Hands-On AI (Audio)

Practical guide to using AI tools for work, creativity and communication AI summary

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Hands-On AI explores and explains artificial intelligence — and shows you how to actually use it. Because AI is exactly that: a tool, and like any tool, what matters is what you do with it. In short, focused episodes, Mikah Sargent takes you inside the technology reshaping how we work, create, and communicate. Learn what's really happening inside a large language model, run AI entirely on your own hardware, put the AI already in your pocket to work, and discover uses you hadn't thought of. No buzzwords, no doom — just practical, hands-on help from one human to another. Submit your AI questions through email at handsonai@twit.tv or via TWiT's social media. You might hear your question answered on the show! New episodes every Thursday.

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HOAI 7: Should You Just Crank It to Max? - How to Pick a Claude Model and Effort Level

2026-11-12 · 50 min · Episode 7

Which AI model should you use, and how much effort should it put in? Using Claude as the example, Mikah Sargent explains its four model families, Haiku, Sonnet, Opus, and Fable, and its five effort levels, and shows…
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2026-11-12 · 0 min

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HOAI 6: Will AI Tell You When You're Wrong? - We Push Back on ChatGPT to See If It Caves

2026-11-05 · 32 min · Episode 6

Chatbots have a reputation for telling you what you want to hear. Mikah Sargent tests that by telling ChatGPT it's wrong when it's right. Then he tells one made-up argument twice, with the same facts and only the teller…
HOAI 5: Why Does AI Sound So Generic? - One Prompt, Five Runs, and What Prompt Engineering Really Means

2026-10-29 · 32 min · Episode 5

Ask a chatbot the same thing twice, and you might expect two different answers. Mikah Sargent runs one everyday request through ChatGPT five times and gets back the same basic text, two of them word for word. He…
HOAI 4: Is AI Deep Research Worth the Wait? - Four AI Deep Research Tools Get One Hard Question and a Stopwatch

2026-10-22 · 30 min · Episode 4

The big AI apps now have research modes that make you wait for a report full of sources. Is the wait worth it? Mikah Sargent gives ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity the same complicated question, plus ChatGPT with…
HOAI 3: The AI That Does the Thing - Meta's Muse Agent Takes On Simple, Hard, and Weird Jobs

2026-10-15 · 55 min · Episode 3

What happens when AI stops talking and starts doing? Mikah Sargent puts Meta's Muse agent to work on simple jobs, hard ones, and a couple of weird ones: a weekly news brief, a day trip, a shopping cart that stops for…
HOAI 2: Nine Billion Knobs - What's Actually Inside an AI Model, Explained

2026-10-08 · 55 min · Episode 2

What's actually inside an AI model? Mikah Sargent opens up the file from last week's episode and finds tokens, billions of numbers, and one surprisingly simple job: guess the next piece of text. Along the way, he shows…
HOAI 1: The Chatbot in Your Laptop - Run AI on Your Own Computer, No Cloud Required

2026-10-01 · 25 min · Episode 1

Your next chatbot doesn't need the cloud. Mikah Sargent installs a free app, downloads an AI model, turns off the Wi-Fi, and keeps right on chatting, all on an ordinary computer. Along the way, he explains how to read a…
HOAI 1: The Chatbot in Your Laptop - Run AI on Your Own Computer, No Cloud Required

2026-10-01 · 25 min · Episode 1

Your next chatbot doesn't need the cloud. Mikah Sargent installs a free app, downloads an AI model, turns off the Wi-Fi, and keeps right on chatting, all on an ordinary computer. Along the way, he explains how to read a…
Welcome to Hands-On AI

2026-09-28 · 2 min

Hands-On AI is the show that turns AI confusion into AI confidence. In this introductory episode, Mikah Sargent lays out what the show is and isn't: short, focused episodes — most 10 to 15 minutes — that take one…

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Owner: Leo Laporte
Oldest episode in feed: 09/2026
Typical length: 7 min
Format: Episodic Newest first, episodes stand alone
Keywords: TWiT, HOAI, Mikah Sargent, Hands-On AI, Artificial Intelligence, AI, OpenAI, ChatGPT

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