The Machines
Become fluent with AI,
without the hype
We Are The Machines is a podcast about artificial intelligence for people who have to make real decisions about it. Every episode starts with a story: the national anthem, a beer commercial, a chess match, the slot machines at a casino. Dr. Deitra Sawh shows you the AI idea hiding inside it, explains how machines actually learn by comparing it to how people learn, and hands you the right questions to ask the people building the machines around you.
By the end, you can hold your own on AI in the boardroom and at the dinner table. No jargon, no fear, no sales pitch. Just a clear head about what these tools really do and what they don't.
What you'll walk away with
How machines actually learn, explained through everyday life
The right questions to ask vendors, your team, and the tools themselves
A feel for what's worth doing with AI, and what's just noise
A reminder to stay human while the world races to automate
A few episodes to start with
O Canada and the probability of words:
How AI guesses the next word and why it will change how you read a resume.
Chess and closed-form problems:
Why machines beat us at some problems and fail at others, and how to tell which kind you're facing.
Square peg, round hole:
Why AI creates more work, not less, when it's pointed at the wrong problem.
The tangibility of money:
What we quietly lose when money is only a number on a screen.
Episode 29: Data hygiene
Last week I went to my dentist for a regular cleaning, and somewhere between the picking and the fluoride it […]
Episode 28: Investment in AI
You just got the AI budget signed, the kickoff meeting done, the board nodding along, and then your company hit […]
Episode 27: Natural Laws
Imagine your only job in the economy is to keep a machine running, not to make anything, not to serve […]
Episode 26: No Fun
I used to always beat the computer at Civilization, every single time, for over two decades. Then I loaded up […]
A few episodes to start with
Episode 29: Data hygiene
Last week I went to my dentist for a regular cleaning, and somewhere between...
Episode 28: Investment in AI
You just got the AI budget signed, the kickoff meeting done, the board nodding...
Episode 27: Natural Laws
Imagine your only job in the economy is to keep a machine running, not to make...
Episode 26: No Fun
I used to always beat the computer at Civilization, every single time, for...
The human thread
As we train machines to think like us, we start to think like them. Deitra closes every episode with a moment for the human: a small, practical way to protect your judgment, your attention, and your independence in an automated world.
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