Generative AI 101

AI Pro Tips Series: Prompt Like a Pro

18 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Sick of AI giving you answers with all the flavor of corporate hold music? In this episode of our AI Pro Tips series, Emily Laird cracks open the secr...

AI Pro Tips Series: Assumptions & Stakeholders

17 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Think you’ve got all your project bases covered? Think again. In this episode, Emily Laird calls out the hidden holes in your plans that even your e...

AI Pro Tips Series: Anthropomorphism

16 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Think giving your chatbot a name is just for weirdos and sci-fi fans? Think again. In this episode, Emily Laird tosses out the dry tips and goes full ...

OpenAI's June 2025 Disrupting Malicious Use of AI: Part Deux

11 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI isn’t just doing your homework anymore, it’s helping build malware, write fake job offers, and launch cyberattacks faster than you can say “C...

OpenAI's June 2025 Disrupting Malicious Use of AI Report

10 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Generative AI has a dark side, and it’s not just stealing jobs, it’s applying for them. In this episode, host Emily Laird goes underground with Op...

Miami-Dade County & the Rise of the GenAI Natives

09 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI isn’t just crashing Miami’s pool parties anymore, it’s moving into the classroom, and no, it’s not just helping kids cheat better. In this ...

AI & Jobs: On Amodei, Huang, & Roose

05 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Grab your ergonomic chair and emotional support coffee, this one’s about your job, and whether AI already has it. In this episode of Generative AI 1...

Google's Veo 3 Part 2: Use Cases

04 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Lights, camera, algorithm! This week, host Emily Laird hands the director’s chair to Google’s Veo 3, an AI video model that spits out 4K cinematic...

Google's Veo 3 Part 1

03 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Google DeepMind just dropped Veo 3, and it's basically Final Cut Pro with a soul—or at least a solid camera sense. This episode, we're breaking down...

Return of the Ive: OpenAI’s $6.5B Minimalist Makeover

02 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What happens when OpenAI gives $6.5 billion to the man who made your iPhone hot and your MacBook sleek? You get a screenless, AI-native gadget designe...

AI & Copyright: The USCO's 3rd AI Report... The Spicy One.

22 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Let's break down the U.S. Copyright Office’s spicy third report on AI, ya know, the one that's throwing elbows and reportedly got Perlmutter canned....

AI & Copyright: The USCO Trilogy

21 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI-generated Tom Cruise? Button-mashing cyberpunk operas? Welcome to the legal circus. In this episode, Emily Laird breaks down the U.S. Copyright Off...

AI & Copyright: Pipe Dreams & Legal Screams

20 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

So you typed “a cat smoking a pipe in Van Gogh’s style” into your favorite AI tool, cool flex, but don’t try to copyright it. In this episode,...

AI & Copyright: ...Yikes.

19 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Generative AI crashed the copyright party in 2023 and it didn’t wipe its boots at the door. In this episode, we break down the chaotic, caffeinated ...

H2-Oh No! Why Your ChatGPT Habit Is Drying Out the Planet

07 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Think AI runs on math and magic? Try 66 billion liters of water. In this episode, host Emily Laird exposes AI’s dirty little secret: data centers ar...

Your Chatbot vs. the Planet

06 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI isn't magic; it's math and metal, and it has a monster appetite for electricity. In this episode, host Emily Laird digs into the eco-footprint of G...

The LMSArena Illusion

05 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ever wonder who’s really winning the Chatbot Arena and whether those wins mean anything at all? In this episode of Generative AI 101, host Emily Lai...

I, Chatbot: Does Your LLM Dream of Electric Angst?

30 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Let's crack open the philosophical piñata known as machine consciousness. Can an LLM feel pride? Regret? Existential dread when you close the browser...

Dario Amodei's Latest Essay

29 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Let's crack open Dario Amodei’s latest essay, The Urgency of Interpretability, and ask the big, slightly terrifying question: do we actually know wh...

AI as Therapist, Yep, It's Happening.

28 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI therapy apps are popping off, but should you really trust a chatbot with your late-night existential crisis? In this episode, we crack open the wei...

