In this episode of "Humanity Unchained," hosts Jeff Joyce and Julia McCoy, along with special guest Mike Stone, delve into Ray Kurzweil's latest book and his TED Talk. They discuss Kurzweil's predictions about the future of technology and his claims about AI advancements, life extension, and the singularity. The conversation covers topics such as t…

Join Julia McCoy and Jeff Joyce, hosts of Humanity Unchained, as they sit down with Michael Stone, a veteran IT specialist with over 20 years of experience in the healthcare sector. In this special episode, Michael discusses the intersection of AI and healthcare, the challenges of AI implementation due to issues like hallucination, and the future p…

In this episode of the Humanity Unchained podcast, hosts Julia McCoy and Jeff Joyce tackle the latest iteration of AI news and its implications for humanity, jobs, and daily life. They dive into a fascinating story about NAVR, South Korea's largest search engine, which uses over 100 autonomous robots to deliver coffee in their 36-story building. Th…

What's real, what's hype? OpenAI has announced the training of a new model that promises to surpass GPT-4, setting sights on achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI). Jeff and Julia explore the implications of this ambitious project, and the formation of a new safety and security committee designed to ensure responsible development and deplo…

History was in the making as we saw incredible AI technology news drop at Google's recent I/O conference and OpenAI's Spring Update. We're breaking down Google's Project Astra, showcasing real-time AI awareness that hints at a future where machines exhibit conscious-like behavior; and OpenAI's ChatGPT 4o, including enhanced voice interaction capabi…

Welcome to a groundbreaking episode of the "Humanity Unchained" podcast! This special edition was recorded live at the Content Hacker Live event in Austin, Texas, in front of an enthusiastic audience of content creators and business owners. Our hosts, Jeff Joyce and Julia McCoy, lead a riveting panel discussion featuring an incredible lineup of gue…

Terrible reviews are hitting YouTube this week for the Rabbit R1 and Humane AI Pin. Why? What's going on? In this episode, Jeff and Julia explore the difference of real physical AI solutions versus shiny, flashy AI hype. We also chat about some of Jeff's favorite physical AI products standing out in the sea of flashy products that haven't lived up …

On April 18, 2024, Meta announced the release of Llama 3, breaking every benchmark for open source AI models and putting Meta nearly neck-and-neck with OpenAI itself. This puts Meta on the map in the world of AI and LLMs, only rivaled by OpenAI itself. Hear Jeff and Julia expertly break this down including what's coming with Meta's Llama 3 400B and…

This April, Washington released a proposal from the Center for AI Policy (CAIP) that they're calling "Responsible Advanced Artificial Intelligence Act of 2024," or the RAAIA. This legislation establishes a framework for regulating advanced AI systems, championing public safety, and fostering technological innovation with a sense of ethical responsi…

The Arizona desert just became the hottest place to supply chips that power the future. Today, we're covering breaking news that brings an incredible billion-dollar advancement in chip development to none other than Arizona – per Reuters, "The U.S. Commerce Department said on Monday, April 8, it would award Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co's (…

In this action-packed episode, co-hosts Jeff Joyce and Julia McCoy cover some huge breakthroughs and giant questions as we hurtle towards a post-labor economy with AI fueling 100% of the work we do, impacting every industry. First up, we talk about how the first patient to get a cybernetic AI brain chip implant from Elon Musk's Neuralink, Noland Ar…

Future Tense, our AI show, has officially been rebranded as Humanity Unchained! ✨ In E13 of what was formerly Future Tense, now Humanity Unchained, we cover the story of rebranding Future Tense into our new show and our vision for the future of this show & the conversations we are creating. Warning: some of the deepest, wildest conversations about …

In today's episode, we're covering a bunch of breaking news starting with Elon Musk's lawsuit directed at OpenAI, alleging they broke the founding agreement by giving priority to profit over the benefits to humanity. But is this the real reason, or is the race to Artificial General Intelligence a motive? Will we see them duke it out in court? Jeff …

In today's episode, we cover what Sam Altman said about AGI (artificial general intelligence), a new NASDAQ / Motley Crew headline reporting how AI could add an estimated $15.7 trillion to the global economy by 2030 – and the stock winners are not what you think (it's not Microsoft, Apple, or Alphabet). Plus, Tyler Perry halting his custom $800M st…

In today's episode, we go into the rabbit hole of AGI (artificial general intelligence) with some practical, real answers. With OpenAI focused on a clear mission to "ensure that artificial general intelligence—AI systems that are generally smarter than humans—benefits all of humanity," new AI technologies like Sora dropping regularly, and Sam Altma…

In today's episode, we cover a surprising Mozilla Foundation report released this Valentine's Day studying 11 "AI girlfriend chatbots" and how these "AI soulmates" are stealing data from users. Hear about the risks that these chatbots pose to users – with over 1M users on just one AI girlfriend chatbot alone, though, there is massive demand for the…

This episode is a recording from a live talk Julia McCoy gave to three college classes at Concordia University Texas in Austin, TX on February 8, 2024. In this talk, a blend of teaching by Julia on AI content, Content at Scale case studies, and how to implement AI successfully into marketing – plus brand new information from AI studies predicting t…

In this episode, we're starting off with the reason why an AI company (ours) decided to work in-person and move to Arizona rather than work remotely. Next, Jeff brings up what a columnist recently said on Search Engine Land about SEO not getting replaced by generative AI tools. Julia brings up why it's critical for listeners to be aware that headli…

On this episode: Imagine waking up to the police knocking at your door, informing you that you’re under arrest for armed robbery. That’s exactly what one man experienced when he was falsely accused due to faulty AI-based facial recognition. This episode is packed with AI mishaps, and it’s a great lesson on why YOU need to be in the driver's seat wi…

Imagine a world where people can control a computer cursor or keyboard using their thoughts alone. In breaking news, the first human has received a neural implant from the controversial brain chip startup Neuralink, with Musk tweeting on Sunday: "The first human received an implant from Neuralink yesterday and is recovering well. Initial results sh…

In breaking news, a new open-world game called Palworld launched in early access over this past week and sold four million copies in just three days - reaching a Steam concurrent player peak of over 1.2 million users overnight, giving it the highest concurrent player peak for a paid game (ever). However, serious allegations of AI usage and plagiari…

In breaking AI news on Friday, January 19, 2024, OpenAI acquired its first higher education customer: Arizona State University (ASU). ASU is leading the AI revolution in education by bringing ChatGPT to their researchers, staff and faculty, specifically planning to empower educators to use ChatGPT to build personalized AI tutors and offer writing h…

In this episode, Jeff discusses a major release at CES: the Rabbit R1, an AI-powered gadget that can use your apps for you. OpenAI launched their GPT store where anyone can release, publish, and sell a Custom GPT early January of 2024; Julia debugs why CustomGPTs aren't the end-all, be-all of generating content as some might think, and potential da…

An IBM study published in the fourth quarter of 2023 surveying 3,000 C-level executives across 28 countries and 21,000 workers in 22 nations found that 40% of all workers will have to reskill. That’s a whopping 1.4 billion folks. In January of 2024, the largest study of its kind on the state of how AI will impact society was published, and 2,700+ r…