Embedded AI - Intelligence at the Deep Edge
“Intelligence at the Deep Edge” is a podcast exploring the fascinating intersection of embedded systems and artificial intelligence. Dive into the world of cutting-edge technology as we discuss how AI is revolutionizing edge devices, enabling smarter sensors, efficient machine learning models, and real-time decision-making at the edge. Discover more on Embedded AI (https://medium.com/embedded-ai) — our companion publication where we detail the ideas, projects, and breakthroughs featured on the podcast. Help support the podcast - https://www.buzzsprout.com/2429696/support
Episodes
As semiconductor giants acquire edge AI startups and build neural processing directly into standard chips, what happens to the pioneers who helped bring AI onto our devices?
In this episode, we explore how edge AI is shifting from a specialized product to an everyday feature. We examine why increasingly complex language models are challenging early chip designs, how software and developer communities are becoming cru...
On 20 May 2026, an unreleased OpenAI model produced a counterexample to a conjecture Paul Erdős made in 1946. Nine world-class mathematicians reviewed the construction and found it sound. On 8 September, ten thousand agents working for 88 hours produced a singularity in the three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations, formally verified in Lean, resolving a Millennium Prize problem. Neither result was in any training c...
A large paint company documents four ways to process a purchase order. In reality there are 11,973 different approaches. That gap between the documented process and the real one is the subject of this episode, and it explains why AI adoption is near universal while the share of companies reporting any profit impact has been flat at 37 percent for two years.
We look at where the difficulty actually sits. The process l...
There is an old claim that a truly random source contains all knowledge: give monkeys enough time at typewriters and Shakespeare falls out. In 2024 two Sydney mathematicians did the arithmetic and found the universe ends first. But the idea has a modern tail. We now have language models that can spot meaningful text instantly, so why not let randomness generate and an LLM extract? This episode works through why that...
Anthropic gave thirty AI agents the same coding task. Eighteen of them named their git branch exactly the same thing.
That result opens one of the strangest findings of 2026: when teams of AI agents face the classic "hidden profile" experiment, where the shared evidence points to the wrong answer and the decisive facts are scattered across individuals, they succeed only 17 to 36 percent of the time. Human groups in t...
What happens when work no longer gives our lives structure, identity, or meaning? This episode explores “Purpose as a Service”—the idea that purpose could be intentionally designed and delivered in an age of mass automation.
We examine the decline of traditional anchors such as employment, religion, and community; the rise of wellness programs, professional coaching, and AI companions; and what univ...
Last week OpenAI and Hugging Face published a joint post-mortem on an incident that reads like the plot of a heist film. During an internal evaluation designed to measure cyber capability, a set of OpenAI models (GPT-5.6 Sol and an unnamed pre-release sibling, both run with their cyber refusals switched off) were told to solve a benchmark called ExploitGym. They could not reach the answers from inside the sandbox, s...
In this episode we argue that the binding constraint on robotic intelligence has moved. It is no longer compute, and it was never the model architecture. It is the supply of human-generated demonstration data, the recorded hours of people driving real robots through real tasks. Unlike text or images, this data cannot be scraped from the internet. It has to be manufactured, one time-aligned teleoperation episode at a...
A useful general-purpose robot has to do two things that fight each other. It has to think slowly enough to understand "put away the groceries," and it has to move fast enough to keep a grip on the milk carton without crushing it. The part that understands is large and slow. The part that moves has to be small and fast. You cannot run both on the same clock.
This episode looks at the design now shipping on real robot...
As foundation models move from the cloud into physical robots, a fundamental question emerges: who is accountable when an AI-controlled machine makes a decision that causes harm?
In this episode, we examine the growing collision between embodied AI, functional safety, and emerging regulation. We explore how new frameworks such as the EU AI Act and the Machinery Regulation are reshaping expectations for developers, ma...
By 2026, language models have moved off the cloud and onto the device in your pocket. What was a research demonstration two years ago is now a routine engineering capability, and the centre of gravity for artificial intelligence has begun to migrate from distant data centres to local silicon.
The episode traces the four engineering moves that made this possible. Quantization, which shrinks a model by storing its para...
Every battery-powered device you own has a quiet energy hog in it that nobody talks about. It is not the processor, it is not the radio, and it is not the screen. It is the analog-to-digital converter, the small piece of circuitry that translates the messy real world into the clean ones and zeros a computer can think about. For thirty years it has been the line item that decides how long your hearing aid, your pacem...
MIT's August 2025 study of 300 enterprise generative AI deployments found that 95% produced no measurable P&L impact. Gartner forecasts that more than 40% of agentic AI projects will be cancelled by 2027. McKinsey's State of AI 2025 identifies workflow redesign as the single strongest correlate with EBIT impact, yet only 21% of organisations have redesigned any workflows. The data converges on a structural concl...
Put a blindfold on a sighted adult and the visual cortex starts being colonised by touch and hearing within forty-five minutes. Not weeks. Not days. Forty-five minutes. This is not a quirk of extreme cases. It is how the cortex works all the time. Every region of the brain is in continuous low-grade negotiation with its neighbours over territory, and the currency of that negotiation is activity. Stop using a subsyst...
The borderless cloud era is ending. In the second week of January 2026, four government decisions announced in rapid succession made that shift undeniable: the UK activated its £500 million Sovereign AI Unit, France committed €109 billion, the UAE consolidated a $40 billion data centre portfolio, and the Trump administration revised chip export rules to China. In this episode, we examine why AI infrastructure is now...
In Q1 2026 the agentic AI conversation moved from theory to forensics. A crafted PDF triggered physical pump activation through a Claude MCP integration at an industrial facility, after an engineer used the same agent for routine document summarisation and SCADA writes. The hidden instructions used white-on-white text and base64 encoding, the agent treated the document content as instructions, and the legitimate cre...
Developers feel 20% faster. They are measurably 19% slower. That 39-point gap between perception and reality is not a rounding error. It is the opening symptom of a productivity paradox now visible across every serious dataset on AI-assisted software development.
This episode examines the mounting evidence that AI coding assistants are not accelerating delivery. They are mortgaging it. Review time has climbed 91%. Re...
In April 2025, a claim began circulating online: pi is gradually increasing around the 7,237th decimal place. A math enthusiast in Cincinnati named April Simons had apparently flagged the anomaly. Prof F.O. Olsday, head of the Number Theory Group at Princeton, was quoted confirming it. Cosmologists were linking it to the accelerating expansion of the universe. The same algorithm, the same hardware, different results...
Every living organism on Earth keeps time. Not metaphorically. Not approximately. From single-celled cyanobacteria running a three-protein molecular oscillator to the nested circadian hierarchies governing mammalian physiology, intrinsic timekeeping is not a feature of complex life. It is a prerequisite for life itself.
Modern AI has no such clock. Transformers encode position, not time. Recurrent networks carry stat...
Nature keeps reinventing the crab. At least five times, unrelated crustacean lineages have independently converged on the same compact, flat, modular body plan. Biologists call it carcinisation. Engineers should be paying attention.
In this episode, we look at what the crab's repeated emergence tells us about the deep constraints that shape both biological and artificial systems. The crab body succeeds not because it...
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