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Episode 1: This Is Not the AI I Was Promised

Growing up in the '80s, AI seemed destined to look very different. Instead of the future we imagined, we got chatbots, algorithms, and technology woven into everyday life. In this debut episode, I explore the gap between AI expectations and reality—with curiosity, skepticism, and a few tangents.

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Resources:

Hephaestus: https://www.theoi.com/Olympios/HephaistosWorks.html

Golem: https://prague.eu/en/golem-of-prague/

Robot: https://web.archive.org/web/20150415062618/http://capek.misto.cz/english/robot.html

AI history: https://liacademy.co.uk/the-story-of-eliza-the-ai-that-fooled-the-world/

ELIZA: https://www.masswerk.at/elizabot/

Workday: https://doc.workday.com/admin-guide/en-us/workday-ai/agents/setup-considerations--agent-system-of-record.html

Greenhouse: https://support.greenhouse.io/hc/en-us/articles/33043749845403-Greenhouse-AI-features

Meta: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/metas-scrapped-plans-to-go-ai-native-included-slashing-teams-by-60-percent/

ALPR: https://www.aclum.org/publications/what-you-need-know-about-automatic-license-plate-readers/

ALPR concerns: https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/other-alpr-vendor

ALPR abuse: http://ij.org/the-ij-database-of-alpr-abuse/

AI CSAM court opinion: https://media.ca7.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/OpinionsWeb/processWebInputExternal.pl?Submit=Display&Path=Y2026/D08-25/C:25-1354:J:Lee:autconi:T:fnOp:N:3597567:S:0

Music: “Too Cool” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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'90s dial-up and record scratch mixed into theme music by Jess.

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Loading...please wait. | Official Trailer

What do beer and bread have in common? What connects IKEA furniture and LEGO? And why were humans imagining artificial intelligence thousands of years before electricity?

Welcome to Loading...please wait., a podcast about unexpected connections, curiosity, and the research rabbit holes that happen when one question leads to about 37 open browser tabs.

I'm Jess, and I have a habit of noticing connections between things that don't seem related. Instead of leaving those thoughts alone like a reasonable person, I go looking for answers.

Sometimes I'm right. Sometimes I'm completely wrong. And sometimes what I discover is far more interesting than the question I started with.

Each episode follows that curiosity wherever it leads, with research, a little humor, and absolutely no guarantee that I'll remember to finish my coffee.

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Production Credits

Loading...please wait. is an independent, one-woman production.

Created, researched, written, recorded, edited, and mixed by Jess.

Loading...please wait. — Because sometimes the most interesting discoveries are the ones you weren't looking for.

Theme Music

Track: Too Cool

Artist: Kevin MacLeod

Source: incompetech.com

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