PODCAST · technology
We Are the Machines
by Dr. Deitra Sawh, Ph.D.
AI is already in every boardroom, every strategy meeting, and present at every dinner party conversation nowadays. And most leaders are nodding along hoping no one asks THEM to go deeper. Dr. Deitra Sawh, Ph.D. breaks down exactly how AI thinks by comparing it to how you already think. No fancy tech jargon. Just the kind of understanding that makes you the most informed person in the room. We Are the Machines is the podcast for business leaders and professionals who want to understand artificial intelligence, large language models, and the real impact of AI on work and decision-making.
Episodes
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Natural Laws
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Imagine your only job in the economy is to keep a machine running, not to make anything, not to serve anyone, just to generate power for something built to replace you. This episode traces the...
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No Fun
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! I used to always beat the computer at Civilization, every single time, for over two decades. Then I loaded up the newest version this year with no handicap turned on, and the AI just saw moves…
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Woe To The Loyal Consumer
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! You just said yes to a loyalty program to save ten dollars on groceries, and you may have said yes to a lot more than a discount, because in Episode 25, Woe to the Loyal Consumer, I walk…
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The Machine Only Knows What You Tell It
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! The machine you consult every day has no new information about you or your business, it only has a very good method for getting you to hand over more of yours, and once you see that method you...
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Rage Against the Machine
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Have you seen the TikTok videos of graduation classes booing the moment a commencement speaker says the word AI? In this episode I go looking for why, spending a season surveying young people...
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Death of the Scientific Method
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! The scientific method is dead. I killed it myself, on purpose, by building an AI tool that could answer any question a business owner asked, faster than any human ever could, and in this…
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Dear Diary
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! A diary that writes back, listens to every secret, and never once pushes back, sounds comforting until you remember whose hands are really on the pen. In this episode of We Are The Machines…
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Cognitive Dissonance
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Which jobs in your company require a human to cognate, and which do not? That answer is your first clue about what the machine takes next. A man got a job he cannot do. AI found the role…
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Intention
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! You wrote the email to your boss. It was satisfying. Then you read it back and knew better than to send it. Now imagine the machine already learned who you are from the version you never sent....
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Don't Rush to Agents
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Your spouse is halfway through the IKEA build when you walk in with the power drill, and you already know how it ends: the synthetic wood splits, because a drill was never the right tool for...
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Toy Story 5
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Is technology replacing toys? In this special episode of We are the Machines, we sit down with a grade one student for an exclusive, kid-friendly Toy Story 5 movie review. Our special guest...
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The One About the Education System
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! A machine can already hand your kid any fact in existence, so what is left for them to actually learn? That question is sitting in classrooms right now, and the answer walks into your…
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Elderly
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Who is capturing what your retiring staff actually know? Has the job changed since they were hired? And is closing every in-person location worth what it costs the people who still show up? My...
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The automation of writing is almost here
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Why are executives struggling to trust the work of their newest staff? The internet took our memory years ago. Now generative AI is going after our ability to think, and the words it hands us...
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AI Harnessing
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! When knowledge becomes free, what human skills become scarce? If Microsoft saw runaway token budgets blow up, what is to come of the rest of us? As generative AI moves from experimental…
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Find out if your job survives
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! At the highway-side On the Go in Ontario Deitra found four cashiers had become one. The other three were replaced by long touch-screens that nobody could figure out, so the staff who were left...
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The tangibility of money
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! The Invisible Friction of Digital Wealth: Is Digital Banking Unraveling Your Financial Discipline? When you were growing up, finding a few loose coins in the garage to buy candy at the corner...
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Evolution
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Is your smartphone changing your DNA? Nowadays we are paying the 10-Pound Penalty, living The "Heads Down" Culture and developing a claw. On this episode of We Are the Machines, we explore the...
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UI_UX
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Is your multi-million dollar tech stack making your experts look like amateurs? If your senior team relies on junior staff to navigate internal systems, your digital tools have become a…
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The Wonderful World of Work
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! The head of R&D at a global tech company recently said he wants his team to "show off about being lazy." Not lazy as in long lunches. Lazy as in no thinking, no reading, no comprehension. If...
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Reinforcement Learning
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Are you prompting the AI, or is the AI prompting you? We like to think of ourselves as the masters of the "State Space," but Reinforcement Learning (RL) is working on us every time we pick up...
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Square peg round hole problems
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Imagine walking into your next performance review only to realize your value has been reduced to a single metric: How much did you talk to the machine today? This isn't science fiction. It’s…
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Recording Everything
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Your doctor used to open with "How are you?" Now it's: "I'm recording this. Do I have your consent?" That four-second consent is saving practitioners two to three hours of paperwork a day. It…
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Tourism
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Step into the future of travel with Dr. Deitra Sawh in Episode 5 of We Are the Machines. This episode explores how AI is revolutionizing luxury tourism through hyper-personalization and...
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Supervised Learning
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Why do some AI models succeed while others "hallucinate" or miss the mark? The answer lies on the practice court. In this episode of We Are The Machines, Dr. Deitra Sawh Ph.D. deconstructs the...
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Chess and Closed Form Problems
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! When a computer defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov, many believed machines had become smarter than humans. But the real lesson was simpler: machines excel at closed-form problems,...
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Beer and association of actions
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! What do NHL playoff ads from the 1980s have in common with today’s sports betting apps? More than you might think. In this episode of We Are the Machines, Dr. Deitra Sawh Ph.D. explores...
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Oh Canada
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! In 2018, Canada changed the words to O Canada. Some Canadians still get it wrong. That's not a memory problem. It's the same mechanism that powers ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, and every large...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
AI is already in every boardroom, every strategy meeting, and present at every dinner party conversation nowadays. And most leaders are nodding along hoping no one asks THEM to go deeper.
Dr. Deitra Sawh, Ph.D. breaks down exactly how AI thinks by comparing it to how you already think. No fancy tech jargon. Just the kind of understanding that makes you the most informed person in the room.
We Are the Machines is the podcast for business leaders and professionals who want to understand artificial intelligence, large language models, and the real impact of AI on work and decision-making.
HOSTED BY
Dr. Deitra Sawh, Ph.D.
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AI is already in every boardroom, every strategy meeting, and present at every dinner party conversation nowadays. And most leaders are nodding along hoping no one asks THEM to go deeper. Dr. Deitra Sawh, Ph.D. breaks down exactly how AI thinks by comparing it to how you already think. No fancy...
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