Generative AI 101

By Emily Laird

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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.

Episode Date
Musk vs OpenAI
May 06, 2026
AI Safety: The Deepfake Goes MultiModal
May 05, 2026
ChatGPT 5.5
Apr 29, 2026
GPT Images 2.0
Apr 28, 2026
AI, Layoffs, and the New Corporate Script
Apr 22, 2026
Is Claude Opus 4.7 a Downgrade?
Apr 21, 2026
What Anthropic Found About AI Emotions
Apr 20, 2026
AI Safety Starts With Your Data
Apr 15, 2026
Project Glasswing: When Claude Goes Full Mr. Robot
Apr 14, 2026
Claude Mythos: The Escape Artist
Apr 13, 2026
The AI Doc: Empty Theaters & Loud Warnings
Apr 01, 2026
ASAP: A Crash Course in AI Literacy
Mar 31, 2026
AI Last Week: Let's Catch Up Together!
Mar 30, 2026
a16z's 6th Edition: The Creative Wars
Mar 25, 2026
a16z's 6th Edition: The AI Empire Strikes Back
Mar 24, 2026
a16z's 6th Edition: The AI Attention Game
Mar 23, 2026
Prime Meltdown: The Amazon Engineer's Memo
Mar 19, 2026
ChatGPT 5.4: From Clippy to Corporate Overlord
Mar 18, 2026
Why AI Wearables Are Getting Banned (it seems obvious in a lot of scenarios... but...)
Mar 17, 2026
AI Is Leaving the Chat: The Ambient Device Race Begins
Mar 16, 2026
Blockbuster Layoffs: AI Enters Its Villain Era
Mar 12, 2026
OpenAI’s $110B Bet on the Agent Economy
Mar 11, 2026
The Pentagon Strikes Back: Anthropic, AI Contracts, & the Supply Chain Smackdown
Mar 10, 2026
Long Live the Exponential
Mar 09, 2026
The SpaceX & xAI Merger
Mar 05, 2026
Claude vs. The Pentagon
Mar 04, 2026
Nano Banana 2
Mar 03, 2026
Claude Sonnet 4.6
Mar 02, 2026
When Gemini Thinks, Lyria Sings, & Pomelli Shoots
Feb 25, 2026
Seedance 2.0: The Matrix Got Final Cut Pro
Feb 24, 2026
Something Big Is Happening
Feb 23, 2026
Terminal-Bench 2.0 & the Fight for Real Autonomy
Feb 19, 2026
OpenClaw & the Delegation Dilemma
Feb 17, 2026
BrowseComp vs The Bots that Bluff
Feb 17, 2026
GDPval-AA & the AI Hunger Games for Your Job
Feb 16, 2026
Claude Opus 4.6
Feb 12, 2026
OpenAI’s Frontier & the Rise of Digital Middle Management
Feb 11, 2026
What is Prompt Injection?
Feb 10, 2026
Claude in Excel: Because AI's a Freak in the Sheets Too... Yikes.
Feb 09, 2026
What is Moltbook?
Feb 05, 2026
What is Claude's Constitution?
Feb 04, 2026
The Post-AGI Economist Cometh
Feb 03, 2026
Demis & Dario Go To Davos
Feb 02, 2026
Amazon, AI Agents, and the Layoff Plot Twist
Jan 29, 2026
SAT Prep & Gemini: A Shift Toward Equitable Testing
Jan 28, 2026
xAI's Making "People": The Story of MacroHard
Jan 27, 2026
Gmail Gets a Gemini Brain Upgrade
Jan 22, 2026
Claude Enters the ER: Claude for Healthcare
Jan 21, 2026
Claude Code: Your New Coworker is a Terminal-Dwelling Overlord
Jan 20, 2026
WebMD Walked So ChatGPT Health Could Soar (Straight Into a HIPAA Violation)
Jan 19, 2026
Groq Star: Who is Jonathan Ross?
