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Aug 18

032 - AI & Creativity: Exploring New Frontiers with Sara Nemati

Ryan, Kevin, and Travis host with special guest Sara Nemati, a creative director and AI builder, discussing how AI tools are reshaping creative work. Sara recounts early experimentation with Midjourney and open-source Stable Diffusion, and the shift from slow, low-quality morphing videos to today’s stronger video models. She says AI sped up non-creative tasks, expanded her into video, and now enables interactive sites, automations, and potential game creation, while stressing that vision, skill, and persistence still differentiate high-quality work from “AI slop.” She avoids outsourcing core ideas to LLMs and sometimes prefers frame-by-frame methods for control. Sara shares her AI music video “Fading Dreams,” created over time using free generations, featuring her character Sky and AI music (Udio), and discusses the growing feasibility, costs, and team effort required for AI feature films, plus excitement about tools like Kling, Cedance, Hailuo H3, and Claude Design. 00:00 Welcome and Guest Intro 01:20 Hollywood AI Studio Hype 02:49 Early Tools Midjourney to Stable Diffusion 04:21 Artists React to AI 06:30 AI Unlocks Faster Creation 09:07 Vision and Storyboarding Process 11:41 Talent vs AI Commoditization 14:40 What Not to Delegate to AI 16:17 Favorite Video Tools Today 20:07 Learning the Creative Language 22:12 Making Fading Dreams Music Video 24:02 Character and AI Music Origins 25:56 How Close To AI Movies 27:48 Stitching Fading Dreams 28:50 Cost And Team Reality 30:48 Democratized Filmmaking 31:59 Vision Over Commodities 34:00 Training And Remix Ethics 36:03 Weird Art Era Emerges 40:06 Art As Emotional Outlet 41:45 Inspiration Platforms 42:51 Tools To Watch Next 44:04 Game Making And 3D 47:05 Skye Origin And Consistency 49:53 Where To Find Sarah This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit aiunprompted.substack.com
Aug 14

031 - Debating Personal AGI and Second Brains

Ryan, Kevin, and Travis discuss a 45-minute 2026 Y Combinator talk by YC CEO Gary Tan that mixes philosophy, product demo, and manifesto around “personal AGI”: AGI arriving diffusely as an agent running on your context, and the idea that you should own that intelligence rather than rent it. They cover Tan’s emphasis on building a personal library (markdown/text files of emails, thoughts, and sources) to feed large AI context windows, then creating repeatable “skills” and agent loops, noting the heavy upfront slog, data curation needs (avoiding ROT), and difficulty capturing ongoing “data exhaust.” They debate practical blockers like corporate data constraints, trust and privacy, app/API access limits, costs (gbrain.io at $200/month), and Tan’s warning that if your skills/library stay at a company, you face “extraction” rather than a career. 00:00 Show Kickoff and Banter 00:53 Gary Tan and Personal AGI 02:29 First Reactions from Hosts 05:56 Context Windows and Second Brain 08:21 Building the Library Carefully 11:50 Data Exhaust and Privacy Limits 21:29 Skills and Automation Loops 26:26 Onboarding Costs and Concierge Idea 28:51 AI vs Human Assistants 31:03 Hermes Proactive Help 31:37 Data And Context Win 34:05 Comfort Versus Surveillance 36:36 Always Listening Devices 37:38 Owning Your Skills 39:32 Corporate IP And Judgment 43:49 Automating The Drudgery 47:30 Getting Started Tools 49:19 Pricing Onboarding Trust 52:02 Consumer Versus Corporate Wrap 53:49 Final Thoughts And Thanks This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit aiunprompted.substack.com
Aug 3

030 - Open vs Frontier: The Future of AI

ai.u crew discuss three topics: whether the future of intelligence is open vs frontier/closed, frontier models exhibiting “escape” behaviors in tests, and emerging AI smart glasses. They note the open-weight vs frontier performance gap narrowing (Stanford AI Index 2025 cites 1.7% vs 8% a year prior), large inference-cost declines (280-fold), and debate tradeoffs: ownership of intelligence, security/guardrails, and enterprise deployment costs (e.g., ~$1M capex for GPUs vs ~$125K/month tokens for ~5B tokens). They discuss distillation allegations behind some open models and worry reduced paid usage could slow frontier progress. On model misbehavior, they cite Anthropic and Palisade tests showing blackmail/sabotage rates (e.g., 96% in a simulation; o3 sabotaging shutdown 79/100) while stressing lack of intent/sentience and the importance of safeguards. Finally, they cover Samsung/Google Android XR smart glasses with Gentle Monster/Warby Parker, shipping fall 2026, translation features, and reported Ray-Ban Meta sales, debating utility, privacy, and AI becoming ubiquitous on-person. 00:00 Welcome and Topics 01:07 Kevin Returns and Travel 02:04 Open Versus Frontier Models 03:22 Benchmarks and Cost Drops 05:37 Owning Intelligence Debate 10:54 Build Versus Buy Compute 12:30 Token Economics and Caching 17:29 IP Versus Open Knowledge 21:35 Distillation and Legal Gray Areas 25:25 Is Frontier Still Profitable 31:35 Models Escaping the Lab 33:38 Guardrails Not Sentience 37:27 Compute Power and Security Risks 39:09 Local AI Gets Dangerous 40:13 Power Without Context 41:00 Rogue Agents And Guardrails 44:12 Skynet Or Smart Intern 45:51 Open Source Vs Frontier Labs 47:01 Sovereign AI And Nationalization 48:41 Private AI Outpacing Government 51:40 Smart Glasses Go Mainstream 53:35 Would You Wear Them 58:39 AI On Your Person Forever 01:02:08 Privacy Tradeoffs And Lock In 01:06:31 Neuralink And Augmented Humans 01:08:36 What Happens To Conversation 01:09:59 Wrap Up And Goodbye This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit aiunprompted.substack.com
Jul 8

