AI
Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and everything LLM
#433: Will AI Win the Red Queen’s Race Against Superbugs?
Explore how generative AI and "microbial dark matter" are helping us stay one step ahead in the global arms race against superbugs.
#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.
#322: Why You Can't Stop Thinking About Work After 5 PM
Struggle to shut down your brain at night? Discover how a simple voice note can bridge the gap between today’s work and tomorrow’s flow.
#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.
#302: Hardware Trust: How C2PA is Saving Digital Reality
Explore how hardware-level signatures from Sony and Google are creating a "nutrition label" for digital media to fight the rise of deepfakes.
#301: The Invisible Customs Officer: How AI Scans Your Parcels Before They Arrive
Ever wonder how customs scans 350,000 packages a day? Discover the AI and X-ray tech managing the global avalanche of parcels.
#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.
#287: Your Phone Recording Won't Hold Up in Court
In a world of deepfakes, hitting record isn’t enough. Learn how to use WORM media and cryptographic hashes to create undeniable digital evidence.
#281: Why Deepfakes Are the New Face of Investigative Journalism
Forget silhouettes and voice distortion. Discover how AI "digital veils" are revolutionizing whistleblower protection in modern journalism.