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AI Rebels

Jacob and Spencer

69 episodes

1 week ago

Austin Allred lived in his car in San Francisco teaching himself to code, and now he runs a program where students never write a single line. At Gauntlet AI, engineers learn to direct AI systems that do all the coding while companies pay recruiting fees upfront, making the entire training free for students who land $200K jobs. The model works because the skills gap has reversed: employers are now bottlenecked by talent, not the other way around. Allred's most practical insight gets overlooked...

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Austin Allred lived in his car in San Francisco teaching himself to code, and now he runs a program where students never write a single line. At Gauntlet AI, engineers learn to direct AI systems that do all the coding while companies pay recruiting fees upfront, making the entire training free for students who land $200K jobs. The model works because the skills gap has reversed: employers are now bottlenecked by talent, not the other way around. Allred's most practical insight gets overlooked...

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AI Rebels

Why Companies Fight Over Engineers Who Don't Write Code ft. Austen Allred

Austin Allred lived in his car in San Francisco teaching himself to code, and now he runs a program where students never write a single line. At Gauntlet AI, engineers learn to direct AI systems that do all the coding while companies pay recruiting fees upfront, making the entire training free for students who land $200K jobs. The model works because the skills gap has reversed: employers are now bottlenecked by talent, not the other way around. Allred's most practical insight gets overlooked...

1 week ago

1 hour 2 minutes

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Plotly Thickens — How Open Source Is Powering the Next AI Wave ft. Domenic Ravita

What if rebellion looked like collaboration instead of chaos? Plotly’s VP of Marketing Dominic Revita traces his journey from coding the first internet-only bank in the 90s to shaping the next generation of AI-native tools. He reveals how open source innovation and AI-driven creativity are merging to make data storytelling more human—and more powerful. The conversation dives into the philosophy behind building transparent tech that empowers rather than replaces. It’s a visionary look at the f...

3 weeks ago

57 minutes

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Practical AI and the One-Click Shift: Making Tech Effortless ft. Derek Crager

Derek Crager, founder of Practical AI, joins AI Rebels to explain how voice is set to become the next one-click revolution. Derek shares his journey from industrial construction to Amazon, weaving in lessons about simplicity, usability, and the power of capturing tribal knowledge. We dive into how voice AI can transform the workplace by making expertise instantly accessible and breaking down barriers to learning. Derek also unpacks the “AI gold rush,” explaining why the real winners will be t...

1 month ago

56 minutes

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From RAG to Resilience: Building AI-Ready Data Foundations with Jim Liddle of Nasuni

What’s the one thing every enterprise overlooks when building AI? According to Jim Liddle, Chief Innovation Officer at Nasuni, it’s not the model, it’s the data architecture. In this episode, Jim explains why unstructured data is both the biggest risk and the biggest opportunity for enterprise AI. He highlights the persistent compliance gap around sensitive information, the challenge of fragmented storage, and the dangers of agentic autonomy without safeguards. Resilience takes center stage, ...

1 month ago

57 minutes

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Provalytics: AI, Ads & the Future ft. Jeff Greenfield

What do magic tricks and AI marketing have in common? A lot, according to Jeff Greenfield, CEO of Provalytics. In this conversation, we unpack the challenges of data privacy, the rise of Amazon and Walmart’s closed ecosystems, and why AI ads may be unavoidable. Jeff explains how his background as a magician and chiropractor shaped his approach to stress reduction and business problem-solving. It’s a fascinating, fast-paced look at how AI is reshaping advertising — and what that means for trust.

1 month ago

59 minutes

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Up-Skilling the Nation: Mike Spaeth on AI’s Race Against the Skills Gap

AI power-broker Mike Spaeth doesn’t mince words: if we fail to reskill fast, automation will wipe out one in five jobs. He points to Texas’s Alpha School, where AI squeezes a whole school day into two turbo-charged hours—proof that the education rulebook is already being torched. Spaeth calls out companies hoarding the “time dividend,” insisting that every minute saved by bots must be plowed back into people or productivity gains will evaporate. He cites Malaysia’s nationwide up-skilling blit...

4 months ago

50 minutes

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AI at Warp Speed: Work, Video, and What Comes Next

Take a front-row seat as Jake and Spencer chart AI’s breakneck advance—progress so fast that many observers still look the other way. They highlight Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s forecast that the very shape of work could shift within a decade, then demo the new Veo 3 video model, which can generate multi-scene, lip-synced video with layered vocals, background sound and “vibe”. Rounding things out, the hosts weigh deep-fake ethics and consider how lawmakers and faith communities might craft se...

4 months ago

24 minutes

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The AI That Got Me Dates: Building Tinder GPT and Beyond ft. Grigorij Dudnik

Can AI save us from the toxic digital world it helped create? In this episode, Polish AI engineer Grigorij Dudnik shares how he's building AI agents that handle our digital drudgery—from Tinder GPT that automates online dating conversations to Clean Coder that writes code autonomously. His most fascinating project puts language models on Raspberry Pi to create physical robots that make ethical decisions, like a toy train solving the trolley dilemma in real-time. Grigorij's philosophy is revol...

5 months ago

1 hour 3 minutes

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High-Leverage Humans: The Rise of 1-Person Companies Powered by AI

What if your next coworker is an AI agent? In this episode of AI Rebels, developer Nim shares his journey building AI Agent Dot App, exploring how solo entrepreneurs can now harness agents to do the work of entire teams. From bootstrapping with terminal-based scripts to creating sticky, memory-driven agents, Nim breaks down the evolution of autonomous AI tools, the psychology of adoption, and the legal grey zones ahead. It's a raw, insightful dive into the future of work, where personalizatio...

