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Generative AI 101
Welcome to Generative AI 101, your go-to podcast for learning the basics of generative artificial intelligence in easy-to-understand, bite-sized episodes. Join host Emily Laird, AI Integration Technologist and AI lecturer, to explore key concepts, applications, and ethical considerations, making AI accessible for everyone.
Episodes
- Generative AI 101
Gmail Gets a Gemini Brain Upgrade
Host Emily Laird pulls back the curtain on Gmail’s AI-fueled glow-up, powered by Google’s Gemini. This isn’t spellcheck with ambition, this is your inbox…
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Claude Enters the ER: Claude for Healthcare
Host Emily Laird scrubs in for a sharp, no-fluff look at Claude for Healthcare, Anthropic’s AI model trying very hard not to kill anyone. From constitutional…
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Claude Code: Your New Coworker is a Terminal-Dwelling Overlord
Host Emily Laird digs into Claude Code, the AI agent that doesn’t just finish your sentence, it rewrites your repo and files the ticket. This isn’t Clippy with…
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WebMD Walked So ChatGPT Health Could Soar (Straight Into a HIPAA Violation)
Host Emily Laird cracks open ChatGPT Health like a lab sample and pokes at what’s really inside. Forget the press releases. This episode is all about the…
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Groq Star: Who is Jonathan Ross?
Host Emily Laird lifts the hood on the unsung hero of high-speed AI: Jonathan Ross, the chip whisperer behind Google’s TPU and Groq’s blazing-fast LPU. No TED…
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Groq & Nvidia: How Inference Got Eaten by the AI Beast
Host Emily Laird unpacks the Groq saga, the startup that built lightning-fast AI chips, dared to challenge Nvidia, then got scooped into its gravity. We’re…
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How Nvidia Took Over the AI Game
Host Emily Laird plugs you into the silicon soul of Nvidia, the company that went from making gamer candy to building the backbone of modern AI. From ‘90s GPUs…
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AI Workslop: When AI Takes Over the Office
Host Emily Laird breaks out the digital flamethrower and torches the rise of “Workslop”, ya know, the AI-generated sludge clogging inboxes and killing brain…
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Chatbots Are Out, Cyborg Coworkers Are In: Welcome to the Age of Superagency
Host Emily Laird grabs the mic and declares the chatbot era officially dead. In this wild episode, she breaks down how GPT-5, AgentOS, and offline AI copilots…
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ChatGPT Turns 3: From Chatbot to the New WiFi
ChatGPT started as a chatbot and ended up running your digital life like an unpaid IT guy with attitude. In this episode, host Emily Laird traces how ChatGPT…
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ChatGPT Turns 3: Rise of the Prompt People
ChatGPT didn’t sneak in quietly. It crashed through the internet like a caffeinated octopus, messy, fast, and suddenly everywhere. In this episode, host Emily…
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ChatGPT Turns 3: The Origin Story
Saturday, January 25, 2025 10:53 AM Before ChatGPT started writing your emails and explaining physics like a brunch topic, OpenAI was a cash-hungry research…
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World Models vs LLMs
Large Language Models might sound smart, but can they predict what happens when a cat sees a cucumber? In this episode, host Emily Laird throws LLMs into the…
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World Models for Beginners
World models aren’t a sci-fi subplot, no, they’re how AIs build mini fake worlds in their silicon skulls to test ideas without wrecking your car or your…
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Yann LeCun: Trading META for World Models
Yann LeCun, deep learning pioneer and Meta’s AI heavyweight, is out and he's not leaving quietly. In this episode host Emily Laird unpacks his philosophical…
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Dear K–12, AI Isn’t Optional Anymore. Love, Emily
Banning ChatGPT in schools is like banning pencils because kids might doodle. In this episode, host Emily Laird takes a flamethrower to the myth that AI’s not…
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OpenAI's New Atlas Browser
OpenAI just gave your browser a brain and possibly a caffeine addiction. In this episode, host Emily Laird is ripping into Atlas, OpenAI’s Chrome-powered AI…
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GPU-nami: OpenAI’s $38B Cloud Fling with AWS
OpenAI just dropped $38 billion like it’s tipping the bartender at the GPU speakeasy, and the lucky recipient? Amazon Web Services (AWS if ya nasty). In this…
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What is Claude 4.5?
