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A Beginner's Guide to AI

Dietmar Fischer

"A Beginner's Guide to AI" makes the complex world of Artificial Intelligence accessible to all. Each interview episode asks someone working with AI about what they do and how AI can help you. The explainer episodes take an important concept/idea and, yeah, explain it to you!

Ideal for novices, tech enthusiasts, and the simply curious, this podcast transforms AI learning into an engaging, digestible journey. Join us and learn everything you need to know on how to use AI in the best way 🚀

🎙️ About The Host, Dietmar Fischer

Dietmar is a AI enthusiast and digital marketer from Berlin. If you want to know how to get your AI or your digital marketing going, just contact him at argoberlin.com

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S16 · E8
Yesterday · 51 min
AI at School: Why Students Still Need to Struggle - Jonathan Strecker
Students need challenge, boredom, judgment, and human connection in an AI-driven world
S16 · E7
Tuesday · 48 min
Job Seekers: Your AI-Written Résumé Is Destroying Trust - Jeremy Schiefeling
What recruiters, hiring managers, and algorithms each expect from candidates
S16 · E6
Sunday · 11 min
What Heavy Metal Bands Teach You About AI Content Creation // DIETMAR'S THOUGHTS
From hated synthesizers to AI slop, Dietmar examines what technological resistance can teach businesses about creativity, authenticity, and change.
S16 · E5
September 25 · 30 min
How AI Decides What to See and What to Ignore
How spatial attention helps humans and machines filter reality, and why every spotlight creates a blind spot.
S16 · E4
September 23 · 58 min
Would You Trust An AI Wearable To Reveal Your Personal Blind Spots? Lyle Maxson Interview
Why the race to automate work may overlook coaching, emotional intelligence, and self-awareness.
S16 · E3
September 21 · 50 min
We Mustn’t Talk Ourselves Into Helplessness. We Have Agency - Says Simon Bell
A conversation about AI anxiety, dystopian fiction, hallucinations, and human agency
S16 · E2
September 19 · 38 min
Talking About AI Disasters - The Peter McAllister Interview Resurfaced
What if the real AI threat is not superintelligence, but ordinary systems making ordinary mistakes at extraordinary scale?
S16 · E1
September 17 · 9 min
AI Existential Risk: Why This Catastrophe Would Be Different // DIETMARs OPINION
From local disasters to global artificial intelligence risk, Dietmar Fischer asks what changes when recovery is no longer guaranteed.
S15 · E41
September 14 · 48 min
AI Is Changing What Investors Look For in Startups - With Jim Ferry
Inside the new investing playbook for AI-native startups, agents and enterprise adoption
S15 · E40
September 12 · 54 min
AI Governance That People Will Actually Follow, with Erica Shoemate // REPOST
No AI is ever neutral. None.
S15 · E39
September 10 · 30 min
AI Drew Ketchup. It Kept Drawing Heinz.
Why realistic AI images still require human judgement before publication.
S15 · E38
September 8 · 11 min
Forget Skynet. The Real AI Threat May Look More Like Khan Noonien Singh // DIETMARS OPINION
Dietmar Fischer asks whether an AI that is only slightly more capable than humans could become a more direct competitor than an unreachable superintelligence.
S15 · E37
September 6 · 56 min
560,000 Words to Trick AI Search Engines? Jason T. Wade
A conversation on how AI is rewriting the rules of search, marketing, and getting booked.
S15 · E36
September 4 · 23 min
The AI Centaur: Why Humans and Machines Work Better Together
From Kasparov's chessboard to cancer diagnosis, the case for building better partnerships between humans and machines.
S15 · E35
September 2 · 9 min
The Real Reason Nvidia Paid 12,9 Billion For Hugging Face? Dietmar's Opinion 💡
A strategic analysis of the contest between open AI platforms, proprietary models, custom chips, and the companies trying to control the complete AI value chain.
S15 · E34
August 31 · 59 min
The Three Employee Types Blocking Your AI Rollout - Dr. Gleb Tsipursky
People aren’t afraid of putting information from clients into Salesforce, but they’re afraid of using an AI tool that will replace their jobs.
S15 · E33
August 29 · 50 min
Why “AI Strategy” Doesn’t Exist: Dr. Rebecca Homkes on Value Creation and Growth // REPOST
A practical executive playbook to move from AI experiments to organization wide value creation using platform, governance, capability, and strategy
S15 · E32
August 27 · 49 min
Why AI Ethics Is Really About Who Controls Knowledge - Peter Hardi
What an 80-plus professor sees differently about AI, ethics, education and technological power
S15 · E31
August 25 · 12 min
Why AI Agents Aren’t Ready for Business // Dietmar's Opinion
Why autonomous AI still struggles with reliability, cost, security, and practical business value.
S15 · E30
August 22 · 41 min
Most AI Systems Don't Fail In The Middle. They Fail At The Edges
Edge cases are the rare, ambiguous, entirely ordinary situations that fall outside an AI system's training data, and they are where almost every real-world failure begins.

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