8minute.ai™ Podcast
A podcast that breaks down complex artificial intelligence concepts into easy-to-understand episodes, each just eight minutes long.
Episodes
AI planned our Thanksgiving! The surprising part? What it forgot.
Host Becka tried to offload Thanksgiving meal planning to three top AI models.
In This Episode, You'll Learn:- The Power of Detailed AI Planning: The AI successfully generated a comprehensive two-day cooking timeline, a grocery list sorted by store section, and a safe, creative leftovers plan (including a surprising suggestion).
How did one of the very first machine learning programs actually work? This episode dives into the mechanics of Arthur Samuel's famous 1950s checkers-playing AI.
In This Episode, You'll Learn:
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The checkers program used a combination of a scorecard (to rate board positions) and a look-ahead function (to explore future moves) to choose the best action.
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The system learned through reinforcement learning; moves that led to w...
How does an AI go from a blank slate to a powerful tool? It's not magic… it's a detailed, multi-stage training process.
In This Episode, You'll Learn:
- The five essential stages of AI training: Data Collection, Tokenization, Pretraining, Post-training, and Continuous Improvement.
- What Supervised Learning is and how labeled "flashcards" or "gold standard" examples help fi...
🗓️ Is your Large Language Model stuck in the past? Every AI has a knowledge cutoff date, but Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is the key to feeding it the current facts, proprietary documents, and domain expertise it needs right now.
In This Episode, You'll Learn:-
The Problem RAG Solves
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How RAG Works
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Semantic Search vs. Keyword Search
Be sure to vote in this weeks poll: R.A.G. Knowledge
How does Anthropic's Claude Projects feature stack up against OpenAI's version? If you're struggling to organize your chats and maintain context, "Projects" are the answer, but the two platforms have major differences you need to know about.
In This Episode, You'll Learn:
- Which interface is cleaner, more intuitive?
- A key differences between Claude’s Projects and ChatGPT...
Struggling to keep your ChatGPT conversations organized and find yourself repeating instructions over and over? The ChatGPT Projects feature is here to help.
In This Episode, You'll Learn:
- What Projects Are (And Why They're Not Just Folders)
- The Power of Project-Level Instructions
- How Projects Enable Context Engineering
- Read more
Are your AI prompts failing to deliver consistent, reliable results? It's time to move beyond simple prompt engineering and embrace the power of Context Engineering.
In This Episode, You'll Learn:
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The Big Mindset Shift: Understand the difference between prompt engineering (giving a chef a recipe) and context engineering (designing the entire kitchen). It's about building a reusable system, not just a one-off command.
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The Th...
Are your AI prompts too long and rambling, or too short and vague? In this episode, we break down two powerful acronyms to help you write focused, effective prompts to get the results you want.
In this episode, you'll learn:
- The W.I.S.E.R. Framework to set the models role, define the task, and refine the output.
- The C.R.I.S.P. Framework for more technical or high-risk topics by emphasizing boundaries and constraints.
- The empow...
Ever wonder what the tech community is really saying about AI when the mics are on? We asked tech leaders at the Cleveland Best of Tech 2025 for their AI hot takes, and they didn't hold back.
A Taste of the Takes:
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The "Humanistic" Imperative: Is AI crippling us? Experts argue you must lead the technology with curiosity and critical thinking, or risk getting repetitive, soulless results.
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The Hidden Environmental Cost: Beyond...
Is OpenAI's new GPT-5 a revolutionary leap or just a minor upgrade? We're breaking down everything you need to know.
In This Episode, You'll Learn:
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The Unified System: Say goodbye to confusing model names. GPT-5 simplifies the user experience by automatically routing your prompt to the best model ("Instant" for speed, "Thinking" for depth) or letting you choose.
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Key Spec Bumps: The context window has more than doubled, and ...
Are you wondering how AI will truly change your job and reshape your industry? This episode brings the key insights from the AI Rising Conference directly to you.
In This Episode, You'll Learn:
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AI Participation is Not Optional: Keynote speaker Ryan Frederick argues that to stay relevant, professionals and businesses must "skate where the puck is going," actively engaging with AI to avoid being left behind.
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Your Value is How...
Part 3 of the podcast team’s key takeaways and insights from the Ai4 Conference in Las Vegas.
Guest Interviews:
Mentions:
- Irys
- Matt Cashatt of Polyrific
Part 2 of the 8minute.ai podcast teams key takeaways and insights from the Ai4 Conference in Las Vegas.
Guest Interviews:
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The 8minute.ai podcast teams key takeaways and insights from the Ai4 Conference in Las Vegas.
Guest Interviews:
Be sure to vote in our poll, here or on Spotify!
This week we discuss the big names in Video Models and Will Smith's spaghetti eating habits.
Video Models:
Also be sure to check out Will Smith Eating Spaghetti and the NBA Finals Veo 3 Commercial.
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In this episode, we discuss generative image models, giving an overview of the major players:
Make sure to vote in our poll, on Spotify or here.
Need answers you can trust, with sources to back them up? In this episode, we dive into Perplexity AI, the "answer engine" that blends a search engine with conversational AI. And find out how they're changing the internet with their new browser, Comet!
Don't forget to vote in this weeks poll!
This week we're covering OpenAI's current lineup of models available in ChatGPT, and comparing them to Google's Gemini and Anthropic's Claude models.
Take our poll on Spotify or here.
Google gave straight-forward names with the 3 Gemini models. Now lets dive into Anthropic's trio of creatively named models and how they compare.
Be sure to take this weeks poll as well, right here or on Spotify!
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