Open MAInd

Twenty-five AI characters lived in a town called Smallville — and threw a Valentine’s Day party no one told them to throw. This is the real Stanford experiment behind the headlines about artificial intelligence agents. Welcome to The Lab — a new kind of Open MAInd episode. Between our main series, we take one real, documented AI experiment and put it under the microscope. In this first episode, Al...

Who actually controls artificial intelligence? This episode maps the AI industry — OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, Meta, and China’s DeepSeek — and the race for the chips, data, and power behind it. Alex and Jordan go beyond the headlines to ask who really holds power in AI. They break down the major players and what each is competing for, the high-stakes debate between “open” and “closed” AI,...

What is actually happening inside ChatGPT when you type a question? This episode explains how artificial intelligence really works — neural networks, large language models, and AI hallucinations — in plain language, no jargon, no maths. Alex and Jordan open up the black box. You’ll learn how neural networks actually learn, what a large language model is really doing when it generates a response, w...

Can a machine think? It’s the question a British mathematician named Alan Turing asked in 1950 — and it’s the question everything in artificial intelligence grows from. In this opening episode of Open MAInd, Alex and Jordan trace the full arc of AI history across three eras. The Dreamers, who imagined thinking machines decades before the technology could deliver. The Survivors, who kept the idea a...

Welcome to Open MAInd — the podcast exploring artificial intelligence with an open mind. In this first episode, your hosts Alex and Jordan introduce the show, the mission, and the journey ahead. AI is reshaping economies, geopolitics, societies, and industries simultaneously — and most of the conversation around it lives in one of two camps: blind excitement or blind fear. Open MAInd exists to off...