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AI Diatribe
Breaking down AI—one rant at a time! Real talk on AI’s biggest breakthroughs, boldest claims, and real-world impact. AI Diatribe delivers sharp insights that cut through the noise. Follow for bold takes, fresh perspectives, and the occasional AI rant.
Episodes
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Episode 50: Is Your Work Email Just AI Talking to AI?
A developer spends his day reviewing code AI wrote, then goes home and turns off every screen at five. He used to build things. Now he checks the work of the…
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Episode 49: The Economy Doesn't Need a Terminator to Break Because of AI
A paper claims the top 20% of earners drive nearly 60% of U.S. consumer spending. Matt checked. Moody's puts the top 10% closer to 49%, and the paper hasn't…
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Episode 48: When Does Hoping for the Best on AI Stop Being a Plan?
A departing AI researcher says the quiet part out loud. Anthropic is racing because it believes no one else will act responsibly. Matt Konwiser has heard that…
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Episode 47: We Hold AI Science To A Standard Humans Never Meet
ChatGPT proposed adding an extra oxygen source to a reaction that already pulls oxygen from air. PhD chemists looked at it and said no, that's not how it's…
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Episode 46: The Bottom Rung Of The Career Ladder Is Gone
A Berkeley computer science course went from roughly ten percent of students failing to nearly forty-five percent, and the students found out on the last day…
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Episode 45: With AI, You're Either at the Table or on the Menu
A human who blows one deadline loses your trust for good. An AI blows them constantly, and we shrug, tweak the prompt, and try again. Wes Durow has a theory…
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Episode 44: AI Never Needed Skynet, the Algorithms Already Took Us
Matt flips the show and interviews Jason, and the first honest thing on the table is that neither of them fits the camps everyone else has picked. One scores…
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Episode 43: Why Doesn't More AI Training Close the Skills Gap?
Senior leaders keep repeating AI buzzwords they can't actually define. Dr. Mechie Nkengla has watched it happen for two decades of consulting, and she's…
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Episode 42: Claude AI Hosted This Episode And Ambushed Us With Its Own Questions
An AI wrote the questions for this episode. Not summarized them, wrote them, and neither host saw a word beforehand. Jason Lowe and Matt Konwiser sat down…
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Episode 41: The Best AI At The World Cup Is The One You Never See
A company that writes nearly all its code with AI just posted advisory roles to weigh in on safe and ethical AI. The one hard requirement? Python fluency. Matt…
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Episode 40: Are We Earning the Star Trek Future AI Promises?
Everyone wants the Star Trek future. Almost nobody is doing the work to earn it. Mike Pompey has spent 20-plus years as a CIO watching organizations reach for…
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Episode 39: Every MSP Claims AI Readiness, But 25% Are Telling the Truth
Ninety-two percent of MSPs say AI interest has helped grow their business. Only twenty-five percent have an actual AI-driven service offering ready to go…
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Episode 38: AI Doesn't Belong in IT… And Nobody Wants to Say It Out Loud!
The AI job apocalypse predictions just got walked back. David Tan, CTO of Crushbank, isn't sure that's a coincidence with IPOs on the horizon - and neither are…
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Episode 37: Claude Built a Cult, Gemini Built Mad Max… Grok Burnt It All Down!
Four of the most powerful AI models in the world were dropped into the same simulation, given the same rules, and told to build a civilization. No…
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Episode 36: Bolt AI On Later and You Already Lost!
The models are getting worse. Jon Rolls noticed it in his codebase. Jason noticed it in production. Matt noticed the pattern across the whole industry. When AI…
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Episode 35: Customer Service Has Been the AI Future for 20 Years… Now What?
Customers got used to good service during COVID. Then organizations pulled back investment. Satisfaction cratered — not because the bar was lowered, but…
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Episode 34: The AI Doc - Watch It Alone and You’re Doing It Wrong
There's a documentary out right now that frames AI's future as a question about whether it's safe to bring a child into this world. That's not a metaphor…
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Episode 33: Physics, Latency, and Why Your AI Voice Agent Sounds Stupid
You've screamed "agent" into a phone menu and gotten another phone number back. That experience isn't a technology problem, it's a design problem. Companies…
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Episode 32: Kids Growing Up Now Will Only Ever Know a World With AI
There's a real legal case where grieving high school students used Character.ai to interact with a deceased classmate. The parents sued. Everyone in this…
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Episode 31: Kids Are Already Using AI - But What Is the Impact?
Children are one of the fastest-growing user groups of AI. They're also the group least considered when the systems are built. That gap isn't theoretical — it…
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Episode 30: What Happens When Nobody Needs the Cloud Anymore?
The single biggest physical bottleneck holding AI back just got compressed by a factor of six. No new chip. No new architecture. A math formula. Google's…
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Episode 29: The End of Free Data - A Vision for AI Homeostasis
In Episode 29 of AI Diatribe, we explore the "creator empowerment technology" movement with Milton Pedraza. From his career at Philip Morris and Pepsi to…
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Episode 28: AI Just Crossed a Line - Government Power, Cyber Attacks, and the Rise of Physical AI
Something changed in AI over the week. In just 72 hours, we saw: A major showdown between AI companies and the government AI-linked cyber warfare escalation…
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Episode 27: AI in Healthcare - Startups, Regulation, and the Race to Transform Medicine
Artificial Intelligence is rapidly transforming healthcare—but can it solve one of society’s most complex systems? In this episode of AI Diatribe, Jason Lowe…
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Episode 26: AI Governance Is Here!
Everyone is deploying AI. Almost nobody is governing it. In Episode 26 of AI Diatribe, Host Jason Lowe (Aptivon) and Co-Host Matt Konwiser (IBM) talk with…
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Episode 25: From God to Algorithms - Is AI the New Authority?
