AI Today

Researchers have made huge strides fixing bad trips for AI. One of the latest breakthroughs is attentive reasoning queries (ARQs). You can see them in action using the open source Parlant application. Which gives us a glimpse at how perfect responses could change the game in business functions such as customer service. Read this, and so much more, in our AI Today magazine .

AI hallucinates 100% of the time. That's by design - without hallucinating the next word, this transformer architecture wouldn't exist. Thankfully, LLMs built for general purpose applications are right 80% of the time. But that still leaves one in five outputs being questionable; not especially reassuring if you're an air traffic controller, or cardiologist. How can we ever truly trust...

Navigating the high costs and data challenges of cloud-based AI is a significant barrier for many businesses looking to innovate. But there's a powerful, practical alternative emerging. This episode explores decentralised AI , revealing how businesses can achieve AI benefits without the burden of massive cloud bills and regain crucial control over their data. Learn about the cost savings unloc...

Fasten your seatbelts, business leaders! We're diving deep into Y Combinator's Summer 2025 Request for Startups, their signal flare for what's NEXT in innovation. 2025 is shaping up to be the year of the AI agent breakthrough. But the REAL game-changer they're spotlighting? Full-stack AI companies. Forget selling AI tools. This is about building entirely new businesses, powered by...

I'd just about had it with bosses choosing to hear your ideas spoken by consulting firms - when they could have saved a fortune listening to them coming from their creator, many months ago. Now, with AI, I can have my pitch verbalised by one of their influencers - without spending a penny on one of the management circus barkers. On this episode we hear in detail about one synthetic idea and ho...

On the last episode we discussed a new way to train AI models: themselves, by capturing signals and insights from our world. Today we look at one such approach - Mobility AI, another Google initiative (The Era of Experience was a DeepMind production). This episode of AI Today was inspired by: https://research.google/blog/introducing-mobility-ai-advancing-urban-transportation/ https://www.youtube.c...

Now generative AI has inhaled all human knowledge, it's time to create its own. We review a very exciting new paper, called The Age of Experience, that explains how AI agents will create their own dataset of intelligence that will help us reach that unimaginable state of AGI. Can't wait to have you join us on today's extra-exciting episode of AI Today!

I built a team of AI agents to create an annual report - one of the journalist's worst nightmares. And it did a remarkable job. Read all about it: https://medium.com/@DaveThackeray/how-to-create-an-annual-report-with-ai-b2d847a4d643

Are your AI agents brilliant but lonely? Do they operate in isolation, unable to tap into data and capabilities across your organisation, hindering your potential for true automation and growth? Then get ready for a game-changer! In this episode, we delve into the Agent2Agent (A2A) Protocol , a groundbreaking open standard spearheaded by Google Cloud and backed by over 50 industry giants like Sale...

We're seeing a continuing growth in the number of duplicitous attacks by AI agents on individuals. Previously cyber criminals focused most of their efforts where the greatest gains were to be made - phishing large organisations, infecting servers and locking down applications ready for ransoms to be paid. But with AI, anyone with half a brain can launch an army of AI agents across networks of...

You will never hear a more important episode of AI Today. This show will transform your business. Unlock immense value. And help you take that step towards putting your business on autopilot - so you can finally be rewarded for all those years of graft, grey hair, and wrinkles! Enjoy AI Today. This is a long listen - but the best things in life always take time... Read more at: https://www.wordand...

We've been moaning for months about the limitations of AI when coding. Which is because we're asking AI to jive with our human world. It's impossible. In its current state, AI can only predict the next word. And yet we've created syntax designed purposefully to be human readable. Have you ever tried solving a Rubik's cube with your hands tied behind your back? Look, what you do...

Sick of paying a fortune to get answers from AI? Small language models (SLMs) are the answer. Learn how these efficient AIs offer comparable performance to large language models at a fraction of the cost. Discover real-world case studies where companies have saved millions by switching to locally hosted SLMs, improving data security and complying with privacy regulations. Explore the potential of...

