Ayush Prakash Podcast

Ayush Prakash
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Feb 28, 2025 • 1h 4min

“What Screens Are Doing to Us” – Dr. Pamela Gay on Growing Up in the Digital Age

This is episode 119 of the Gen Z Diplomat Podcast. Pamela L. Gay is an American astronomer, educator, podcaster, and writer, best known for her work in astronomical podcasting and citizen science astronomy projects. She is a senior education and communication specialist and senior scientist for the Planetary Science Institute.0:00: How are you a digital native? 0:47: Was there a fear of technology?2:47: Is there digital narcissism? 6:00: What moment did you notice tech was ruining your social facet? 8:33: Liberation versus Limitation12:25: The current moment of AI16:55: Job automation21:11: Working smarter, not harder with AI24:46: “The algorithm must know more than I do” 28:41: When is AI going to take over? It already has31:30: What if AI agents take off? 37:36: Why are we creating inhumane technologies?40:45: What does Pamela do to augment her sense-making? 42:43: Solving problems on Earth before going to the stars46:14: What happened to the future? 51:21: How did we build an environment that doesn’t work for us?57:10: If you had a magic wand, and could solve one problem in the world, what would it be? 58:25: What gives you hope in the world? 59:31: On podcasters grifting their audiences59:59: Donate to Junglekeepers!!!!1:00:35: What’s your favourite exoplanet? 1:01:42: Is the exploration of exoplanets fun? 1:03:34: Find Pamela onlineConnect with Pamela: Website: https://www.starstryder.com/about-me/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/starstryder/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/pamelagayLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/starstryder/-Info: Spotify: https://sptfy.com/O2uWApple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3qXL37WConnect: Website: https://ayushprakash.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prakash-ayush/ Instagram: instagram.com/notayushprakashBooks: AI for Gen Z: https://www.amazon.ca/AI-Gen-Story-Technology-Society/dp/0981182151/
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Feb 20, 2025 • 54min

“AI Isn’t There Yet” – Cole Wyeth on the Limits of Today’s Tech and the Promise of AIXI

Cole Wyeth, a mathematician and computer scientist specializing in artificial intelligence, dives deep into the nuances of AI. He clarifies the difference between terms like AGI and LLMs, illuminating their limitations. Wyeth discusses Universal Artificial Intelligence's Bayesian decision-making and its implications for AI safety. He also explores misconceptions around quantum computing, urging a realistic perspective. Finally, the conversation touches on the challenges of civil discourse in the age of social media, emphasizing rational dialogue as a key to progress.
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Feb 13, 2025 • 42min

“The Canadian Dream Is Changing” – Should You Move in 2025?

This is episode 117 of the Gen Z Diplomat Podcast.Max Medyk is the CEO of I’m Canada and ImmigrateAI Global, helping people thrive through accurate information and AI tech. He helps empower new Canadians and aspiring immigrants through simplifying complex information and various support systems.-Info: Spotify: https://sptfy.com/O2uWApple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3qXL37WConnect: Website: https://ayushprakash.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prakash-ayush/ Instagram: instagram.com/notayushprakashBooks: AI for Gen Z: https://www.amazon.ca/AI-Gen-Story-Technology-Society/dp/0981182151/
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Jan 28, 2025 • 1h 10min

“He Built E! from Nothing” – Larry Namer on Risk, Media, and Success

This is episode 116 of the Gen Z Diplomat Podcast.Larry Namer is an industry veteran with over 50 years of entertainment experience. He is best known as the founder of E! Entertainment Network, a network that continues to shape pop culture today and has launched the careers of many of today's pop culture superstars from Howard Stern to The Kardashians.-Info: Spotify: https://sptfy.com/O2uWApple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3qXL37WConnect: Website: https://ayushprakash.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prakash-ayush/ Instagram: instagram.com/notayushprakashBooks: AI for Gen Z: https://www.amazon.ca/AI-Gen-Story-Technology-Society/dp/0981182151/
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Jan 23, 2025 • 40min

“Faith Doesn’t Have to Choose” – Dr. Francis X. Clooney on Living Between Two Religions

Francis Xavier Clooney is an American Jesuit priest and scholar in the teachings of Hinduism. He is currently a professor at Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.-Info: Spotify: https://sptfy.com/O2uWApple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3qXL37WConnect: Website: https://ayushprakash.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prakash-ayush/ Instagram: instagram.com/notayushprakashBooks: AI for Gen Z: https://www.amazon.ca/AI-Gen-Story-Technology-Society/dp/0981182151/
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Jan 19, 2025 • 1h 32min

