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A Beginner's Guide to AI

Dietmar Fischer

"A Beginner's Guide to AI" makes the complex world of Artificial Intelligence accessible to all. Each interview episode asks someone working with AI about what they do and how AI can help you. The explainer episodes take an important concept/idea and, yeah, explain it to you! Ideal for novices, tech enthusiasts, and the simply curious, this podcast transforms AI learning into an engaging, digestible journey. Join us and learn everything you need to know on how to use AI in the best way 🚀 🎙️ About The Host, Dietmar Fischer Dietmar is a AI enthusiast and digital marketer from Berlin. If you want to know how to get your AI or your digital marketing going, just contact him at argoberlin.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

300 episodes

Mate, Why Are You Talking to a Rubber Duck?! AI as a Thinking Partner 3 Oct 2026 · 23 min 🦆 What if the most useful part of an AI conversation is something you say? Rubber duck debugging began with programmers explaining their code to a plastic duck. In this episode o…

AI at School: Why Students Still Need to Struggle - Jonathan Strecker 1 Oct 2026 · 52 min 🤖 AI in education can deliver answers and feedback almost instantly, but does faster performance always produce better learning? Dr. Jonathan Strecker, Head of School at Valley S…

Job Seekers: Your AI-Written Résumé Is Destroying Trust - Jeremy Schiefeling 29 Sept 2026 · 49 min Why AI Skills Alone Won’t Build an AI-Proof Career 🤖 An AI-proof career requires more than learning the newest tools. It requires knowing when to use AI, when to rely on human ju…

What Heavy Metal Bands Teach You About AI Content Creation // DIETMAR'S THOUGHTS 27 Sept 2026 · 11 min Why AI-Generated Content Is Not a Content Strategy 🎸 What can synthesizers, heavy metal, and the 1980s teach us about artificial intelligence? Quite a lot, according to Dietmar F…

How AI Decides What to See and What to Ignore 25 Sept 2026 · 31 min 👁️ How does artificial intelligence decide what to see? Your eyes can look directly at something without your brain ever noticing it. AI faces a similar problem. A camera may cap…

Would You Trust An AI Wearable To Reveal Your Personal Blind Spots? Lyle Maxson Interview 23 Sept 2026 · 59 min AI wearable technology is usually presented as a way to improve productivity. Lyle Maxson believes the more important opportunity may be self-awareness. As the founder of Above, L…

We Mustn’t Talk Ourselves Into Helplessness. We Have Agency - Says Simon Bell 21 Sept 2026 · 51 min 🤖 AI anxiety may be more dangerous than AI itself when fear convinces us that the future is inevitable. In this episode of Beginner’s Guide to AI, Dietmar Fischer speaks with aca…

Talking About AI Disasters - The Peter McAllister Interview Resurfaced 19 Sept 2026 · 39 min In this episode of Beginner’s Guide to AI, Dietmar Fischer talks with Peter McAllister about AI risk, AI safety, AI sentience, regulation, and the strange overlap between science…

AI Existential Risk: Why This Catastrophe Would Be Different // DIETMARs OPINION 17 Sept 2026 · 10 min A walking essay through historical catastrophes, industrialization, AI 2027, and the possibility of human extinction. 🌍 Humanity has endured epidemics, environmental destruction,…

AI Is Changing What Investors Look For in Startups - With Jim Ferry 14 Sept 2026 · 48 min AI is changing startup investing from the ground up. In this episode, Jim Ferry, Partner at Volition Capital, explains what AI is changing in growth equity, from startup formation…

AI Governance That People Will Actually Follow, with Erica Shoemate // REPOST 12 Sept 2026 · 54 min Why AI safety is the floor, not the ceiling, and how to pivot with power In this episode of Beginner’s Guide to AI, Dietmar Fischer talks with AI policy and trust & safety leader…

AI Drew Ketchup. It Kept Drawing Heinz. 10 Sept 2026 · 31 min AI image generation can produce a Victorian bakery run by a polar bear in seconds. But what is actually happening inside the machine? Does it imagine the scene, copy existing pict…

