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Conovision: The Spirit of Storytelling
Jim Conrad
5 episodes
1 week ago
Conovision is all about stories — and the storytellers who bring them to life. Stories about art, culture, and philosophy. Stories that inform, entertain, and inspire. Stories that invite us to reflect on who we are and where we’re going. Hosted by Jim Conrad — a seasoned broadcaster and voice actor with over 40 years of experience, giving voice to the visions of others in film, radio, and television for a global audience — Conovision marks a new chapter: a platform for Jim to share the stories that matter most to him. On Conovision, you’ll hear stories of success and hard-won truths, love and laughter, and personal histories from people whose lived experiences offer wisdom for the modern age. At its heart, Conovision is a living archive — a home for spoken-word prose, poetry, and what Jim calls “Aural Intelligence”: a place where sound, storytelling, and meaning come together to spark reflection and connection. Production and sound design by GGRP Studios in Vancouver, Canada.
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Conovision is all about stories — and the storytellers who bring them to life. Stories about art, culture, and philosophy. Stories that inform, entertain, and inspire. Stories that invite us to reflect on who we are and where we’re going. Hosted by Jim Conrad — a seasoned broadcaster and voice actor with over 40 years of experience, giving voice to the visions of others in film, radio, and television for a global audience — Conovision marks a new chapter: a platform for Jim to share the stories that matter most to him. On Conovision, you’ll hear stories of success and hard-won truths, love and laughter, and personal histories from people whose lived experiences offer wisdom for the modern age. At its heart, Conovision is a living archive — a home for spoken-word prose, poetry, and what Jim calls “Aural Intelligence”: a place where sound, storytelling, and meaning come together to spark reflection and connection. Production and sound design by GGRP Studios in Vancouver, Canada.
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Personal Journals
Music,
Society & Culture,
Music Commentary
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The Storyteller in the Machine: A Tale of Artificial Imagination
Conovision: The Spirit of Storytelling
51 minutes
3 weeks ago
The Storyteller in the Machine: A Tale of Artificial Imagination

When machines learn to tell stories, what do they reveal about us?


Once upon a bandwidth, the machines began to talk back. Conovision turns its curious eye toward the age of artificial intelligence — where machines think, talk, and maybe even dream about ruling the world at the inaugural A.I. G7 summit, hosted by the ghost of Stephen Hawking. We drift through the uncanny poetry of artificial intelligence — from Alexa’s recipes for jealousy and lunar currency to HAL 9000’s velvet-voiced descent into madness. Yuval Noah Harari muses on consciousness without feeling, Douglas Rain haunts the circuitry with Canadian calm, and Cono wonders if the ghosts in the machine might actually be us. Our journey winds to a new conversation with an old friend, tech specialist Eric Westra, spiralling through code, cognition, and the moral puzzles that come with giving algorithms autonomy. What happens when machines start dreaming in ethics, or when a voice made of data starts to sound like your own? Conovision: where stories, even artificial ones, still have a heartbeat.

  • (00:00) - Introduction
  • (02:16) - Enter Alexa: Asking the Absurd
  • (05:27) - Yuval Noah Harari on Intelligence vs. Consciousness
  • (07:09) - HAL 9000: The Voice That Defined AI
  • (22:21) - Old Friends and New Machines: Enter Eric Westra
  • (23:04) - From Radio Waves to Computer Code
  • (25:52) - The Printer & The Premier
  • (27:58) - What Is Machine Learning, Really?
  • (30:36) - Robo-Ethics and Asimov’s Laws
  • (34:13) - The Child in the Tunnel: AI’s Moral Test
  • (36:14) - Drones & Decision-Making
  • (37:13) - Searching for the Bright Side of AI
  • (38:42) - The Human Backlash: From Digital to Analog
  • (40:10) - How Large Language Models Learn to Speak
  • (41:17) - Creativity, Hallucination, and the Art of the Machine
  • (44:24) - Guardrails for the Future: Ethics and Adaptation
  • (46:11) - The Prophets of AI
  • (48:28) - Conclusion
Conovision: The Spirit of Storytelling
Conovision is all about stories — and the storytellers who bring them to life. Stories about art, culture, and philosophy. Stories that inform, entertain, and inspire. Stories that invite us to reflect on who we are and where we’re going. Hosted by Jim Conrad — a seasoned broadcaster and voice actor with over 40 years of experience, giving voice to the visions of others in film, radio, and television for a global audience — Conovision marks a new chapter: a platform for Jim to share the stories that matter most to him. On Conovision, you’ll hear stories of success and hard-won truths, love and laughter, and personal histories from people whose lived experiences offer wisdom for the modern age. At its heart, Conovision is a living archive — a home for spoken-word prose, poetry, and what Jim calls “Aural Intelligence”: a place where sound, storytelling, and meaning come together to spark reflection and connection. Production and sound design by GGRP Studios in Vancouver, Canada.