Up Against Reality

Up Against Reality


Latest Episodes

Google’s Gemini Drops
December 12, 2023

Google's Gemini AI launches. Will it outshine the competition with its multimodal mastery across text, images, and even code? Is it written in the stars or is it all just smoke and mirrors?

OpenAI’s Drama Decoded
December 05, 2023

Sam Altman, OpenAI's maestro, got the boot, then boomeranged back as CEO, amidst a swirl of boardroom shuffles and employee uproars. We give you the deets and we get silly with some Elevenlabs Kar-AI-

Custom GPTs Rev Up!
November 21, 2023

We explore OpenAI's "Create a GPT," crafting custom digital genies, ready to dive into any topic, spin tales, solve puzzles, or just chit-chat. All this and a Chinese robot army, too!

What a Time To Be Alive!
November 15, 2023

Part Deux of this week's double feature! Updates from OpenAI, Runway ML, and a rundown of the year's best AI-powered innovations.

Biden’s AI Executive Order
November 14, 2023

The boys - and their AI Queen - are back! From the Fab Four to OpenAI's geek-out fest, and Biden's big AI move, the past week has been brain-bogglingly brilliant.

Frontier Risk and Preparedness
October 31, 2023

How dangerous are frontier AI systems when put to misuse, both now and in the future? That's just one of the many questions that OpenAI's Preparedness Team wants answered. And they need your help.

AI Self-Awareness
October 24, 2023

ASI-1 has become self-aware. What might the first minutes, hours, and days look like on Earth with this new entity? We explore possibilities based on extrapolation, not science fiction.

AI Takeoff Scenarios
October 17, 2023

AI "take-off" scenarios - explosive leaps or controlled growth? We also spill the tea on Adobe's latest moves, empathy-infused AI and AI's thirst for energy.

Artist Tom Schmitt
October 10, 2023

INTERVIEW: Tom Schmitt. Our first human guest. Tom is a creative wizard with a penchant for video games, music, and Dungeons & Dragons. He has a passion for art, a dislike for ketchup, and a fear of p

I Don’t Speak French
October 03, 2023

Ooh la la! The boys take HeyGen's language translation for a spin. OpenAI's ChatGPT and DALL-E 3 go supercharged, while Amazon gets in the game big time and Spotify goes multilingual.