You’re interested in AI but you’re human: You’ve got emails to answer, deadlines to meet, and you don’t have 40 hours a week to sift through academic papers on large language models.

You just want to know what’s happening, why it matters, and maybe how to use it to get home a little earlier.

In that spirit, here are five AI podcasts to help you get smarter and stay informed without wasting your time.

The AI Daily Brief

For the busy professional who needs the headlines fast, there’s The AI Daily Brief. It’s usually about 20 minutes, which is perfect for the commute or while you’re brewing that second pot of coffee.

Host Nathaniel Whittemore does a great job of cutting through the noise, but he doesn’t just read the news. He analyzes what the big moves by OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft actually mean for the rest of us.

AI for Humans

AI for Humans is for the “rest of us” who just want to have a good time learning.

Hosted by Kevin Pereira and Gavin Purcell, this show is exactly what it says on the tin: AI news and tools explained by two guys who’ve been in the tech and media world forever but don’t take themselves too seriously.

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