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8minute.ai™ Podcast

A podcast that breaks down complex artificial intelligence concepts into easy-to-understand episodes, each just eight minutes long.

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#28: Arthur Samuel's Checkers Program

8minute.ai™ Podcast ·

2025/11/19

How did one of the very first machine learning programs actually work? This episode dives into the mechanics of Arthur Samuel's famous 1950s checkers-playing AI.In This Episode, You'll Learn: The checkers program used a combination of a scorecard (to rate board positions) and a look-ahead function (to explore future moves) to choose the best action. The system learned through reinforcement learning; moves that led to wins were positively reinforced, causing the scorecard's feature weights

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#27: Cooking Up Intelligence: How AI Models Get Trained

8minute.ai™ Podcast ·

2025/11/12

How does an AI go from a blank slate to a powerful tool? It's not magic… it's a detailed, multi-stage training process.In This Episode, You'll Learn: The five essential stages of AI training: Data Collection, Tokenization, Pretraining, Post-training, and Continuous Improvement. What Supervised Learning is and how labeled "flashcards" or "gold standard" examples help fine-tune a model's accuracy. The power of Unsupervised Learning in the pre-training phase, where models find hidden patterns in

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#26: Retrieval Augmented Generation

8minute.ai™ Podcast ·

2025/11/05

🗓️ Is your Large Language Model stuck in the past? Every AI has a knowledge cutoff date, but Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is the key to feeding it the current facts, proprietary documents, and domain expertise it needs right now.In This Episode, You'll Learn: The Problem RAG Solves How RAG Works Semantic Search vs. Keyword Search Be sure to vote in this weeks poll: R.A.G. Knowledge

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#25: Claude Projects

8minute.ai™ Podcast ·

2025/10/29

How does Anthropic's Claude Projects feature stack up against OpenAI's version? If you're struggling to organize your chats and maintain context, "Projects" are the answer, but the two platforms have major differences you need to know about.In This Episode, You'll Learn: Which interface is cleaner, more intuitive? A key differences between Claude’s Projects and ChatGPT’s version. How Claude solves the “context window” problem. 👇 YOUR ACTION STEP 💬 Which platform wins for you? After hearing

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#24: Projects in ChatGPT

8minute.ai™ Podcast ·

2025/10/22

Struggling to keep your ChatGPT conversations organized and find yourself repeating instructions over and over? The ChatGPT Projects feature is here to help.In This Episode, You'll Learn: What Projects Are (And Why They're Not Just Folders) The Power of Project-Level Instructions How Projects Enable Context Engineering Practical Use Cases 👇 YOUR ACTION STEP Have you tried the new ChatGPT Projects feature? Share your most creative or useful project idea in the comments below! And vote in our

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#23: Context Engineering

8minute.ai™ Podcast ·

2025/10/15

Are your AI prompts failing to deliver consistent, reliable results? It's time to move beyond simple prompt engineering and embrace the power of Context Engineering.In This Episode, You'll Learn: The Big Mindset Shift: Understand the difference between prompt engineering (giving a chef a recipe) and context engineering (designing the entire kitchen). It's about building a reusable system, not just a one-off command. The Three Pillars of Context: Learn how to structure your AI's environment

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#22: The ABCs of Prompting

8minute.ai™ Podcast ·

2025/10/08

Are your AI prompts too long and rambling, or too short and vague? In this episode, we break down two powerful acronyms to help you write focused, effective prompts to get the results you want.In this episode, you'll learn: The W.I.S.E.R. Framework to set the models role, define the task, and refine the output. The C.R.I.S.P. Framework for more technical or high-risk topics by emphasizing boundaries and constraints. The empowerment to create your own Acronym Framework, to tailor your prompts to

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#21: Cleveland Best of Tech Day Hot Takes

8minute.ai™ Podcast ·

2025/10/01

Ever wonder what the tech community is really saying about AI when the mics are on? We asked tech leaders at the Cleveland Best of Tech 2025 for their AI hot takes, and they didn't hold back.A Taste of the Takes: The "Humanistic" Imperative: Is AI crippling us? Experts argue you must lead the technology with curiosity and critical thinking, or risk getting repetitive, soulless results. The Hidden Environmental Cost: Beyond the code and content, we explore the growing concern that AI's massive

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#20: GPT-5

8minute.ai™ Podcast ·

2025/09/24

Is OpenAI's new GPT-5 a revolutionary leap or just a minor upgrade? We're breaking down everything you need to know.In This Episode, You'll Learn: The Unified System: Say goodbye to confusing model names. GPT-5 simplifies the user experience by automatically routing your prompt to the best model ("Instant" for speed, "Thinking" for depth) or letting you choose. Key Spec Bumps: The context window has more than doubled, and the model is better at reducing hallucinations, avoiding flattery