Claude 4.5 isn’t just the teacher’s pet, it’s running the class, grading the papers, and rewriting the syllabus in Python. In this episode, Emily Laird breaks…
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Alexa, Fire Middle Management: The Amazon Layoffs
Last week, Amazon axed 14,000 white-collar jobs, and this time, the pink slip came with a side of machine learning. In this episode, Emily Laird is unpacking…
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GPU vs TPU
What do Call of Duty, Google Cloud, and your favorite cat video have in common? They all owe their lives to a battle raging deep inside your devices: GPU…
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Meta Firings: The Great FAIR Purge and Rise of the AI Death Star
Meta just threw its AI playbook in the shredder, lit the ashes on fire, and built a secret lab on top. In this episode, Emily Laird breaks down the end of…
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Domo Arigato, Laundry-Bot-o: Meet Figure 03
Humanoid robots are no longer sci-fi fever dreams or Silicon Valley party tricks, they’re coming for your chores (at least we hope). In this episode, Emily…
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Tilly Norwood: Artificially Famous
Tilly Norwood isn’t real but she is raising real eyebrows. Billed as the next Natalie Portman (if Natalie were a laggy IKEA algorithm), this AI “actress” is…
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Swamp Thing: Musk’s AI Beast Rises in Memphis
Elon Musk isn’t just tweeting through it, he’s building a supercomputer the size of a football stadium in the swamps of Memphis. It's called Colossus, and it’s…
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Janitor AI: Chatbots Gone Wild (Seriously)
A continuation of Emily's exploration into the Andreeson Horowitz Top 100 Generative AI apps. Janitor AI is a full-blown fever dream with 5 million users, 2…
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OpenAI Dev Day 2025: The Recap
OpenAI Dev Day 2025 wasn’t just a product drop, it was a full-on software coup. In this episode, host Emily Laird breaks down how ChatGPT graduated from…
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Talk Nerdy to Me: All About Character AI
Character.AI is where Shakespeare meets Snapchat and your anime boyfriend quotes Nietzsche in real time. In this episode, Emily Laird explores the company…
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OpenAI's New Toys: Sora 2, a New App, and a Pulse in Pulse
OpenAI just dropped Sora, a sleek new app that uses the brand new Sora 2 video gen model, and something called Pulse in Pro. Host Emily Laird breaks down what…
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Dear AGI, You Still Make Me Nervous... Love Always, Emily.
What do you get when you mix billion-dollar egos, unfinished AI code, and an arms race mindset? A potential disaster with better branding. In this episode…
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10 Gigawatts and a Dream: OpenAI, NVIDIA, and the $100B Compute Flex
What do you get when OpenAI and NVIDIA throw $100 billion at the problem of thinking machines? A digital superhighway powered by 10 gigawatts of GPU-fueled…
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Meta’s AR Glow-Up
Meta’s back on your face and this time, it’s not just a privacy nightmare in disguise. In this episode, Emily Laird breaks down Meta’s latest smart glasses…
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Fact-Check or Fail: How to Keep Your AI From Making Stuff Up
In this episode, host Emily Laird teaches you how to keep your AI from bluffing like your cousin Chad at Thanksgiving. No code. No blood moon rituals. Just…
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OpenAI, Oracle, and the 4.5 Gigawatt Hunger Games
Title: a16z 5th Edition Pt. 4: No-Code, Just Vibes & the Top of the Class OpenAI’s rumored $300 billion cloud pact with Oracle isn’t just another tech…
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The FTC Enters the Chat (And It’s Not Flirting)
The FTC just knocked on the doors of seven AI giants, including OpenAI, Meta, and Snap (amongst many others) with legally binding orders, and they’re not here…
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a16z 5th Edition Pt. 4: No-Code, Just Vibes & the Top of the Class
Forget Python. The new software builders are riding high on vibes, drag, drop, done. In this episode, host Emily Laird breaks down “vibe coding,” the sticky…
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a16z 5th Edition Pt.3: China's AI Multiverse
China’s not just building AI, it’s building a whole other version of the internet to run it on. In this episode, host Emily Laird take a sneaking step past the…
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a16z 5th Edition Pt.2: Googlezilla
The AI hype machine is cooling off, fewer shiny new toys, more serious contenders. In this episode, hostess with the mostest (of something) Emily Laird breaks…
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The Nerd Billboard 100: a16z’s AI Hit Parade
Venture capital powerhouse Andreessen Horowitz, aka a16z, because vowels are apparently optional in Silicon Valley, has been quietly shaping the generative AI…
