About Michael Martine

Michael is a co-founder and co-host of Games at Work as well as a dad, Tar Heel, sousaphone player and martial artist whose interests include quantum physics, neuroscience, philosophy, music, LEGO, patenting and game technology used for business.

e556— AI With Extra Guac

mortar, pestle and avocado preparation for guacamole

Published 8 June 2026 e556 with Michael, Andy and Michael – Michael R’s annual edu-cation, chatbot trickery, data center data visualization, LeRobot Humanoid open source robotics, LEGO and a whole lot more! Michael, Andy and Michael get things started with Michael R’s annual edu-cation, Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference.   Then the team turns to a news story about tricking Meta’s support chatbot into granting access to Instagram accounts.  This is not a new tactic – check out e429 for a link to try this out for yourself with lakera.ai‘s Gandalf game. Next up is a data visualization for data … Continue reading →

e555 — One Two, One Two

sculpture - The Bean in Millennium Park, Chicago, IL

Published 25 May 2026 e555 with Andy, Michael and Michael – Ploopy’s The Bean and Lenovo’s TrackPoint, The Guild, The Movie, AI in commencement speeches, AI in podcasts, Virtual Worlds and Virtual OS museums and a whole lot more! Andy, Michael and Michael get things started with an appreciation of Andy’s work to migrate the Games at Work hosting site to a new service in uninterrupted fashion for our listeners.  Next, a new piece of open source hardware that Andy’s purchased, the Ploopy The Bean.  After the cohosts wax poetic on the awesome sauce that is the TrackPoint, they turn … Continue reading →

e554 — SPI vs I

cat in a briefcase peering over the edge, flipped and duplicated so that it appears two cats are looking at one another

e554 – SPI vs I: Stories and discussion on #LLM #PhoneNumber lookups, #proctors returning to #Princeton, lavish #LEGO, #LOTR and a whole lot more! Continue reading →

e553 — Monks, Bots & Ghosts

Prayer flags strung across trees in front of a waterfall in the North Carolina mountains

e553 with Andy and Michael M – stories and discussion on a #robot #monk, the #DeadInternetTheory, #AgenticAutonomy, #HappyNetBox, the #Artemis II minifig.me crew and a whole lot more! Continue reading →