Image Prompt Like a Pro, Yo!

23 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Image generation isn’t magic, it’s a recipe. In this episode, host Emily Laird is stirring up the flavorful world of AI image prompting using keyw...

A1 Art: How to Feed Your Prompt Like a Pro

22 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Image prompting isn’t just “describe it and pray”, it’s ordering a gourmet dish at a snobby robot diner. This week on Generative AI 101, Emily...

Dude, Where's My Job?

21 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI isn’t just flirting with your job anymore, it’s taking it out to dinner and meeting its parents. In this episode, host Emily Laird digs into th...

GPT-4.1: All Hail the Lord of the Tokens!

16 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

GPT-4.1 is here, and it’s not messing around. In this episode, Emily Laird breaks down why this model is smarter, faster, and hungrier than any AI w...

AI’s Hot Girl Year (According to Stanford)

15 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI isn’t some distant overlord plotting in a lab; it’s already writing your emails, diagnosing your cough, and maybe deciding your loan approval. ...

ChatGPT Knows What You Did Last Summer.

14 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

ChatGPT just got a memory upgrade, and no, it’s not just remembering your favorite pizza toppings. OpenAI’s newest update means the chatbot can no...

The AI Futures Project: Part 4, The End

11 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

  It’s 2027, and things are getting... spicy. This episode, host Emily Laird breaks down the summer-to-fall chaos from The AI Futures Project—a q...

The AI Future's Project Part 3: 2027

10 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI’s gone full sci-fi and it’s only January. In this episode, host Emily Laird walks us through the first half of 2027 in the AI Futures Project, ...

The AI Future's Project Part 2: 2026

09 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It’s 2026 and AI isn’t just helping out, it’s taking over the whiteboard and your white-collar job. In this episode, host Emily Laird breaks dow...

The AI Future's Project Part 1

08 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI agents have officially stopped playing assistant and started acting like your over-caffeinated junior dev—occasionally brilliant, mostly chaotic,...

AGI is Coming. There, I Said It.

07 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI’s not just playing Jeopardy anymore, it’s coming for the Mensa crowd. In this episode, host Emily Laird spirals (productively) over Humanity’...

Google's Gemini 2.5

01 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Google’s Gemini 2.5 just set a new standard on Humanity’s Last Exam and flexed hard in the AI Fight Club, outpacing GPT-4.5 and Grok-3. It reasons...

Humanity's Last Exam

31 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Standardized tests are getting torched like marshmallows at a bonfire, and AI's top students are flunking the new final. In this episode, Emily unpack...

a16z Top Gen AI Consumer Apps Report: Big Money & Big Scams

20 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Mobile AI apps are raking in cash—or at least convincing you that your fern obsession is worth $20 a month. This episode dissects the Andreessen Hor...

a16z Top Gen AI Consumer Apps Report: The VibeCoder Revolution

19 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Forget dark-mode IDEs and midnight debugging crises—AI tools are ushering in a vibecoder revolution. This episode unpacks the surge in agentic IDEs ...

a16z Top Gen AI Consumer Apps Report: Reverage of the Video Gen Models

18 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI video generation isn't awkwardly fumbling anymore—it's making Hollywood sweat. This episode explores the meteoric rise of Gen AI video apps like ...

a16z Top Gen AI Consumer Apps Report: ChatGPT & Deepseek

17 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI moves fast—one minute you're on top, the next, you're a footnote. In this episode of Generative AI 101, we break down the latest Andreessen Horow...

Alibaba’s QwQ-32B-Preview: Qw... Q... the Future?

13 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Alibaba’s QwQ-32B-Preview is here, and it’s not just another chatbot—it’s an AI reasoning machine that can handle complex math, coding, and lo...

Llama 3.3 70B: A lean, mean, useful AI

12 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Let's chat Meta's Llama 3.3 70B. This lean, mean AI machine can generate text, write code, and even produce synthetic data—all without needing a sup...

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: The AI That Codes & Computes

11 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Claude 3.7 Sonnet isn’t just another AI—it’s Anthropic’s latest and smartest yet, balancing speed and deep reasoning like a human flipping bet...