Many years ago I was an editor with the business they now call Wyndham Hotels and Resorts. So I decided to give it an AI makeover - with my co-hosts recommending opportunities for the hospitality industry to embrace this new technology to drive growth, boost productivity, and keep everyone happy. On today's show we learn how AI can analyse guest data, predict market trends, and personalise cus...

Sales is tough as old boots. Waiting months for a decision, trying to get your foot in the door, negotiations, mindreading - it's more than enough to justify an MBE. What if every salesperson had their own researcher on tap? And a highly-organised PA. And an admin team of experts who knew exactly what information was needed to share insights with the team for everyone to get better - and to ma...

Crikey! You won't believe what's happening in the world of AI. This ain't your nan's tech anymore. We're talking AI animating logos using mere pico frames , filming entire movies inside video games , and helping folks crack codes after 42 years of trying ! Forget what you thought you knew, because AI is handing out superpowers and turning the software development world upside d...

Want 98% accuracy mining huge document libraries while saving more than 80% on your AI spend? Stanford researchers developed minionS, a ridiculously smart process prompting single-step instructions on chunks of a document using Llama-3B locally with GPT-4 Turbo as the costly adjudicator-in-waiting. minionS resulted in 80% of tokens being processed locally - with 98% accuracy compared to 100% relia...

We just redefined 'fast'. In less than one revolution of the Earth, boffins announced a triple upgrade to humanity’s operating system: AI that  writes  DNA like Shakespearean sonnets, and A quantum chip stable enough to crack encryption in less time than it took you to make a brew, and A digital lab partner rediscovering decade-old scientific truths in 48 hours. This isn’t evolution – it’s...

Oh, Barbie Girl. Anyone remember Aqua? And in one fell swoop, the AI Today podcast lost 49 subscribers... Ready for a masterclass in competitive advantage? Picture this: AI’s next battleground isn’t just chatbots—it’s code, chemistry, and control. We’ll dissect the guerrilla war brewing in consumer AI, where Grok3’s “Colossus” supercomputers clash with OpenAI’s Deep Research and Meta’s open-source...

Imagine a world where software engineers are replaced by other software engineers that are entirely digital. No coffee breaks, no office politics, just pure, unadulterated code. It sounds like science fiction, doesn't it? But the question is: how far off is it, really? That's the question a team of researchers sought to answer with the SWE-Lancer benchmark. They didn't just want to tes...

This morning we woke to a new dawn for AI. Grok-3 is a cutting-edge large language model (LLM) from Elon Musk's XAI, designed to understand and generate human-like text, outperforming competitors in several tasks. It's trained using innovative techniques like synthetic data sets, self-correction mechanisms, and human feedback loops, ensuring accuracy and relevance. Grok-3 demonstrates impr...

There are so many examples of ballsy businesses finding gems in their mountains of documents and datasets, thanks to the superpowered excavator that's AI, that cynics and sceptics are heading for the hills. On today's show we sniff out a smattering of these tech-infused titans to find out how they're riding roughshod over the competition. AI's real power lies in identifying pattern...

I've pulled together some really simple ways to make AI your best friend - or at least, frenemy - during the 9 to 5. This episode is dedicated to business leaders and everyone doing the real work. It's time to embrace AI and make it work for you. So here are some brilliant ways, tried and tested, to grow yourself, and your business, using AI... Shownotes at: https://www.wordandmouth.com/ho...

What just happened? January 2025: a month of unprecedented change in generative AI. The open-source community is shaking up the industry, challenging the dominance of tech giants. This episode of AI Today dives into the key developments, from powerful AI assistants like Convergence's Proxy and Moonshot's Kimi3, to revolutionary image and video generation models like DeepSeek's Janus-Pr...

This is the most personal episode I have ever recorded. It's my near half-century journey to building an app. And how AI made it possible. I'm a pre-beginner coder. Yet eventually - and I mean, eventually , I somehow composed a working prototype of an application. And I hope that I might inspire someone to give AI coding a shot. And learn the basics of coding - to get the most from this ne...