Welcome to Practical AI

Practical AI is a weekly podcast that’s marking artificial intelligence practical, productive, and accessible to everyone. If world of AI affects your daily life, this show is for you. Whether you're deep in the tools and trends, trying to keep up… (clip from episode #357 https://practicalai.show/357) To the AI curious trying to understand the concepts at play and their implications on our lives… (clip from episode #348 https://practicalai.show/348) Chris Benson and Daniel Whitenack are here to keep you fully-connected with the world of machine learning and data science. Please listen to a recent episode that interests you and subscribe today. We’d love to have you as a listener! Featuring: Chris Benson – Website https://chrisbenson.com, GitHub https://github.com/chrisbenson, LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisbenson, X https://x.com/chrisbensonDaniel Whitenack – Website https://www.datadan.io/, GitHub https://github.com/dwhitena, X https://x.com/dwhitenaUpcoming Events: Register for upcoming webinars here https://practicalai.fm/webinars!

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• 0:02Daniel Whitenack?

  Welcome to the Practical AI Podcast. This is Daniel Lightnak. I am CEO of Prediction Guard and I'm joined as always by my co-host Chris Benson, who is a Principal AI and Autonomy Research Engineer.

• 0:16Chris Benson?

  Practical AI is a weekly podcast that makes artificial intelligence practical, productive, and accessible to everyone. AI now impacts the daily lives of billions of people. If you want to understand the impact on those lives, this is the show for you.

• 0:32Daniel Whitenack?

  Whether you're deep into the tools or trends, or just trying to keep up.

• 0:36Speaker 02

  There's never been a time more where a single person's leverage can be multiplied or maximized. And I'll give you the crystal example. Hermes Agent was first developed internally at Nuus by a guy named Technium. Technium is not a developer, but with the current AI tools, he was able to architect and write and build an application that is now the number one open source repository on GitHub. And so that goes to show you that if you have the vision and the drive and the care, this technology can make you 1,000x what you are.

• 1:11Daniel Whitenack?

  Or trying to make sense of the concepts and their broader implications.

• 1:15Speaker 03

  I think it's Susan Sontag, the SAS and writer, had this line, "To resist metaphor is to endure the thing itself." And I always used to say that we have to endure AI itself. We have to confront this on its own terms and not through the prism of nuclear technology or the internet or something, even though those are so familiar to parts of the US government.

• 1:33Daniel Whitenack?

  Start with any recent episode that catches your interest and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. We'd love to have you be a part of the Practical AI community.