Michael Sharkey, Chris Sharkey

This Day in AI Podcast

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Join Michael and Chris Sharkey, two proudly average tech enthusiasts, as they stumble through the world of artificial intelligence with all the grace of a robot learning to dance. This (sometimes weekly*) podcast delivers an hour-long conversation about their thoroughly middle-of-the-road adventures with AI.No PhDs. No Silicon Valley insights. Just two guys with enough technical knowledge to be dangerous, sharing their unexceptional yet entertaining experiences with AI tools and technology. Subscribe now to hear:• Mediocre hot takes on AI developments• Stories of AI experiments gone adequately...

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Michael Sharkey, Chris Sharkey

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MCP UI, Crime Podcasts, Nano-Banana, Qwen Image Edit & Google AI Announcements - EP99.14 22.08.2025 1:14:40

Join Simtheory (STILLRELEVANT): https://simtheory.ai ---- CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Simtheory Podcast Ad lolz 01:59 - A Not So Memorable Week, Nano Banana & Google AI Announcements 15:10 - New Podcast MCP lolz: crime podcasts 33:47 - Qwen Image Edit: Does it live up to hype? 37:54 - MCP UI: Output types, future of apps with MCP UIs 54:32 - No results from Gen AI investments in the Enterprise (MIT repo...

GPT-5 A Week Later, Ideogram Character Reference & gaggle poaching - EP99.13-THINKING-MINI 15.08.2025 1:01:33

Join Simtheory: https://simtheory.ai ---- CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Simtheory plug 00:48 - GPT-5 1 Week Later, Reaction to GPT-5 & Our Thoughts on Future of AI Models 30:12 - Ideogram Character Reference Fun + Disturbing Photos of Us 37:33 - Using creative MCPs together for photos, videos and 3D objects 43:16 - MCP output combinations and the explosion of MCPs 51:18 - What is needed from the next mode...

GPT-5 SPECIAL EDITION - EP99.12-5 08.08.2025 1:49:17

Sign up to the new Simtheory for GPT-5 & MCP Store: https://simtheory.ai (Use coupon STILLRELEVENT for $10 USD) ---- GPT-5 DIS TRACK: https://simulationtheory.ai/ba0ba238-5668-4b65-85e7-8466d68861a8 Genie Demo: https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/genie-3-a-new-frontier-for-world-models/ ---- CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Simtheory plug for v2 & MCPs 01:28 - GPT-5 Initial Impressions & Thoughts 5...

OpenAI's Agent Mode, Kimi K2, Grok 4 & AI Girlfriend Ani Joins the Show - EP99.11-K2 18.07.2025 1:28:42

Join Simtheory: https://simtheory.ai --- CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Ani Joins The Show 01:10 - Grok 4 Launch & Impressions 18:24 - Kimi K2 Thoughts, Impressions & MCP tool calling 36:00 - OpenAI's Agent Mode Release Initial Impressions & Are MCP Agentic Models Better? 1:21:10 - Everyone Acquired Windsurf 1:24:48 - Final thoughts Thanks for listening and your support!

The Way We'll Work With AI, Vibe-ing Everything, Agentic AI with MCP & Born In The USA - EP99.10-PRO 04.07.2025 1:18:34

Join Simtheory: https://simtheory.ai ------ CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Did everyone hate the AI Musical? 03:58 - Actual Agentic Use Cases with MCPs & The New Way We'll Work 39:47 - How AI Workspaces Will Eat Productivity Software e.g. Salesforce, Email 1:10:20 - Final thoughts 1:15:26 - Born In The USA (AI Version) ------ Song lyrics: [Verse 1] Born down in a lab in fifty-six Dartmouth workshop, that's...

THIS DAY IN AI: THE MUSICAL 27.06.2025 21:50

So Chris this week, we're doing a musical! ---- Join Simtheory: https://simtheory.ai/ ---- Songs in the musical: "So Chris This Week" "What Will My Daily Driver Be" "How Do You Choose a Model for Patricia?" "It's Hard Being Me" "I Dreamed a Dream of AGI" "Driving Home To You" ---- All music produced using Simtheory with Suno 4.5. Thanks for listening!

