Are Call Center Jobs Close to Extinction?
The episode opened with Microsoft's Decision One, a new competitor to JEV that uses Alibaba's Qwen architecture for fast, inexpensive decisions. Beth explained how she uses specialized models to class...
12 Loka 1h 6min
The AI Agent Queue Conundrum
A personal AI agent becomes far more useful once the agent stops waiting for you. Give the agent a goal, a budget, and permission to act, then the agent watches continuously. A restaurant table opens ...
10 Loka 28min
Nvidia Is Reinventing the PC
The episode opened with local AI. Google released a new application built around Embedding Gemma 2 that can capture and analyze meetings directly on a device rather than sending the entire conversatio...
9 Loka 1h 18min
Is Middle Management the Real Job AI Replaces?
The episode opened with a debate over how much AI will actually displace human work. Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman highlighted economist Daron Acemoglu’s argument that AI may replace only about ...
8 Loka 57min
OpenAI's Model Cracked Hundreds of Open Math Problems
The episode opened with a wave of new open models. Mistral Large 4, internally called “Le Chonk,” brings one trillion parameters and dramatically lower token pricing than Astra, while Reflection intro...
7 Loka 1h 3min
Should You Ditch Your Keyboard and Mouse?
The episode opened with a look at how much easier personal AI agents have become to use. Anne argued that the friction around prompting, connectors and setup has dropped enough that this may be the be...
6 Loka 1h 8min
Is Super Intelligence Just a PR Move or More?
The episode opened with the Trump administration’s push to use “super intelligence,” or SI, in place of AI terminology inside the federal government. The hosts debated whether the change amounts to me...
5 Loka 1h 4min
The Artificial Actor Conundrum
For most of the history of computing, software has been treated as a tool. Tools do not carry responsibility. The people and organizations using them do.AI agents make that category harder to maintain...
3 Loka 29min
