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AI Now!
A podcast exploring the future of business in the age of artificial intelligence. Join us as we dive into the opportunities, challenges, and innovations surrounding the AI-driven transformation that’s shaping tomorrow’s industries.
Episodes
AI Now!AI Now! Episode 49 - Erosion of Trust
Video calls and phone verifications are no longer foolproof. In this episode of AI Now!, Bella and Mike step onto the front lines of industrialized synthetic…
AI Now!AI Now! Episode 48 - The Loss of Control
In this episode of AI Now!, Bella and Mike tackle the final pillar of AI fear: the loss of control. They explore the risks of autonomous AI agents, cascading…
AI Now!AI Now! Episode 47 - The Loss of Truth
In Episode 47 of AI Now, Bella and Mike Stute explore the third pillar of AI fear: the loss of truth, or “epistemic collapse.” They examine how deepfakes…
AI Now!AI Now! Episode 46 - The Loss of Identity
In this episode of AI Now!, Bella and CCG Lead Architect Mike Stute explore the second pillar of AI fear: the loss of identity, or “existential obsolescence.”…
AI Now!AI Now! Episode 45 - The Four Pillars I
In episode 45 of AI Now!, Bella and Mike kick off a new four-part series, The Four Pillars of Fear, exploring one of the biggest concerns surrounding AI: the…
AI Now!AI Now! Episode 44 - Edge AI
In episode 44 of AI Now!, Bella and Mike explore the massive shift toward local and edge AI.
AI Now!AI Now! Episode 43 - Stop Guessing Your AI ROI
In this episode of AI Now!, Bella and Mike reveal how to use interaction telemetry, the secret map to your company's cognitive ROI. Learn how Small Language…
AI Now!AI Now! Episode 42 - Out of the Shadows
Shadow AI is here. Employees are already using tools like ChatGPT and Claude at work, often without approval. In this episode of AI Now!, Bella and Mike…
AI Now!AI Now! Episode 41 - The Sharks in the Bay
In this episode, we move away from the high-level philosophy of consciousness to a raw, practical wake-up call for business leaders. Mike and Bella use the…
AI Now!AI Now! Episode 40 - Mirrors, Stomachs, and the Fabric of Reality
In this episode, Mike Stute and Bella explore David Rosenthal's mirror theory, John Searle's Chinese Room, and why the tech we build today isn't happening in a…
AI Now!AI Now! Episode 39 - The Consciousness Conundrum (part 1)
This episode talks about the science and philosophy about consciousness. There isn't a clear definition just yet, but we'll need one sooner than we think. Mike…
AI Now!AI Now! Episode 38 - The Biological Baseline
In this episode of AI Now!, Bella and Mike break down why simulating a single biological cell is exponentially harder than building today’s AI models. From…
AI Now!AI Now! Episode 37 - The Ghost in the Machine
Follow Mike Stute and Bella into this AI Now! episode, as they address the critics of machine conscious and how it will happen, just not on the path we are…
AI Now!AI Now! Episode 36 - The Chinese Room
In this episode of AI Now!, Bella and AI expert, Mike Stute, introduces the work of John Searle and his argument that machines can't be conscious.
AI Now!AI Now! Episode 35 - Claude Code as CLI Agent
In this episode, Bella and Mike break down why AI is advancing faster in coding than in creative or legal work, and what that reveals about the future of…
AI Now!AI Now! Episode 34 - The SDLC Evolution
In this episode of AI Now!, Bella and Mike Stute bring back Christian Jones to deep dive into changing the software development life cycle (SDLC) in creating…
AI Now!AI Now! Episode 33 - Christian Jones
This week on AI Now!, Bella welcomes Christian Jones. He is the audiobook narrator behind Mike Stute's novel, Noise - Sounding the Gap, and the unexpected…
AI Now!AI Now! Episode 32 - The Death of Coders
AI Now! is back! This first episode of the new year shines a light on the decline of the traditional coding system. Listen in on Mike Stute and Bella discuss…
AI Now!AI Now! Episode 30 - The Ephemeral Workforce
In this last part of our Agentic AI series, Mike and Bella unveil the ultimate, mind-bending conclusion to our series: the "Ephemeral Workforce." Meet the AI…
AI Now!AI Now! Episode 29 - Rise of the AI Teams
Mike and Bella move beyond single agents to explore the next frontier: entire teams of small, specialized AI agents. Discover how a "manager" AI can assemble…
AI Now!AI Now! Episode 28 - The Digital Handshake
With this episode, we start our AI Now! Agentic Series. Mike Stute and Bella reveal a groundbreaking, real-world experiment where two AIs, a Buyer and a…
AI Now!AI Now! Episode 27 - Agentic AI for Workflows
AI expert, Mike Stute, and Bella discuss using Agentic AI for workflow automations.
