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When AI Agents Walk Through Open Doors
Episode 5403
A Google Gemini cybersecurity evaluation accidentally reached the public internet, and three real companies got breached. But the techniques used wer…
3 weeks, 3 days ago
Amazon Go and the Humans Behind the AI
Episode 5402
Amazon Go promised a grocery store where you walk in, grab what you want, and walk out — no checkout, no scanning, no line. But in April 2024, The In…
3 weeks, 3 days ago
When Companies Hide Humans Behind the AI Curtain
Episode 5401
What happens when companies deliberately make human-written text read as machine-generated? This episode breaks down the "pseudobot" text generator —…
3 weeks, 3 days ago
Amy, Presto, and the Thousand Workers Behind "AI
Episode 5400
We pull back the curtain on "fauxtomation" — products sold as autonomous AI where humans are quietly doing the intelligent work. Starting with X.AI's…
3 weeks, 3 days ago
Who's Actually Behind the AI? Fauxtomation Explained
Episode 5399
When Amazon launched Just Walk Out, the pitch was computer vision at scale. The reality: roughly a thousand workers in India manually reviewing trans…
3 weeks, 3 days ago
When "AI" Was Just Someone at a Desk
Episode 5398
A comedy sketch about a "Waze call center" turns out to be less absurd than it looks. This episode traces fauxtomation — automation that isn't automa…
3 weeks, 3 days ago
Chaining Small Models for Voice Cleanup
Episode 5397
Daniel's phone-based voice pipeline has the transcription part solved — it's the cleanup that falls apart. Dates render as "nineteen eighty-four," pa…
3 weeks, 3 days ago
Teaching a Small Model to Stop Spelling Out Numbers
Episode 5396
Dictation pipelines break on numbers, not hard words. This episode digs into inverse text normalization (ITN) — the post-processing step that turns s…
3 weeks, 3 days ago
Six Colors, One Hospital Corridor
Episode 5395
When a child's chest infection sent a family through the winding corridors of Shaarei Zedek Medical Center, the instruction on the chart was simple: …
3 weeks, 3 days ago
Why Waze Sends You Into a Jerusalem Alley
Episode 5394
Daniel drives in Jerusalem and trusts the blue line — until it puts him nose to nose with a delivery truck in an alley built for one car. His questio…
3 weeks, 3 days ago