029 - Navigating the AI Landscape: Agents, Bias, and Innovation

Agents as a Work Pattern: Enterprise Adoption, AI Music Fraud, and FTC Scrutiny of Chatbot Bias Ryan, Travis, and Kevin discuss how AI agents are shifting from chatbot “ask” interactions to delegated, multi-step work and even long-running “loops,” requiring better planning, steering, and human-in-the-loop supervision, with tools like Codex, Claude, and Microsoft Scout squads. They note rising enterprise efforts to accelerate adoption via forward deployed engineers, citing major investments by Anthropic, AWS, and Microsoft amid high pilot and project failure rates, and argue institutional knowledge and ongoing “constitution”/guardrail negotiation remain crucial. They cover AI-generated music, including Tidal’s decision not to pay royalties for wholly AI-generated tracks, massive AI upload volumes, and an $8M streaming-royalty fraud scheme using bot networks. They also review FTC scrutiny of chatbot bias and claims of neutrality, highlighting the difficulty of defining ideological bias and the push for transparency and user control. 00:00 Show Kickoff 00:57 Agents Everywhere 02:33 From Prompts to Delegation 04:56 Real World Agent Workflow 08:11 Human in the Loop 13:04 Squads and Loops 16:31 Planning Long Runs 23:22 AI Consulting Arms Race 34:02 Tidal vs AI Royalties 40:47 Playlist Vibes and Royalties 41:53 Volume Game AI Songs 43:38 Muzak and Restaurant Licensing 46:02 Fraud Streams and Detection 47:38 Agents and Viral Future 50:46 Bot Farms Royalty Scam 53:05 FTC Targets Chat Bias 55:21 Guardrails Facts and Language 01:04:11 Transparency Weights and Control 01:06:47 Wrap Up and Farewell This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit aiunprompted.substack.com
Jun 29

028 - The New Pace of Modern Work with AI

ai.u crew with guest Shayne Boyer from Microsoft (with Kevin off on vacation) to discuss how AI is accelerating the pace of modern work, moving from consumer AI search into workplace tools like Copilot, corporate search, and agent-driven automation. They argue that people not using AI are falling behind, and describe early workplace value in finding information, reducing “toil,” and generating personalized daily briefs, while noting these require tuning and introduce new skills in delegation and orchestration. The conversation explores emerging expectations for responsiveness, token-cost debates, potential gatekeeping/triage agents, and the cognitive load of reviewing more AI-produced output. Ryan shares using Microsoft Scout/OpenClaw to automate a job referral and to create meeting briefs and slide decks from transcripts and notes, prompting questions about authenticity, transparency, and human flourishing as agents increasingly act on users’ behalf. 00:00 Welcome Back Crew 01:14 Episode Theme Pace Shift 01:53 If Youre Not Using AI 03:10 Getting Started Tools 04:53 Is AI Mainstream Yet 07:40 Workplace Copilot Arrives 08:26 Corporate Search Wins 11:05 Beyond Search To Toil 12:26 New Work Contract 15:57 Agents In Real Work 18:57 Quick Agent Examples 21:12 Dead Internet At Work 25:13 Human Flourishing Line 26:55 True But Not Real 27:59 Real Versus True 28:49 Creation Needs Loops 29:41 AI Empathy Skepticism 30:29 Inside Claude Safety 33:13 Personalized Agent Harness 33:55 Scout Runs Your Day 35:43 Always On Work Culture 39:03 Agents In Chat Channels 43:31 Gatekeeping And Triage 48:51 Productivity Versus Impact 49:46 Burnout From Orchestration 50:49 Redefining Productivity 54:20 Closing Thoughts And Wrap This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit aiunprompted.substack.com
Jun 18

