# Practical AI

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Official site: https://practicalai.fm
Author: Practical AI LLC
Episodes: 357

## Resource

Making artificial intelligence practical, productive & accessible to everyone. Practical AI is a show in which technology professionals, business people, students, enthusiasts, and expert guests engage in lively discussions about Artificial Intelligence and related topics (Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Neural Networks, GANs, MLOps, AIOps, LLMs & more). The focus is on productive implementations and real-world scenarios that are accessible to everyone. If you want to keep up with the latest advances in AI, while keeping one foot in the real world, then this is the show for you!

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## Episodes
- [The Myth of Model Wars: Open vs Closed AI in 2026](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/the-myth-of-model-wars-open-vs-closed-ai-in-2026) — 2026-05-07T09:00:00+00:00
- [The mythos of Mythos and Allbirds takes flight to the neocloud](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/the-mythos-of-mythos-and-allbirds-takes-flight-to-the-neocloud) — 2026-04-23T09:00:00+00:00
- [Open Source Self-Driving with Comma AI](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/open-source-self-driving-with-comma-ai) — 2026-04-16T09:00:00+00:00
- [Post-Mortem of Anthropic's Claude Code Leak](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/post-mortem-of-anthropic-s-claude-code-leak) — 2026-04-09T09:00:00+00:00
- [Agentic Coding and the Economics of Open Source](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/agentic-coding-and-the-economics-of-open-source) — 2026-04-02T09:00:00+00:00
- [AI at the Edge is a different operating environment](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/ai-at-the-edge-is-a-different-operating-environment) — 2026-03-25T18:59:43+00:00
- [Humility in the Age of Agentic Coding](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/humility-in-the-age-of-agentic-coding) — 2026-03-17T14:29:29+00:00
- [AI policy and the battle for computing power](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/ai-policy-and-the-battle-for-computing-power) — 2026-03-09T13:27:19+00:00
- [Cognitive Synthesis and Neural Athletes](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/cognitive-synthesis-and-neural-athletes) — 2026-02-18T13:57:44+00:00
- [AI incidents, audits, and the limits of benchmarks](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/ai-incidents-audits-and-the-limits-of-benchmarks) — 2026-02-13T15:57:56+00:00
- [Inside an AI-Run Company](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/inside-an-ai-run-company) — 2026-02-02T19:00:22+00:00
- [How is AI shaping democracy?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/how-is-ai-shaping-democracy) — 2026-01-27T13:58:25+00:00
- [Controlling AI Models from the Inside](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/controlling-ai-models-from-the-inside) — 2026-01-20T19:10:20+00:00
- [2025 was the year of agents, what's coming in 2026?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/2025-was-the-year-of-agents-what-s-coming-in-2026) — 2026-01-09T20:08:07+00:00
- [Beyond chatbots: Agents that tackle your SOPs](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/beyond-chatbots-agents-that-tackle-your-sops) — 2025-12-17T18:30:41+00:00
- [The AI engineer skills gap](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/the-ai-engineer-skills-gap) — 2025-12-10T15:01:19+00:00
- [Technical advances in document understanding](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/technical-advances-in-document-understanding) — 2025-12-02T20:58:43+00:00
- [Chris on AI, autonomous swarming, home automation and Rust!](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/chris-on-ai-autonomous-swarming-home-automation-and-rust) — 2025-11-26T21:28:00+00:00
- [Beyond note-taking with Fireflies](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/beyond-note-taking-with-fireflies) — 2025-11-19T17:59:41+00:00
- [Autonomous Vehicle Research at Waymo](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/autonomous-vehicle-research-at-waymo) — 2025-11-13T15:33:36+00:00
- [Are we in an AI bubble?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/are-we-in-an-ai-bubble) — 2025-11-10T14:18:57+00:00
- [While loops with tool calls](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/while-loops-with-tool-calls) — 2025-10-30T20:39:08+00:00
- [Tiny Recursive Networks](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/tiny-recursive-networks) — 2025-10-24T15:17:53+00:00
- [Dealing with increasingly complicated agents](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/dealing-with-increasingly-complicated-agents) — 2025-10-16T16:30:17+00:00
- [The impact of AI on the workforce: A state-level case study](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/the-impact-of-ai-on-the-workforce-a-state-level-case-study) — 2025-10-09T13:02:04+00:00
- [We've all done RAG, now what?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/we-ve-all-done-rag-now-what) — 2025-09-29T20:46:04+00:00
- [Creating a private AI assistant in Thunderbird](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/creating-a-private-ai-assistant-in-thunderbird) — 2025-09-23T19:50:58+00:00
- [Cracking the code of failed AI pilots](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/cracking-the-code-of-failed-ai-pilots) — 2025-09-11T15:16:03+00:00