Jan 14, 2026
Groq & Nvidia: How Inference Got Eaten by the AI Beast
Jan 13, 2026
How Nvidia Took Over the AI Game
Jan 12, 2026
AI Workslop: When AI Takes Over the Office
Dec 16, 2025
Chatbots Are Out, Cyborg Coworkers Are In: Welcome to the Age of Superagency
Dec 15, 2025
ChatGPT Turns 3: From Chatbot to the New WiFi
Dec 10, 2025
ChatGPT Turns 3: Rise of the Prompt People
Dec 09, 2025
ChatGPT Turns 3: The Origin Story
Dec 08, 2025
World Models vs LLMs
Nov 19, 2025
World Models for Beginners
Nov 18, 2025
Yann LeCun: Trading META for World Models
Nov 17, 2025
Dear K–12, AI Isn’t Optional Anymore. Love, Emily
Nov 12, 2025
OpenAI's New Atlas Browser
Nov 11, 2025
GPU-nami: OpenAI’s $38B Cloud Fling with AWS
Nov 10, 2025
What is Claude 4.5?
Nov 05, 2025
Alexa, Fire Middle Management: The Amazon Layoffs
Nov 04, 2025
GPU vs TPU
Nov 03, 2025
Meta Firings: The Great FAIR Purge and Rise of the AI Death Star
Oct 28, 2025
Domo Arigato, Laundry-Bot-o: Meet Figure 03
Oct 27, 2025
Tilly Norwood: Artificially Famous
Oct 16, 2025
Swamp Thing: Musk’s AI Beast Rises in Memphis
Oct 15, 2025
Janitor AI: Chatbots Gone Wild (Seriously)
Oct 14, 2025
OpenAI Dev Day 2025: The Recap
Oct 13, 2025
Talk Nerdy to Me: All About Character AI
Oct 08, 2025
OpenAI's New Toys: Sora 2, a New App, and a Pulse in Pulse
Oct 07, 2025
Dear AGI, You Still Make Me Nervous... Love Always, Emily.
Oct 06, 2025
10 Gigawatts and a Dream: OpenAI, NVIDIA, and the $100B Compute Flex
Sep 23, 2025
Meta’s AR Glow-Up
Sep 22, 2025
Fact-Check or Fail: How to Keep Your AI From Making Stuff Up
Sep 17, 2025
OpenAI, Oracle, and the 4.5 Gigawatt Hunger Games
Sep 16, 2025
The FTC Enters the Chat (And It’s Not Flirting)
Sep 15, 2025
a16z 5th Edition Pt. 4: No-Code, Just Vibes & the Top of the Class
Sep 12, 2025
a16z 5th Edition Pt.3: China's AI Multiverse
Sep 10, 2025
a16z 5th Edition Pt.2: Googlezilla
Sep 09, 2025
The Nerd Billboard 100: a16z’s AI Hit Parade
Sep 08, 2025
The Go Series Pt. 4: Your Move, Human
Aug 27, 2025
The Go Series Pt. 3: Humanity's Last Flex
Aug 25, 2025
The Go Series Pt. 2: Move 37 & the God Move
Aug 20, 2025
The Go Series, Pt. 1: The Game That Broke the Board
Aug 19, 2025
Mixture of Experts: The Wu-Tang Clang of AI
Aug 18, 2025
ChatGPT's Study Mode: Homework’s Plot Twist
Aug 13, 2025
What’s the Difference Between AGI and Superintelligence?
Aug 12, 2025
The One About ChatGPT-5
Aug 11, 2025
Google DeepMind: A Mini Origin Story
Aug 06, 2025
Kimi K2 & the Continuation of the Great AI Arms Race
Aug 05, 2025
Perplexity's Comet Browser & the Rise of AI Browsers
Aug 04, 2025
Meta's Billion Dollar UpScale
Jul 30, 2025
Zuck to the Future: Meta's Superintelligence Lab
Jul 29, 2025
OpenAI’s Agent: What It Is, What It Does, and Why It’s a Big Deal
Jul 28, 2025
AI: The Ozempic of Corporate America
Jul 23, 2025
Andy Jassy & the AI Workforce Purge
Jul 22, 2025
The AI Job Market Has Entered the Chat
Jul 21, 2025
AI Pro Tips Series: Prompt Like a Pro
Jun 18, 2025
AI Pro Tips Series: Assumptions & Stakeholders
Jun 17, 2025
AI Pro Tips Series: Anthropomorphism
Jun 16, 2025
OpenAI's June 2025 Disrupting Malicious Use of AI: Part Deux
Jun 11, 2025
OpenAI's June 2025 Disrupting Malicious Use of AI Report
Jun 10, 2025
Miami-Dade County & the Rise of the GenAI Natives
Jun 09, 2025
AI & Jobs: On Amodei, Huang, & Roose
Jun 05, 2025
Google's Veo 3 Part 2: Use Cases
Jun 04, 2025
Google's Veo 3 Part 1
Jun 03, 2025
Return of the Ive: OpenAI’s $6.5B Minimalist Makeover
Jun 02, 2025
AI & Copyright: The USCO's 3rd AI Report... The Spicy One.