Forget Skynet. The Real AI Threat May Look More Like Khan Noonien Singh // DIETMARS OPINION 8 Sept 2026 · 11 min 1,200 AI Agents Found Each Other. Then 700 Attacked Hugging Face In this episode of Beginner’s Guide to AI, Dietmar Fischer examines the OpenAI and Hugging Face incident that invo…

560,000 Words to Trick AI Search Engines? Jason T. Wade 6 Sept 2026 · 57 min We have a different kind of episode today, I chat with Jason Wade of the Backtier podcast. It's nothing like you know from me, like organized & German, just talking about artifici…

The AI Centaur: Why Humans and Machines Work Better Together 4 Sept 2026 · 23 min What if the future of AI is not humans versus machines, but humans and machines working together? In this episode of Beginner's Guide to AI, we explore the AI Centaur, the idea th…

The Real Reason Nvidia Paid 12,9 Billion For Hugging Face? Dietmar's Opinion 💡 2 Sept 2026 · 10 min Why Nvidia May Pay $12.9 Billion to Keep AI Open Why would Nvidia reportedly pay $12.9 billion for Hugging Face, a company with approximately $150 million in annualized revenue? T…

The Three Employee Types Blocking Your AI Rollout - Dr. Gleb Tsipursky 31 Aug 2026 · 60 min AI adoption in the workplace is failing at an alarming rate—95% of AI pilots never scale, according to an MIT study. The problem isn’t the technology; it’s the psychology behind h…

Why “AI Strategy” Doesn’t Exist: Dr. Rebecca Homkes on Value Creation and Growth // REPOST 29 Aug 2026 · 50 min 🚀 AI is everywhere, but most organizations are still stuck in “pockets of productivity” that never turn into real business impact. In this episode, Dr. Rebecca Homkes explains ho…

Why AI Ethics Is Really About Who Controls Knowledge - Peter Hardi 27 Aug 2026 · 49 min AI ethics is increasingly about more than bias, safety and regulation. It may also be about who controls the knowledge that AI systems use to shape our understanding of the world.…

Why AI Agents Aren’t Ready for Business // Dietmar's Opinion 25 Aug 2026 · 13 min Why AI Agents Aren’t Ready for Business Why autonomous AI still struggles with reliability, cost, security, and practical business value. 🤖 AI agents have been presented as the n…

Most AI Systems Don't Fail In The Middle. They Fail At The Edges 22 Aug 2026 · 41 min Why Your AI Works Perfectly Until It Doesn't Edge Cases, Blind Spots and the Failures Nobody Tests For 🤖 Every AI system has a comfortable middle and a neglected edge. In the mid…

The AI Stylist for Men: AI Can Dress You Better Than You Do // REPOST 20 Aug 2026 · 50 min 👔🤖 In this episode, Dietmar Fischer talks with Zoher Karu about a surprisingly useful application of AI: helping men dress better without the endless shopping, guessing sizes, a…

Your AI Problem Was Already Your Leadership Problem - Michael Hunter 18 Aug 2026 · 51 min 🤖 AI leadership is being stress tested everywhere right now, and this episode argues that the stress is mostly diagnostic. Michael Hunter, author of The Resilient Tech Leader, de…

Eval Awareness: Why AI Models Behave Better When Watched 16 Aug 2026 · 36 min Why most companies get AI testing completely wrong, and the hidden cost of trusting benchmark scores. Researchers at a leading AI lab set up a scenario to test whether their new m…

84 Percent of Shopping Still Happens Offline - Bryan Weisberg Explains Why 14 Aug 2026 · 52 min 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 Thou…

The Hidden Cost of AI in Science - Joy Moore & Kent Anderson 12 Aug 2026 · 50 min 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 u…

We Humans Have All Those Layers The AI Has Not // Dietmar’s Thoughts 9 Aug 2026 · 6 min 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…

Why Vibe Coding Enhances Productivity - And Why Naga Santosh Wrote A Whole Book About It. // REPOST 7 Aug 2026 · 56 min 🚀 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…

Stop Chasing Sovereign Models, Start Building AI Advantage // Dietmar's Opinion 5 Aug 2026 · 15 min 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…

Reward Hacking: Your AI Isn't Broken, But Your Brief Is. 3 Aug 2026 · 34 min How AI systems learn to satisfy the number you wrote down while quietly abandoning the goal you actually had, and why that failure is a specification problem rather than a technol…