Regular Guy, Real AI

AI does not always live in a distant data center. More phones, computers, watches, and other personal devices are beginning to run parts of the AI workload locally. But what does on-device AI actually mean, and how can you tell whether a feature is local, cloud-based, or a mixture of both? In Episode 18 of Regular Guy, Real AI, Ken Lawler explains why the location of AI processing matters for spee...

AI is moving into the real estate journey, from conversational home search to automated property estimates and agent workflows. Episode 17 of Regular Guy, Real AI explains where the technology is helping, where it can mislead, and how regular people can use it without handing over the final decision. Ellen Walkenhorst covers a Bank of America survey on AI use in homebuying research, new conversati...

Your Downloads folder is overflowing, your notes are scattered, and your inbox has become a storage unit. Episode 16 of Regular Guy, Real AI shows how to use AI to create order without giving a tool complete access to your digital life. Ellen Walkenhorst covers three developments behind the shift toward AI that works across apps and files: ChatGPT Work, GPT-5.6, and Microsoft Copilot Cowork. Jim K...

Stop treating voice AI like a novelty. This episode shows how to use live AI conversation to organize a decision, rehearse an important moment, and learn a new topic without staring at a blank prompt box. Ellen Walkenhorst covers OpenAI's rollout of GPT-Live, an ElevenLabs case study on AI meeting transcription, and SynthID watermarking for synthetic audio. Jim Kinder explains full-duplex voice AI...

America turns 250, and Episode 14 of Regular Guy, Real AI shows how families can use AI to make the Fourth of July more organized, personal, and meaningful. Ellen Walkenhorst explores three ways AI can support the holiday weekend: helping plan a gathering, making American history easier to explore with children, and organizing local celebration options. Jim Kinder explains generative AI creativity...

AI is becoming one of the best summer companions any family has ever had. This week, we run three hands-on labs to plan your family’s best summer ever — the Summer Trip Architect, the Activity Generator, and the Family Creative Lab. Plus, a powerful new feature called AI memory that turns a generic tool into your personal AI.   Show Timeline / Chapter Markers 00:00:00 Ken Lawler Open — AI becomes...

The age of the personal AI employee is officially here. This week, we run three hands-on labs to build your very first AI clone — a Knowledge Clone, an Inbox Clone, and a Task Clone. Plus three big AI agent trends every listener should know about right now. Show Timeline / Chapter Markers 00:00:00 Ken Lawler Open — Your next employee might be a clone (and you build it) 00:01:30 The Download with E...

AI is becoming the most powerful learning and research partner any of us have ever had access to. This week we run three hands-on labs that turn AI into your full-time researcher — for learning, for meeting prep, and for big decisions. Plus three big AI research trends every listener should know about right now. Show Timeline / Chapter Markers 00:00:00  Ken Lawler Open — The research assistant eve...

AI marketing is entering its most exciting era yet — the personal era. This week we run the three-step brand voice lab that trains AI to sound exactly like you, plus three big AI marketing trends every business owner should know about right now. Show Timeline / Chapter Markers 00:00:00  Ken Lawler Open — The 30-minute setup that gets AI writing in your voice 00:01:30  The Download with Ellen — Thr...

What if just 15 minutes with AI could completely change how you work, learn, travel, cook, communicate, and solve everyday problems? In this special long-format Lab Day episode of Regular Guy, Real AI, host Ken Lawler gives you five simple AI experiments that anyone can try this weekend—no technical background required. Each lab includes an easy-to-follow prompt you can copy and paste into ChatGPT...

Have you ever asked AI a question and gotten an answer that sounded absolutely convincing... only to discover it was completely wrong? In Episode 8 of Regular Guy, Real AI, Ken Lawler explains one of the most misunderstood aspects of artificial intelligence: AI hallucinations. These aren't malicious lies—they're confident, believable answers that can include fabricated facts, made-up statistics, f...

Host Ken Lawler tackles the skill nobody teaches: prompting. Because the secret nobody tells you is that most people aren’t bad at AI — they’re bad at asking. The words you type in matter more than which AI you’re using or which subscription you paid for. Contributor Ellen Walkenhorst opens with her brother-in-law Tony — a contractor who spent 40 minutes getting AI garbage out of a six-word prompt...

Last week we said AI isn’t coming for your job. A lot of you wrote in. This week, host Ken Lawler goes one layer deeper: AI isn’t replacing you, but it IS rearranging the furniture inside your job. Same job title — totally different daily experience. Contributor Ellen Walkenhorst brings the story of Maria the baker, who cut four hours of weekly social posts down to twenty-five minutes — not by goi...

Everybody’s asking the same question out loud: “Is AI coming for my job?” This week, Ken gives you the honest answer — no hype, no doom, no tech jargon. You’ll walk away knowing which tasks (not jobs) AI is actually taking, the three buckets every job falls into, why “learn to code” aged badly, and a 15-minute exercise that maps exactly where AI fits in your own career.   WHAT’S IN THIS EPISODE: E...

In this episode you will learn why AI results vary so much between users, the real reason AI does not work for most people, a simple four-part formula anyone can use including Role, Task, Context and Format, a hidden ChatGPT feature that instantly improves every answer, how better prompts can save hours every week, and why the biggest advantage in AI is no longer the tool but the person using it....

AI just crossed a line—and most people haven’t noticed yet. It’s no longer just answering questions. It’s starting to take action. In this episode of Regular Guy / Real AI, Ken Lawler breaks down one of the biggest shifts happening right now: the rise of AI agents and systems that can actually execute tasks on your behalf. From new model upgrades to AI tools that can run workflows, this episode fo...

AI isn’t just something you hear about anymore… it’s already making decisions that affect your life — from loans and insurance to job applications and beyond.   In Episode 2 of Regular Guy / Real AI, Ken Lawler breaks down what just changed… and what it means for you.   We start with a major shift in accountability — companies using AI now have to prove their systems are fair and show how decision...

AI is moving fast—and most people feel like they’re already behind. In this episode of Regular Guy / Real AI, Ken Lawler breaks down what actually matters right now in the world of AI—without the hype, the jargon, or the tech bro nonsense. This week, we dive into: The latest AI tools you can actually use today Real-world applications that save time, make money, or eliminate work What’s coming next...