A Beginner's Guide to AI

AI for retail businesses is changing faster than most independent shop owners can track, and this episode breaks down exactly how. Bryan Weisberg, founder of Merchwise AI and Thousand Oaks Barrel, explains why small retailers are still running on manual processes that quietly cost them tens of thousands of dollars every year, and how automation and AI-optimized content can ch...

AI in scientific publishing is changing what researchers trust, what journals reward, and what the public thinks counts as evidence. In this episode, Joy Moore and Kent Anderson unpack how the internet pushed science publishing toward scale, how open access changed incentives, and how paper mills, predatory publishers, and AI slop made the scientific record h...

In this episode of Beginner’s Guide to AI, Dietmar Fischer explores a powerful business idea: people have layers, AI does not. We adapt naturally to different situations. We speak one way with friends, another with family, another in leadership, and another in debate. That flexibility is one of the biggest human advantages in the age of AI.

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🚀 In this episode of Beginner’s Guide to AI, Dietmar Fischer speaks with Naga Santhosh Reddy Vootukuri (aka Sunny), a Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft working on Azure SQL deployment infrastructure. Sunny shares his personal journey into AI, from early ChatGPT experiments in late 2022 to using AI tools in production workfl...

In this episode, Dietmar Fischer asks a question that sounds political at first, but quickly becomes a business decision: should you use the best AI model available, or the model that comes from your own country or region? He explores AI sovereignty, speed, open-weight models, frontier models, data lock-in, and why Europe, the U.S., and the broader AI market may be heading in...