Episode 1 - Beyond ChatGPT: What AI Is, How It Learns, and Why It Hallucinates

In our first episode, we sit down with Professors Paolo Torroni and Andrea Galassi (University of Bologna) to unpack what people mean when they say “AI.” We trace the road from early milestones like Deep Blue and AlphaGo to today’s large language models, then dive into how machine learning actually learns: supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning. We also discuss “stochastic parrots,” hallucinations, AI agents, and practical ways to use these tools responsibly in daily life.