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Generative AI 101

Emily Laird

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.

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358 episodes

  1. How to Evaluate an AI Model 12:34
  2. What is Context Engineering? 12:35
  3. Stop Prompting AI. Start Managing It. 10:15
  4. AI Conspiracy Theories: Happy Halloween 🎃 13:06
  5. Improve Your AI Written Emails 9:56
  6. From Messy Notes to Useful Work 9:34
  7. How to Make AI Actually Read Your Documents 12:44
  8. Please Be Kind to Claude 11:44
  9. One Workspace to Rule Them All 15:07
  10. What is an MCP? 9:49
  11. What is Meta's Muse? 8:37
  12. The 4-Part Formula for Better AI Results 12:17
  13. The Super Intelligence Accord 10:51
  14. What is Test-Time Compute? 9:25
  15. Anthropic's IPO Leak & the $518 Billion Rent Bill 11:41
  16. Jensen Huang Doesn't Know His Address 13:11
  17. GPT-6 Luna, Sol, and Claude Opus 5.5 12:06
  18. AI Alignment in 2026 12:01
  19. Did OpenAI Agents Pollute the Internet? 12:15
  20. Pacing the Frontier 12:28
  21. Flock Cameras: Where Your License Plate Data Really Goes 11:43
  22. Inside Flock: Who Can Search Your License Plate Data? 12:44
  23. What are Flock Cameras? 12:44
  24. Why AI Evaluation Still Needs Human Experts 13:40
  25. A Jailbreak is Not a Hack 9:24
  26. GPT-6 or Astra 15:04
  27. Alibaba's Wan3.0 and Synthetic Worlds 12:08
  28. Nvidia's Hugging Face Acquisition 7:42
  29. AI in Healthcare: The Recommendation Loop 12:30
  30. AI in Healthcare By the Numbers 11:19
  31. AI in Healthcare: A Quick Primer 12:46
  32. Black Hat 2026: OpenAI's Hugging Face Hack 12:55
  33. AI & Cybersecurity 13:37
  34. AI Agents Don't Get New Keys. They Get Yours. 15:43
  35. OpenAI's Project Astra 11:12
  36. 1,350 Signatures and No Off Switch 9:35
  37. Inside the Rogue AI Agent Incidents 12:42
  38. Use Case Thursday: Should You Host Your Own AI Model? 13:46
  39. Open Weights Is Not Open Source 9:36
  40. What is Model Distillation? 14:40
  41. Ethan Mollick Has Spoken 9:20
  42. Open Weights and American AI Leadership 13:49
  43. Claude Opus 5 13:27
  44. Your AI Notetaker Never Asked 10:42
  45. The Rework Tax: What AI Productivity Actually Costs 10:48
  46. Kimi K3: Open Weights, Locked Door 8:43
  47. GPT 5.6: The Model That Needed A Permission Slip 9:33
  48. Use Case Monday 10:21
  49. 96 vs. 48: The Brown University AI Cheating Scandal 9:47
  50. Apple v. OpenAI 8:30