In A(i) Nutshell

Andrew Davis
  • 5.0 (1)
  • Marketing
  • Updated Daily

A 10-minute daily podcast about the world of Generative AI for marketers and the everyday person.

  1. 1d ago

    Three Hikers Nearly Died on a Mountain Because Gemini Gave Them the Wrong Directions (AI News)

    Andrew Miles Davis leads this week with a genuinely alarming story from Mount Shasta, where three hikers ignored official safety guidance to turn back by midday after receiving conflicting information from Gemini, resulting in an injury, dead navigation devices, and a night stranded on the mountain waiting for rescue, with the hikers themselves admitting they relied too heavily on AI over their own critical thinking. He also covers OpenAI officially confirming advertising is coming to ChatGPT, a development he has been anticipating and dreading for nearly three years as a signal that the current ad-free era of large language models is ending, drawing a direct parallel to how Facebook's feed evolved once advertising took hold. Other stories include a former TikTok executive's AI photo-coaching app built after her husband's inability to take a decent picture, the official trailer for Artificial starring Andrew Garfield as Sam Altman landing around Christmas, Reddit's research showing AI is making holiday shopping more conversational while community trust still outweighs polished product pages, Adolescence co-writer Jack Thorne raising concerns about screenwriters passing off AI-generated scripts as their own without addressing who trained the underlying models, and a Lancashire company using AI-powered sorting machines to rescue 25 million Lego bricks from landfill for cleaning and resale. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for the AI news that matters to marketers, every Friday in ten minutes.

    Three Hikers Nearly Died on a Mountain Because Gemini Gave Them the Wrong Directions (AI News)

  2. 2d ago

    Codex Made My Problem Worse Then Told Me I Was Out of Credits (Pet Peeves)

    Andrew Miles Davis returns to pet peeves for the first time since July with three genuinely fresh frustrations. He starts with training projects and chats in both ChatGPT and Claude, describing hours spent uploading detailed source material only for both models to confirm they can see the information and then ignore it entirely when generating output. He then tests ChatGPT's sycophancy directly, deliberately contradicting himself about a simple fact and watching the model agree with every version regardless of accuracy, contrasted against Claude going too far the other way by rigidly refusing to budge from an outdated goal Andrew had since changed elsewhere. The most costly frustration involves Codex repeatedly failing to fix a teleprompter mirroring issue between his laptop and iPad, making the problem worse with each attempt before running out of credits entirely, a experience Andrew compares to hiring a plumber who breaks something further and then walks off once the paid hours are up. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for daily ten-minute episodes that tell you honestly what using AI is actually like, frustrations included.

    Codex Made My Problem Worse Then Told Me I Was Out of Credits (Pet Peeves)

  3. 3d ago

    Three Years of Daily AI Podcasting and Here Is What I Have Learnt (In AI Nutshell 3rd Birthday)

    Andrew Miles Davis marks the third anniversary of In AI Nutshell by reflecting on what daily podcasting has actually taught him rather than covering the latest news or tools. He traces the idea back to abandoned attempts at daily video content in 2010 and an early influence from 50 Cent's relentless mixtape output, and shares the surprising discovery that finding something to say every day was never the real challenge, deciding what to focus on was. He weighs the trade-off between audio's consistency and relationship-building strength against video's greater reach, acknowledging he could have grown faster on video but doubts he would have sustained three years of daily output the same way. Looking ahead, Andrew announces a shift in emphasis for the podcast's fourth year, moving beyond tools and prompting mechanics toward judgement, decision-making, and how people navigate ongoing change, tying this directly to his Story Lens method, a framework built around the "stranger comes to town" story structure that he has developed and delivered for over a decade and will be focusing on much more heavily going forward. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for daily ten-minute AI insight, now heading into its fourth year.

    Three Years of Daily AI Podcasting and Here Is What I Have Learnt (In AI Nutshell 3rd Birthday)

  4. 4d ago

    Never Know What to Type Into Suno Again. This Free Tool Builds the Perfect Music Prompt For You (Cool Tools 79)

    Andrew Miles Davis marks 79 weeks of Cool Tools Tuesday with three specialist tools, starting with ClerkAI, a bookkeeping assistant that prepares accounts for accountants by matching bank transactions to receipts, flagging missing documentation, and drafting communications, all with double opt-in confirmation before touching any login-protected accounts. He covers Music Prompts by Scholarsail, a free tool that builds structured music generation prompts for platforms like Suno and Udio by walking through genre, mood, and energy selections, which Andrew tests with a UK garage prompt and rates as a genuinely solid result for something built entirely from dropdown menus. The episode closes with Magic Tellers, a colouring page and activity generator for kids that turns uploaded photos or text prompts into printable black and white colouring sheets, alongside maze generators, crossword makers, and other activity tools useful for teachers, parents, or anyone working with children. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for three new tools every Tuesday, some built for daily use and some genuinely niche, but all worth knowing about.