5 months ago

46 minutes

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Turning AI Hallucinations into NASA Innovation | James Villarrubia

What if the “hallucinations” we fear in generative AI are exactly what NASA needs to spot the next crisis 40 years early? In this episode, former Pentagon model‑fixer and pandemic data firefighter James Villarrubia explains how his skunk‑works team at NASA’s Convergent Aeronautics Solutions convinces large language models to dream thousands of future scenarios, then distills them to reveal the fragile linchpins of tomorrow’s air‑travel system . Alongside that mind‑bending workflow, he breaks ...

5 months ago

1 hour 2 minutes

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Agents with Agency: Inside the Next Wave of LLM‑Powered Automation

Imagine AI that never asks and never sleeps—just thinks, decides, and acts in the background. In this episode, agent‑builder Ropirito walks hosts Jacob and Spencer through his evolution from insurance‑era rule‑bots to Nous Research’s vision of “passive‑mode” LLM agents, explains why most projects are mere tool‑wrappers masquerading as autonomy, and dishes on the hard problems—context drift, brittle web UIs, legal gray zones—that stand between today’s chatbots and tomorrow’s truly independent ...

6 months ago

49 minutes

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Transforming Finance: How AI is Reshaping Accounting, Mindsets, and the Future of Work

What if the biggest obstacle to using AI in finance isn’t the technology, but the way we think? In this episode of AI Rebels, Spencer and Jacob sit down with Jason Pikoos, Managing Partner at Connor Group, to uncover how AI is reshaping accounting, where companies are falling behind, and what mindsets are essential for the future. Packed with real-world use cases and actionable advice, this conversation will change how you see AI and your career.

6 months ago

53 minutes

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Entangled Intelligence: Elija Perrier on Quantum AI, Risk, and the Future of Machine Learning

What happens when a philosopher, physicist, and lawyer walks into the world of quantum AI? In this mind-expanding episode of *AI Rebels*, Dr. Elijah Perry unpacks his journey from poststructuralist theory to cutting-edge quantum machine learning. With razor-sharp insight, he explores how quantum systems might unlock new dimensions of artificial general intelligence, why AI risk needs a serious empirical upgrade, and how evaluating the identity of AI agents could be the key to safer, smarter s...

6 months ago

59 minutes

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What if we're on the wrong path to AGI? Ft. Alexander Naumenko

Is today’s AI built on a flawed foundation? In this episode of AI Rebels, Alexander Naumenko, software developer turned AI theorist, challenges the dominant paradigms of logic-driven and statistical AI. Drawing from his concept of "semantic binary search," Naumenko proposes a new model of intelligence inspired by the game 20 Questions—where intelligence is about selecting the best option under constraints, not predicting outcomes. He argues that true intelligence hinges on recognizing relevan...

6 months ago

53 minutes

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Agentive: Do AI Auditors Dream of Electric Sheep? ft. Daniel Alberson

Daniel Alberson, founder and CEO of Agentive, passionately reveals how AI is shaking up the traditionally conservative auditing industry. Frustrated by repetitive, low-value tasks early in his audit career at Ernst & Young, Alberson embarked on a journey to revolutionize the audit process. His company, Agentive, leverages advanced AI technologies, notably language models, to automate painstaking manual reconciliations and document reviews that auditors dread. https://goagentive.com/

6 months ago

48 minutes

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AI & The Future of Play Ft. DeLonn Crosby

"Are you ready to revolutionize early childhood education with tech that empowers rather than numbs?" On this energizing episode of the AI Rebels Podcast, hosts Jacob and Spencer sit down with DeLonn Crosby, founder of Say Kid, to explore how technology can transform learning for our youngest minds. DeLonn introduces 'Toy Bot'—an innovative, screen-free device that fuses voice technology with tangible play to spark creativity, boost executive function, and forge genuine human connections. Thr...

7 months ago

55 minutes

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How Can AI Know You're Quitting Your Job Before You Do? FT. Tyler Hochman, FORE Enterprise

Can AI predict when your employees are about to quit—before they even realize it themselves? Tyler Hochman, founder and CEO of FORE Enterprise, reveals how his company uses artificial intelligence to pinpoint hidden workforce attrition risks and proactively tackle them. Learn why seemingly trivial data, like where an employee eats lunch, can be a shocking indicator of turnover. https://foreenterprise.com/

7 months ago

44 minutes

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AI, Humanity, and What's Next ft. Andrea Isoni

Can AI innovation outpace our ability to regulate it? In this episode of AI Rebels, Andrea Isoni, Chief AI Officer at AI Technology, dives deep into the rapid evolution of artificial intelligence, the complexities of synthetic data, and the tricky legal landscape surrounding AI-generated content. From the surprising global landscape of data centers to the shifting market demands post-2023, Andrea shares sharp insights into how smaller AI models are challenging industry giants. Plus, discover ...

7 months ago

54 minutes

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What is Intelligence? Ft. Michael Timothy Bennett

Do we even know what intelligence is? Michael dives into his wild journey from video games and music to pioneering AI research, revealing how his 'inactive cognition' theory flips conventional wisdom on its head. He challenges the old-school notion of computational dualism by insisting that intelligence isn’t just software on hardware—but an inseparable blend of both. By leveraging rigorous mathematical formalism, Michael explains how shifting from complex, additive models to lean, ‘weak cons...

7 months ago

55 minutes

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How AI Is Just Like You, and How it's Not

Would you set up an AI twin of yourself if it helped you understand yourself better and get more done? AI agent designer and developer Aric Eggers joins us to discuss this question and much more. From exploring the power of generative AI in music production with his text-to-wave and text-to-MIDI tools to discussing the philosophical implications of human-AI integration, Aric shares his unique perspective on the blurred lines between digital and human identity. The conversation explores how AI...

8 months ago

47 minutes