AI Today

On today's show we create a business to show you the huge improvements in gravitating beyond prompt engineering to the new community of practice we call context engineering.
You'll be rocked by the results when you join us for a deep dive into this remarkable rabbit hole of agent communication.
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Two of the most important voices in AI spoke out this week. Andrej Karpathy, one of the algorithm's greatest philosophers, was in conversation with Dwarkesh Patel talking praisingly and cautiously about the Cambrian explosion in cognition but an inconsistency and lack that foresees a ton of work ahead to get us where AI deserves to be. His 'decade' of agents, tells us all we need to know about today's limitations.
Meanwhile, Google's CEO Sundar Pichai talks effusively about AI being the great equaliser right now. There's a commercial necessity in promoting what's available to the AI practitioner in 2025.
These conflicting commentaries aren't making life easy for business leaders.
So we had a debate - on today's episode of AI Today!

If only that was the real name. After all this time begging frontier labs to build an LLM that learns from its mistakes and applies its discoveries at inference time...

Welcome to AI Today!

The Dragon Hatchling is a remarkable research paper that reboots modern AI as a model that approximates how our brains work.
Today's show is a fascinating discussion and I implore you to both enjoy it and then chat about it and ask your questions on NotebookLM.

It's the one thing every business leader needs to know.
If I put AI to work in my organisation, will it screw everything up?
While we should all be in experiment mode right now - until someone figures out how to make the probabilistic, deterministic - OpenAI researchers have been putting AI to work on real tasks.
The results are spectacular. Spectacularly good, and spectacularly bad.
But just like Tim Henman, you have to give it a chance. And maybe great things will follow - for AI.
On today's show we look wider, at many ways we've tested AI in organisations and across functions and disciplines - and how it's fared.
And then we zoom in on GDPval, which sounds like someone your gran knows who reads The Economist but is actually that OpenAI research paper that explores LLMs in the context of the organisation. We hear the pros and cons and whether now's the time to execute agents, or execute our dreams that AI is ready to replace us all.
Enjoy the show.