Decoded: AI for Everyone

Everyone talks about AI like it's a distant concept. But what if it could be your personal productivity system, your assistant, your co-worker... right now?

In this episode, Joel breaks down the anatomy of a modern AI workflow and shows you how to build your own personal AI stack. From large language models (LLMs) and task agents to note-taking AI and smart scheduling. We connect the dots across today's emerging tools.

What w...

In a world where AI can generate anything, from fake headlines to cloned voices to entire videos, how do we know what’s real anymore?

In this episode of Decoded, Joel explores the trust crisis triggered by generative AI. From deepfakes and disinformation to synthetic media and manipulated reviews, we’ll break down what’s happening, why it’s accelerating, and how to protect yourself and your organisation.

What we'll cover:

• How ...

AI can write poetry, compose music, and generate human-like empathy in chat. But does it actually feel anything, or is it just mimicking emotional intelligence?

In this episode of Decoded, Joel delves into the blurred lines between emotional simulation and genuine experience. We’ll unpack how AI models are trained to imitate sentiment, the risks of emotional manipulation, and the surprising power of emotional resonance, even if it’s...

From writing and painting to design and music, AI is making its presence felt in studios, agencies, and workshops around the world. But is it truly creative... or just a clever imitator?

In this episode, Joel explores how AI is reshaping the creative process. From prompt-based ideation to generative art and music, we unpack how AI is becoming a new kind of collaborator, one that accelerates possibility but also challenges our defini...

As AI gets smarter, it gets smoother, and that’s precisely the problem.

• The draft looks good.
• The suggestion makes sense.
• The choice feels easy.

But convenience isn’t clarity.

In this episode, we explore Decision Hygiene, the growingly required habit of remaining intentional when AI begins making decisions on your behalf. Because staying in control isn’t about rejecting AI… It’s about engaging with it consciously.

You’ll lea...

AI used to wait for your prompt. You asked a question. It answered. Simple. But that’s changing.

Welcome to the era of Autonomous Agents... where you give AI a goal, and it figures out the steps to achieve it.

In this episode of Decoded: AI for Everyone, we explore:

·       What autonomous agents actually are — and how they’re different from assistants.

·       Real-world examples where agents are already operating in business, finance...

Big decisions still matter.
But today’s AI advantage comes from something far smaller — the thousands of micro-decisions happening behind the scenes every second.

In this episode of Decoded: AI for Everyone, we unpack how businesses, platforms, and even governments are shifting from simply automating tasks to optimising judgment at scale. Because when AI handles not just work, but the decisions inside the work, advantage compounds fa...

AI is helping us more than ever, writing emails, managing calendars, and prioritising tasks. But as we outsource more decisions to AI, are we also outsourcing our thinking?

In this episode of Decoded: AI for Everyone, we explore:

• How AI-driven tools are shifting our cognitive load.

• The invisible handoff from “help” to “automation”.

• Why micro-decisions compound into major shifts in behaviour.

• The emerging need for Decision Hygiene, s...

Confused by AI? You’re not alone.
In this episode, we strip back the jargon and get crystal clear on what AI really is, how prompts work, why different platforms perform differently, and what "meta prompting" means for your productivity.

You'll learn:

• Why AI isn’t magic, it’s prediction.

• The power of a well-crafted prompt.

• The strengths of ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot and more.

• The terms you keep hea...

This week, Joel stands in front of a wall of nut bars at Coles, paralysed by choice. But instead of spiralling into snack-based despair, he takes a photo, sends it to ChatGPT, and gets the answer in seconds.

What starts as a supermarket dilemma turns into a deep dive into the rise of Everyday AI, the quiet, context-aware assistants now influencing everything from what we eat to how we sleep, to where we invest.

We explore how frictio...

Artificial intelligence was once a buzzword. Now, it's a background presence in your phone, your inbox, your calendar, whether you realise it or not. However, despite all this progress, AI tools still feel isolated. Conversations don’t carry over, tasks restart from scratch, and systems don’t talk to each other.

That’s about to change.

In this debut episode of Decoded: AI for Everyone, we explore two emerging protocols — Model Co...