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The Go Series Pt. 4: Your Move, Human
AlphaGo didn’t just beat a Go champion, it rewrote the rules of competition. In this episode, host Emily Laird discusses Lee Sedol’s post-match arc, the rise…
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The Go Series Pt. 3: Humanity's Last Flex
AlphaGo may have crushed Lee Sedol, but the aftermath wasn’t just about losing, it was about what humans still bring to the table. In this episode, host Emily…
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The Go Series Pt. 2: Move 37 & the God Move
AlphaGo vs. Lee Sedol wasn’t just a board game, it was humanity staring down its algorithmic doppelgänger and wondering who gets the last laugh. In this…
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The Go Series, Pt. 1: The Game That Broke the Board
Go isn’t just old, it’s ancient, intimidating, and smarter than it looks. For decades, it stood as the Everest of board games, the one thing AI couldn’t…
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Mixture of Experts: The Wu-Tang Clang of AI
What do trivia night, jazz bands, and IKEA furniture have in common? They all make more sense once you understand Mixture of Experts. In this episode, host…
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ChatGPT's Study Mode: Homework’s Plot Twist
Is ChatGPT here to help you ace the test or just do your homework for you? In this episode, host Emily Laird unpacks OpenAI’s new Study Mode, a feature that…
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What’s the Difference Between AGI and Superintelligence?
AGI can do anything you can, write, reason, crack jokes, without being told how. Superintelligence can do all that and make you look like a potato with Wi-Fi…
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The One About ChatGPT-5
OpenAI’s GPT-5 isn’t just an upgrade, it’s a whole crew of AIs working together. One’s fast, one’s a deep thinker, and a couple work the cheap shifts, all…
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Google DeepMind: A Mini Origin Story
What do you get when you mix a chess prodigy, a neuroscience detour, and a borderline obsession with solving intelligence? Google DeepMind. In this episode…
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Kimi K2 & the Continuation of the Great AI Arms Race
Meet Kimi K2! Join host Emily Laird as she explores the trillion-parameter powerhouse from Shanghai-based Moonshot AI that's throwing elbows at GPT-4.1…
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Perplexity's Comet Browser & the Rise of AI Browsers
Chrome is toast (ok, probably not). Or at least, it might be if Perplexity’s Comet Browser has anything to say about it. In this episode, host Emily Laird…
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Meta's Billion Dollar UpScale
Meta just dropped $14.3 billion to buy half of Scale AI and hired their CEO like it was a fantasy football draft. In this episode, host Emily Laird unpacks why…
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Zuck to the Future: Meta's Superintelligence Lab
Meta just rage-quit its own AI strategy and rolled out the Superintelligence Lab, because nothing says "totally under control" like consolidating teams under…
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OpenAI’s Agent: What It Is, What It Does, and Why It’s a Big Deal
OpenAI’s Agent isn’t here to make small talk. It’s here to get stuff done, like your caffeinated intern who never sleeps, never eats, but still can’t log into…
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AI: The Ozempic of Corporate America
Corporate America’s on Ozempic, and the side effect is mass layoffs. In this episode, host Emily Laird slices into the juicy mess of the AI-powered corporate…
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Andy Jassy & the AI Workforce Purge
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy just dropped a memo that’s equal parts pep talk and pink slip warning: AI is amazing, and it’s coming for your job. In this episode, host…
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The AI Job Market Has Entered the Chat
Forget robot overlords. For now, AI still needs us to clean up its messes, cast its voices, and make sure it doesn’t accidentally go full Bond villain. In this…
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AI Pro Tips Series: Prompt Like a Pro
Sick of AI giving you answers with all the flavor of corporate hold music? In this episode of our AI Pro Tips series, Emily Laird cracks open the secret sauce…
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AI Pro Tips Series: Assumptions & Stakeholders
Think you’ve got all your project bases covered? Think again. In this episode, Emily Laird calls out the hidden holes in your plans that even your…
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AI Pro Tips Series: Anthropomorphism
Think giving your chatbot a name is just for weirdos and sci-fi fans? Think again. In this episode, Emily Laird tosses out the dry tips and goes full Cast…
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OpenAI's June 2025 Disrupting Malicious Use of AI: Part Deux
AI isn’t just doing your homework anymore, it’s helping build malware, write fake job offers, and launch cyberattacks faster than you can say…