This week, I am honored to have Harneet Singh on the show, known as the "Lion Founder" and the innovative mind behind Rabbitt.AI, a company leading the charge in creating sophisticated AI agents. Harneet, a seasoned serial entrepreneur, believes that 2025 will be remembered as the "Year of the AI Agent," representing a transformative moment in how …

This week, we’re diving into one of the most important—and tricky—questions in Responsible AI: Are Responsible AI principles culturally relative? If so, what does that mean for companies trying to implement Responsible AI for their products? For example, if fairness means something different in Norway, the United States, or a Muslim country, how ca…

What if the ethical dilemmas we face with animals—like dogs and dolphins—start applying to AI systems like ChatGPT? Should we care about the welfare of AI in the same way we care about other intelligent beings? And at what point on the road to Artificial General Intelligence do we need to pause and ask: Are we causing our AI agents harm? In this th…

This week, I got the opportunity to sit down with Ari LiVigni from GitHub Copilot to discuss the future of coding. Coding assistants are edging closer and closer to enabling developers to build apps using human language. Does this mean that we can just fire all of the engineers and have product managers build all of our apps?…

Could Artificial Intelligence unlock the secrets of the cosmos? This week, I’m thrilled to interview Professor Stella Offner, an astrophysicist and the visionary Director of the CosmicAI initiative. Join us as we dive into the future of AI and its role in shaping our understanding of the cosmos!By Stephen Walther

My guest this week, Tim Rich, was the Product Manager who drove Responsible AI at Indeed, the world's largest jobsite. Can AI make hiring more fair? Tim shares his vision of using AI to create a more just and fair society.By Stephen Walther

Our guest this week, Dan Turchin, believes in the potential of AI to transform work in ways that uplift rather than diminish. Join us as we dive into his optimistic vision for a future where AI complements human skills and amplifies our capabilities.By Stephen Walther

Imagine every college student having their own AI-powered teaching assistant—personalized, available around the clock, and tailored to help them learn faster. Could this be the future of higher education? This week, I’m joined by a founder of Cognify, an innovative AI startup on a mission to transform how students learn. Join us as we explore how A…

Not everything you read on the Internet is true. In fact, misinformation can lead to real-world harm—fanning the flames of antisemitism, inciting riots, and even spreading disease. So, how do we combat disinformation without infringing on free speech? My guest today, Matthew Lease, is one of the leaders of an ambitious project called Good Systems, …

Today’s guest offers a compelling perspective on how we might be fundamentally misunderstanding Generative AI tools like ChatGPT. Rather than trying to make it fit existing paradigms such as databases or search engines, he argues that ChatGPT represents something entirely new. It’s best understood as a confabulator—an engine that constructs narrati…

Did you know that about one-third of all food produced globally—1.3 billion tons—ends up wasted each year? In this episode, I talk with the co-founder of FridgeGuide AI, a startup using cutting-edge AI to tackle food waste and rethink how we manage food inventory. Tune in to see how technology can help fight world hunger and save our planet.…

In this week's episode, I sit down with the Senior Vice President of Global Sales and Solutions at Quadrant Technologies to discuss how enterprises — companies such as Microsoft, Amazon and Nike — are using technologies such as OpenAI. There is one powerful use case that my guest identifies.By Stephen Walther

In this week's episode, I interview David Weinberger who is the author of the book Everyday Chaos: Technology, Complexity, and How We’re Thriving in a New World of Possibility. He argues that we are entering a new Age of AI which will profoundly change how businesses work and how we explain the world around us. He argues that we'll need to give up …

This week on the podcast, I’m thrilled to interview one of the brilliant minds behind an exciting new platform: Agent.AI. Created by key innovators from the multi-billion-dollar company HubSpot—including co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah—Agent.AI aims to revolutionize the gig economy. Their vision? To build a marketplace of AI agents that could one …

