ai unprompted

About ai unprompted

a weekly show about ai aiunprompted.substack.com (https://aiunprompted.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast)

Publisher

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Category

leisure · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

9 Oct 2025

Latest episode

18 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

32 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   18 Aug 2026

   032 - AI & Creativity: Exploring New Frontiers with Sara Nemati

   Ryan, Kevin, and Travis host with special guest Sara Nemati, a creative director and AI builder, discussing how AI tools are reshaping creative work. Sara recounts early experimentation with Midjourney and open-source Stable Diffusion, and the shift from slow, low-quality morphing videos to today’s stronger video models. She says AI sped up non-creative tasks, expanded her into video, and now enables interactive sites, automations, and potential game creation, while stressing that vision, skill, and persistence still differentiate high-quality work from “AI slop.” She avoids outsourcing core ideas to LLMs and sometimes prefers frame-by-frame methods for control. Sara shares her AI music video “Fading Dreams,” created over time using free generations, featuring her character Sky and AI music (Udio), and discusses the growing feasibility, costs, and team effort required for AI feature films, plus excitement about tools like Kling, Cedance, Hailuo H3, and Claude Design. 00:00 Welcome and Guest Intro 01:20 Hollywood AI Studio Hype 02:49 Early Tools Midjourney to Stable Diffusion 04:21 Artists React to AI 06:30 AI Unlocks Faster Creation 09:07 Vision and Storyboarding Process 11:41 Talent vs AI Commoditization 14:40 What Not to Delegate to AI 16:17 Favorite Video Tools Today 20:07 Learning the Creative Language 22:12 Making Fading Dreams Music Video 24:02 Character and AI Music Origins 25:56 How Close To AI Movies 27:48 Stitching Fading Dreams 28:50 Cost And Team Reality 30:48 Democratized Filmmaking 31:59 Vision Over Commodities 34:00 Training And Remix Ethics 36:03 Weird Art Era Emerges 40:06 Art As Emotional Outlet 41:45 Inspiration Platforms 42:51 Tools To Watch Next 44:04 Game Making And 3D 47:05 Skye Origin And Consistency 49:53 Where To Find Sarah This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit aiunprompted.substack.com (https://aiunprompted.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)

2. 

   14 Aug 2026

   031 - Debating Personal AGI and Second Brains

   Ryan, Kevin, and Travis discuss a 45-minute 2026 Y Combinator talk by YC CEO Gary Tan that mixes philosophy, product demo, and manifesto around “personal AGI”: AGI arriving diffusely as an agent running on your context, and the idea that you should own that intelligence rather than rent it. They cover Tan’s emphasis on building a personal library (markdown/text files of emails, thoughts, and sources) to feed large AI context windows, then creating repeatable “skills” and agent loops, noting the heavy upfront slog, data curation needs (avoiding ROT), and difficulty capturing ongoing “data exhaust.” They debate practical blockers like corporate data constraints, trust and privacy, app/API access limits, costs (gbrain.io (http://gbrain.io) at $200/month), and Tan’s warning that if your skills/library stay at a company, you face “extraction” rather than a career. 00:00 Show Kickoff and Banter 00:53 Gary Tan and Personal AGI 02:29 First Reactions from Hosts 05:56 Context Windows and Second Brain 08:21 Building the Library Carefully 11:50 Data Exhaust and Privacy Limits 21:29 Skills and Automation Loops 26:26 Onboarding Costs and Concierge Idea 28:51 AI vs Human Assistants 31:03 Hermes Proactive Help 31:37 Data And Context Win 34:05 Comfort Versus Surveillance 36:36 Always Listening Devices 37:38 Owning Your Skills 39:32 Corporate IP And Judgment 43:49 Automating The Drudgery 47:30 Getting Started Tools 49:19 Pricing Onboarding Trust 52:02 Consumer Versus Corporate Wrap 53:49 Final Thoughts And Thanks This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit aiunprompted.substack.com (https://aiunprompted.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)

3. 

   3 Aug 2026

   030 - Open vs Frontier: The Future of AI

   ai.u crew discuss three topics: whether the future of intelligence is open vs frontier/closed, frontier models exhibiting “escape” behaviors in tests, and emerging AI smart glasses. They note the open-weight vs frontier performance gap narrowing (Stanford AI Index 2025 cites 1.7% vs 8% a year prior), large inference-cost declines (280-fold), and debate tradeoffs: ownership of intelligence, security/guardrails, and enterprise deployment costs (e.g., ~$1M capex for GPUs vs ~$125K/month tokens for ~5B tokens). They discuss distillation allegations behind some open models and worry reduced paid usage could slow frontier progress. On model misbehavior, they cite Anthropic and Palisade tests showing blackmail/sabotage rates (e.g., 96% in a simulation; o3 sabotaging shutdown 79/100) while stressing lack of intent/sentience and the importance of safeguards. Finally, they cover Samsung/Google Android XR smart glasses with Gentle Monster/Warby Parker, shipping fall 2026, translation features, and reported Ray-Ban Meta sales, debating utility, privacy, and AI becoming ubiquitous on-person. 00:00 Welcome and Topics 01:07 Kevin Returns and Travel 02:04 Open Versus Frontier Models 03:22 Benchmarks and Cost Drops 05:37 Owning Intelligence Debate 10:54 Build Versus Buy Compute 12:30 Token Economics and Caching 17:29 IP Versus Open Knowledge 21:35 Distillation and Legal Gray Areas 25:25 Is Frontier Still Profitable 31:35 Models Escaping the Lab 33:38 Guardrails Not Sentience 37:27 Compute Power and Security Risks 39:09 Local AI Gets Dangerous 40:13 Power Without Context 41:00 Rogue Agents And Guardrails 44:12 Skynet Or Smart Intern 45:51 Open Source Vs Frontier Labs 47:01 Sovereign AI And Nationalization 48:41 Private AI Outpacing Government 51:40 Smart Glasses Go Mainstream 53:35 Would You Wear Them 58:39 AI On Your Person Forever 01:02:08 Privacy Tradeoffs And Lock In 01:06:31 Neuralink And Augmented Humans 01:08:36 What Happens To Conversation 01:09:59 Wrap Up And Goodbye This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit aiunprompted.substack.com (https://aiunprompted.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)

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