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Episode 30 · 27 September 2026 · 37 min

AI Is Fun Again. That’s Slightly Terrifying.

A cyberpunk scene. A rebuilt website. A course packaged for Canvas. Somewhere between the third example and the suspicious lack of things to fix, the old feeling came back: what else can this thing do? For our season finale, we’re giving ourselves permission to enjoy the technology. Dale brings his experiments with Astra, including a Blender build and a learning-content workflow that took an unexp

Episode 28 · 13 September 2026 · 34 min

AI Slop: Who Saves Time, Who Does the Work?

A student complained that an AI voiceover was so bad it needed replacing. The voice belonged to a real person. Somewhere along the way, a human had managed to fail the Turing test in the wrong direction. That uncomfortable little story opens a much bigger question: what are we actually reacting to when we call something AI slop? This week, Dale and Nick follow that question through university lear

Episode 14 · 24 May 2026 · 25 min

So, we need to talk about world models

This week on Adjunct Intelligence, Dale Leszczynski and Nick McIntosh work through one of the busiest weeks in recent AI history. World Labs' Marble is publicly available. Google DeepMind's Genie 3 is generating navigable photorealistic 720p worlds at 20–24 frames per second. Gemini Omni Flash has rolled out to the Gemini app, Flow, and YouTube Shorts for free, with multi-turn conversational video

Episode 18 · 28 September 2025 · 27 min

The Accidental AI Economy: When Agents Run the Market + The Empire of Ai

This week on Adjunct Intelligence, Dale and Nick dive headfirst into the accidental AI economy—a system already running faster than human decision-making. From Google’s new Agent Payments Protocol to frontier models caught scheming, the episode unpacks how markets, education, and everyday life are shifting at machine speed. This week on Adjunct Intelligence, Dale and Nick dive headfirst into the a

Episode 18 · 21 September 2025 · 24 min

Why Ai Adoption is a Marathon not a Sprint

In this episode of Adjunct Intelligence, Dale and Nick sit down with Professor Rahil Garnavi, Director of RAISE Hub at RMIT and former IBM Research leader with 50+ AI patents. Rahil shares her unique perspective on why the challenge of AI in higher education isn’t about building smarter models, but about building trust, skills, and sustainable adoption. From classrooms to boardrooms, she unpacks w