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#19: AI Rising Conference

8minute.ai™ Podcast ·

2025/09/17

Are you wondering how AI will truly change your job and reshape your industry? This episode brings the key insights from the AI Rising Conference directly to you.In This Episode, You'll Learn: AI Participation is Not Optional: Keynote speaker Ryan Frederick argues that to stay relevant, professionals and businesses must "skate where the puck is going," actively engaging with AI to avoid being left behind. Your Value is How You Use AI: The future of employee performance is shifting from time

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#18: Agents

8minute.ai™ Podcast ·

2025/09/10

Have you heard terms like "AI Agents" or "Agentic Systems" but aren't sure what they mean, or how they're different from the AI chatbots you use every day?In this episode, you'll learn: LLMs vs. Agents How Agents Work The Risks and Safeguards Resources Mentioned: Make n8n LangChain CrewAI AutoGen OpenAI Assistant API Google Vertex AI Anthropic Computer-Use Episode 8: Model Distinctions (The Latte Episode) This weeks poll: Agents Takeover

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#17: Ai4 2025 Conference, part 3

8minute.ai™ Podcast ·

2025/09/03

Part 3 of the podcast team’s key takeaways and insights from the Ai4 Conference in Las Vegas. Guest Interviews: Erin Marzwick Dr. Renaisa Anthony Viji Rajaramanan from Fuchsia Ginger Swanson Mentions: Irys Matt Cashatt of Polyrific Paula Starr the Cherokee Nation’s CIO Regal Vultr Be sure to vote in our poll, here or on Spotify!

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08:51

#16: Ai4 2025 Conference, part 2

8minute.ai™ Podcast ·

2025/08/27

Part 2 of the 8minute.ai podcast teams key takeaways and insights from the Ai4 Conference in Las Vegas. Guest Interviews: Laura Ottenberg Mel Futrell Be sure to vote in our poll, here or on Spotify!

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#15: Ai4 2025 Conference, part 1

8minute.ai™ Podcast ·

2025/08/20

The 8minute.ai podcast teams key takeaways and insights from the Ai4 Conference in Las Vegas. Guest Interviews: Nikhila M. Julianne Dressman Eric Pinstein Be sure to vote in our poll, here or on Spotify!

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#14: Video Models

8minute.ai™ Podcast ·

2025/08/13

This week we discuss the big names in Video Models and Will Smith's spaghetti eating habits.Video Models: OpenAI Sora Kuaishou Kling Google Deepmind Veo Adobe Firefly Also be sure to check out Will Smith Eating Spaghetti and the NBA Finals Veo 3 Commercial. Make sure to vote in our poll here or on Spotify!

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#13: Image Models

8minute.ai™ Podcast ·

2025/08/06

In this episode, we discuss generative image models, giving an overview of the major players:DALL-E Imagen Stable Diffusion Midjourney DreamBooth Make sure to vote in our poll, on Spotify or here.

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#12: Perplexity AI

8minute.ai™ Podcast ·

2025/07/30

Need answers you can trust, with sources to back them up? In this episode, we dive into Perplexity AI, the "answer engine" that blends a search engine with conversational AI. And find out how they're changing the internet with their new browser, Comet! Don't forget to vote in this weeks poll!

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#11: OpenAI Models

8minute.ai™ Podcast ·

2025/07/23

This week we're covering OpenAI's current lineup of models available in ChatGPT, and comparing them to Google's Gemini and Anthropic's Claude models. Take our poll on Spotify or here. OpenAI Model Comparison

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#10: Anthropic Claude Models

8minute.ai™ Podcast ·

2025/07/16

Google gave straight-forward names with the 3 Gemini models. Now lets dive into Anthropic's trio of creatively named models and how they compare. Be sure to take this weeks poll as well, right here or on Spotify! Anthropic Model Comparison

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#9: Google Gemini Models

8minute.ai™ Podcast ·

2025/07/09

Depending on who you talk to, you’ll either hear that AI is great and so helpful, or is horrible and doesn’t give good answers. Some of this may be due to prompting techniques or intended use cases, but it may also be due to the wrong model being used. Each of the major model providers has multiple models to choose from. In this episode, we’ll cover Google’s Gemini Models, giving you an overview of the major models, when to use each, pros and cons, and some additional Gemini tools. Be sure to vote

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