ChatGPT 4.5: The Wildcard of AI

10 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

ChatGPT 4.5 isn’t your typical AI—it’s the Marlon Brando of chatbots, rebellious, intuitive, and full of surprises. In this episode, we break do...

February 2025 Recap: AI Ethics... Oh Boy.

06 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI is growing faster than a teenager with a DoorDash addiction, rewriting history, babysitting America’s kids, and maybe taking your job… or part ...

February 2025 Recap: Industry Integration & Government Regulation

05 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI isn’t just in Silicon Valley—it’s in your bank, your weather app, and maybe even deciding how much you’ll pay for groceries. Meanwhile, gov...

February 2025 Recap: AI, Lawsuits, and a $97 Billion Bid

04 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Corporate AI is a battlefield, and February 2025 was full of billion-dollar moves, legal battles, and rejected takeovers. Elon Musk tried (and failed)...

February 2025 Recap: AI Breakthroughs

03 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

February 2025 was wild. China launched an AI-powered space race, OpenAI decided to Marie Kondo its model lineup, and Microsoft unveiled a quantum proc...

Grok & Roll: Musk’s AI War and the Fight for AGI

27 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Elon Musk isn’t just building another chatbot—he’s aiming for Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) that’s smarter than us (but ideally not ho...

xAI's Colossus: Running on GPUs and Controversy

26 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

xAI’s Colossus isn’t just a supercomputer—it’s a 200,000-GPU monster with a sustainability side hustle and a power bill that could light up a ...

Grok vs. The World: Musk’s AI with a Rebel Streak

25 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Meet Grok—Elon Musk’s answer to ChatGPT, but with less polish and more attitude. Built to be “maximally helpful” (or just maximally blunt), th...

xAI: Musk, Money, and AI Mayhem

24 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Elon Musk’s latest brainchild, xAI, isn’t just another AI startup—it’s a $50 billion cosmic experiment with a punk rock attitude. In this epis...

GEO: How to Impress AI Search

19 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Traditional SEO is out. If AI can’t find you, it can’t cite you—and if it doesn’t cite you, your content might as well not exist. AI-powered s...

GEO: Stop Writing for Robots (They’re Over It)

18 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Keyword stuffing is as outdated as flip phones, and AI-driven search doesn’t care about your SEO tricks from 2012. AI isn’t just reading your cont...

GEO: SEO's AI Replacement

17 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Google’s midlife crisis is here, and AI search is taking over. By 2026, search traffic is predicted to drop by 25%, and if your content isn’t opti...

SEO Is Dead. Long Live GEO!

15 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Traditional search engines are in trouble, and AI-powered search is calling the shots. Welcome to the world of Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), w...

DeepSeek: Fact vs Fiction

14 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

DeepSeek’s R1 model dropped, and the internet lost its mind. Some say it’s a game-changer. Others call it a Cold War villain. Is it really the ...

Reasoning Models & Prompt Engineering: Ask Smarter, Get Smarter

13 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

If you've ever yelled at ChatGPT for giving you a dumb answer, maybe the problem isn’t the AI—it’s the way you asked. In this episode, we break ...

Pop Quiz, AI: How Do You Test a Thinking Machine?

12 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI keeps bragging about its "reasoning skills," but is it actually getting smarter, or just better at faking it? In this episode, we put AI’s so-cal...

A Reasoning Model Thinks, Therefore It...Is?

11 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI isn’t just playing back what it’s heard, it’s starting to think (or at least fake it really well). In this episode, we break down Reasoning L...

AI Inference. Reading Between the Data Points.

10 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Inference is the thing that makes AI seem smart—until it absolutely isn’t. It’s how AI predicts words, makes decisions, and sometimes convinces ...

AI Agents Are Unionizing (Kind of)

05 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI agents aren’t just here to help, they’re teaming up, getting specialized, and maybe even plotting to replace your personal assistant and your f...

Silicon Valley’s New Favorite Money Pit: AI Agents

04 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI agents aren’t just changing the game, folks, they are the game, and everyone with a venture capital fund is betting big. In this episode, we foll...