What if you could create a digital twin of yourself that sounds just like you, looks just like you, knows what you know, and interacts with people just like you would? Now what if you could clone yourself a thousand times? Today, we dive into this futuristic vision with my guest, the co-founder of a groundbreaking startup named Tavus.io that is mak…

In this must-listen episode, I’m joined by AI risk expert David Manheim to dive deep into one of the most pressing issues of our time: the AI Alignment Problem. We explore whether advanced AI could pose an existential threat to humanity and what can be done to ensure our future safety. Are we on the brink of an AI-driven crisis, or is the fear over…

This week, I sit down with Marko Klopets — one of the founders of the startup SuperSimple — to discuss how product managers, CEOs, and other business leaders can trust Artificial Intelligence to analyze their business data. How can we trust AI when AI sometimes makes things up?By Stephen Walther

This week, I interview Professor Lenore Blum and Professor Manuel Blum who explain their Conscious Turing Machine (CTM) model of consciousness. They present the minimal architecture required to create conscious Artificial Intelligence.By Stephen Walther

This week, I sit down with the Head of AI at Domino’s to discuss how AI is transforming retail business. How does AI help Domino's deliver over a million pizzas a day?By Stephen Walther

This week, we dive deep into the mysteries of consciousness with Marta Halina, a philosophy professor from the University of Cambridge. Join us as we explore the intriguing question: What sets humans, animals, and artificial intelligence apart? Could ChatGPT exhibit human-like thinking, creativity, and consciousness? Don’t miss this thought-provoki…

Should we use AI to capture and reproduce human voices? In this week's podcast, I interview Microsoft Artificial Intelligence MVP Charles Elwood who has worked with several people who have lost their voice due to disease. Leveraging AI, Charles has given these people back their voices. What does it mean when we can reproduce any human voice?…

Can AI change a fundamental human activity such as reading? The goal of Rebind, a new AI startup, is to change the reading experience by turning books into interactive conversations. Rebind covers both classic and modern literature, including The Great Gatsby, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and Walden. Using advanced AI, they have “cloned” renowned expert…

Interview with the former CEO of Kaiser Permanente, the largest non-profit healthcare company in the United States, on how OpenAI will transform healthcare. Can AI replace doctors? Should patients trust medical advice from ChatGPT?By Stephen Walther

Interview with the Vice President of AI for TurnItIn — the largest AI-Writing Detection company. Should we be using AI-Writing Detection to "bust" college and high school students for using ChatGPT to write their papers?By Stephen Walther

In this episode, I interview Priten Shah who is the author of the best-selling book "AI and the Future of Education: Teaching in the Age of Artificial Intelligence" Learn how OpenAI is transforming education.By Stephen Walther

What is the "EU AI Act"? The Biden "Executive Order on AI"? The "NIST AI Risk Management Framework"? In this episode, Hadassah Drukarch, the Director of Policy and Delivery at the Responsible AI Institute, clarifies why these regulations matter and how ignoring them could cost your company millions.By Stephen Walther

Forms are everywhere: you use forms to register at websites, apply for credit cards, and submit job applications. But do forms still make sense in the age of AI? In this episode, I interview Nicolas Grenié about a new product built on OpenAI named Formless that replaces forms with conversations.By Stephen Walther

What is the AI Alignment Problem and why are companies such as OpenAI so concerned about solving it? In this podcast, I interview Mako Yass who is the winner of the Future of Life Institute's World Building Competition with his entry "To Light." In his entry, Mako imagines a positive future where humanity has solved the Alignment Problem and found …

Senior Project Manager for Internet Explorer, Pete LePage, joins Pixel8 to discuss the upcoming HTML5 and CSS3 support for IE9 along with a review additional developer enhancements coming in IE9.

Josh Blake of Infostrat joins Pixel8 to discuss Natual User Interface (NUI) development in .NET.

Jeff Prosise and Craig Sheomaker discuss the new features found in Silverlight 4 beta.

Stephen Walther and Craig Shoemaker discuss the latest announcements surrounding the ASP.NET Ajax Library during PDC09.

