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The Hundred Year podcast dives into topics including artificial intelligence, gaming, entertainment, technology, entrepreneurship, current events, and so much more. The podcast is hosted by veteran technology journalist Adario Strange, along with Irreverent Labs CEO and co-founder Rahul Sood, a former Microsoft executive and serial entrepreneur. For questions or inquiries, reach out at: podcast@hundredyear.com Subscribe to the Hundred Year Lens Newsletter: https://hundredyear.substack.com

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In this episode, Adario Strange, who began researching and testing smart glasses over a decade ago, and Farbod Shakouri, the UK-based founder of AI smart glasses startup Phantom, join forces to break down the recent past, present, and near future of the emerging market of smart glasses powered by artificial intelligence. The two delve into the many AI smart glasses offerings from Snapchat, Meta, Amazon, as well as the newest entry into the face race called Snap Spectacles, and what Apple...
This episode brings us to the often-overlooked tech startup region of Western Europe, where Letz.ai founder Misch Strotz is building an AI social network that puts the power of creating AI models in the hands of mainstream users. Bootstrapped from Luxembourg, Misch and his team have leveraged AI open source tools to create a commercial business that has already gone viral for its ability to perfectly put people, animals, and products in nearly any generative AI image composition. This is the ...
Aside from AI engineers, the next best guess at how AI will impact humanity will likely come from science fiction authors. Alex Shvartsman is tackling this mission through an elite collection of science fiction short stories called “The Digital Aesthete: Human Musings on the Intersection of Art and AI.” Among the science fiction masters included in the book are Ken Liu, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Marina and Sergey Dyachenko, Auston Habershaw, Taiyo Fujii, and many others. Alex joined Adario Str...
One of the pioneers of digital imaging joins us to unpack the secrets Adobe has in store for AI imaging in 2024 and beyond. Alexandru Costin is Adobe’s Vice President of Generative AI and he’s been helping to lead the company’s digital art mission for decades. Adario Strange gets Costin to compare the early ‘90s concerns over Photoshop possibly destroying art to the new fears around AI art and video. Then the two take a deep dive into FireFly, Adobe’s generative AI tool that competes with the...
Hundred Year Podcast Ep. 49: Peter Cohan is a veteran of the tech book publishing space with 17 titles to his name that map out the past and future of the technology business landscape. In his latest book, "Brain Rush: How to Invest and Compete in the Real World of Generative AI," he offers the ultimate cheat sheet for those still discovering how to succeed in business using generative artificial intelligence. In this episode Adario Strange speaks with Peter to pull out the best of the book's...
Duncan Eddy has spent years working in the realm of space satellite communications, and now he’s directing his talents toward AI as the Executive Director of the Stanford Center for AI Safety. In this episode, Duncan speaks with Adario Strange to explain why the commercialization of space will continue to fuel our explorations into the Moon and Mars, and how AI-powered robots may be the primary method for deep space exploration in the future. Then the discussion turns toward the topic of AI s...
Before OpenAI was promoting its Scarlett Johansson-style AI conversational chat assistant, Raj Koneru and his company Kore.ai had already solved many of the issues around deploying AI as human assistant. In this episode, Adario Strange speaks with Raj to unpack how he just landed $150 million from a group of investors that includes Nvidia, and what the future of office work looks like using AI. He also tackles the touchy topic of AI superintelligence and what it may or may not mean for the fu...
Nem Perez started out as a traditional filmmaker, but he is now one of the most prolific and connected AI filmmakers in Hollywood. Adario Strange managed to get him to take a break from his busy schedule of organizing live AI film screenings, competing in film festivals, and producing traditional commercial work to talk about why what he’s doing is the new path for filmmakers. From his work as a producer on the massive “Our T2 Remake” AI film, to his Storyblocker filmmaking app, to his though...
Hundred Year Podcast Ep. 45: The artificial intelligence space isn’t just disrupting Hollywood, it’s also innovating the way we protect our communities. In this episode, Hundred Year Podcast host Adario Strange and Irreverent Labs co-founder Rahul Sood are joined by Tim Sulzer is the chief technology officer of ZeroEyes, a startup focused on using AI to detect weapons in public spaces like arenas, schools, and public-facing businesses. Founded by a team of ex-Navy Seals (yea, really), ZeroEye...
Hundred Year Podcast Ep. 44: AI giant OpenAI has just launched GPT-4o, a new multimodal AI tool that is so powerful it has already sparked controversy as well as comparisons to the 2013 science fiction movie “Her” starring Scarlett Johansson. In this special news edition of the Hundred Year Podcast host Adario Strange speaks with Irreverent Labs’ Rahul Sood and Ryan Jurado about OpenAI’s latest milestone and what it means for the entire AI industry. Then they dive into Google’s competing AI i...
Hundred Year Podcast Ep. 43: The historic rap battle between Drake and Kendrick Lamar (and Rick Ross) has inspired the first legitimate AI music hit called “BBL Drizzy” and we have the song’s creator! The song by comedian Willonius Hatcher (aka King Willonius) has gone so viral that even hit making producer Metro Boomin has sampled the hilarious original to make his own remix of the song, and now Willonius is officially part of rap history. We talked to Willionius about how he created the fir...
Hundred Year Podcast Ep. 42 - In this episode, Adario Strange gets the inside scoop on how Hollywood is “really” adjusting to AI in film and television from award-winning producer and director Michael Mitchell (aka @artisdead_ai on Instagram). From his start in Los Angeles working under the legendary Tony Scott, to his mainstream commercial television work, to his innovative AI art history series on Instagram, Mitchell helps us unpack the details of this historic time in which AI is transform...
The metaverse is getting an exciting new pathway now that AI is being thrown into the mix. Former Snapchat team member Darya Sesitskaya believes that she has the answer to one major way to use AI to power augmented reality and she’s proving it through her new Shader app, which is available on iPhones, iPads, and the Apple Vision Pro. Adario Strange and Rahul Sood talk to her about her startup journey in Silicon Valley and how she believes AI will transform the way we communicate through virtu...
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 OpenAI and its Sora AI video tool, as well as gauge the latest ...
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 Google’s Gemini AI tool and how Sergey Brin and Sundar Pichai resp...
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 tools he prefers to use to get the best results. Finally, the pa...
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. Next we discuss how artificial intelligence plays into how spat...
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 movie business and tells how actors and directors are reacting to...
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 future). We dive into why this will be the new way for students ...
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.Subscribe to our newsletter!Hundred Year Lens | Adario Strange | SubstackVisit our Po...
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