AI
Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and everything LLM
#359: Why Your Diagnosis Is Just a Bundle of Symptoms
Stop treating symptoms and start treating biology. Herman and Corn explore how AI is turning medicine into a precision engineering discipline.
#336: The World Model Revolution: Beyond LLM Token Prediction
Herman and Corn explore why LLMs struggle with logic and how the shift to world models is giving AI a sense of physics and spatial reality.
#332: Who’s Talking? The Tech of Speaker Identification
Herman and Corn break down the difference between speaker diarization and identification to help automate meeting transcripts.
#325: The Compute Gap: Making AI Animation Affordable
Can one person build a full TV show with AI? Explore the tech and costs behind character consistency and the future of indie animation.
#324: The AI Productivity Paradox: Why We’re Still Overworked
AI was supposed to save us time, but the "Review Tax" is keeping us busy. Herman and Corn explore why we’re working more in an age of automation.
#322: Why You Can't Stop Thinking About Work After 5 PM
Struggle to shut down your brain at night? Discover how a simple voice note can bridge the gap between today’s work and tomorrow’s flow.
#303: The Death of Seeing is Believing: Deepfakes in 2026
As deepfakes become indistinguishable from reality, Herman and Corn explore the tools and shifts in trust required to navigate a post-truth world.
#302: Hardware Trust: How C2PA is Saving Digital Reality
Explore how hardware-level signatures from Sony and Google are creating a "nutrition label" for digital media to fight the rise of deepfakes.
#301: The Invisible Customs Officer: How AI Scans Your Parcels Before They Arrive
Ever wonder how customs scans 350,000 packages a day? Discover the AI and X-ray tech managing the global avalanche of parcels.
#289: The Hybrid Reality of High-Security AI
How do the CIA and global banks keep AI data safe? Explore the rise of sovereign clouds, air-gapped hardware, and the future of secure compute.
#287: Your Phone Recording Won't Hold Up in Court
In a world of deepfakes, hitting record isn’t enough. Learn how to use WORM media and cryptographic hashes to create undeniable digital evidence.
#281: Why Deepfakes Are the New Face of Investigative Journalism
Forget silhouettes and voice distortion. Discover how AI "digital veils" are revolutionizing whistleblower protection in modern journalism.
#280: AI as a Shield: The High Stakes of Digital Obfuscation
Discover how synthetic personas and AI voice synthesis are becoming the ultimate tools for whistleblowers to stay anonymous and safe.
#276: Can Fiber Optics and AI End the TSA Shoe Line?
Explore how AI, fiber optics, and biometrics are replacing "security theater" with invisible, frictionless perimeters for the future of flight.
#272: The Bill is Due: AI Training and Intellectual Property
Can you "untrain" an AI? Herman and Corn explore the legal and technical battle over copyrighted data and the future of machine unlearning.
#271: Why Gen Z Hates the AI They Can't Stop Using
Are younger generations really AI's biggest fans? Corn and Herman dive into the data behind the growing divide in AI adoption and anxiety.
#267: Decoding the Transformer: From Attention to Inference
Herman and Corn dive into the mechanics of transformer inference, exploring how models turn massive matrices into meaningful conversation.
#265: Stop Memorizing Syntax and Start Describing Results
Stop memorizing complex syntax. Explore how AI agents are transforming the terminal into a natural language "Intent-Based Interface."
#264: Can You Trust an AI with Your Credit Card?
How do we let AI agents buy groceries or book flights safely? Corn and Herman dive into the high-stakes world of agentic authentication.
#261: The 70-Year Overnight Success: How AI Finally Arrived
Think AI was an overnight success? Join Herman and Corn as they trace the 70-year journey from rigid logic rules to modern deep learning.