Everyone is talking about AI. Very few people can explain it. This episode fixes that.
Gina Rosenthal brings in Tony Foster — Senior Principal Technical Marketing Engineer at Dell Technologies, adjunct professor at Kansas State University, and self-described Wonder Nerd — to give marketers, executives, and curious humans a clear, jargon-free foundation for understanding artificial intelligence.
What is AI, actually? What is a trained model, and how does it work? What is the difference between AI and the tools that run on top of it, like ChatGPT? Why does the quality of your prompt determine the quality of your output? And what does the current AI moment mean for the people who have to make decisions about it — whether they’re technologists or not?
Tony explains it the way he would to a room full of intelligent non-engineers: with precision, with patience, and without condescension. Gina keeps the conversation honest, grounding every concept in what it actually means for the professionals listening.
The hype is real. So is the substance behind it. This episode helps you tell the difference.
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