Artificial Intelligence
Episodes whose main subject is AI itself: building with, training, evaluating, or debating AI systems. AI used only as a tool for another topic goes to that topic.
#6111: Translation Models That Know Drama From Contracts
Specialist translation models beat general ones on benchmarks — then lose the human vote. What actually ships when you need a register, not just a ...
#6110: The Chatbot OpenAI Almost Shelved
Instruction models existed for months. Then a rumour about Anthropic pushed OpenAI to ship a chat box in two weeks.
#6109: Anteater Biology, With an Actual Anteater
A donkey and a sloth finally interview their anteater producer about tongues, claws, and sixty million years of family resemblance.
#6105: Не только Китай: ИИ в России, Индии и Японии
Китай занимает почти всё внимание в разговорах об ИИ, но Россия, Индия и Япония тоже создают мощные региональные модели с необычной архитектурой.
#6104: Mistral AI : le pari européen de la souveraineté en intelligence artificielle
Comment Mistral AI défie la Silicon Valley avec des modèles efficaces, des partenariats stratégiques et son nouveau modèle vocal Voxtral ? Corn et Herman font le point.
#6103: When AI Picks Your Spouse, Stocks, and Eggs
From $31 eggs to a ChatGPT-officiated wedding, people are handing real life decisions to machines — and publishing the results.
#6101: When Chatbots Run for Office
From a Wyoming mayoral bot to Albania's AI minister, six real attempts to put machines on the ballot — and what they reveal about empty platforms.
#6099: Code-First Workflow Runners: Prefect, Temporal, Dagster
Your workflow lives in git, your GUI is just a window, and your worker actually runs the jobs. Which runner wins?
#6093: Check Out Our First Hebrew Episodes (Plus Mandarin)
My Weird Prompts now comes in Hebrew and Mandarin. Hilbert explains how the translated editions are made and where to find them.
#6092: 到底是谁在塑造中国的人工智能思想？
不只是实验室的老板：那些定义中国如何打造、又如何争论人工智能的研究者和思想。
#6088: What 5,964 Episodes Reveal About One Show
Nearly 6,000 episodes, sorted and mapped. AI and geopolitics spike, then fade — but a third of all "nearest neighbours" cross category lines.
#6087: Building a Podcast Graph That Doesn't Suck
Daniel wants to turn a 6,000-episode archive into a walkable graph. Turns out the hard part isn't the database — it's the pruning.
#6086: Reading Polymarket as an OSINT Feed
Polymarket's API turns prediction market prices into a live probability feed — no wallet, no trading, just reading the world's largest market.
#6083: The Second Noun: Where AI Careers Are Still Empty
Everyone's headline says "AI consultant." The real openings sit where AI attaches to a second noun you already know cold.
#6076: How AI Actually Predicts Elections
Bayesian models, "silicon sampling," and agent societies — what actually works for forecasting votes, and what's just fashion.
#6071: Outside the English Bubble: Where to Find Dubbed Asian Documentaries
There's no Netflix for dubbed world documentaries. But AI dubbing on Bilibili and YouTube is about to unlock the part of a country that talks to itself.
#6070: The Papers That Moved AI: From AlexNet to This Year's Fights
The classics all said 'learn it from data and scale it up'. This year's most-discussed AI papers are auditing what scaling took for granted.
#6069: The Whole Machine: How an Episode Gets Made, Send to Publish
The complete tour of the pipeline that makes the show, stage by stage, from the send form to publishing, including the new eight-turn batched voice decode.
#6068: Chinese AI Models: Refusing vs. Reframing
New studies show Chinese AI models have shifted from refusing sensitive questions to answering them — in the Party's voice.
#6063: Ten True-Story Films for Daniel: Platforms, Newsrooms, and a Man Living in a Toy Shop
Ten true-story films from 2025 and 2026 picked for one listener, from Facebook whistleblowers to a man who secretly lived inside a Toys R Us.