Trucker Tom's Podcast

I discuss YuE2 Studio, an open source piece of software that allows you to create very high quality AI music right on your desktop or laptop PC. I also discuss LTX 2.5 Desktop, a high quality open source AI video clip generator. I play four songs I generated with it. Here is the link to my YouTube channel where these as well as my other AI music videos I've generated on my desktop computer https://www.youtube.com/@tomwiles. Additionally, I talk about the incredible usefulness of the Meta Muse AI agent from Meta/Facebook.

I talk about buying a new gaming computer with 16 gigabytes of video RAM which enables me to genrate both AI audio and video locally on my machine with the help of open source software.

If you have a gaming computer with about 6 gigabytes of dedicated VRAM you can run an open source LLM using Bionic from LM Studio for free and actually get very useful work done. It quickly changes the way you use and how you even think of your computer as a productivity tool. Agentic computing is the next wave of computing.

I explain the psychological/spiritual mechanism behind how a nation can turn into a cult and how you can protect yourself from it.

Teaching Machines to Sing: Prompts, Psalms, and the Power of AI