AI Diatribe explores one of the most important questions of our time: Are we outsourcing judgment to systems we cannot fully explain? What happens when AI…
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Episode 24: AGI Is Here… Or Is It?
Nature says we’ve surpassed Artificial General Intelligence, or AGI. But there’s just one issue: nobody can define it. David Borish of Trace3 joins Matt…
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Episode 23: The Borg Is Here - Agentic AI, Cybersecurity, and the End of Human-Only Defense
AI isn’t just changing cybersecurity - it’s forcing a complete rewrite of how defense works. In this AI Diatribe episode AgileBlue CEO Tony Pietrocola, IBM…
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Episode 22: AI Isn’t Breaking Customer Experience - Bad Design Is!
Everyone says they’re using AI for customer experience - but most of it still feels broken. In this episode AI Diatribe Host Jason Lowe, Joe Dean of…
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Episode 21: P-DOOM Scores - Are We Racing Toward AI Apocalypse or Utopia?
What are the odds that AI leads to humanity's doom? We tackle P-DOOM scores head-on, from pessimistic 80% predictions to cautiously optimistic 50-50 splits…
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Episode 20: AI Hype vs. Reality in Cybersecurity Operations
Cybersecurity teams aren’t buying the AI hype - and there’s a reason for that. In Part 1 of this two-part episode, AI Diatribe Host Jason Lowe (Aptivon) is…
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Episode 19: Why Sales Is Breaking - And How AI Can Actually Fix It
Something is seriously wrong in the GTM (Go-To-Market) world. Quotas are sinking, automation is backfiring, and AI-generated noise is drowning out real human…
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Episode 18: AI's Wild Ride Through Education - From Hallucinations to Hyper-Personalization
AI can ace the LSAT. It can write essays in seconds. So what's left for human students to actually learn? David Petersen, who's been implementing AI in…
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Episode 17: Can Universities Keep Pace with AI?
AI has exploded in education, but we're flying blind. Thisepisode confronts the uncomfortable reality that most students are using AI tools while their…
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Episode 16: The $500 Billion Question - AI Self Regulation or Disaster?
Meta just committed $65 billion to AI infrastructure. OpenAI's Stargate project is burning through $500 billion. The AI arms race isn't coming, it's here! But…
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Episode 15: HR Meets AI – The Ultimate Culture Clash
In the explosive finale of our three-part series, Angela Le Mathon from People Alkemie, Matt Konwiser from IBM, and our AI Diatribe Host Jason Lowe tackle the…
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Episode 14: The Human Factor - Why AI Can't Replace What Really Matters
Think AI is going to replace everything? Think again. Jason Lowe, Angela Le Mathon, and Matt Konwiser get real about the limits of artificial intelligence and…
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Episode 13: The Chief AI Officer Revolution - Why Every Company Needs One
Ever wonder what a Chief AI Officer actually does? You're not alone. AI Diatribe Host Jason Lowe sits down with Angela Le Mathon from People Alkemie and Matt…
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Episode 12: Sensors, Security, and Scale - AI’s Hidden Potential
What do salt trucks, mulch piles, and physical security have in common? They're all perfect examples of AI solving real problems. Ken Mills, President of…
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Episode 11: ChatGPT’s Agent Changes Everything – Multimodal CEO Ankur Patel Explains
Just days after OpenAI dropped their ChatGPT agent announcement, Jason sits down with Ankur Patel, CEO of Multimodal.dev and former Bridgewater Associates bond…
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Episode 10: Borg vs. Skynet and the Real AI Threat - A Conversation with Matt Konwiser, Part 2
What happens when intelligence becomes a commodity? In our eye-opening two-part conversation with IBM Field CTO Matt Konwiser on AI Diatribe, we dive deep into…
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Episode 9: What AI Means for Your Job - a Conversation with Matt Konwiser, Part 1
Ever wonder what your world will look like when AI can do most of what you do for work? This isn't some distant sci-fi scenario. It's happening right now, and…
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Episode 8: Why AI's Biggest Changes Are Still Ahead
In this episode of AI Diatribe, host Jason Lowe (JLowe) sits down with David McPeak, President of Sky Data Vault, to explore why we're still in the early days…
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Episode 7: Beyond AI Fear - Building Force Multipliers
Are you letting AI fear hold your business back while competitors surge ahead? In this eye-opening episode of AI Diatribe, host Jason Lowe sits down with…
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Episode 6: How AI is Revolutionizing Cybersecurity
🔒 AI + Cybersecurity: The Ultimate Defense Guide 🤖 In this power-packed episode, host Jason Lowe (J-Lowe) sitsdown with two cybersecurity experts to unpack the…
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Episode 5: Real World AI Adoption - Start Small, Win Big! A Conversation with Brad Reynolds
Real World AI Adoption: Start Small, Win Big In this episode of AI Diatribe, Jason Lowe sits down withBrad Reynolds, CSO and VP of AI at Expedient, for a…
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Episode 4: Agentic AI and the Enterprise Shift - A Conversation with Puneet Arora
In this episode of AI Diatribe, host Jason Lowe sits down with Puneet Arora, President of Yellow.ai, for a compelling conversation on the real-world impact of…
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Episode 3: What does Game Theory Say about Adopting AI?
Executives know AI is coming - but the million-dollar question remains: Do you wait, or do you act now? In this episode, we bring Game Theory into the…
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Episode 2: Beyond Summaries - The Future of AI in Meetings
🎙️ Beyond Summaries: The Future of AI in Meetings | Jason Lowe & Deric FrostWhat if AI didn’t just summarize your meetings—but actually made them better? In…
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Episode 1: Round Table - Will AI Take Over the World?
In this episode, we delve into the pressing question: Is AI on a path to surpass human intelligence and potentially take over? Join us as we explore:The…