The Constant: Swimming in the Deep Blue of Business, Technology and Culture

Beyond LLMs: Experiential AI for Our Ever-Changing World.12.11.25

Dr. German Dziebel hosted Edward and Anna Blinov, co-founders of Bright App Technologies (BAT), a San Francisco startup offering an experiential, self-supervising AI agent that adapts to the world through perception, goal-setting and memory. After grounding the conversation in the growing post-LLM trend in AI research (as represented by Professor and Chief AI Scientist at Meta, Yann Le Cun) and the current understanding of the way the human brain works (through the work of Jeff Hawkins), The Constant's crew reviewed BAT's new cognitive and engineering architecture for Experiential AI that precedes, co-exists and complement LLMs and is designed to help humans adapt to our uncertain, precarious and ever changing world.

Innovation in Europe, with Karl Lillrud.10.28.25

The Constant Podcast, with co-hosts Juan Napoli and German Dziebel, welcomed Karl Lillrud, a global technology entrepreneur, digital and AI transformation consultant to Fortune 500 clients, TED talker and podcaster. The episode covers the place of Europe in today's innovation landscape, Sweden's remarkable impact on global tech business, an innovator's mindset critical to success as well as innovation and geopolitics. At the closing, Karl introduces the audience to his upcoming podcast tech breakthrough, Podmanager.ai, that will take the sweat out of podcasting.

AI and the Human Connection, with Abigail Posner.01.28.26

In a new episode of The Constant, the host, German Dziebel, welcomes Abigail Posner. Abigail is anthropologist, brand strategist, an ex-Publicis and ex-Google executive and a recognized thought leader in the space of human behavior, creativity and technology. An intense conversation highlighted the fascinating paradoxes of Artificial Intelligence and the Human Connection (data and depth, technology and instincts, creativity and programming, intelligence and consciousness, LLMs and "world models", AI hype and the perils of the modern world, among others).