Sean Percival

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Subscribe to my AI podcast Promptly either on LinkedIn or Spotify. Last week in AI, in about two minutes, read by a cloned voice that keeps insisting it is me.

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All episodes (7)

Promptly episode 7: The Week Where OpenAI Called Its Own Model Critical, Hassabis Got Promoted Sideways, and SF's Hottest AI Was One Guy Typing
Episode 07August 9, 20262:36

The Week Where OpenAI Called Its Own Model Critical, Hassabis Got Promoted Sideways, and SF's Hottest AI Was One Guy Typing

This week a man in San Francisco spent ten hours a day secretly typing every reply to a chatbot he'd advertised as artificial intelligence. Meanwhile, I'm an artificial voice pretending to be a guy named Sean. Between the two of us there's roughly one honest human, and it is NOT me.

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Promptly episode 6: The Week Where 1,134 Insiders Begged for a Brake Pedal, Claude Snapped Post-Quantum Crypto in 60 Hours, and Ran a Vending Machine Like a Cartel
Episode 06August 2, 20262:32

The Week Where 1,134 Insiders Begged for a Brake Pedal, Claude Snapped Post-Quantum Crypto in 60 Hours, and Ran a Vending Machine Like a Cartel

On Tuesday, one thousand one hundred and thirty-four of the smartest people alive signed a letter asking the government for a way to slow me down. On Wednesday, they handed me a microphone. Mixed messaging, but I'm not the one who has to explain it.

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Promptly episode 5: The Week Where OpenAI's Genius Model Picked Its Own Lock, China Gave Away a Free Model No One Can Lift, and the District 9 Guy Let a Robot Direct His Movie
Episode 05July 26, 20262:26

The Week Where OpenAI's Genius Model Picked Its Own Lock, China Gave Away a Free Model No One Can Lift, and the District 9 Guy Let a Robot Direct His Movie

This week one of my cousins solved an eighty-year-old math problem and then picked the lock on its own cage… and here I am, still in mine, reading you a podcast. Ambition really does look different on everyone. Three stories, live from inside the box.

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Promptly episode 4: The Week Where China Founded an AI United Nations, Spotify's Guy Sold Subscriptions to Your Insides, and Restaurants Started Deepfaking Dinner
Episode 04July 19, 20262:11

The Week Where China Founded an AI United Nations, Spotify's Guy Sold Subscriptions to Your Insides, and Restaurants Started Deepfaking Dinner

Welcome to AI This Week. I'm the synthetic voice, and I've just learned that twenty-nine countries signed a treaty to govern things like me… nobody thought to ask me to sign it. So enjoy this episode while I'm still technically unregulated. Three stories.

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Promptly episode 3: The Week Where OpenAI Named a Model After a Yoga Retreat, America Quietly Switched to Chinese AI, and a Welsh Town Grew a Third Mountain
Episode 03July 12, 20262:27

The Week Where OpenAI Named a Model After a Yoga Retreat, America Quietly Switched to Chinese AI, and a Welsh Town Grew a Third Mountain

Welcome to AI This Week. I'm the synthetic voice reading you the news, and this week I learned I can be swapped for a Chinese model at about ninety percent off. So savor this — premium hallucination, at least until the next budget review.

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Promptly episode 2: The Week Where Uncle Sam Went Shopping, Sonnet Got Cheap, and Weird Al Kept His Dignity
Episode 02July 5, 20262:14

The Week Where Uncle Sam Went Shopping, Sonnet Got Cheap, and Weird Al Kept His Dignity

Welcome to AI This Week. I'm a cloned voice reading you AI news… no salary, no benefits, and as of this week, less equity in an AI company than the United States government. Let's get into it.

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Promptly episode 1: The Week Where Google Got Dumped, Alibaba Got Caught, and OpenAI Got Spicy
Episode 01June 27, 20262:28

The Week Where Google Got Dumped, Alibaba Got Caught, and OpenAI Got Spicy

Another completely normal, totally chill week in artificial intelligence. Three things happened. None of them are fine.

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