Who Runs the World? Agents.

03 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI agents aren’t just scheduling your meetings—they might be running the whole office soon. In this episode, we’re breaking down the biggest pla...

DeepSeek: The Cool Kid Giving Silicon Valley an AI Panic Attack

29 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Let's unpack the rise of DeepSeek, the scrappy Chinese AI lab that’s making waves and giving Silicon Valley sleepless nights. From handing out free ...

OpenAI's Operator Agent: Beta Mode, Big Hype, and a Dash of Hallucinations

28 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Another day, another OpenAI advancement - Emily Laird explores OpenAI’s latest innovation: the Operator Agent. Picture this—a virtual assistant wi...

The Stargate Project: America’s $500 Billion AI Flex

27 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Let's breakdown The Stargate Project—a $500 billion initiative aimed at turning the United States into the global epicenter of artificial intelligen...

Office Space Meets Terminator: AI Agents and the Future of Work

22 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Let's unpack how AI agents are reshaping the workplace—faster than your boss can figure out Slack. From automating boring tasks like scheduling meet...

AI Agents: Trying to Steal Your Job, Your Boyfriend, and Probably Your Netflix Password

21 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Generative AI 101, host Emily Laird explores the bold new world of next-gen AI agents—autonomous, personalized, and ready to coll...

The Rise of the Agent (But with Better Customer Service, Hopefully)

20 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Let's talk AI Agents! Host Emily Laird explores the world of AI agents—the brainy, adaptable, and slightly intimidating tech that's reshaping how we...

Warp Speed, Mr. Sulu! Making Latency Disappear

16 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the thrilling finale of our latency series, host Emily Laird takes you to the cutting edge of speed in AI. Let's explore quantum computing—the re...

The Need for Speed: Fixing AI Latency

15 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode host Emily Laird trades her podcast mic for a virtual toolbox to tackle one of AI’s biggest headaches: latency. From turbocharged pr...

Latency in AI: Ain't Nobody Got Time for That!

14 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of we're exploring latency—the tiny delays that can make your chatbot feel more like a bored teenager than a seamless conversational...

Open-Source AI, So Hot Right Now.

13 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Emily's breaking down the basics of open-source AI. What does it mean for software, and AI models, to be open source? Why does it mat...

OpenAI's 12 Days of Shipmas: Days 10 - 12

09 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the grand finale of Generative AI 101’s “12 Days of Shipmas” series, Emily Laird unpacks Days 10 through 12, where OpenAI truly stuck the lan...

OpenAI's 12 Days of Shipmas: Days 7 - 9

08 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Let's unpack days 7 through 9 of OpenAI’s “12 Days of Shipmas.” From the launch of Projects—a tidy new feature that organizes your chaotic Cha...

OpenAI's 12 Days of Shipmas: Days 4 - 6

07 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Join host Emily Laird as she unpacks days 4 through 6 of OpenAI’s “12 Days of Shipmas,” where cutting-edge AI meets holiday cheer. Discover Canv...

OpenAI's 12 Days of Shipmas: Days 1 - 3

06 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Let's break down the first three days of OpenAI’s “12 Days of Shipmas,” spotlighting the o1 Reasoning Model’s logical prowess, ChatGPT Pro’s...

12 Days of AI Tools: Goblin Tools

25 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On Day 12, we wrap up Generative AI 101’s "12 Days of AI Tools" series with Goblin Tools, a quirky and surprisingly powerful suite of AI gadgets tha...

12 Days of AI Tools: Google’s Deep Research

24 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On Day 11 of our 12 Days of AI Tools series, we’re exploring the NEW Deep Research—Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro-powered assistant that doesn’t just...

12 Days of AI Tools: Microsoft Clipchamp

23 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Day 10 of our 12 Days of AI Tools series shines a spotlight on Microsoft Clipchamp, the video editing platform that makes creating polished, professio...

12 Days of AI Tools: Adobe Firefly

22 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Day 9 of our 12 Days of AI Tools series is ablaze with Adobe Firefly, the AI-powered creative tool that turns text prompts into dazzling visuals, stun...

