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Personal Agent
Say It and It’s Done
This time the star isn’t a chatbot — it’s an AI that does things. Message it like a friend, and it looks things up, does the work, and hands you the finished piece. Start with the keys: first setting, look but don’t touch.
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- AI that gets the work doneIt doesn’t just chat — it takes step after step until the job is finished.3 episodes
- How AI learnsThe books it read and the patterns it kept, and how they become a way with words.1 episode
- Careful with AIIt says things smoothly, so check the numbers that matter yourself.1 episode
- Don’t trust the invented bitsIt doesn’t know, so it makes something convincing up. Learn to spot it first.1 episode
- AI at workHand over the doing. The deciding stays with you.1 episode
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7 songs in all. Newest at the top.
TRACK 06Large Language ModelYou probably picture a giant dictionary inside it: ask a question, it turns to the page and reads the answer out. Wrong — it has not stored a single page. What it learned is how to chain words, one at a time, guessing its way to a whole sentence the way you play a word-chain game. This episode has one job: explain what a large language model actually is, and how it manages to talk at all.
TRACK 05JudgmentWork can be handed over. Judgment cannot be outsourced. The AI does the work; the person decides: set the boundary, cut what doesn’t earn its place, do the math, and decide.
TRACK 04HarnessIt keeps botching the job, and your first instinct is to swap in a smarter one. You pay for the pricier model — same failures. This episode is about Harness: the gear the model works in — rules, tools, boundaries, memory, checks. The horse is fine. With sloppy gear, even a great horse can’t run steady.
TRACK 03HallucinationThe AI isn’t looking the answer up. It’s guessing which next word sounds most true — and where it doesn’t know, it doesn’t stop; it fills the gap with something that sounds right. Smooth isn’t true.
TRACK 02DATUMOJAll the government’s data sits right there on the web. Ask an AI for a number directly, though, and it gets it wrong, invents one, and can’t name a source. The Data Gate fetches the official files home first, numbers and stores them, and only then lets the AI answer — found it, here’s the citation; not found, it says exactly that.
TRACK 01Agent LoopSwitching off and forgetting isn’t learning. Each loop, an Agent writes its experience into files, saves anything it did right three times as a skill, and checks before it acts. One song, on how it gets smarter with use.
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