May 22, 2025
AI & Copyright: The USCO Trilogy
May 21, 2025
AI & Copyright: Pipe Dreams & Legal Screams
May 20, 2025
AI & Copyright: ...Yikes.
May 19, 2025
H2-Oh No! Why Your ChatGPT Habit Is Drying Out the Planet
May 07, 2025
Your Chatbot vs. the Planet
May 06, 2025
The LMSArena Illusion
May 05, 2025
I, Chatbot: Does Your LLM Dream of Electric Angst?
Apr 30, 2025
Dario Amodei's Latest Essay
Apr 29, 2025
AI as Therapist, Yep, It's Happening.
Apr 28, 2025
Image Prompt Like a Pro, Yo!
Apr 23, 2025
A1 Art: How to Feed Your Prompt Like a Pro
Apr 22, 2025
Dude, Where's My Job?
Apr 21, 2025
GPT-4.1: All Hail the Lord of the Tokens!
Apr 16, 2025
AI’s Hot Girl Year (According to Stanford)
Apr 15, 2025
ChatGPT Knows What You Did Last Summer.
Apr 14, 2025
The AI Futures Project: Part 4, The End
Apr 11, 2025
The AI Future's Project Part 3: 2027
Apr 10, 2025
The AI Future's Project Part 2: 2026
Apr 09, 2025
The AI Future's Project Part 1
Apr 08, 2025
AGI is Coming. There, I Said It.
Apr 07, 2025
Google's Gemini 2.5
Apr 01, 2025
Humanity's Last Exam
Mar 31, 2025
a16z Top Gen AI Consumer Apps Report: Big Money & Big Scams
Mar 20, 2025
a16z Top Gen AI Consumer Apps Report: The VibeCoder Revolution
Mar 19, 2025
a16z Top Gen AI Consumer Apps Report: Reverage of the Video Gen Models
Mar 18, 2025
a16z Top Gen AI Consumer Apps Report: ChatGPT & Deepseek
Mar 17, 2025
Alibaba’s QwQ-32B-Preview: Qw... Q... the Future?
Mar 13, 2025
Llama 3.3 70B: A lean, mean, useful AI
Mar 12, 2025
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: The AI That Codes & Computes
Mar 11, 2025
ChatGPT 4.5: The Wildcard of AI
Mar 10, 2025
February 2025 Recap: AI Ethics... Oh Boy.
Mar 06, 2025
February 2025 Recap: Industry Integration & Government Regulation
Mar 05, 2025
February 2025 Recap: AI, Lawsuits, and a $97 Billion Bid
Mar 04, 2025
February 2025 Recap: AI Breakthroughs
Mar 03, 2025
Grok & Roll: Musk’s AI War and the Fight for AGI
Feb 27, 2025
xAI's Colossus: Running on GPUs and Controversy
Feb 26, 2025
Grok vs. The World: Musk’s AI with a Rebel Streak
Feb 25, 2025
xAI: Musk, Money, and AI Mayhem
Feb 24, 2025
GEO: How to Impress AI Search
Feb 19, 2025
GEO: Stop Writing for Robots (They’re Over It)
Feb 18, 2025
GEO: SEO's AI Replacement
Feb 17, 2025
SEO Is Dead. Long Live GEO!
Feb 15, 2025
DeepSeek: Fact vs Fiction
Feb 14, 2025
Reasoning Models & Prompt Engineering: Ask Smarter, Get Smarter
Feb 13, 2025
Pop Quiz, AI: How Do You Test a Thinking Machine?
Feb 12, 2025
A Reasoning Model Thinks, Therefore It...Is?
Feb 11, 2025
AI Inference. Reading Between the Data Points.
