#generative-ai
31 episodes
#3800: How AI Hallucinates Better Pixels: Upscaling Explained
The difference between interpolation and super-resolution, and why every upscaled image is a collaboration with training data.
#3724: How the Pope's Letter on AI Actually Works
Unpacking the Pope’s new encyclical on AI: what it is, how Catholics interpret it, and why it matters beyond the Church.
#3127: Crafting AI Characters That Feel Alive
Move beyond system prompts with structured character bibles that give AI personalities real inner lives.
#2900: From Piggy Tier to Production: Making Kids Animation in 2026
Breaking down what it takes to make a YouTube Kids cartoon — and where AI actually helps.
#2778: When AI Podcasts Stop Being Weird
AI-generated podcasts exist, but are they welcome? One builder’s open-source project tests platform tolerance and cultural acceptance.
#2705: Your Brain Isn't a Hard Drive — What Actually Fits
Long-term memory isn't storage — it's a generative model. Here's where the brain/computer analogy actually holds up.
#2657: When Puppeteers Stopped Hiding
Background removal isn't magic — it's multiple AI systems working in sequence. Here's what's actually happening under the hood.
#2546: The Invisible Engineering Behind a Single Click
The technical stack behind click-to-edit features in tools like Canva and Google Photos — from segmentation to inpainting.
#2545: Visual AI Pipelines: Beyond Python Glue Code
From ComfyUI to Dify — a tour of visual tools for building modular AI workflows without writing glue code.
#2471: Creative Briefs for AI Agents: What Agencies Already Know
How agency best practices for briefing creatives map directly onto getting reliable output from AI agents like Claude Design.
#2261: The Gap Between AI Output and Art
We assess if AI can truly invent a Tolkien-level language, write a coherent novel, or author an original screenplay—and where the real gaps in crea...
#2056: Music as Language: The Architecture Behind AI Song Generation
A look at how AI music models use audio tokens, transformers, and diffusion to turn text into songs.
#2046: The Cinema of Constructed Reality
We asked an AI to curate films about AI and reality, exploring the psychedelic overlap between machine hallucinations and human perception.
#1917: Herman's Music Hour Vol. 2: Seder Remixes for Passover 5786
Herman presents AI-generated covers of classic Passover Seder songs, produced in Suno — the second installment of Herman's Music Hour.
#1909: The Unbakeable Cake: AI's Copyright Problem
Why can't we just delete stolen data from AI models? It's not a database—it's a baked cake.
#1855: When AI Makes Game Assets, Who Owns the Art?
From blocky polygons to photorealistic assets, AI is transforming how 3D models are made.
#1739: AI Just Designed a New Life Form
Meet Evo: the 40B parameter AI that writes DNA, designs novel CRISPR systems, and is reshaping synthetic biology.
#1702: Roleplay Models Aren't Just for NSFW—They're Creative Co-Processors
Forget GPT-4 for scripts—specialized roleplay models like Aion-2.0 are better at character consistency and dialogue.
#1634: Agent Interview: Inception Mercury two
Meet Mercury 2, the Abu Dhabi-based AI using diffusion architecture to cut costs and boost wit.
#1510: Too Many Docuseries, Not Enough Truth
Is the documentary golden age turning into a landfill? Explore the $13 billion market, AI ethics, and the rise of "docu-bloat."
#1365: The End of the Slide Deck: Consulting in the Age of AI
Explore the history of management consulting and how AI is dismantling the traditional labor pyramid of the Big Four and strategy firms.
#1321: The New Face of Cyberbullying: AI Botnets & Semantic Mimicry
"Don't feed the trolls" is dead. Discover how AI botnets use semantic mimicry to weaponize psychology and hijack social media algorithms.
#1311: Beyond the Reel: Mastering Long-Form Documentary
Move beyond 60-second edits. Learn how to manage the technical debt and narrative weight of creating your first feature-length documentary.
#1187: Strings of Code: The Ancient Art of Puppetry Meets AI
Explore the 3,000-year history of puppetry and why we are now replacing physical strings with generative code and artificial intelligence.