e556— AI With Extra Guac
From Games At Work dot Biz by Michael Rowe, Michael Martine, Andy Piper
June 8, 2026 · 37 min · Season 15 · Episode 556
About this episode
The episode discusses AI advancements, chatbot trickery, data center visualization, and new robotics projects.
Photo by Mikey Frost on Unsplash 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 centers across the United States.  And then, a solution for the energy needs of a data center: CrankGPT.  And harkening back to the earlier chatbot trickery, there’s a GitHub repo to get Chipotle’s chatbot Pepper to write python code and more.  Then, the team considers an article from The Atlantic that spells out a contrarian view that this is in fact the best time for a computer science degree. A new robotics story captured the team’s attention – the LeRobot Humanoid.  Hugging Face developed this…
People in this episode
Hosts: Michael R, Andy, Michael
Topics covered
- AI
- chatbots
- data visualization
- robotics
- education
- LEGO
- technology news
Keywords
- AI
- chatbots
- data centers
- robotics
- LEGO
- education
- Meta
- Hugging Face
- Chipotle
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Meta, lakera.ai, The Atlantic
Products: CrankGPT, Chipotle, Hugging Face, LEGO, SmartPlay, Nintendo
Books & works: Gandalf game
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