Dream Machines revs up I’m on the road, so just posting a quick link: here is the first episode of KQED’s Dream Machines, the podcast miniseries about AI hosted by me and Alexis Madrigal! Our guest is Annalee Newitz, speaking here as perhaps the world’s foremost imaginer of other minds, and also a great, iconic San Franciscan.
I am both a friend and superfan of Alexis, so the opportunity to collaborate with him on this project has been such a delight. The process has basically been, we take the content of our text threads out of the Messages app, into the podcast studio. And I’m very proud of the fact that this is a KQED production —
I’ll have more to say about the project and its intentions, possibly in my next newsletter. KQED will release several more episode over the course of this month —