Practical AI

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

100 episodes

The Future of AI Infrastructure with CoreWeave
17 July 2026 50 min
Building Durable AI Agents
9 July 2026 46 min
Image Generation and Visual Intelligence with Black Forest Labs
2 July 2026 48 min
AIUC-1: Building trust in AI agents
25 June 2026 45 min
Zero Trust for AI Agents
11 June 2026 47 min
Breaking down the 2026 Stanford AI Index Report
4 June 2026 47 min
Rebooting Enterprise AI with MCP and Kubernetes
28 May 2026 48 min
Hermes Agent: Agents that grow with you
21 May 2026 51 min
U.S. Congressman Beyer on AI challenges facing America and the World
14 May 2026 45 min
The Myth of Model Wars: Open vs Closed AI in 2026
7 May 2026 42 min
The mythos of Mythos and Allbirds takes flight to the neocloud
23 April 2026 45 min
Open Source Self-Driving with Comma AI
16 April 2026 46 min
Post-Mortem of Anthropic's Claude Code Leak
9 April 2026 44 min
Agentic Coding and the Economics of Open Source
2 April 2026 48 min
AI at the Edge is a different operating environment
25 March 2026 46 min
Humility in the Age of Agentic Coding
17 March 2026 55 min
AI policy and the battle for computing power
9 March 2026 48 min
Cognitive Synthesis and Neural Athletes
18 February 2026 52 min
AI incidents, audits, and the limits of benchmarks
13 February 2026 42 min
Inside an AI-Run Company
2 February 2026 49 min
How is AI shaping democracy?
27 January 2026 48 min
Controlling AI Models from the Inside
20 January 2026 43 min
2025 was the year of agents, what’s coming in 2026?
9 January 2026 51 min transcript summary
Beyond chatbots: Agents that tackle your SOPs
17 December 2025 45 min
The AI engineer skills gap
10 December 2025 45 min transcript summary
Technical advances in document understanding
2 December 2025 49 min transcript summary
Chris on AI, autonomous swarming, home automation and Rust!
26 November 2025 1h 37m
Beyond note-taking with Fireflies
19 November 2025 48 min
Autonomous Vehicle Research at Waymo
13 November 2025 52 min
Are we in an AI bubble?
10 November 2025 49 min transcript summary
While loops with tool calls
30 October 2025 44 min
Tiny Recursive Networks
24 October 2025 48 min
Dealing with increasingly complicated agents
16 October 2025 54 min
The impact of AI on the workforce: A state-level case study
9 October 2025 44 min
We've all done RAG, now what?
29 September 2025 43 min
Creating a private AI assistant in Thunderbird
23 September 2025 53 min
Cracking the code of failed AI pilots
11 September 2025 46 min
GenAI risks and global adoption
27 August 2025 43 min
Inside America’s AI Action Plan
19 August 2025 43 min
Confident, strategic AI leadership
12 August 2025 47 min
Educating a data-literate generation
8 August 2025 44 min
Workforce dynamics in an AI-assisted world
1 August 2025 44 min
Reimagining actuarial science with AI
25 July 2025 40 min
Agentic AI for Drone & Robotic Swarming
15 July 2025 46 min
AI in the shadows: From hallucinations to blackmail
7 July 2025 44 min
Finding Nemotron
2 July 2025 46 min
AI hot takes and debates: Autonomy
27 June 2025 45 min
Behind-the-Scenes: VC Funding for AI Startups
18 June 2025 41 min
AI-Automated Film Making
12 June 2025 43 min
Federated learning in production (part 2)
4 June 2025 45 min
Federated learning in production (part 1)
30 May 2025 44 min
Emailing like a superhuman
20 May 2025 47 min
Model Context Protocol Deep Dive
8 May 2025 42 min
Seeing beyond the scan in neuroimaging
30 April 2025 42 min
Open source AI to tackle your backlog
17 April 2025 42 min
Orchestrating agents, APIs, and MCP servers
14 April 2025 42 min
Software and hardware acceleration with Groq
2 April 2025 43 min
AI-assisted coding with GitHub’s COO
21 March 2025 50 min transcript summary
Optimizing for efficiency with IBM’s Granite
14 March 2025 43 min
Build a workspace of AI agents
8 March 2025 47 min
GenAI hot takes and bad use cases
24 February 2025 30 min
Tool calling and agents
14 February 2025 45 min
Deep-dive into DeepSeek
31 January 2025 50 min
Video generation with realistic motion
23 January 2025 45 min
Mozart to Megadeth at CHRP
19 December 2024 53 min transcript summary
Sidekick is an AI Shopify expert
11 December 2024 51 min
Full-duplex, real-time dialogue with Kyutai
4 December 2024 50 min
Clones, commerce & campaigns
29 November 2024 53 min
scikit-learn & data science you own
19 November 2024 52 min transcript summary
Creating tested, reliable AI applications
13 November 2024 50 min
AI is changing the cybersecurity threat landscape
5 November 2024 55 min transcript summary
The path towards trustworthy AI
29 October 2024 51 min
Big data is dead, analytics is alive
24 October 2024 50 min
Practical workflow orchestration
15 October 2024 58 min
Towards high-quality (maybe synthetic) datasets
9 October 2024 57 min
Understanding what's possible, doable & scalable
3 October 2024 1h 2m
GraphRAG (beyond the hype)
25 September 2024 55 min
Pausing to think about scikit-learn & OpenAI o1
17 September 2024 50 min
Cybersecurity in the GenAI age
11 September 2024 51 min
AI is more than GenAI
5 September 2024 40 min
Metrics Driven Development
29 August 2024 42 min
Threat modeling LLM apps
22 August 2024 54 min
Only as good as the data
14 August 2024 45 min
Gaudi processors & Intel's AI portfolio
7 August 2024 46 min
Broccoli AI at its best 🥦
31 July 2024 42 min
Hyperventilating over the Gartner AI Hype Cycle
24 July 2024 55 min
The first real-time voice assistant
18 July 2024 43 min
Vectoring in on Pinecone
10 July 2024 44 min
Stanford's AI Index Report 2024
2 July 2024 47 min
Apple Intelligence & Advanced RAG
25 June 2024 45 min
The perplexities of information retrieval
19 June 2024 46 min
Using edge models to find sensitive data
13 June 2024 38 min
Rise of the AI PC & local LLMs
4 June 2024 35 min
AI in the U.S. Congress
29 May 2024 40 min
First impressions of GPT-4o
22 May 2024 43 min
Full-stack approach for effective AI agents
15 May 2024 47 min
Autonomous fighter jets?!
8 May 2024 41 min
Private, open source chat UIs
30 April 2024 38 min
Mamba & Jamba
24 April 2024 41 min
Udio & the age of multi-modal AI
16 April 2024 38 min

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