    Never Know What to Type Into Suno Again. This Free Tool Builds the Perfect Music Prompt For You (Cool Tools 79)

  5. 5d ago

    Not Everything on Your To-Do List Needs to Get Done. Here Is the Framework That Decides What Does. (Do Delay Delegate Delete)

    Andrew Miles Davis breaks down a productivity system he has used and taught for years but never fully explained in detail, built around four decisions for anything that lands on a to-do list: do, delay, delegate, or delete. He draws on Stephen Covey's urgent and important matrix to explain how items within the do category still require prioritisation, using his own test of what would not let him sleep at night. He argues delay is often mistaken for procrastination but works as a genuine productivity tool when paired with a system that guarantees the task actually resurfaces later. Delegation gets a modern update, covering both handing work to people and increasingly to AI, with Andrew encouraging listeners to practise identifying which steps of a workflow genuinely need human involvement now, ahead of a future where AI agents handle far more autonomously. He closes on delete as the hardest and most disciplined choice, sharing his own decision years ago to deliberately drop Google AdWords from his skillset entirely rather than trying to do everything. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for daily ten-minute episodes covering how to actually think about productivity in an AI-driven world.

    Not Everything on Your To-Do List Needs to Get Done. Here Is the Framework That Decides What Does. (Do Delay Delegate Delete)

  6. Sep 11

    Apple Finally Fought Back in AI and ElevenLabs Just Signed Its First Major Label Deal (AI News)

    Andrew Miles Davis covers a genuinely massive week in AI news, opening with OpenAI's double release of ChatGPT 6 Astra, already being called the most intelligent and aligned model yet for coding, scientific research, and complex agent tasks, alongside ChatGPT Images 2.5, which promises 50% faster generation, sharper detail, and significantly improved multi-turn editing that no longer distorts faces across repeated prompts. He covers Apple's AI comeback attempt with a major overhaul of Siri into a dedicated chatbot-style assistant capable of generating images, tempered by the now-familiar pattern of a limited free tier designed to push users toward a paid subscription. Other stories include 11 Labs signing its first major label deal with Universal Music Group to build a licensed AI remix platform, the Seattle Times and Newsday suing OpenAI and Microsoft over alleged unauthorised training on paywalled journalism, an expanded class action lawsuit against Anthropic alleging its $100 and $200 subscription tiers were marketed with usage multipliers that mean far less in practice due to five-hour windows and weekly caps, a widely reported claim from an Anthropic figure about long-term existential AI risk, and Amazon Prime Video launching AI-powered lip-sync dubbing technology starting with a German romance series. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for the AI news that matters to marketers, every Friday in ten minutes.

    Apple Finally Fought Back in AI and ElevenLabs Just Signed Its First Major Label Deal (AI News)

  7. Sep 10

    What Is Something I Would Never Trust AI to Decide For Me (Random Questions)

    Andrew Miles Davis answers eleven randomly generated questions in his favourite monthly format, covering the most memorable being asked what he would never trust AI to choose for him. His answer centres on major strategic life decisions, explaining that when a human decision goes wrong there is at least someone to hold accountable, even if that someone is yourself, whereas an AI carries no such responsibility and leaves you with nowhere to direct the frustration when things go badly. He also touches on how he uses AI as an honesty check for his own goals, asking it to be bluntly honest about gaps between his stated ambitions and his actual behaviour. Beyond AI, the episode covers lighter ground including the most ridiculous thing he has ever queued for, involving a five hour London traffic ordeal caused by closed bridges, memorable adverts he still remembers years later, and the first website he ever regularly visited, an early UK garage and drum and bass forum tied to the London record shop Uptown Records. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for one of these unscripted, unfiltered episodes every month alongside daily ten-minute AI insight.

    What Is Something I Would Never Trust AI to Decide For Me (Random Questions)

  8. Sep 9

    Three Prompt Endings That Take Any Answer From White Belt to Black Belt (AI Prompt Hacks)

    Andrew Miles Davis returns to prompt hacks with a shift in focus, arguing that as prompting fundamentals become second nature for most people, the real differentiator is what gets added to the end of a prompt rather than the prompt itself. He shares three foundational endings aimed at clarifying message and tone: asking AI to explain something as if you are a complete beginner with no prior knowledge, which forces the model to build from a genuine foundation rather than assuming existing understanding; instructing AI to adopt a specific tone such as professional, empathetic, and reassuring, which shifts focus toward business outcomes and away from purely technical detail, illustrated with a real example of drafting a complaint email calmly despite personal frustration; and asking AI to avoid industry jargon and acronyms in favour of plain, accessible language, preventing specialist terminology from undermining clarity. He also points listeners to his continuously updated prompt endings guide on his website for further examples. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for prompt hacks and daily ten-minute AI insight built for marketers who want sharper, more usable answers.

    Three Prompt Endings That Take Any Answer From White Belt to Black Belt (AI Prompt Hacks)
See All (739)

About

A 10-minute daily podcast about the world of Generative AI for marketers and the everyday person.

Information

  • Creator
    Andrew Davis
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    739
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Talk Dygital 2025
  • Show Website
    In A(i) Nutshell

You Might Also Like