Mike & Amit Talk Tech
Episodes
Is AI good or bad for sustainability?
21 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
AI is a double-edged sword for the environment. Its growth requires masses of energy, water, and rare earth metals. The LLMs of tomorrow may even requ...
The Trump effect on tech
25 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Wade is a Professor of Innovation and Strategy and Director of the IMD Global Center for Digital Business Transformation. He also holds the Ci...
What is the impact of technology on K-12 education?
06 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
*****Michael Wade is a Professor of Innovation and Strategy and Director of the IMD Global Center for Digital Business Transformation. He also holds t...
The launch of the AI safety clock
07 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The IMD AI Safety Clock is a tool designed to evaluate the risks of Uncontrolled Artificial General Intelligence (UAGI) – autonomous AI systems that...
Tech and finance: Building the blockchain
12 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mike and Amit explore the impact of emerging technologies on finance.*****Michael Wade is a Professor of Innovation and Strategy and Director of the I...
Defence tech: From TNT to AI
22 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Since the dawn of history, humans have turned to technological innovations to win wars.In the battle of Agincourt, French knights saw their superior n...
How Silicon Valley firms are putting the "AI" in retail
18 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This year, Amazon celebrated 30 years in business.By creating a virtual space where (almost) everything was available at the click of a button, the Se...
Tech & sports: Could your next coach be a computer?
04 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In an era of desk jobs, sedentary lifestyles are common. Combined with the rise of ultra-processed food, it's no wonder so many people find it hard to...
Tech & sports: The rise of Esports
20 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mike and Amit discuss how games like football and tennis have paved the way for the $2bn industry of Esports.*********Michael Wade is a Professor of I...
Tech in sports: How analytics has changed the pros
06 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There's no doubt that statistics and data play an important role in professional sports. Whether in soccer, cricket, or American football, superfans h...
NVIDIA: The tech giant building the future of chips
02 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mike and Amit talk about the giant chipmaker NVIDIA, and how it's creating the technology of tomorrow.*********Michael Wade is a Professor of Innovati...
Why does artificial intelligence need regulating?
18 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In March 2024, the European Union approved the world’s first set of major regulatory rules to govern artificial intelligence. The EU AI Act categori...
How AI is taking the Biotech industry by storm
04 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mike & Amit talk about the future of Biotech, and how Artificial Intelligence may speed up healthcare and drug development.*********Michael Wade i...
Sora and Gemini: Innovations in AI
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The 21st century has been dominated by video. At its start, camcorders allowed amateurs to make their own home movies, and by 2023, the likes of TikTo...
Mike & Amit talk 2024: Our predictions for the new year
21 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From deepfakes to AI assistants, the technology of tomorrow may help or hinder the world depending on whose hands it's in. In the final episode of 202...
Generative AI: What comes next?
07 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The world has become familiar with artificial intelligence that can answer questions, often in a convincingly human manner. But so far, the technology...
AI ethics and the future of big data
23 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Since generative AI exploded into public consciousness, people and companies have been worrying about its ethics. But, says Amit Joshi, before conside...
How will Generative AI impact jobs and productivity?
09 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It's hard to argue that generative AI won't improve productivity in the long run. You only need to ask Chat GPT a few questions to understand how fas...
Generative AI: Who will win the race for industry domination?
19 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Open AI, the company behind ChatGPT, is probably the most famous of the emerging artificial intelligence powerhouses. The firm is backed by Microsoft...
What makes AI today so much more advanced than its predecessors?
29 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the first episode of Mike & Amit’s mini-series on artificial intelligence, our hosts discussed the birth of AlphaGo and the technological und...
The rise of Generative AI: From AlphaGo to ChatGPT
14 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Artificial intelligence has been talked about for decades, but over the last year, there has been a shift in the conversation.The rise of ChatGPT and ...
Nuclear power: How we learned to stop loving the atom
31 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nuclear power was once associated with a brighter future. The technology to extract energy from uranium was scalable, efficient, and billed as a sourc...
3D printing dreams: Why the consumer technology of the future has flopped
17 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ten years ago, 3D printing was heralded as the answer to so many of life's problems. By now we were supposed to be using a 3D printer to print our f...
Quantum computing: The tech revolution that wasn't
22 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From ChatGPT to Apple Vision Pro, the latest tech products garner a lot of hype. But while AI chatbots have the potential to change our relationship w...
Can a growing tech sector ever be sustainable?
08 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We're used to tech companies making big promises. A future filled with driverless cars, virtual realities to live in, and ever-more impressive gadgets...
Autonomous Vehicles: The bumpy road to self-driving cars
18 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Companies like Waymo and Tesla are throwing the kitchen sink at autonomous vehicles. Every year from 2015 to 2021, Elon Musk predicted that we would h...
Moore's Law: Is the search for more processing power holding back tech?
04 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 1965, the American engineer Gordon Moore came up with a novel idea: that the number of semiconductors that you could fit on a silicon chip would do...
The Metaverse: A place to live, or Silicon Valley pipe dream?
20 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"The Metaverse" is a term that defies easy definition. Even before you start to outline its features, you first have to ask if it's the metaverse, a m...
UPDATE: Is a pause to AI research necessary?
12 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In a short update special Mike and Amit discuss a letter signed by Elon Musk & other tech leaders, demanding AI research.****Michael Wade is a Pro...
Will Web 3.0 give power back to the people?
06 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
One of the biggest topics among the Technorati today is Web 3.0. For many, this came out of the blue. How many even realized that there was a Web 2.0?...
Chat GPT: Hype or reality?
23 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
New digital services and technologies are released all the time, and every so often, one comes along that hits the viral jackpot. Bitcoin did this in...