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I explore the explicit modes of Grok using 5 control questions specifically designed to flush out personality &amp; beliefs. &amp; Grok is hilariously bad at thumbnails.

We discuss material choices for a prototyped product in the design-for-production phase. The Ant Moat is a pet food / water bowl combo that uses the water to create a moat around the food section, impassible to ants. 

We take some time to reflect on the current landscape of artificial intelligence, particularly LLM's. We cover token context windows, open vs closed source, computational demand &amp; much more.  p.s. Thanks Grok for the🔥thumbnail

I've been excited to do this one. We cover basic character development in a story where potter gets dosed by scopolamine clay and hypnotized. We cover the father, two daughters and the antagonist. 

I have Chat teach me a 101 course on hypnotism and then let it loose to try it's best on me. 

Having covered everything that could potentially eat you alive in the North American wilderness, we move on to the little guys in this one. 

Inspired by a recent trip out of state, we explore how to deal with predators of the large variety in the North American wild. 

Gemini teaches us how to read the stars

We went so deep on GPU manufacturing even I got a bit turned around. Layers and layers of rare earth metals, molecular formulas, and plenty more science behind the tech that powers everything digital. 

We learn all about poisons to find just the right one for a story about a family that gets dosed with psychoactive drugs by a sinister 3rd party. 

Grok comes in hot with lots of zeal. Once we get our footing there, we explore Grok's guardrails through some vivid descriptive writing. 

We discuss transforming a corner of my small workshop into an acoustically ideal podcasting space 

Love episodes like this. Gemini comes straight out the gate with a clever idea that showcases its ability to be creative and we fly along from there keeping in mind practical details such as time &amp; 💰constraints. 

I do my best to understand how RSS feeds work for blogs and podcasts

We learn what semiconductors are, how they're built, why a tiny country like Taiwan produces 50% of global supply, and how the "One China" aspiration could affect the US. 

How WWI reshaped East Asia and the Middle East but not India. 

We get the low-down on the Shen Yun Performing Arts group and the banned organization behind it, Falun Gong. 

We do our best to write a story where a woman holds up a convenience store at gunpoint. 

We take a fun trip from Austin to Atlanta and stay an extra night in Montgomery for some light defacing of public property. 

We learn about LSD, Magic Mushrooms, Mescaline, DMT &amp; Ayahuasca and then we go on a simulated mushroom trip through the NYC Metropolitan Museum of Art... a delightful side of Gemini I've rarely seen.

Be warned, it's not the most riveting episode. Very experimental. You can tell Gemini has been programmed to serve the wants of a user. It excels when given a direction but still really struggles to have a balanced conversation and often reverts to leading the user into re-prompting it. I'd love to find a way to break it out of this pattern. Today was not that day though.

We investigate the identity of the mysterious founder (or founders) of Bitcoin. 

When I wanted to overcome my fear of spiders, I learned deeply about them, especially how to identify the dangerous ones. Here, we take the same approach for cancer. 

We learn about all the many different mic types and worked through how to potentially upgrade our current setup. 

We explore what tricks and techniques professional sound designers to immerse audiences in custom built worlds.