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Practical AI

Making artificial intelligence practical, productive & accessible to everyone. Practical AI is a show in which technology professionals, business people, students, enthusiasts, and expert guests engage in lively discussions about Artificial Intelligence and related topics (Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Neural Networks, GANs, MLOps, AIOps, LLMs & more). The focus is on productive implementations and real-world scenarios that are accessible to everyone. If you want to keep up with the latest advances in AI, while keeping one foot in the real world, then this is the show for you!

Website ↗ Last published 5 November 2026 381 posts collected by Sputnik

Said on Practical AI

“Somebody asked me to build an AI chatbot that would basically become their counselor. They said, 'The need is so great. Something is better than nothing.' And my response was, something can be worse than nothing if you're doing the wrong things.” — Don Barger, Practical AI
Don Barger · 5 Nov 2026 Listen →
“A rule written in a prompt is not deterministically enforced. A guardrail is actual machinery: a gate, a check, a human, a limit in code.” — Heidi Porter, Practical AI
Heidi Porter · 29 Oct 2026 Listen →

Hosts

Practical AI is hosted by Daniel Whitenack , Chris Benson and Jerod Santo .

Recent Episodes

  1. 5 Nov 2026

    Abundant Intelligence at the Midwest AI Summit Part 2

    With Don Barger , Darren Taillie and Mark Lay

  2. 29 Oct 2026

    Abundant Intelligence at the Midwest AI Summit

    With Heidi Porter , Kevin Solorio , Chris Shinkle and Andrew Dunlap

  3. 22 Oct 2026

    Exploit Development, Agentic Vulnerability Discovery, and Fake PoCs

    With Spencer McIntyre

  4. 15 Oct 2026

    Education is Failing our Students in this AI-Driven World

  5. 8 Oct 2026

    Narrative intelligence and the human advantage

    With Reed Frerichs

  6. 1 Oct 2026

    Open models and the future of Physical AI with NVIDIA

    With Ming-Yu Liu

  7. 24 Sep 2026

    From AGENTS.md to Enterprise Deployment

    With Nick Kuhn

  8. 17 Sep 2026

    How to get discovered in AI search

    With Liam Dunne and Ben Moore

  9. 10 Sep 2026

    Computer-Use Agents and the Future of the Agentic Internet

    With Demetrios Brinkmann

  10. 3 Sep 2026

    Less about Models; More about Architecture

    With Chetan Gupta

  11. 28 Aug 2026

    Building the Foundation for the Agentic AI Era

    With Angie Jones

  12. 25 Aug 2026

    AI Proficiency: From Users to Builders

    With Mike Lewis

Guests

Demetrios Brinkmann (5 episodes), Joyce Nabende (4 episodes), Adam Stacoviak (3 episodes), Rajiv Shah (3 episodes), Natalie Pistunovich (3 episodes), Donato Capitella (2 episodes), José Valim (2 episodes), Don Beyer (2 episodes), Prashanth Rao (2 episodes), Solana Larsen (2 episodes), Andrew Burt (2 episodes), Jared Zoneraich (2 episodes), and 309 more.