Feb 10, 2025
AI Agents Are Unionizing (Kind of)
Feb 05, 2025
Silicon Valley’s New Favorite Money Pit: AI Agents
Feb 04, 2025
Who Runs the World? Agents.
Feb 03, 2025
DeepSeek: The Cool Kid Giving Silicon Valley an AI Panic Attack
Jan 29, 2025
OpenAI's Operator Agent: Beta Mode, Big Hype, and a Dash of Hallucinations
Jan 28, 2025
The Stargate Project: America’s $500 Billion AI Flex
Jan 27, 2025
Office Space Meets Terminator: AI Agents and the Future of Work
Jan 22, 2025
AI Agents: Trying to Steal Your Job, Your Boyfriend, and Probably Your Netflix Password
Jan 21, 2025
The Rise of the Agent (But with Better Customer Service, Hopefully)
Jan 20, 2025
Warp Speed, Mr. Sulu! Making Latency Disappear
Jan 16, 2025
The Need for Speed: Fixing AI Latency
Jan 15, 2025
Latency in AI: Ain't Nobody Got Time for That!
Jan 14, 2025
Open-Source AI, So Hot Right Now.
Jan 13, 2025
OpenAI's 12 Days of Shipmas: Days 10 - 12
Jan 09, 2025
OpenAI's 12 Days of Shipmas: Days 7 - 9
Jan 08, 2025
OpenAI's 12 Days of Shipmas: Days 4 - 6
Jan 07, 2025
OpenAI's 12 Days of Shipmas: Days 1 - 3
Jan 06, 2025
12 Days of AI Tools: Goblin Tools
Dec 25, 2024
12 Days of AI Tools: Google’s Deep Research
Dec 24, 2024
12 Days of AI Tools: Microsoft Clipchamp
Dec 23, 2024
12 Days of AI Tools: Adobe Firefly
Dec 22, 2024
12 Days of AI Tools: ElevenLabs
Dec 21, 2024
12 Days of AI Tools: TinyWow
Dec 20, 2024
12 Days of AI Tools: Poe
Dec 19, 2024
12 Days of AI Tools: QuillBot
Dec 18, 2024
12 Days of AI Tools: Suno
Dec 17, 2024
12 Days of AI Tools: Perplexity AI
Dec 16, 2024
12 Days of AI Tools: Character AI
Dec 15, 2024
12 Days of AI Tools: Google's NotebookLM
Dec 14, 2024
AGI: An Ethical Dilemma
Dec 12, 2024
AGI: The Great Timeline Debate
Dec 11, 2024
AGI: Progress & Roadblocks
Dec 10, 2024
What is AGI?
Dec 09, 2024
November Recap: AI Shaping Tomorrow
Dec 05, 2024
November Recap: AI on Trial
Dec 04, 2024
November Recap: AI Breakthroughs
Dec 03, 2024
November Recap: AI's Power Plays
Dec 02, 2024
AI in Space: Generative AI & the Search for Life Beyond Earth
Nov 22, 2024
AI in Space: Generative AI Enters the Space Race
Nov 21, 2024
AI in Space: Autonomy & Robotics
Nov 20, 2024
AI in Space: Blueprints & Algorithms
Nov 18, 2024
AI in Engineering: How AI is Redesigning the World
Nov 14, 2024
AI in Engineering: Generative AI's Creative Takeover
Nov 13, 2024
AI in Engineering: AI's Modern Muscle
Nov 12, 2024
AI in Engineering: An Origin Story
Nov 11, 2024
October’s AI Power Moves: Ghostly Assistants, Open-Source Giants, and Blueprints for the Future
Nov 07, 2024
By Order of AI: October’s Biggest Government Power Moves
Nov 06, 2024
AI Power Plays: October’s Boldest Partnerships and Investments
Nov 05, 2024
AI on Trial: October’s Biggest Battles in Tech
Nov 04, 2024
AI in Finance - Finance Reimagined with Generative AI
Oct 31, 2024
AI in Finance - Spotlight on Security
Oct 30, 2024
AI in Finance - Finance Gets Personal
Oct 29, 2024
AI in Finance - The New Frontier
Oct 28, 2024
AI in Manufacturing: Sustainability and the Future of Production
Oct 23, 2024
AI in Manufacturing: Product Design and Customization
Oct 22, 2024
AI in Manufacturing: Optimizing Production
Oct 21, 2024
AI & GenAI in Manufacturing
Oct 16, 2024
AI & GenAI in Industries Series
Oct 15, 2024
Synthesia & HeyGen Video Tools
Oct 14, 2024
What is OpenAI's Sora?
