Artificial intelligence is evolving at an unprecedented pace—what does that mean for the future of technology, venture capital, business, and even our understanding of ourselves? Award-winning journalist and writer Anil Ananthaswamy joins us for our latest episode to discuss his latest book Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI . Anil helps us explore the journey and many breakthroughs that have propelled machine learning from simple perceptrons to the sophisticated algorithms shaping today’s AI revolution, powering GPT and other models. The discussion aims to demystify some of the underlying math that powers modern machine learning to help everyone grasp this technology impacting our lives, even if your last math class was in high school. Anil walks us through the power of scaling laws, the shift from training to inference optimization, and the debate among AI’s pioneers about the road to AGI—should we be concerned, or are we still missing key pieces of the puzzle? The conversation also delves into AI’s philosophical implications—could understanding how machines learn help us better understand ourselves? And what challenges remain before AI systems can truly operate with agency? If you enjoy this episode, please subscribe and leave us a review on your favorite podcast platform. Sign up for our newsletter at techsurgepodcast.com for exclusive insights and updates on upcoming TechSurge Live Summits. Links: Read Why Machines Learn, Anil’s latest book on the math behind AI https://www.amazon.com/Why-Machines-Learn-Elegant-Behind/dp/0593185749 Learn more about Anil Ananthaswamy’s work and writing https://anilananthaswamy.com/ Watch Anil Ananthaswamy’s TED Talk on AI and intelligence https://www.ted.com/speakers/anil_ananthaswamy Discover the MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellowship that shaped Anil’s AI research https://ksj.mit.edu/ Understand the Perceptron, the foundation of neural networks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptron Read about the Perceptron Convergence Theorem and its significance https://www.nature.com/articles/323533a0…
The Prodigal Voice is a podcast dedicated to maximizing the reach for the Prodigals who have left the father’s house and turned their back on the father.
The Prodigal Voice is a podcast dedicated to maximizing the reach for the Prodigals who have left the father’s house and turned their back on the father.
In the episode, we will be covering Chapter 3 of the Syllabus, For This Thy Brother! The topic of today's episode is Discerning the Lord's Body! It is imperative that we, as members in particular, fitly framed together in the Body of Christ, have the spiritual sensitivity to discern when another part of our body is struggling or in pain or needing support or comfort of some kind! If we properly discerned the Lord's Body there would not be nearly so many Prodigals! They would be fully restored before they wind up excised from the body and then replaced by a spiritual prosthetic device... a program or a plan. I fear at times that we not only fail to discern the Lord's body, but we also have lost the ability to feel for the body part that has been severed and replaced unless the body part is directly connected to us. Lord Jesus, help us to feel the loss of and discern the needs or Your Body, The Church!…
In this episode, season 1 episode 6, we will be covering the content of Chapter 2 from the syllabus, For This Thy Brother, as we discuss Who Is Watching The Back Door! Someone needs to be as aware of those who leave our church as others are of who is just coming into the church! RhHax22fKqRZR0palPlA
This is the first episode that is not autobiographical! Episode 5 of Season 1 covers a shocking reality... that there will some of God's Children In the Pit! It also deals with the need for someone to step up and step into the gap and make up the hedge to prevent the episode title from becoming reality for you as a prodigal or for the prodigals many others love and desire to see return to a right relationship with God!…
This episode will conclude the introduction to your host, Phil Jones, Me, The Prodigal Voice. This episode picks up near the end of 1998 and takes you through to my conversion and the subsequent events that led me to where I am today. In future episodes I will be disclosing more details of my experiences and using them to minister to the Prodigal, the Parents of Prodigals and the churches that need to be more involved in pursuing the Prodigal!…
In this episode, I cover the years from 1989 through the early fall of 1998. I recount some of the details involved in my prosecution on drug charges and how the hand of God worked miracles that I was too spiritually unconscious to even recognize until I looked back on everything later. While I didn't give Jesus a second thought, I was always on His mind!…
In today's episode 2 of season 1, I intend to cover the next decade of my life from age 20 to age 30, 1979 to 1989. Those were some very eventful years in my life. I totally removed God from my consciousness and lived a totally selfish, ego driven life with a pinch of humanism and a splash of hedonism thrown in for good measure. Enjoy the show!…
In this episode I will be introducing myself as the host of The Prodigal Voice by recounting my life history and my testimony. I will allow you, the listener, to get a glimpse of what it is like growing up a PK (preacher's Kid) and how a life that has every opportunity to do well can end up doing so poorly. I pray that you are enlightened and encouraged as you listen! The first few episodes will be part 1 through part ?? because the story can be quite lengthy.…
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