- [GenAI risks and global adoption](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/genai-risks-and-global-adoption) — 2025-08-27T15:19:09+00:00
- [Inside America’s AI Action Plan](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/inside-america-s-ai-action-plan) — 2025-08-19T13:51:16+00:00
- [Confident, strategic AI leadership](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/confident-strategic-ai-leadership) — 2025-08-12T18:03:38+00:00
- [Educating a data-literate generation](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/educating-a-data-literate-generation) — 2025-08-08T16:40:01+00:00
- [Workforce dynamics in an AI-assisted world](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/workforce-dynamics-in-an-ai-assisted-world) — 2025-08-01T17:25:25+00:00
- [Reimagining actuarial science with AI](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/reimagining-actuarial-science-with-ai) — 2025-07-25T14:41:35+00:00
- [Agentic AI for Drone & Robotic Swarming](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/agentic-ai-for-drone-robotic-swarming) — 2025-07-15T16:37:07+00:00
- [AI in the shadows: From hallucinations to blackmail](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/ai-in-the-shadows-from-hallucinations-to-blackmail) — 2025-07-07T19:04:27+00:00
- [Finding Nemotron](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/finding-nemotron) — 2025-07-02T18:54:16+00:00
- [AI hot takes and debates: Autonomy](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/ai-hot-takes-and-debates-autonomy) — 2025-06-27T16:26:05+00:00
- [Behind-the-Scenes: VC Funding for AI Startups](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/behind-the-scenes-vc-funding-for-ai-startups) — 2025-06-18T19:23:21+00:00
- [AI-Automated Film Making](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/ai-automated-film-making) — 2025-06-12T15:22:11+00:00
- [Federated learning in production (part 2)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/federated-learning-in-production-part-2) — 2025-06-04T15:46:58+00:00
- [Federated learning in production (part 1)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/federated-learning-in-production-part-1) — 2025-05-30T17:25:32+00:00
- [Emailing like a superhuman](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/emailing-like-a-superhuman) — 2025-05-20T17:55:24+00:00
- [Model Context Protocol Deep Dive](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/model-context-protocol-deep-dive) — 2025-05-08T12:56:50+00:00
- [Seeing beyond the scan in neuroimaging](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/seeing-beyond-the-scan-in-neuroimaging) — 2025-04-30T12:57:06+00:00
- [Open source AI to tackle your backlog](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/open-source-ai-to-tackle-your-backlog) — 2025-04-17T23:12:06+00:00
- [Orchestrating agents, APIs, and MCP servers](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/orchestrating-agents-apis-and-mcp-servers) — 2025-04-14T12:53:31+00:00
- [Software and hardware acceleration with Groq](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/software-and-hardware-acceleration-with-groq) — 2025-04-02T20:51:52+00:00
- [AI-assisted coding with GitHub's COO](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/ai-assisted-coding-with-github-s-coo) — 2025-03-21T21:34:33+00:00
- [Optimizing for efficiency with IBM’s Granite](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/optimizing-for-efficiency-with-ibm-s-granite) — 2025-03-14T13:28:22+00:00
- [Build a workspace of AI agents](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/build-a-workspace-of-ai-agents) — 2025-03-08T17:52:57+00:00
- [GenAI hot takes and bad use cases](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/genai-hot-takes-and-bad-use-cases) — 2025-02-24T17:00:00+00:00
- [Tool calling and agents](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/tool-calling-and-agents) — 2025-02-14T15:00:00+00:00
- [Deep-dive into DeepSeek](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/deep-dive-into-deepseek) — 2025-01-31T15:30:00+00:00
- [Video generation with realistic motion](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/video-generation-with-realistic-motion) — 2025-01-23T16:00:00+00:00
- [Mozart to Megadeth at CHRP](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/mozart-to-megadeth-at-chrp) — 2024-12-19T16:30:00+00:00
- [Sidekick is an AI Shopify expert](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/sidekick-is-an-ai-shopify-expert) — 2024-12-11T22:15:00+00:00
- [Full-duplex, real-time dialogue with Kyutai](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/full-duplex-real-time-dialogue-with-kyutai) — 2024-12-04T16:00:00+00:00
- [Clones, commerce & campaigns](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/clones-commerce-campaigns) — 2024-11-29T17:30:00+00:00
- [scikit-learn & data science you own](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/scikit-learn-data-science-you-own) — 2024-11-19T21:00:00+00:00
- [Creating tested, reliable AI applications](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/creating-tested-reliable-ai-applications) — 2024-11-13T19:30:00+00:00
- [AI is changing the cybersecurity threat landscape](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/ai-is-changing-the-cybersecurity-threat-landscape) — 2024-11-05T19:40:00+00:00
- [The path towards trustworthy AI](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/the-path-towards-trustworthy-ai) — 2024-10-29T19:00:00+00:00
