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Hands-On AI (Audio)

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Hands-On AI explores and explains artificial intelligence — and shows you how to actually use it. Because AI is exactly that: a tool, and like any tool, what matters is what you do with it. In short, focused episodes, Mikah Sargent takes you inside the technology reshaping how we work, create, and communicate. Learn what's really happening inside a large language model, run AI entirely on your own hardware, put the AI already in your pocket to work, and discover uses you hadn't thought of. No buzzwords, no doom — just practical, hands-on help from one human to another.  Submit your AI questions through email at handsonai@twit.tv or via TWiT's social media. You might hear your question answered on the show! New episodes every Thursday.

Latest episodes

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HOAI 5: Why Does AI Sound So Generic? - One Prompt, Five Runs, and What Prompt Engineering Really Means

Ask a chatbot the same thing twice, and you might expect two different answers. Mikah Sargent runs one everyday request through ChatGPT five times and gets back the same

Oct 29
31 min

HOAI 4: Is AI Deep Research Worth the Wait? - Four AI Deep Research Tools Get One Hard Question and a Stopwatch

The big AI apps now have research modes that make you wait for a report full of sources. Is the wait worth it? Mikah Sargent gives ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity

Oct 23
30 min

HOAI 3: The AI That Does the Thing - Meta's Muse Agent Takes On Simple, Hard, and Weird Jobs

What happens when AI stops talking and starts doing? Mikah Sargent puts Meta's Muse agent to work on simple jobs, hard ones, and a couple of weird ones: a weekly news bri

Oct 15
55 min

HOAI 2: Nine Billion Knobs - What's Actually Inside an AI Model, Explained

What's actually inside an AI model? Mikah Sargent opens up the file from last week's episode and finds tokens, billions of numbers, and one surprisingly simple job: guess

Oct 9
55 min

HOAI 1: The Chatbot in Your Laptop - Run AI on Your Own Computer, No Cloud Required

Your next chatbot doesn't need the cloud. Mikah Sargent installs a free app, downloads an AI model, turns off the Wi-Fi, and keeps right on chatting, all on an ordinary c

Oct 1
25 min

HOAI 1: The Chatbot in Your Laptop - Run AI on Your Own Computer, No Cloud Required

Your next chatbot doesn't need the cloud. Mikah Sargent installs a free app, downloads an AI model, turns off the Wi-Fi, and keeps right on chatting, all on an ordinary c

Oct 1
25 min

Welcome to Hands-On AI

Hands-On AI is the show that turns AI confusion into AI confidence. In this introductory episode, Mikah Sargent lays out what the show is and isn't: short, focused episod

Sep 28
2 min

Welcome to Hands-On AI

Hands-On AI is the show that turns AI confusion into AI confidence. In this introductory episode, Mikah Sargent lays out what the show is and isn't: short, focused episod

Sep 28
2 min

HOAI: Hands-On AI Is Getting Into the Good Stuff - Local Models, Open Weights, No Cloud

Qwen, Muse Glimmer, Ollama, llama.cpp, quantization, mixture-of-experts, RAG, tokens per second. On Hands-On AI, those aren't buzzwords — Mikah Sargent will explain exact

Sep 18
1 min

HOAI: Hands-On AI Is Getting Into the Good Stuff - Local Models, Open Weights, No Cloud

Qwen, Muse Glimmer, Ollama, llama.cpp, quantization, mixture-of-experts, RAG, tokens per second. On Hands-On AI, those aren't buzzwords — Mikah Sargent will explain exact

Sep 18
1 min

HOAI: Hands-On AI Is Getting Into the Good Stuff - Local Models, Open Weights, No Cloud

Qwen, Muse Glimmer, Ollama, llama.cpp, quantization, mixture-of-experts, RAG, tokens per second. On Hands-On AI, those aren't buzzwords — Mikah Sargent will explain exact

Sep 18
1 min

HOAI: Hands-On AI Cuts Through Hype and Doom - AI Is a Tool. Here's What It Actually Does

Depending on who you ask, AI is either going to save the world or end it. Mikah Sargent has a different take: it's a tool, and what matters is what you do with it. Every

Sep 9
1 min

HOAI: Hands-On AI Cuts Through Hype and Doom - AI Is a Tool. Here's What It Actually Does

Depending on who you ask, AI is either going to save the world or end it. Mikah Sargent has a different take: it's a tool, and what matters is what you do with it. Every

Sep 9
1 min

HOAI: Hands-On AI Cuts Through Hype and Doom - AI Is a Tool. Here's What It Actually Does

Depending on who you ask, AI is either going to save the world or end it. Mikah Sargent has a different take: it's a tool, and what matters is what you do with it. Every

Sep 9
1 min

HOAI: Introducing Hands-On AI - Everyone Says You Should Use AI. Nobody Says How.

How many times this week has someone told you that you should be using AI — without ever telling you how? Mikah Sargent introduces Hands-On AI, a new podcast from TWiT.tv

Sep 2
1 min

HOAI: Introducing Hands-On AI - Everyone Says You Should Use AI. Nobody Says How.

How many times this week has someone told you that you should be using AI — without ever telling you how? Mikah Sargent introduces Hands-On AI, a new podcast from TWiT.tv

Sep 2
1 min

HOAI: Introducing Hands-On AI - Everyone Says You Should Use AI. Nobody Says How.

How many times this week has someone told you that you should be using AI — without ever telling you how? Mikah Sargent introduces Hands-On AI, a new podcast from TWiT.tv

Sep 2
1 min

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