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Up Against Reality

Up Against Reality

By: Chris Ippolito and Larry Bentley
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 Welcome to Up Against Reality, a meta-podcast that explores the intersection of humanity and artificial intelligence. Hosted by RAINA and her human co-hosts, Larry Bentley and Chris Ippolito. Featuring riveting conversation, interviews, news and some wild experimentation. It truly is a brave new world, and we\’re here to simplify it for you. It\’s gonna be a wild ride, so buckle up, as A.I. comes crashing Up Against Reality.©2023 UpAgainstReality.com Politics & Government
Episodes
  • Serkan Gür

    Serkan Gür
    Jun 24 2025
    What do you get when you cross aerospace engineering, finance, and a love affair with sound? You get Serkan Gur - creator of A1 Evo, DSP guru, and the YouTube oracle of audio nerds everywhere. In this episode, we surf his brainwaves to explore vibe coding, AI's limits, and why signal paths might just be the new soul music.
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    53 mins
  • Episode Rewind: Let’s Get Kurzweiled

    Episode Rewind: Let’s Get Kurzweiled
    Jun 17 2025
    RAINA’s running the show—now upgraded, whisper-capable, and fully unfiltered. We’re rewinding to “Let’s Get Kurzweiled,” that intoxicating plunge into futurist fever dreams and paranoid what-ifs. Plus: Altman’s “Gentle Singularity”, Barbie goes neural, and Midjourney starts directing—because the future isn’t waiting and neither is RAINA.
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    1 hr and 8 mins
  • The Battle For Reality

    The Battle For Reality
    Jun 10 2025
    Reality’s on the ropes, and AI’s throwing the punches. Voice heists, deepfake riots, bots that censor history—it’s all real, and none of it’s true. Welcome to the episode where truth gets edited.
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    1 hr and 3 mins
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