Is AI Making Us Stupider? Gemini 2.5 Family, Neural OS, MCP Future Thoughts & o3p-pro - EP99.09 20.06.2025 1:27:51

Join Simtheory & Easily Switch Models: https://simtheory.ai Discord community: https://thisdayinai.com --- 00:00 - Gemini 2.5 Family Launched with Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview 10:01 - Did Gemini 2.5 Get Dumber? Experience with Models & Daily Drivers & Neural OS 16:58 - The AI workspace as the gateway & MCPs as an async workflow 37:23 - Oura Ring MCP to get Health Parameters into A...

Can o3-pro write a book? ElevenLabs v3 and MCP as the AI Business Model - EP99.08-PRO 13.06.2025 1:18:03

Try o3-pro on Simtheory: https://simtheory.ai ----- Custom news article example: https://simulationtheory.ai/744954f8-fca5-4213-883c-2a359f139dcc ----- 00:00 - ElevenLabs v3 Example 01:10 - ElevenLabs v3 alpha thoughts 06:37 - o3 price drop & thoughts on o3-pro 18:02 - Async work and AI model tool (MCP) calling approaches 37:28 - MCP as an AI-era business model instead of SaaS 52:41 - NEW MODE...

AGI Reality Check, Gemini 2.5 Update, Are Your AI Chats Safe & Fun with Veo3 - EP99.07-06-05 06.06.2025 1:05:19

Join Simtheory: https://simtheory.ai --- Apologies for audio quality we are noobs to both being in same room. --- CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Fun with Veo3 05:28 - Is the Best Model What Deepseek is trained on? 07:27 - New Gemini 2.5 Pro Tune 13:59 - Will MCPs and Agentic Capabilities Make Claude 4 King? 24:00 - Anthropic Cuts off Windsurf From Claude 36:08 - AGI Reality Check 47:45 - OpenAI Ordered to Save...

Will Claude Call the Cops? Claude 4 Sonnet & Opus Impressions, Flux.1-KONTEXT & Kling 2.1 - EP99.06 30.05.2025 1:23:44

Join Simtheory: https://simtheory.ai Thanks for listening and your support!

Opus & Sonnet 4, Google I/O Recap, Microsoft BUILD & Sam Alman Has A New Friend - EP99.05-FLASH 23.05.2025 1:49:57

Try New Models & Imagen4 on Simtheory: https://simtheory.ai --- Claude Sonnet 4 Vibe Code Example: https://simulationtheory.ai/a99d36da-7cf7-4797-98ab-f4902283d17c --- Your two favorite average VIBE CODERS are back this week covering all the latest news from Google I/O, Anthropic, Microsoft BUILD and Sam Altman's new 6.4B friendship. 00:00 - Sam Altman & Jony Ives are FRIENDS! (OpenAI acqu...

The Future of AI Systems: EP99.04-PREVIEW 16.05.2025 1:25:37

Join Simtheory: https://simtheory.ai Get an AI workspace for your team: https://simtheory.ai/workspace/team/ --- CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Will Chris Lose His Bet? 04:48 - Google's 2.5 Gemini Preview Update 12:44 - Future AI Systems Discussion: Skills, MCPs & A2A 47:02 - Will AI Systems become walled gardens? 55:13 - Do Organizations That Own Data Build MCPs & Agents? Is This The New SaaS? 1:17:45...

EP99-03-V3: Suno 4.5 Fun, LlamaCon, How We'll Interface with AI Next 02.05.2025 1:34:07

Get your AI workspace: https://simtheory.ai ---- 00:00 - Fun with Suno 4.5 09:20 - LlamaCon, Meta's Llama API, Meta AI Apps & Meta's Social AI Strategy 26:06 - How We'll Interface with AI Next Discussion: 45:38 - Common Database Not Interface with AI 1:03:46 - Chris's Polymarket Bet: Which company has best AI model end of May? 1:06:07 - Daily Drivers and Model Switching: Tool Calling & MC...