- [Big data is dead, analytics is alive](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/big-data-is-dead-analytics-is-alive) — 2024-10-24T15:30:00+00:00
- [Practical workflow orchestration](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/practical-workflow-orchestration) — 2024-10-15T20:00:00+00:00
- [Towards high-quality (maybe synthetic) datasets](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/towards-high-quality-maybe-synthetic-datasets) — 2024-10-09T13:30:00+00:00
- [Understanding what's possible, doable & scalable](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/understanding-what-s-possible-doable-scalable) — 2024-10-03T15:45:00+00:00
- [GraphRAG (beyond the hype)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/graphrag-beyond-the-hype) — 2024-09-25T18:30:00+00:00
- [Pausing to think about scikit-learn & OpenAI o1](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/pausing-to-think-about-scikit-learn-openai-o1) — 2024-09-17T19:00:00+00:00
- [Cybersecurity in the GenAI age](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/cybersecurity-in-the-genai-age) — 2024-09-11T20:35:00+00:00
- [AI is more than GenAI](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/ai-is-more-than-genai) — 2024-09-05T14:00:00+00:00
- [Metrics Driven Development](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/metrics-driven-development) — 2024-08-29T20:45:00+00:00
- [Threat modeling LLM apps](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/threat-modeling-llm-apps) — 2024-08-22T13:30:00+00:00
- [Only as good as the data](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/only-as-good-as-the-data) — 2024-08-14T21:15:00+00:00
- [Gaudi processors & Intel's AI portfolio](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/gaudi-processors-intel-s-ai-portfolio) — 2024-08-07T13:45:00+00:00
- [Broccoli AI at its best 🥦](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/broccoli-ai-at-its-best) — 2024-07-31T21:40:00+00:00
- [Hyperventilating over the Gartner AI Hype Cycle](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/hyperventilating-over-the-gartner-ai-hype-cycle) — 2024-07-24T19:00:00+00:00
- [The first real-time voice assistant](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/the-first-real-time-voice-assistant) — 2024-07-18T12:45:00+00:00
- [Vectoring in on Pinecone](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/vectoring-in-on-pinecone) — 2024-07-10T17:30:00+00:00
- [Stanford's AI Index Report 2024](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/stanford-s-ai-index-report-2024) — 2024-07-02T19:45:00+00:00
- [Apple Intelligence & Advanced RAG](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/apple-intelligence-advanced-rag) — 2024-06-25T20:45:00+00:00
- [The perplexities of information retrieval](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/the-perplexities-of-information-retrieval) — 2024-06-19T16:30:00+00:00
- [Using edge models to find sensitive data](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/using-edge-models-to-find-sensitive-data) — 2024-06-13T16:45:00+00:00
- [Rise of the AI PC & local LLMs](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/rise-of-the-ai-pc-local-llms) — 2024-06-04T18:45:00+00:00
- [AI in the U.S. Congress](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/ai-in-the-u-s-congress) — 2024-05-29T14:30:00+00:00
- [First impressions of GPT-4o](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/first-impressions-of-gpt-4o) — 2024-05-22T00:30:00+00:00
- [Full-stack approach for effective AI agents](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/full-stack-approach-for-effective-ai-agents) — 2024-05-15T14:00:00+00:00
- [Autonomous fighter jets?!](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/autonomous-fighter-jets) — 2024-05-08T19:00:00+00:00
- [Private, open source chat UIs](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/private-open-source-chat-uis) — 2024-04-30T20:45:00+00:00
- [Mamba & Jamba](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/mamba-jamba) — 2024-04-24T15:45:00+00:00
- [Udio & the age of multi-modal AI](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/udio-the-age-of-multi-modal-ai) — 2024-04-16T18:20:00+00:00
- [RAG continues to rise](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/rag-continues-to-rise) — 2024-04-10T14:00:00+00:00
- [Should kids still learn to code?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/should-kids-still-learn-to-code) — 2024-04-02T20:00:00+00:00
- [AI vs software devs](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/ai-vs-software-devs) — 2024-03-26T19:30:00+00:00
- [Prompting the future](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/prompting-the-future) — 2024-03-20T13:45:00+00:00
- [Generating the future of art & entertainment](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/generating-the-future-of-art-entertainment) — 2024-03-12T17:00:00+00:00
- [YOLOv9: Computer vision is alive and well](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/yolov9-computer-vision-is-alive-and-well) — 2024-03-06T17:00:00+00:00
- [Representation Engineering (Activation Hacking)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/representation-engineering-activation-hacking) — 2024-02-28T15:00:00+00:00
- [Leading the charge on AI in National Security](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/leading-the-charge-on-ai-in-national-security) — 2024-02-20T15:15:00+00:00
- [Gemini vs OpenAI](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/gemini-vs-openai) — 2024-02-14T20:00:00+00:00

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