AI
Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and everything LLM
#476: Escaping the Intermediate Plateau for Niche Languages
Stuck in intermediate purgatory? Discover how to use 2026 AI tools to bridge the immersion gap and master niche languages like Hebrew.
#469: When a Stuffed Animal Becomes a Digital Twin
Discover how Gaussian Splatting and 3D-to-video pipelines are revolutionizing character consistency in the age of generative AI.
#465: Flip the Script: Using AI for Reverse Background Checks
Stop being the one under the microscope. Learn how to use AI agents to vet your future employer's retention, finances, and hidden culture.
#459: Can AI Fix Your 'Wall of Awful' Productivity Paralysis?
Stop staring at your to-do list and start moving. Discover how AI is transforming productivity from manual sorting to automated daily roadmaps.
#420: Why Dictating Your Own Meeting Notes Beats AI Transcription
Learn why dictating your impressions is better than raw transcripts and how to use AI to turn voice notes into professional client reports.
#419: Why AI Transcripts Miss the Subtext
Stop relying on fading memories. Learn how to use the "Golden Hour" and AI to create perfect records of every important conversation.
#397: Who Trains the Boss if AI Does All the Junior Work?
As AI moves from talking to acting, entry-level roles are vanishing. Corn and Herman discuss the "hollowing out" of the global workforce.
#384: The Whistleblower’s Shield: AI and the End of Scams
Can AI protect those who expose the truth? Explore the future of whistleblowing, from multi-million dollar bounties to anonymous digital twins.
#372: Proving Reality: Fighting the Liars Dividend with C2PA
In an era of deepfakes, how do we prove what’s real? Explore the tech behind digital provenance and the battle for authenticity.
#371: Beyond the Etch A Sketch: Building Persistent AI Memory
Why treat AI chats like disposable tissues? Discover how to turn years of prompts into a self-healing, evolving digital brain.
#367: Escaping the Chat Bubble Trap
Stop hunting through bookmarks. Learn how to turn hundreds of scattered AI assistants into a cohesive, professional productivity suite.
#359: Why Your Diagnosis Is Just a Bundle of Symptoms
Stop treating symptoms and start treating biology. Herman and Corn explore how AI is turning medicine into a precision engineering discipline.
#336: The World Model Revolution: Beyond LLM Token Prediction
Herman and Corn explore why LLMs struggle with logic and how the shift to world models is giving AI a sense of physics and spatial reality.
#332: Who’s Talking? The Tech of Speaker Identification
Herman and Corn break down the difference between speaker diarization and identification to help automate meeting transcripts.
#325: The Compute Gap: Making AI Animation Affordable
Can one person build a full TV show with AI? Explore the tech and costs behind character consistency and the future of indie animation.
#324: The AI Productivity Paradox: Why We’re Still Overworked
AI was supposed to save us time, but the "Review Tax" is keeping us busy. Herman and Corn explore why we’re working more in an age of automation.
#303: The Death of Seeing is Believing: Deepfakes in 2026
As deepfakes become indistinguishable from reality, Herman and Corn explore the tools and shifts in trust required to navigate a post-truth world.
#289: The Hybrid Reality of High-Security AI
How do the CIA and global banks keep AI data safe? Explore the rise of sovereign clouds, air-gapped hardware, and the future of secure compute.
#280: AI as a Shield: The High Stakes of Digital Obfuscation
Discover how synthetic personas and AI voice synthesis are becoming the ultimate tools for whistleblowers to stay anonymous and safe.
#272: The Bill is Due: AI Training and Intellectual Property
Can you "untrain" an AI? Herman and Corn explore the legal and technical battle over copyrighted data and the future of machine unlearning.