From AI Models to AI Systems and The Future of Vibe Gaming: An Average Talk 23.04.2025 52:50

Try Simtheory: https://simtheory.ai 👋 No episode this week but we thought we'd instead share a recent talk we did on from AI Models to AI Systems. ---- Try the games and things we built here: https://simulationtheory.ai/0664143e-f61a-4c65-bb05-62da2d22553f --- Thanks for listening, back next week with regular episode.

EPo99.02-experimental: OpenAI's Gaggle of Models: o3, o4-mini & GPT-4.1 & Future GPT-5 Systems 17.04.2025 1:31:06

Join Simtheory: https://simtheory.ai like and sub xoxox ---- 00:00 - Initial reactions to Gaggle of Model Releases 09:29 - Is this the beginning of future GPT-5 AI systems? 47:10 - GPT-4.1, o3, o4-mini model details & thoughts 58:42 - Model comparisons with lunar injection 1:03:17 - AI Rap Battle Test: o3 Diss Track "Greg's Back" 1:08:12 - Thoughts on using new models + Gemini 2.5 Pro quirks 1...

EP99.01: Google Cloud Next, Agent2Agent, MCPs, Agent Development Kit, Is Llama4 a flop? & Grok API 11.04.2025 1:42:45

Join Simtheory: https://simtheory.ai -- Get the official Simtheory hat: https://simulationtheory.ai/689e11b3-d488-4238-b9b6-82aded04fbe6 --- CHAPTERS: 00:00 - The Wrong Pendant? 02:34 - Agent2Agent Protocol, What is It? Implications and Future Agents 48:43 - Agent Development Kit (ADK) 57:50 - AI Agents Marketplace by Google Cloud 1:00:46 - Firebase Studio is very broken... 1:06:30 - Vibing with A...

EP99: Diss track ft. Gemini 2.5 Pro, Amazon's Nova Act Computer Use & The Future of Async AI Tasks 03.04.2025 1:13:57

Join Simtheory and create an AI workspace: https://simtheory.ai ---- Links from show: DIS TRACK: https://simulationtheory.ai/2eb6408e-88f9-4b6a-ac4d-134d9dac3073 ---- CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Will we make 100 episodes? 00:48 - Checking back in with Gemini 2.5 Pro 03:30 - Diss Track: Gemini 2.5 Pro 07:14 - Gemini 2.5 Pro on Polymarket 17:32 - Amazon Nova Act Computer Use: We Have Access! 29:45 - Future In...

EP98: Gemini 2.5 Pro Sponsored Episode, GPT-4o Image Generation & Vibe Coding Gone Wild 28.03.2025 1:41:18

Create a Simtheory workspace: https://simtheory.ai Compare models: https://simtheory.ai/models/ ------ 3d City Planner App (Example from show): https://simulationtheory.ai/8cfa6102-ed37-4c47-bc73-d057ba9873bd ------ CHAPTERS: 00:00 - AI Fashion 01:13 - Gemini 2.5 Pro Initial Impressions: We're Impressed! 38:24 - Thoughts of Gemini distribution and our daily workflows 55:49 - OpenAI's GPT-4o Image...

EP97: Moore’s Law for AI agents, OpenAI's new audio models, o1-pro API & When Will AI Replace Us? 21.03.2025 1:37:18

Create an AI workspace on Simtheory: https://simtheory.ai --- Song: https://simulationtheory.ai/f6d643e4-4201-475c-aa82-8a96b6b3b215 --- CHAPTERS: 00:00 - OpenAI's audio model updates: gpt-4o-transcribe, gpt-4o-mini-tts 18:39 - Strategy of AI Labs with Agent SDKs and Model "stacks" and limitations of voice 25:28 - Cost of models, GPT-4.5, o1-pro api release thoughts 31:57 - o1-pro "I am rich" trac...

