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Hands-On AI explores and explains artificial intelligence — and shows you how to actually use it. Because AI is exactly that: a tool, and like any tool, what matters is what you do with it. In short, focused episodes, Mikah Sargent takes you inside the technology reshaping how we work, create, and communicate. Learn what's really happening inside a large language model, run AI entirely on your own hardware, put the AI already in your pocket to work, and discover uses you hadn't thought of. No buzzwords, no doom — just practical, hands-on help from one human to another.
Submit your AI questions through email at handsonai@twit.tv or via TWiT's social media. You might hear your question answered on the show!
New episodes every Thursday.
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HOAI 5: Why Does AI Sound So Generic? - One Prompt, Five Runs, and What Prompt Engineering Really Means
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Oct 29, 2026 |
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HOAI 4: Is AI Deep Research Worth the Wait? - Four AI Deep Research Tools Get One Hard Question and a Stopwatch
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Oct 23, 2026 |
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HOAI 3: The AI That Does the Thing - Meta's Muse Agent Takes On Simple, Hard, and Weird Jobs
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Oct 15, 2026 |
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HOAI 2: Nine Billion Knobs - What's Actually Inside an AI Model, Explained
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Oct 09, 2026 |
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HOAI 1: The Chatbot in Your Laptop - Run AI on Your Own Computer, No Cloud Required
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Oct 01, 2026 |
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Welcome to Hands-On AI
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Sep 28, 2026 |
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HOAI: Hands-On AI Is Getting Into the Good Stuff - Local Models, Open Weights, No Cloud
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Sep 18, 2026 |
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HOAI: Hands-On AI Cuts Through Hype and Doom - AI Is a Tool. Here's What It Actually Does
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Sep 09, 2026 |
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HOAI: Introducing Hands-On AI - Everyone Says You Should Use AI. Nobody Says How.
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Sep 02, 2026 |