Hosted by Emily Laird · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 299 episodes
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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.
Emily Laird hosts Generative AI 101, a technology show with 299 episodes published.
OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol is not just another smarter model, it is a preview of controlled intelligence as the new product category. In this episode, host Emily Laird breaks down the real stakes: government-visible model rele
In this episode of Generative AI 101, host Emily Laird breaks down recursive self-improvement, the feedback loop where AI begins helping build better AI. The reality check: this is not a chatbot fantasy, it is frontier l
Host Emily Laird takes AI meeting intelligence out of the buzzword blender and asks the only question that matters: did the meeting actually change anything? From decision logs and owners to risk flags and follow-up draf
Host Emily Laird breaks down Elon Musk’s failed case against OpenAI, where nonprofit ideals, Microsoft money, capped-profit math, and one brutal statute of limitations collide like Avengers with subpoenas. The lawsuit ma
Host Emily Laird breaks down Microsoft’s big workplace AI finding: employees are adapting fast, but company culture, managers, and reward systems are dragging behind like a Windows 95 loading screen. This episode tackles
Host Emily Laird breaks down OpenAI’s full-stack power play, from GPT-5.5 Instant becoming the new ChatGPT default to voice agents, browser-based Codex, and the subterranean network tech keeping giant GPU clusters alive.
Host Emily Laird follows Anthropic as Claude graduates from polite chatbot to office cyborg with spreadsheets, agents, audit logs, and a utility bill that could make Zeus sweat. From Excel and Outlook to finance agents a
Host Emily Laird pulls back the curtain on the SpaceX-Anthropic compute deal, where AI stops looking like cloud magic and starts looking like megawatts, GPUs, cooling systems, and very expensive landlord drama. This epis
Host Emily Laird blasts past the “AI is slowing down” takes and shows why the machine is actually speeding up, from frontier models to coding benchmarks to data centers humming like the Death Star. This episode breaks do
Host Emily Laird breaks down Elon Musk’s courtroom showdown with OpenAI, where founding promises, billion-dollar stakes, and Silicon Valley grudges collide like a Marvel multiverse with subpoenas. This episode unpacks ho
On Generative AI 101, host Emily Laird breaks down why AI safety in 2026 is less about spotting seven-fingered weirdness and more about questioning the smooth, polished fake in a designer suit. From voice cloning scams t
Host Emily Laird breaks down why GPT-5.5 is less chatty sidekick and more office-grade operator, the AI equivalent of R2-D2 getting admin access. From agentic coding and massive context windows to tax forms, research, an
Host Emily Laird breaks down ChatGPT Images 2.0, the upgrade turning AI art from party trick into a full-blown visual production machine. From readable text and better layouts to storyboards, posters, slides, and multili
Host Emily Laird takes on the month AI became the top stated reason for layoffs, and asks the question everybody with a badge and a mortgage is already thinking. This episode slices through the hype, the panic, and the c
Host Emily Laird cracks open the glossy launch pitch around Claude Opus 4.7 and compares it with the internet’s much less polite review. This episode digs into the backlash over higher token burn, odd behavior, trust iss
Emily Laird pulls apart Anthropic’s latest research to show why this episode is not about sentient chatbots crying into the void. It is about functional emotions, the internal signals that can steer an AI model toward ca
Host Emily Laird breaks down why the scariest part of AI is not the robot voice, it is the quiet moment someone pastes the wrong file into the wrong prompt box. This episode unpacks data governance, RAG, plugins, Shadow
Host Emily Laird cracks open Anthropic’s Project Glasswing, a defense-first rollout built for a world where AI can spot cyber weak points faster than most humans can spell "zero-day." This episode breaks down why Claude
Host Emily Laird breaks down why Anthropic hit the brakes on Claude Mythos Preview, an AI model so good at finding software flaws it got routed into a restricted defensive program instead of a public launch. This episode
Host Emily Laird digs into The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist and the real gut-punch was not just the film, it was the empty seats. This episode breaks down why AI literacy still feels like an elective while t
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