Tim Heuer and Jesse Liberty join Craig Shoemaker to discuss the new features of Silverlight 4, advice for real world development and the new Silverlight HyperVideo Player

Scott Hunter joins us to discuss his team’s focus on simplicity and performance in ASP.NET. (Some of what they are thinking about might surprise you!)

Rick Barraza returns to Pixel8 to discuss magic, storytelling, mind control interfaces and even a little development! According to Rick, true experience design mixes elements you may not automatically attribute to software design. Using these unexpected elements along with the tried-and-true principals of user interface design, usability and inform…

This week’s episode continues the series of user experience fundamentals with Dr. Tobias Komischke Director of User Experience at Infragistics. Tobias shares seven user-centered design concepts and the associated dos and don’ts with each point.

The dawn of user experience is a contestable topic. Some UX thought leaders place the discipline’s origin surrounding the emergence of user centered design in the 1980’s, while others see the the beginning coming even earlier. This week’s guest is Dr. Tobias Komischke Director of User Experience at Infragistics. Dr. Komischke details why he sees UX…

Senior Principal of Product Ideation and Design at Yahoo! Inc. and founder of LukeW Interface Designs Luke Wroblewski joins us to discuss how adding elements of constraint helps shape the design process. Luke also spends some time discussing the often-understated value of the HTML web form.

Welcome to a special Pixel8 patterns show! This week we are joined by User Experience Designer Ambrose Little to discuss Quince the UX Patterns Explorer. Also get a taste of two screencast interviews on implementing Model-View-ViewModel in Silverlight and WPF.

Scott Hunter brings a summary of the new features coming in ASP.NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010. Learn why you'll never have to type runat="server" again!

Scott Guthrie and Craig Shoemaker take some time out of PDC 2008 to discuss Silverlight and highlights from the keynote address. Scott shares about current-day Silverlight integrations with Live Mesh, living through the Olympics and what might be expected from Silverlight in the future.

Michael Mahemoff has a background in computer science and psychology earning a PhD in building pattern languages. Michael is best known for his book, Ajax Design Patterns, where he catalogs 34 patterns commonly found in Ajax applications. Michael joins Pixel8 giving developers tools for user experience design and shares his experiences around build…

Jesse Liberty, the "Silverlight Geek", wants to help you dive deeper into Silverlight 2.0. Tackling practices like working with multi-page applications and clever ways to handle Silverlight payload, Jesse helps take you beyond the intro.

Brian Noyes explains how the Composite Application Guidance for WPF (or Prism) enables teams to build, test and maintain professional WPF applications. Learn how using modularity, regions, composite commands and loosely-coupled events can help your team take control of WPF.

Customer experience expert and persona specialist Tamara Adlin wants to introduce you to "Mary Jo" and "Phillip". Using personas or "fake people" as development targets will focus your teams and allow you to only reveal what is most important to your customers.

Famed developer, speaker and author Billy Hollis joins the show today to discuss why developers need to avoid stagnation and keep pressing forward. Billy also shares some pragmatic wisdom of how to approach building on a rich UI platform.

Learn why software sucks from .NET professor David Platt. David’s colorful and thought-provoking insights will have you looking at your applications with a new perspective.

Hear from Ted Neward, Kate Gregory and David Kelly about responding to customer feedback, how to choose from the available UI technologies and how to enable the Vista experience in your applications.

Pete LePage is Product Manager of Internet Explorer Developer Division and he doesn’t want your web site to stink. Sharing from his talk given at TechEd 2008, Pete highlights 10 common web design mistakes and tells you how you can bypass the same blunders. Pete also tells us how future features of Internet Explorer will help your visitors leave you…

Debugging guru John Robbins brings to life the saying, “you cannot debug what you cannot see.” John is generous with guidance and resources that illustrate why knowing a little about the .NET plumbing can go a long way. Highlighting the show is John’s account of how he helped find a very obscure bug in a complex multi-machine system. Don’t miss thi…