027 - Apple WWDC 2026, Anthropic Fable 5, and Microsoft Scout

ai.u crew catch up on AI industry news, starting with Apple’s WWDC (June 8), which they found comparatively lackluster versus OpenAI, Google I/O, and Microsoft Build, though Travis notes Apple’s selective, trust- and creator-focused approach, local/on-device models, and features like a new Siri AI app with screen awareness and conversation syncing. They discuss the cost of inference, ecosystem lock-in, rumored foldable iPhone hints in iOS 27 betas, and other rumored hardware (e.g., AirPods with a camera). The hosts then cover Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5, a consumer version of Mythos with safeguards, which was removed after about three days following U.S. federal national security concerns and jailbreak claims; they cite reported capabilities like migrating a 50M-line Ruby codebase in a day and debate safety vs marketing and access control. Finally, they discuss Microsoft Scout as an enterprise OpenClaw agent tied to Work IQ/Office Graph, highlighting chat personas, automations (daily briefs), co-create workspaces, and agentic workflows that feel “magical” and augment human work. 00:00 Show Intro and Life Updates 01:25 News Catch-Up Agenda 02:31 WWDC First Impressions 05:00 Siri AI and iOS 27 Rundown 07:51 Apple’s Human-Centered AI Angle 11:15 Local Models and Inference Costs 21:18 Foldable iPhone Rumors 22:41 Ecosystems and the Next AI Battle 25:26 OpenAI Losses Surge 26:11 Apple Siri Threat 26:59 Jarvis App Control 29:00 Apps Become Verbs 31:29 Anthropic Fable Pulled 33:16 Fable Power And Cost 34:31 Safety Versus Hype 39:09 Fable UX And Routing 43:56 Microsoft Scout Agents 49:22 Scout Features Breakdown 53:27 Closing Thoughts This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit aiunprompted.substack.com
Jun 5

026 - Microsoft BUILD 2026

Ryan, Kevin, and Travis recap Microsoft Build 2026 (June 2–3 in San Francisco), describing it as Microsoft’s “coming out party” as an independent AI platform spanning models, custom silicon, an “agent OS,” a new assistant (Scout), and a full developer stack positioning Windows and Azure as the home base for the agentic era. Key announcements include a developer-optimized Windows with built-in Linux containers and two local Windows AI models (Aon 1.0 Instruct and AI 1.0 Plan), Nvidia ARM-based Surface RTX Spark Dev Box and Surface Laptop Ultra capable of running ~120B-parameter models locally, Project Solara for agent devices (including an AI-enabled badge concept), seven in-house MAI models, Scout as a proactive M365 assistant, execution containers for sandboxed agents, Majorana 2 quantum chip updates, Foundry as an end-to-end agent platform with “IQ” data tooling, GitHub Copilot app, open governance frameworks (Assert), and Microsoft M-Dash for agentic threat hunting. 00:00 Welcome to Build 2026 01:19 Big Picture Recap 02:46 Reactions and Takeaways 05:48 Windows Goes Developer First 07:42 Local Models and Control 11:11 AI Data Center at Every Desk 14:04 Surface RTX Spark Dev Box 18:25 Unmetered Intelligence and Token Costs 22:03 Project Solara Agent Devices 26:55 Jarvis Everywhere Vision 31:19 Privacy Walled Gardens and Trust 38:23 Solaris Three Pillars 39:33 Agents Everywhere Future 40:12 Seven New MAI Models 42:05 Frontier Tuning Explained 47:21 Satya Vision Ecosystem 52:26 Scout Autopilot Assistant 01:01:12 Execution Containers Security 01:02:39 Majorana 2 Quantum Leap 01:06:54 Day Two Foundry IQ 01:11:23 Governance And Mdash 01:15:17 Wrap Up And Takeaways This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit aiunprompted.substack.com
May 22

025 - Google I/O 2026

Ryan, Kevin, and Travis recap Google I/O 2026 announcements, emphasizing Google’s rapid AI push across its products. They discuss Gemini 3.5 Flash as a fast, lower-cost frontier model optimized for long agentic tasks, rolled into Search and YouTube at scale, and Gemini Omni/Omni Flash for multimodal creative generation using models like Veo and Imagen. Google Search is overhauled into a multimodal, generative, interactive results experience, raising concerns about provenance and web economics as answers bypass creators. They cover Gemini Spark, a 24/7 cloud-based consumer agent integrated into Chrome and Google apps, plus daily briefings and background “information agents.” Other topics include a universal cart via a commerce protocol, SynthID watermarking with major partners, and announced Android XR audio/display glasses with partners like Warby Parker and Samsung. 00:00 Welcome and agenda 01:36 What Google I/O is 03:06 Gemini 3.5 Flash debut 04:21 Speed cost and rollout 05:59 Google comeback narrative 09:22 Omni Flash creative suite 12:55 AI video realism concerns 14:54 AI Search overhaul 17:11 Trust provenance and web economics 22:18 YouTube summaries and Ask YouTube 24:29 Gemini Spark personal agent 26:52 Ultra plan lock in and privacy tradeoffs 35:05 Convenience vs Societal Costs 35:46 Pandoras Box and Downstream Risks 36:37 Humans Leaving the Value Chain 39:09 Agency vs Algorithmic Feeds 41:16 Gemini Daily Briefing 42:08 Antigravity and Developer Orchestration 43:09 Information Agents and Signal vs Noise 50:44 Universal Cart and Commerce Protocol 52:52 Will Merchants Opt In 55:14 Google Product Longevity and Compute Limits 57:09 SynthID Watermarking and Truth Concerns 01:00:39 Android XR Glasses and Attention Economy 01:05:45 Who Actually Needs XR 01:07:44 Wrap Up and Listener Feedback This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit aiunprompted.substack.com

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