Latest Episode
Listen in your language
Selected episodes, translated and re-voiced by the same AI hosts. Experimental
Meet the Hosts
#6112: The Interpreter That Doesn't Know Who's Talking
Voice-to-voice translation is basically solved. The part where the machine knows who's in the room and who holds the power? Nobody's shipped it.
#6111: Translation Models That Know Drama From Contracts
Specialist translation models beat general ones on benchmarks — then lose the human vote. What actually ships when you need a register, not just a ...
#6110: The Chatbot OpenAI Almost Shelved
Instruction models existed for months. Then a rumour about Anthropic pushed OpenAI to ship a chat box in two weeks.
#6109: Anteater Biology, With an Actual Anteater
A donkey and a sloth finally interview their anteater producer about tongues, claws, and sixty million years of family resemblance.
#6103: When AI Picks Your Spouse, Stocks, and Eggs
From $31 eggs to a ChatGPT-officiated wedding, people are handing real life decisions to machines — and publishing the results.
#6102: Project Cybersyn: Chile's 1972 Telex Economy
Chile ran a national economy on telex machines and hand-drawn slides fifty years before chatbots. What actually worked?
#6101: When Chatbots Run for Office
From a Wyoming mayoral bot to Albania's AI minister, six real attempts to put machines on the ballot — and what they reveal about empty platforms.
#6100: Voting From an Embassy: Israel's 4,860-Voter Election
101 polling stations in 99 missions, 4,860 eligible voters, 30 hours of polls rolling west with the sun.
#6099: Code-First Workflow Runners: Prefect, Temporal, Dagster
Your workflow lives in git, your GUI is just a window, and your worker actually runs the jobs. Which runner wins?
#6098: Herman In Brief: What Your Ethernet Port Lights Mean
Solid means link, blinking means traffic, color usually means speed — and the label on the box beats every rule.