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Welcome to Generative AI 101, your go-to podcast for learning the basics of generative artificial intelligence in easy-to-understand, bite-sized episodes. Join host Emily Laird, AI Integration Technologist and AI lecturer, to explore key concepts, applications, and ethical considerations, making AI accessible for everyone.
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- 2 days ago13 min
Open Weights and American AI Leadership
Jensen Huang had an X account for years and never used it, then spent his first post on a three-page policy PDF that fifty companies have now signed. Host Emily Laird reads past the principle and into the machinery, including the one paragraph about distillation that a staffer will read aloud in a hearing room two years from now. You will also get the part the letter does not survive: free weights, expensive inference, a minimum production team that runs half a million a year, and an open ecosystem Washington would be protecting that is already substantially Chinese. Bring skepticism for the numbers, because almost none of them have been independently audited. 🎯 JOIN THE AI WEEKLY MEETUPS https://www.uwstout.edu/ai-weekly-meetup 📩 EMAIL REMINDERS FOR THE MEETUPS https://app.e2ma.net/app2/audience/signup/2101263/1779703/ 💬 CONNECT WITH EMILY LAIRD ON LINKEDIN http://www.linkedin.com/in/meet-emily-laird
- 3 days ago13 min
Claude Opus 5
Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 5 on July 24th at the same price as the model it replaces, and buried the interesting part in a footnote: turn the effort dial to max and the scores go down. Host Emily Laird reads the system card, separates the vendor-run benchmarks from the independently administered ones, and explains why extra test-time compute buys ambition rather than correctness. Also covered: three outages in two days, a cyber classifier that quietly routes part of your traffic to an older model, and why Anthropic's own coding guidance stops one rung short of the top setting. If your team is paying for maximum thinking, you may be paying for scope creep with a token bill attached. 🎯 JOIN THE AI WEEKLY MEETUPS https://www.uwstout.edu/ai-weekly-meetup 📩 EMAIL REMINDERS FOR THE MEETUPS https://app.e2ma.net/app2/audience/signup/2101263/1779703/ 💬 CONNECT WITH EMILY LAIRD ON LINKEDIN http://www.linkedin.com/in/meet-emily-laird
- 4 days ago10 min
Your AI Notetaker Never Asked
One in three American workers has sat in a meeting with an AI notetaker, and most of them were never asked first. Host Emily Laird traces the path from a leaked Otter transcript that killed a venture deal to a consolidated privacy suit in San Jose, where every named plaintiff was a non-customer who simply showed up to someone else's call. The twist: the awkward bot in your participant list was the warning label, and the fastest-growing corner of this market sells its removal as a feature. Bring three questions and nine seconds of nerve. 🎯 JOIN THE AI WEEKLY MEETUPS https://www.uwstout.edu/ai-weekly-meetup 📩 EMAIL REMINDERS FOR THE MEETUPS https://app.e2ma.net/app2/audience/signup/2101263/1779703/ 💬 CONNECT WITH EMILY LAIRD ON LINKEDIN http://www.linkedin.com/in/meet-emily-laird
- 5 days ago10 min
The Rework Tax: What AI Productivity Actually Costs
AI did not save you time, it moved the bill to someone else's desk. In this episode, host Emily Laird opens the ledger on the rework tax: the workslop arriving in inboxes that looks finished but is not, the 37 percent of "saved" hours burned on corrections and clarifications, and the jagged frontier that makes wrong output read exactly like right output. She walks through the METR trial where experienced developers came out 19 percent slower and still believed they were 20 percent faster. The reality check: the colleague quietly rebuilding your draft at eleven at night is never going to tell you about it. 🎯 JOIN THE AI WEEKLY MEETUPS https://www.uwstout.edu/ai-weekly-meetup 📩 EMAIL REMINDERS FOR THE MEETUPS https://app.e2ma.net/app2/audience/signup/2101263/1779703/ 💬 CONNECT WITH EMILY LAIRD ON LINKEDIN http://www.linkedin.com/in/meet-emily-laird
- 1 weeks ago8 min
Kimi K3: Open Weights, Locked Door
Moonshot AI just gave away the largest open-weight model ever built, and the chip stocks still bled. Host Emily Laird breaks down Kimi K3: 2.8 trillion parameters, free to download, and completely impossible for you to actually run. The catch isn't the price of the model. It's who owns the machines that serve it. 🎯 JOIN THE AI WEEKLY MEETUPS https://www.uwstout.edu/ai-weekly-meetup 📩 EMAIL REMINDERS FOR THE MEETUPS https://app.e2ma.net/app2/audience/signup/2101263/1779703/ 💬 CONNECT WITH EMILY LAIRD ON LINKEDIN http://www.linkedin.com/in/meet-emily-laird
- 1 weeks ago9 min
GPT 5.6: The Model That Needed A Permission Slip
OpenAI just shipped GPT-5.6 and ChatGPT Work, but the ship date was set by a phone call from the Commerce Department. Host Emily Laird breaks down the three-model pricing play, the office agent that is secretly a coding agent, and the efficiency pitch that contradicts its own premium feature. Then the real story: a "voluntary" government review that decided when America's most famous software product could launch, and what that precedent means for anyone building on a single frontier model. The framework behind it still doesn't exist, and that should bother you. 🎯 JOIN THE AI WEEKLY MEETUPS https://www.uwstout.edu/ai-weekly-meetup 📩 EMAIL REMINDERS FOR THE MEETUPS https://app.e2ma.net/app2/audience/signup/2101263/1779703/ 💬 CONNECT WITH EMILY LAIRD ON LINKEDIN http://www.linkedin.com/in/meet-emily-laird
- 1 weeks ago10 min
Use Case Monday
Using AI is rarely the scandal. Hiding it is. Host Emily Laird examines academic misconduct, workplace secrecy, and Meta’s Project Cannes to show why documentation without disclosure can become evidence against you. This episode offers a practical four-step system for creating an AI paper trail that protects your work instead of exposing it. 🎯 JOIN THE AI WEEKLY MEETUPS https://www.uwstout.edu/ai-weekly-meetup 📩 EMAIL REMINDERS FOR THE MEETUPS https://app.e2ma.net/app2/audience/signup/2101263/1779703/ 💬 CONNECT WITH EMILY LAIRD ON LINKEDIN http://www.linkedin.com/in/meet-emily-laird
- 2 weeks ago9 min
96 vs. 48: The Brown University AI Cheating Scandal
A take-home midterm at Brown University averaged 96, then the same students averaged 48 on the in-person final, and that gap tells the whole story. Host Emily Laird walks through how economist Roberto Serrano, a professional game theorist, caught roughly fifty suspected AI cheaters without detection software: he simply designed a test the fakes could not afford to sit. This episode covers the statistical fingerprint of unedited ChatGPT proofs, the students who confessed by dropping the course, and why a room full of desks outperformed the entire AI-detection industry. If you evaluate people for a living, Serrano just handed you the template. 🎯 JOIN THE AI WEEKLY MEETUPS https://www.uwstout.edu/ai-weekly-meetup 📩 EMAIL REMINDERS FOR THE MEETUPS https://app.e2ma.net/app2/audience/signup/2101263/1779703/ 💬 CONNECT WITH EMILY LAIRD ON LINKEDIN http://www.linkedin.com/in/meet-emily-laird
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