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Hands-On AI (Audio)
Hands-On AI explores and explains artificial intelligence — and shows you how to actually use it. Because AI is exactly that: a tool, and like any tool, what matters is what you do with it. In short, focused episodes, Mikah Sargent takes you inside the technology reshaping how we work, create, and communicate. Learn what's really happening inside a large language model, run AI entirely on your own hardware, put the AI already in your pocket to work, and discover uses you hadn't thought of. No…
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Hands-On AI (Audio)HOAI 5: Why Does AI Sound So Generic? - One Prompt, Five Runs, and What Prompt Engineering Really Means
Ask a chatbot the same thing twice, and you might expect two different answers. Mikah Sargent runs one everyday request through ChatGPT five times and gets…
Hands-On AI (Audio)HOAI 4: Is AI Deep Research Worth the Wait? - Four AI Deep Research Tools Get One Hard Question and a Stopwatch
The big AI apps now have research modes that make you wait for a report full of sources. Is the wait worth it? Mikah Sargent gives ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and…
Hands-On AI (Audio)HOAI 3: The AI That Does the Thing - Meta's Muse Agent Takes On Simple, Hard, and Weird Jobs
What happens when AI stops talking and starts doing? Mikah Sargent puts Meta's Muse agent to work on simple jobs, hard ones, and a couple of weird ones: a…
Hands-On AI (Audio)HOAI 2: Nine Billion Knobs - What's Actually Inside an AI Model, Explained
What's actually inside an AI model? Mikah Sargent opens up the file from last week's episode and finds tokens, billions of numbers, and one surprisingly simple…
Hands-On AI (Audio)HOAI 1: The Chatbot in Your Laptop - Run AI on Your Own Computer, No Cloud Required
Your next chatbot doesn't need the cloud. Mikah Sargent installs a free app, downloads an AI model, turns off the Wi-Fi, and keeps right on chatting, all on an…
Hands-On AI (Audio)Welcome to Hands-On AI
Hands-On AI is the show that turns AI confusion into AI confidence. In this introductory episode, Mikah Sargent lays out what the show is and isn't: short…
Hands-On AI (Audio)HOAI: Hands-On AI Is Getting Into the Good Stuff - Local Models, Open Weights, No Cloud
Qwen, Muse Glimmer, Ollama, llama.cpp, quantization, mixture-of-experts, RAG, tokens per second. On Hands-On AI, those aren't buzzwords — Mikah Sargent will…
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HOAI: Hands-On AI Is Getting Into the Good Stuff - Local Models, Open Weights, No Cloud
Qwen, Muse Glimmer, Ollama, llama.cpp, quantization, mixture-of-experts, RAG, tokens per second. On Hands-On AI, those aren't buzzwords — Mikah Sargent will…
Hands-On AI (Audio)HOAI: Hands-On AI Cuts Through Hype and Doom - AI Is a Tool. Here's What It Actually Does
Depending on who you ask, AI is either going to save the world or end it. Mikah Sargent has a different take: it's a tool, and what matters is what you do with…
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HOAI: Hands-On AI Cuts Through Hype and Doom - AI Is a Tool. Here's What It Actually Does
Depending on who you ask, AI is either going to save the world or end it. Mikah Sargent has a different take: it's a tool, and what matters is what you do with…
Hands-On AI (Audio)HOAI: Introducing Hands-On AI - Everyone Says You Should Use AI. Nobody Says How.
How many times this week has someone told you that you should be using AI — without ever telling you how? Mikah Sargent introduces Hands-On AI, a new podcast…
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HOAI: Introducing Hands-On AI - Everyone Says You Should Use AI. Nobody Says How.
How many times this week has someone told you that you should be using AI — without ever telling you how? Mikah Sargent introduces Hands-On AI, a new podcast…