Mike & Amit Talk Tech
Award-winning IMD professors Mike Wade and Amit Joshi, dissect the latest tech trends; from AI and Chat GPT, to the future of the web.
- Update frequency
- every 16 days
- Average duration
- 19 minutes
- Episodes
- 31
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
The rise of Generative AI: From AlphaGo to ChatGPT
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 other forms of generative AI has led to a fierce …
Nuclear power: How we learned to stop loving the atom
Nuclear power was once associated with a brighter future. The technology to extract energy from uranium was scalable, efficient, and billed as a source of cheap, clean power for generations to come.
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3D printing dreams: Why the consumer technology of the future has flopped
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 food, our clothes, and even to build the house of o…
Quantum computing: The tech revolution that wasn't
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 with the internet, and spatial computing could do …
Can a growing tech sector ever be sustainable?
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. But what will these achievements amount to in a…
Autonomous Vehicles: The bumpy road to self-driving cars
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 have fully self-driving cars within 12 months. He'…
Moore's Law: Is the search for more processing power holding back tech?
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 double exponentially. It was an idea that seemed re…
The Metaverse: A place to live, or Silicon Valley pipe dream?
"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 metaverse, or if it's metaverses (plural) you're d…
UPDATE: Is a pause to AI research necessary?
In a short update special Mike and Amit discuss a letter signed by Elon Musk & other tech leaders, demanding AI research.
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Michael Wade is a Professor of Innovation and Strategy and Director of the…
Will Web 3.0 give power back to the people?
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?
Proponents of Web 3.0 say that soon, users will …
Chat GPT: Hype or reality?
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 2017, Google’s audio chatbot duplex made a big sp…