as well as a look at the electric car space as traditional automakers begin to c...

Germany-based graphic designer Julie Wieland has cultivated a large following on Instagram around her experiments using her traditional design skills and emerging AI tools. Wieland joins us to discuss how other traditional graphic designers can embrace the latest AI software to augment their work, and then we dive into the current battle in Hollywood over AI which now includes SAG-AFTRA, the actor’s union.

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