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Pragmatic AI with Matt Stauffer

Pragmatic AI is a podcast about practical AI for business leaders, developers, and thinkers—the stuff that actually works, not the hate or the hype. We cover using AI tools day-to-day across the spectrum of human experience.

Website ↗ Last published 4 November 2026 28 posts collected by Sputnik

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“The research says that it takes as few as 50 or 100 documents to poison a public-facing AI with bad information. So the implication is I should be able to get good information in there. We'll turn that to good. But it's a lot of work and it's very hard to control.” — Sarah O'Keefe, Pragmatic AI with Matt Stauffer
Sarah O'Keefe · 4 Nov 2026 Listen →
“It is actually quite difficult to get the AI to say, I don't have that information. That information doesn't exist. That scenario doesn't exist. So what it's going to do is invent an answer, right? Because it's designed to produce content. That's what it does.” — Sarah O'Keefe, Pragmatic AI with Matt Stauffer
Sarah O'Keefe · 4 Nov 2026 Listen →
“And so we have to be more interesting and fundamentally less professional as writers in order to prove that we're real human beings.” — Sarah O'Keefe, Pragmatic AI with Matt Stauffer
Sarah O'Keefe · 4 Nov 2026 Listen →
“Ask the AI a question about something that you are an expert in. Maybe it's knitting, maybe it's video games, I don't know. Nearly always the first answer you get is pretty good, and then ask it for more details. And as you go down that rabbit hole, it'll get worse and inaccurate. Okay. And then ask it a question about something you don't know anything about and do the same thing. And notice that as you go down the rabbit hole, you think it looks okay. And then think about that carefully.” — Sarah O'Keefe, Pragmatic AI with Matt Stauffer
Sarah O'Keefe · 4 Nov 2026 Listen →
“…it's always going to produce grammatically correct content that is fluent, that is mechanically correct. And so we've broken the connection between this looks good and this is good.” — Sarah O'Keefe, Pragmatic AI with Matt Stauffer
Sarah O'Keefe · 4 Nov 2026 Listen →
“I think that people really wanted an easy button and they turned off their brains when AI came out. There's like, oh, this is great. This will save me a pile of money. And now, because of the way publicly traded companies work, it's not quite a Ponzi scheme because there's definitely some value in there, but nobody wants to be the first lemming to step back from the cliff.” — Sarah O'Keefe, Pragmatic AI with Matt Stauffer
Sarah O'Keefe · 4 Nov 2026 Listen →

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Pragmatic AI with Matt Stauffer is hosted by Matt Stauffer .

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