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Ryan chats with Anush Elangovan, VP of Software at AMD, about ROCm's open-source unified toolchain for GPUs, how agentic AI is drastically lowering the barrier to entry for low-level hardware programming, and the rapid convergence of software and hardware development timelines.
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This is a recording of our AI Book Club discussion of I Am Not a Robot: My Year Using AI to Do (Almost) Everything by Joanna Stern, held September 20, 2026. The group gave the book its lowest ratings yet, and much of the discussion is about why: so many of the experiences come across as superficial stunts with AI, rather than true engagement. In our discussion, some found the medical chapter to be the book's strongest section. Other topics: the question of whether you should fix a system before amplifying it, chatbots that give you the candid career advice your friends won't, school policies on AI and who tutoring actually serves, work threads where both sides are pasting from AI, and the line between removing drudgery and giving away the thinking.
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1222. This week, we look at Zipf's law, a pattern that shapes how often you use your most common words, and why SETI researchers think it could help identify alien communication.
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Show Notes โ Episode #254 (Part B)
Artificial Intelligence is no longer a futuristic buzzword. AI is a practical, transformative force in business workflows, AND, for the world of presentation design, AI has become part of our workflows. Troy Chollar (TLC Creative Services) and Nolan Haims (Nolan Haims Creative) share their firsthand experiences and insights on how AI tools like Microsoft Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT, and standalone image AI Tools like Adobe Firefly and others are reshaping the way professionals are now approaching presentations and daily operations.
What We Unpacked in This Episode:
- The “Click” Moment: We both share the point over the last few months when AI tools like Copilot and Claude stopped being novelties and became indispensable parts of our workflow.
- Beyond the Butterfly Demo: Remember those early AI demos creating a simple presentation about something like butterflies? We were not impressed then, but now the results in our real-world uses, like using AI to audit a presentation for consistency, anticipate tough Q&A from a skeptical audience, and even review business contracts.
- The Real Deal on Efficiency (and Frustration): AI can be a massive time-saver, but it’s not always instant magic. We got honest about the sometimes frustratingly long processing times and how we now plan and work around that processing time we are forced to be idle. (Hint: it involves multitasking and a bit of patience).
- AI as Your New Co-worker: Troy shares his excitement about how they have my company is using an AI “bot” to manage a large daily operational task – each morning, before the team is online. It is great, but involved a month of daily input, or “training”, just like a new employee. It’s a glimpse into the future of running a business.
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The AI debate is entering a new era of kill switches, data center crackdowns, and a newly proposed AI Force. NLW breaks down Trump's weekend AI announcements, the new state policies spreading from California to Virginia, and what China actually wants from this week's talks with President Xi. In the headlines: Anthropic delays its IPO to November, a new Anthropic biology lab raises eyebrows, and early signs of a data center debt crunch.
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