12 Days of AI Tools: ElevenLabs

21 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Day 8 of our 12 Days of AI Tools series spotlights ElevenLabs, the Mariah Carey of AI voice synthesis—versatile, lifelike, and impossible to ignore....

12 Days of AI Tools: TinyWow

20 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On Day 7 of our "12 Days of AI Tools" series, we’re spotlighting TinyWow, the unsung hero of AI tools that makes tackling digital clutter a breeze. ...

12 Days of AI Tools: Poe

19 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Day 6 of our "12 Days of AI Tools" series unwraps Poe, the chatbot platform from Quora that’s like an AI buffet. With GPT-4, Claude, and even Meta’...

12 Days of AI Tools: QuillBot

18 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Day 5 of our "12 Days of AI Tools" series brings us QuillBot, the ultimate AI-powered writing assistant. From rephrasing tricky sentences to generatin...

12 Days of AI Tools: Suno

17 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On Day 4 of our "12 Days of AI Tools" series, we’re cranking up the holiday spirit with Suno—the AI-powered music generator that turns text prompt...

12 Days of AI Tools: Perplexity AI

16 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On Day 3 of our "12 Days of AI Tools" series, we unwrap Perplexity AI, a search engine so smart it doesn’t just give you answers—it cites its sour...

12 Days of AI Tools: Character AI

15 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Day 2 of our "12 Days of AI Tools" series brings us Character AI, the chatbot platform that makes talking to fictional heroes, historical figures, or ...

12 Days of AI Tools: Google's NotebookLM

14 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the first episode of our "12 Days of AI Tools" series, we unwrap Google’s NotebookLM—a research assistant that takes your digital chaos (think ...

AGI: An Ethical Dilemma

12 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

AGI isn’t just a scientific marvel, it’s an ethical Rubik’s cube wrapped in existential dread. In this episode, host Emily Laird explores the hi...

AGI: The Great Timeline Debate

11 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How long until AGI becomes a reality? Ten years? Fifty? Or is it as far-fetched as teaching your dog to do taxes? In this episode, host Emily Laird ta...

AGI: Progress & Roadblocks

10 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

AGI may be the rabbit we’re trying to pull out of the magician’s hat, but it’s a trick that’s far from finished. In this episode, host Emily L...

What is AGI?

09 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Is Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) the holy grail of AI or just a techie’s pipe dream? In this episode, host Emily Laird breaks down AGI’s e...

November Recap: AI Shaping Tomorrow

05 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the final episode of Generative AI 101’s November recap series, we examine AI’s profound influence on society and sustainability. From ChatGPT’...

November Recap: AI on Trial

04 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In part three of our four-part November 2024 recap, we turn the spotlight on AI’s missteps and controversies. From OpenAI’s legal troubles over co...

November Recap: AI Breakthroughs

03 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the second episode of our November series, Generative AI 101 unpacks the breakthroughs that make you say, “Wait, AI can do that now?” Discover ...

November Recap: AI's Power Plays

02 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the first episode of our four-part series on November’s biggest AI stories, Generative AI 101 explores game-changing partnerships and industry sh...

AI in Space: Generative AI & the Search for Life Beyond Earth

22 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the final episode of our AI in Space series, Emily Laird takes us to the edge of the cosmos, exploring how generative AI is helping answer one of h...

AI in Space: Generative AI Enters the Space Race

21 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the third episode of our AI in Space series, Emily Laird explores how generative AI is transforming spacecraft design and production. From rapid pr...

AI in Space: Autonomy & Robotics

20 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the second episode of our AI in Space series, host Emily Laird explores the fascinating world of AI-driven autonomy and robotics. Learn how AI syst...

AI in Space: Blueprints & Algorithms

18 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this first episode of our AI in Space series, host Emily Laird takes you on a cosmic tour of AI’s starring role in space exploration. From analyz...

AI in Engineering: How AI is Redesigning the World

14 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this final episode of our AI in Engineering series, host Emily Laird explores how AI is transforming industries like automotive, aerospace, and man...