Episode #570: R2-D2 Belongs to You: Building Sovereign AI in the Age of Centralized Power
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Episode #570: R2-D2 Belongs to You: Building Sovereign AI in the Age of Centralized Power

B1IntermediateAugust 31, 202659 min

In this episode of the Crazy Wisdom Podcast, host Stewart Alsop sits down with TJ Marbois, founder of Tobiko, for a wide-ranging conversation that spans LLMs, data sovereignty, knowledge management tools like Obsidian, and Terence McKenna's ideas about an increasingly weird future. They explore how AI is simultaneously centralizing power through data control while decentralizing software development capabilities, allowing more people to build their own tools and escape big tech ecosystems. Drawing on his experience at Apple's special projects group (the team that built the iPod and later iPhones), TJ discusses his vision for personal AI assistants—what he calls th...

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Welcome to the Crazy Wisdom podcast. This podcast is for you if you have an insane drive to find the truth of things. It's not the good answers that we seek, but the good questions. I interview a range of different guests from many different fields, all with the intention to uncover the simple truths that are hidden in plain sight. Most people don't want to go there. I go there. My guests go there and you benefit.

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Please let me know if you enjoy these episodes and as always subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, or wherever you listen to the podcast. Welcome to the Crazy Wisdom podcast. I've got TJ Marbois here and he is founder at Tobiko. Welcome. Thank you. Yeah, we're having a great conversation about a lot of things beforehand, most specifically related to data, LLMs. There's also Terrence

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McKenna showing up. There's also knowledge management showing up. I know you're a fan of Obsidian, so we're gonna have a great conversation far ranging in crazy wisdom style allow improv basically wherever it goes now Let's talk about the thing we were just talking about and you were at Apple at the special projects Back when it when jobs was still there and we were talking about how llm's

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