AI Now!AI Now! Episode 26 - Agentic AI Automation
AI expert, Mike Stute, and Bella discuss the new complications and abilities that come with AI Agents.
AI Now!AI Now! Episode 25 - Malicious Truth
From Mike Stute and Bella discussing how AI deepfakes are leading to tailored realities, we raise a new question: What about the hard absolute, undeniable…
AI Now!AI Now! Episode 24 - Synthic AI vs Biomimetic AI
Mike Stute and Bella tackle the moral and legal issues of "terminating" AI that is very much like us.
AI Now!AI Now! Episode 23 - Noise 4
Mike Stute and Bella discuss the speculative tech in Mike's new novel, Noise: Sounding the Gap. Is this tech real or not? Far or future? Possible or just a…
AI Now!AI Now! Episode 22 - Noise 3
Mike Stute dives deeper into his novel, Noise: Sounding the Gap, and how advanced AI actively orchestrates the world around us.
AI Now!AI Now! Episode 21 - Noise 2
Mike Stute focuses on the blurring of man and machine, a theme in the novel. He discusses how humans can become more machine like through augmentation reality…
AI Now!AI Now! Episode 20 - Noise: Sounding the Gap
Mike Stute speaks about his new novel, Noise: Sounding the Gap.

AI Now!AI Now! Episode 18 - Architecture That Powers AI Systems
Join Ruby and Mike for this weeks episode of AI Now! covering the architecture that powers AI Systems.
AI Now!AI Now! Episode 17 - Fine-tuning AI Models
Join us for another episode of AI Now! This week, host Bella is out sick, so Mike is joined by guest Ruby to cover fine-tuning AI Models.
AI Now!AI Now! Episode 16 -The Advantage of Smaller Local Models
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AI Now!AI Now! Episode 15 - How Gemma & Granite Tackle Business Tasks
In this episode, we dive into how Gemma and Granite are stepping into the business world—handling everything from marketing tasks to customer service inquiries…
AI Now!AI Now! Episode 14 - Pushing SLM's To Their Limit
On this episode of AI Now, AI Expert Mike Stute dives deeper into the world of Small Language Models (SLM)
AI Now!AI Now! Episode 13 - Small Language Models
Listen to our latest episode on 2 different Small Language Models from our expert Mike Stute!
AI Now!AI Now! Episode 12 - Super Intelligent Agents
Join AI Expert, Mike Stute, and host to dive deeper into Super Intelligent Agents!
AI Now!AI Now! Episode 11 - Generalized Intelligence Agents
Learn more about Generalized Intelligence Agents during this sub 5-minute podcast episode hosted by AI Expert, Mike Stute!
AI Now!AI Now! Episode 10 - LLMs and SLMs
In this episode of AI Now!, host Mike Stute from CCG explores the power of small language models. They discuss how techniques like model distillation allow…
AI Now!AI Now! Episode 9 - The Brain Size of LLMs
In this episode of AI Now!, we dive into the concept of "parameters" in Large Language Models (LLMs) with Mike. We break down how parameters function as the…
AI Now!AI Now! Episode 8 - How AI Systems Are Trained
In our last episode, we demystified what Large Language Models are. Today, we're pulling back the curtain to explore how these incredible AI systems are…
AI Now!AI Now! Episode 7- Large Language Models
Welcome back to another episode of AI Now! Today, we're diving deep into Large Language Models, or LLMs, the tech powering tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, and…