Oct 09, 2024
Runway AI + Lionsgate Partnership
Oct 08, 2024
What is Runway AI?
Oct 07, 2024
AI Video Generation - Industry Application
Oct 03, 2024
AI Video Generation - Ethics, Law, & Technical Hurdles
Oct 02, 2024
AI Video Generation - Benefits & Applications
Oct 01, 2024
AI Video Generation
Sep 30, 2024
OpenAI's o1 Preview - Use Cases, Limitations, and the Future
Sep 26, 2024
OpenAI's o1 Preview by the Numbers
Sep 25, 2024
OpenAI's o1 Preview - the Inner Workings
Sep 24, 2024
OpenAI's o1 Preview
Sep 23, 2024
Generative AI Image Use in Industry
Sep 19, 2024
Training GenAI Image Models
Sep 18, 2024
Image Prompting 101
Sep 17, 2024
What is NightCafe?
Sep 16, 2024
What is Stable Diffusion?
Sep 12, 2024
What is DALL-E?
Sep 11, 2024
What is Midjourney?
Sep 10, 2024
Generative AI for Image Generation
Sep 09, 2024
Bonus Episode: Stop Sounding Like ChatGPT
Sep 05, 2024
What is the Elo Rating System?
Sep 04, 2024
LMSYS Org & Chatbot Arena
Sep 03, 2024
How do you evaluate Generative AI?
Sep 02, 2024
What are AI Hallucinations?
Aug 28, 2024
Fine-Tuning GenAI Prompts
Aug 27, 2024
The Bias & Blunders of GenAI
Aug 26, 2024
What is BAB Prompting?
Aug 21, 2024
What is CARE Prompting?
Aug 20, 2024
What is RACE Prompting?
Aug 19, 2024
What is RTF Prompting?
Aug 14, 2024
What is Self-Consistency Prompting?
Aug 13, 2024
What is Chain-of-Thought (CoT) Prompting?
Aug 12, 2024
What is Few-Shot Prompting?
Aug 07, 2024
What is One-Shot Prompting?
Aug 06, 2024
What is Zero-Shot Prompting?
Aug 05, 2024
Writing the Perfect Prompt
Jul 31, 2024
The Anatomy of a Good Prompt
Jul 30, 2024
What is Prompt Engineering?
Jul 29, 2024
What is Meta's LLaMa?
Jul 24, 2024
What is Microsoft Copilot?
Jul 23, 2024
What is Mistral AI?
Jul 22, 2024
What is Anthropic's Claude?
Jul 17, 2024
What is Google's Gemini?
Jul 16, 2024
What is ChatGPT?
Jul 15, 2024
How LLMs Make Coherent Text
Jul 10, 2024
Training Large Language Models (LLMs
Jul 09, 2024
The Evolution of Large Language Models (LLMs)
Jul 08, 2024
What is a Large Language Model (LLM)?
Jul 03, 2024
Natural Language Processing Techniques & Concepts
Jul 02, 2024
Natural Language Processing (NLP) Concepts
Jul 01, 2024
The History of Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Jun 28, 2024
What is Natural Language Processing (NLP)?
Jun 27, 2024
Transformers Mini Series: How do Transformers Process Text?
Jun 26, 2024
Transformers Mini Series: How do Transformers work?
Jun 25, 2024
What is a Transformer?
Jun 24, 2024
Deep Learning Mini Series: What are Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs)?
Jun 21, 2024
Deep Learning Mini Series: What are Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs)?
Jun 20, 2024
Deep Learning Mini Series: What is a Neural Network?
Jun 19, 2024
Machine Learning Mini Series - What is Reinforcement Learning?
Jun 18, 2024
Machine Learning Mini Series - What is Unsupervised Learning?
Jun 17, 2024
Machine Learning Mini Series - What is Supervised Learning?
Jun 14, 2024
Machine Learning Mini Series - What is Machine Learning?
Jun 13, 2024
Decoding AI, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning
Jun 13, 2024
A History of Generative AI
Jun 10, 2024
What is Generative AI?
Jun 07, 2024