AI for Humans

AI Got Weird. So We're Changing The Show.

AI news this week: We're changing AI For Humans. Not ending it, despite what the first two minutes of this video would have you believe. Kevin wanted a memorial service. On today's AI For Humans, Kevin Pereira and Gavin Purcell take a beat to talk about what three years of covering AI every single

Show Notes

AI news this week: We're changing AI For Humans. Not ending it, despite what the first two minutes of this video would have you believe. Kevin wanted a memorial service.

On today's AI For Humans, Kevin Pereira and Gavin Purcell take a beat to talk about what three years of covering AI every single week has actually been like, why the whole thing got so weird, and what we want this show to be from here. Short version: less breaking news, more of us actually using this stuff and showing you what's worth your time. We are not going to be the show that covers lab drama or tells you the world is ending. Plenty of people have that handled.

Also: we're going back to weekly, with the freedom to pop up a second time when something big happens or when we want to try a dumb experiment. And Will.i.am has invented a new file format, which is a sentence we did not expect to type in 2026.

Plus: RobotWatch is stacked. Two thousand humanoid robots descend on Beijing for the World Humanoid Robot Games, a Unitree "Superman" robot jumps considerably too far, a one year running comparison shows how fast this is all moving, and Claude gets put in charge of a robot controlled car. Then AI See What You Did There (And How They Did It) with Techhalla's MiniMax H3 paper artcraft prompt, a Cobra Commander rickroll, and an AI playing Age of Empires 2.

And before we go, we check in with our original co-host Gash to see if he's even possible anymore.

THREE YEARS IN AND THE ROBOTS STILL RUN INTO WALLS. SO DO WE.

// Show Links //

Gavin's tweet about burning out on covering this stuff

https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2087927136778907885?s=20

The robot that runs incredibly fast and then directly into a wall

https://x.com/ErenChenAI/status/2089411799003111634?s=20

Will.i.am's new file format

https://x.com/KeziahMallam/status/2089375815498695102?s=20

Robot army preparing for the World Humanoid Robot Games

https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2089761213957947482?s=20

Beijing to host games featuring more than 2,000 humanoid robots (Aug 22 to 26)