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Don’t Use AI to Do Your AI Homework

Computer Science professor Fan Yang walks us through the tangled inner workings of the mind of an AI model. Guiding us on a technical exploration around the fascinating world of artificial intelligence training, testing, and inference, he not only teaches the power of the tools, but also cautions against over-reliance on them. Stick with us and you’ll emerge from this audio trip as an expert-level AI researcher.

The Luddite With a Language Model

Will artificial intelligence take over six-figure white-collar jobs, or just make us wildly more productive? Wake Forest economics professor Andre Mouton describes what patent data actually reveals about the future of work. From running …

How We Actually Use AI: Real Use Cases from Ryan and Michael

Ryan and Michael pull back the curtain on their personal AI workflows — from Claude and Gemini to Suno and NotebookLM. They share the tools they rely on daily, the custom apps they’ve built, and the surprisingly simple ways AI has made t…

Watching My Dreams Come to Life

How are todays students actually using AI behind closed doors? Wake Forest’s Becket Spencer joins the podcast to peel back the curtain on his daily workflow. He breaks down how he leverages custom AI dashboards and autonomous market agen…

If You Give a Student a Supercomputer…

Wake Forest MSBA student, Jalen Marshall, got the keys to the DEAC cluster so he watched a video and built himself a GPT. Yup, this is the advanced world we live in now. Along the way, he created a personal masterclass in the nuts and bo…

AI is the e-Bike for the Mind

Buckle up for this wild ride with AI-forward Finance professor, Kyre Lahtinen. We cover everything from foundational shifts, tech booms, defensible business models, teaching hacks, and tulip bulb bubbles. Forget manual uploads and clunky…

Licensed to Code: These Agents are Swarming the Amazon

Forget the tuxedos and the martinis. Sarra Alqahtani is training a different class of super agent. In this episode, we go inside the lab to see how “Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning” is being used to protect the planet. We move past th…

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