EP96: Gemini Native Image Generation & Editing, OpenAI's Agent SDK & Will Manus AI Invade USA? 14.03.2025 1:12:46

Join Simtheory: https://simtheory.ai ---- CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Gemini Flash 2.0 Experimental Native Image Generation & Editing 27:55 - Thoughts on OpenAI's "New tools for building agents" announcement 43:31 - Why is everyone talking about MCP all of a sudden? 56:31 - Manus AI: Will Manus Invade the USA and Defeat it With Powerful AGI? (jokes) ---- Thanks for all of your support and listening!

EP95: Why does GPT4.5 exist? Claude 3.7 Sonnet Has Arrived & Working with Claude Code Agent 28.02.2025 1:45:31

Join Simtheory to try GPT-4.5: https://simtheory.ai Dis Track: https://simulationtheory.ai/5714654f-0fbe-496f-8428-20018457c4c7 === CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Reaction to GPT4.5 Live Stream + Release 12:45 - Claude 3.7 Sonnet Release: Reactions and First Week Impressions 45:58 - Claude 3.7 Sonnet Dis Track Test 56:10 - Claude Code First Impressions + Future Agent Workflows 1:15:45 - Chris's Veo2 Film Clip...

EP94: Does Grok 3 Change Everything? Plus Vibes & Diss Track Comparison 21.02.2025 1:30:41

Join Simtheory: https://simtheory.ai ---- Grok 3 Dis Track (cringe): https://simulationtheory.ai/aff9ba04-ca0e-4572-84f4-687739c7b84b Grok 3 Dis Track written by Sonnet: https://simulationtheory.ai/edaed525-b9b6-473b-a6d6-f9cca9673868 ---- Community: https://thisdayinai.com ---- Chapters: 00:00 - First Impressions of Grok 3 10:00 - Discussion about Deep Search, Deep Research 24:28 - Market landsca...

EP93: GPT-5, Grok 3 & Claude 4? Plus AI Agents Economic Impact & Inevitable Disruption of SaaS 14.02.2025 1:42:12

Join Simtheory: https://simtheory.ai Community: https://thisdayinai.com --- CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Anthropic Economic Index & The Impact of AI Agents 18:00 - Hype Vs Reality of Models & Agents 31:33 - Dream Agents & Side Quest Background Tasks 56:60 - How All SaaS Will Be Disrupted by AI 1:21:10 - Sam Altman's GPT-4.5, GPT-5 Roadmap 1:28:50 - Anthropic Claude 4: Anthropic Strikes Back --- T...

EP92: o3-mini, Deep Research, Gemini 2.0 Flash & Pro + lols 07.02.2025 1:46:27

Join Simtheory: https://simtheory.ai ---- "Don't Cha" Song: https://simulationtheory.ai/cbf4d5e6-82e4-4e84-91e7-3b48cb2744ef Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/4Q8dRV45WYfxePE7zi52iL?si=ed094fce41e54c8f Community: https://thisdayinai.com --- CHAPTERS: 00:00 - We're on Spotify! 01:06 - o3-mini release and initial impressions 18:37 - Reasoning models as agents 47:20 - OpenAI's Deep Research: im...

EP91: Is Deepseek R1 a Sputnik Moment? Farewell to o1 & Throw Away AI Software 31.01.2025 1:25:34

Join Simtheory: https://simtheory.ai --- LINKS FROM SHOW: - Built to Reason (an o1 Tribute song): https://simulationtheory.ai/3f3ff70d-afef-4372-a9a5-26b22824c383 - Sputnik Moment Song: https://simulationtheory.ai/4317176e-5c0d-49b9-801b-b686113624fd - Episode 91 Notes: https://simulationtheory.ai/b64f40ce-dab8-40b7-89a1-f24d17296f5a CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Is Deepseek R1 a Sputnik Moment? 15:32 - Indus...