“Your Brain Is a Universe” – Dr. Karl Friston on Its Beauty and Horror

Karl Friston is the world’s most frequently cited neuroscientist according to the Paul Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence.He is Professor of Neurology at University College London and is a theoretical neuroscientist and an authority on brain imaging. He invented statistical parametric mapping, voxel-based morphometry, and dynamic causal modelling. His main contribution to theoretical neurobiology is a free-energy principle for action and perception (active inference). -Info: Spotify: https://sptfy.com/O2uWApple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3qXL37WConnect: Website: https://ayushprakash.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prakash-ayush/ Instagram: instagram.com/notayushprakashBooks: AI for Gen Z: https://www.amazon.ca/AI-Gen-Story-Technology-Society/dp/0981182151/
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Jan 8, 2025 • 44min

“You’re Doing Dating Wrong” – Kezia Noble on How to Actually Find a Girlfriend

This is episode 113.Kezia Noble is the leading female pick-up coach and is well known in the seduction community for helping men to be successful with women in all areas. She has written for many magazines and newspapers as well as sharing her advice on major TV shows.Connect with Kezia:Website: https://www.kezia-noble.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kezia-noble-367b4186/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kezianoble18/-Info: Spotify: https://sptfy.com/O2uWApple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3qXL37WConnect: Website: https://ayushprakash.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prakash-ayush/ Instagram: instagram.com/ayushprxBooks: AI for Gen Z: https://www.amazon.ca/AI-Gen-Story-Technology-Society/dp/0981182151/
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Jan 1, 2025 • 51min

“Modern Life Distracts Us from Joy” – Massimo Pigliucci on Stoicism and the Good Life

-Info: Spotify: https://sptfy.com/O2uWApple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3qXL37WConnect: Website: https://ayushprakash.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prakash-ayush/ Instagram: instagram.com/ayushprxBooks: AI for Gen Z: https://www.amazon.ca/AI-Gen-Story-Technology-Society/dp/0981182151/
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Dec 25, 2024 • 1h 14min

“Psychedelics and the Birth of Christianity” – Dr. Richard Ascough on a Forgotten History

This is episode 111.Richard S. Ascough is Professor of Religion Queen?s University in Kingston, Canada.-Info: Spotify: https://sptfy.com/O2uWApple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3qXL37WFull episodes playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCgU9D4fIV2pSPDElLqX0l4sxOi_l3e-2 Clips playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCgU9D4fIV2r7cCBdKt0VKWlAn6xMz3E9 Connect: Website: https://ayushprakash.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prakash-ayush/ Instagram: instagram.com/ayushprxBooks: AI for Gen Z: https://www.amazon.ca/AI-Gen-Story-Technology-Society/dp/0981182151/
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Dec 18, 2024 • 59min

“No One Wakes Up Wanting to Kill” – Amarnath Amarasingam on Why People Turn to Terror

This is episode 110.Amarnath Amarasingam is an Assistant Professor in the School of Religion, and is cross-appointed to the Department of Political Studies, at Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada. He is also a Senior Fellow with the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation. His research interests are in terrorism, radicalization and extremism, online communities, diaspora politics, post-war reconstruction, and the sociology of religion. He is the author of Pain, Pride, and Politics: Sri Lankan Tamil Activism in Canada (2015), and the co-editor of Sri Lanka: The Struggle for Peace in the Aftermath of War (2016). He has also published over 40 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, has presented papers at over 100 national and international conferences, and has written for The New York Times, The Monkey Case, The Washington Post, CNN, Politico, The Atlantic, and Foreign Affairs. He has been interviewed on CNN, PBS Newshour, CBC, BBC, and a variety of other media outlets. Amarasingam is an experienced field researcher, having conducted hundreds of interviews for his PhD dissertation on social movement activism, organizational dynamics, and youth identity in the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora. He also conducted over 50 interviews with former fighters of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE, or Tamil Tigers) throughout the former war zones of Sri Lanka in 2013 and 2014. He has also conducted field research in Syria, Iraq, Morocco, Somalia, Lebanon, and Israel/Palestine. He co-directed a study on foreign fighters in Syria and Iraq, based at the University of Waterloo, for six years during which he conducted numerous social media and in-person interviews with current and former foreign fighters in Syria and Iraq, as well as parents and close friends of those who traveled to fight.Connect with Dr. Amarasingam:Twitter:  @AmarAmarasingam  YouTube: @AmarAmarasingam-Info: Spotify: https://sptfy.com/O2uWApple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3qXL37WFull episodes playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCgU9D4fIV2pSPDElLqX0l4sxOi_l3e-2 Clips playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCgU9D4fIV2r7cCBdKt0VKWlAn6xMz3E9 Connect: Website: https://ayushprakash.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prakash-ayush/ Instagram: instagram.com/notayushprakashBooks: AI for Gen Z: https://www.amazon.ca/AI-Gen-Story-Technology-Society/dp/0981182151/

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