My iPod Taught Me AI

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Deep Research Tracklist

1. 🎵 Clickwheel Confessional

2. 🎵 Stuck on Scroll

3. 🎵 Retrieval Ain’t Easy

4. 🎵 Every Time’s the First Time

5. 🎵 Bonus Track: Screentime Killer

6. 🎵 Bonus Track: Love on a Podcast

🎵 Clickwheel Confessional

Remember your old iPod? Maybe yours, maybe your parents'?

Last year, nostalgic, I discovered an entire community still devoted to keeping these relics alive:

• Replacing batteries with help from YouTube

• Buying, selling refurbished iPods online

• Upgrading memory, adding Bluetooth, and more

🎵 Stuck on Scroll

Truth is, I got here running from my own screen addiction

😳 It started with self-disgust (4-5 hours screen time per day)

👣 Which led me to looking at phones like this

‼️ Which led me to r/iPod, shopgoodwill.com, and more.

After far too many scrolling sessions, I snagged a used iPod 7th gen.

(Isn’t this article supposed to be about AI?)

Glad you asked.

(iPods are dead, bro)

Right again.

The iPhone dominated…

The iPod died… because it couldn’t update itself or pull in new data.

Modern AI is winning because it can.

🎵 Retrieval Ain’t Easy

Let’s talk about the evolution of LLM’s.

The Static Era:

Ready, set, iPod Analogy.

Your classic iPod was a one-way street. Load songs from your laptop once, that’s it.

No Beyoncé songs on the initial upload? She doesn’t exist, because there’s no web access.

Early AI models were trained once, like filling an iPod once.

If you ask it about something new, it can’t answer - not because it’s dumb - because the information simply isn’t there.

🎵 Every Time’s the First Time

The Generative Era (Remix)

ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok.

Your favorite AI tool can ‘remix’ its trained knowledge to generate new combinations. Words, ideas, summaries…

It feels fresh, but it’s still built entirely on the data it saw during training.

(RAG’s Version)

Here’s the major upgrade: Web access.

Today’s AI isn’t just remixing stale knowledge anymore. RAG helps the AI ground it’s answers in real data, letting it fetch and blend current information.

1. Today’s models can retrieve:

• Recent industry news

• Your own business reports.

• Industry benchmarks.

• Internal documents you’ve uploaded.

2. Then it generates an answer that’s grounded in your context, your data, and today’s world.

Businesses who want serious AI leverage aren't just “using ChatGPT.”

They’re learning how to build retrieval pipelines.

Their AI isn’t just smart, it’s relevant.

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You can find the research function near your chat box on every AI platform.

What topic will YOU deep dive first?

P.S.

Did anyone else notice something missing?

SMH

🎵 Bonus Track: Screentime Killer

If you’ve scrolled this far, here’s more about my screen time journey.

I went cold turkey on the iPhone. I had to.

If you want to know more you’re welcome to reach out.

🎵 Bonus Track: Love on a Podcast

My latest AI Power Move combines Deep Research with Google’s NotebookLM to create custom podcasts that actually sound good.

Here’s how it works:

1. Conduct a deep research query on any topic.

2. Don’t read it whatsoever

3. Upload the report into NotebookLM.

4. Click to generate an audio overview.

5. *Select longer or custom instructions to the audio overview if needed.

I guarantee you will be impressed by the quality of the podcast hosts!
*NotebookLM is free for Google Workspace customers.

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Here’s what’s coming next :

Tuesdays: The next episode with Chip & Scoops, a couple of AI-curious friends just like you.
(Catch up on the last episode here) I might sunset this series. TBD.

Thursdays: We’ll cover LLM and AI concepts. (Don’t worry. I put the cookies on the lower shelf, where anyone can reach ‘em.) I teach advanced concepts in simple, bite-sized chunks that anyone can understand.