AI & The Art of the Possible

A 1981 text adventure scolds two kids for swearing, then threatens them with a Grue in the dark. Decades later, modern AI tries to recreate that same Zork “magic” and keeps forgetting what it’s doing. What does Zork reveal about the gap between generating text and actually understanding context and what’s still uniquely human about…

Ask a chatbot to write a medieval tavern menu, and it nails every detail, from “liquid bread” to “honeyed mead.”  It feels like imagination. It isn’t. In this episode, we trace AI knowledge backward through the digital layers. We dig past the algorithms to find the invisible contributors hiding in the code: the Ohio Dungeon…

What happens when your safest conversation is with an AI—and that AI tells you to go find real people?  In this episode, Chance explores how OpenAI trained its models to refuse the role of primary emotional support, and what that reveals about a quiet epidemic of loneliness.  This isn’t a story about smarter AI; it’s a story…

What if the key to your focus isn’t silence—but the right kind of noise?  In this episode, Chance shares how blasting Metallica in a chaotic dorm room actually saved his grades, why his wife’s brain thrives on TV reruns, and how that paradox connects to a surprising principle in AI.  You’ll walk away seeing your own “focus…

In this special Thanksgiving Day episode, we step into the fields behind your pumpkin pie to see how drones, robots, and algorithms are transforming farming. What changes when human wisdom and machine intelligence team up to feed the world? AI & The Art of the Possible — Learning About AI Through Stories, Not Specs Hosted by Chance…

State-sponsored hackers just breached 30 organizations using an AI that worked completely autonomously—executing 90% of cyberattacks without human intervention. In this episode, we explore how the same technology became both the weapon and the defense, what the attackers’ critical mistake reveals about AI’s fragility, and why this moment demands we rethink cybersecurity from the ground…

A student writes the perfect essay. An AI checker flags it as fake. Now they have to write worse to prove they’re human. Welcome to Tuesday, where the exact same AI builds and destroys. AI & The Art of the Possible — Learning About AI Through Stories, Not Specs Hosted by Chance Sassano Episode 4 – The…

This is the story of how AI gave Val his voice back. 5 minutes. One voice. One impossible restoration. “I’m your huckleberry.”

“They call me an overnight success. Yea, it only took me twenty years.” You’ve heard that joke. Now apply it to AI. Except it didn’t take twenty years. It took seventy years. The entire history of artificial intelligence in 5 minutes. AI & The Art of the Possible — Learning About AI Through Stories, Not Specs Hosted…

Which one actually changed the world more, Washing machines or the Internet? The answer involves 25 trillion hours, and it changes how we see AI. 3 minutes. One calculation that reframes everything. AI & The Art of the Possible — Learning About AI Through Stories, Not Specs Hosted by Chance Sassano Episode 1 – The Washing Machine…