Written and illustrated in approachable English for learners at approximately high-school level.
These presentations draw on in-depth 2025 public conversations with pioneering AI scientist and 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics co-laureate Geoffrey Hinton.
NotebookLM understands and answers in your selected language — and with Interactive Voice mode (look for the right Studio panel), it talks back (English)!
In NotebookLM: Click on Audio Overview: Click on Interactive mode (Voice):
How to Start?
Visit the blog for newest ai:Pods and short articles
Quick Guide to kinokast ai:Pods How to go from just reading information — to actually understanding it.
1. Think Before You Ask
Don’t just fire questions at the AI straight away. Try this three-step habit first:
Make a guess — Before asking, write one sentence about what you think the answer is. This forces you to think, not just consume.
Challenge your guess — Then ask the AI: “What in these sources would contradict or challenge my idea?”
Combine both — Use “Save to Note” to blend the AI’s findings with your own thinking. The goal is your conclusion, not the AI’s.
2. Better Questions = Better Answers
These prompts help you dig deeper:
Spot the blind spots:“Where might the AI be confidently wrong because it has no real-world experience or common sense?”
Play devil’s advocate:“If some of this information were deliberately misleading, which conclusions would fall apart first?”
Think about impact:“Does this tool make people more free and creative — or does it just replace boring tasks while creating new dependencies?”
3. How to Use the Audio Feature Smartly
Listen to the two AI hosts discuss your topic – and how?
Actively look for what they gloss over or get wrong — that’s where your real learning happens.
Jump in (in Interactive Mode) Interrupt the Audio with your own voice for example: “You mentioned X, Y, Z — but is that the full picture?” To join the live discussion, click this Audio icon in NotebookLM (in the panel to the right: “Studio”) and follow the mic setup instructions:
4. Three Ideas Worth Remembering
Strategic Oversight — You’re the judge. AI gives you options; you decide what’s actually useful and right. AI does not create, you do.
Alien Intelligence — AI thinks very differently from humans. That’s useful — but also worth watching carefully. Deviations?
Super-Delusion — When something is very fast and very confident, but has no real wisdom behind it. Sound familiar?
Wisdom isn’t knowing what AI can do — it’s having the courage to ask who it serves, who it harms, and whether you’re still the one doing the thinking.
AI or genAI (generative AI), just as humans, may provide incorrect, bias or misleading responses. Human language is vulnerable and sourced directly into AILarge Language Models (LLM).What’s going on?
Ask and chat with my new Gemini 3 “Gem” app anything
What people said…
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Working with Jerome was a wonderful experience for me not least because of what I learnt from him and helping me further my career but also Jerome fostered a fantastic and fun working environment and team. Should the opportunity arise in the future I would be glad to work again with Jerome.”
Product designer Consultant EY Tax & Services, Berlin
Niall Mc Manus
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Jerome has been a fantastic lead teacher and mentor. Although we did not technically work together, I see our teacher-learner dialogue as a rich experience in collaborative work! Thanks to him I was able to transform my career path efficiently and smoothly. Whenever I have a hard decision to make related to my designer’s career and need some advice, I don’t hesitate to knock again at his door!
Curated AI voiced Audio Podcasts that cut through the crap (spoken mostly in English)
Live, Interactive Voice Chats with AI – Ask anything, get answers in real-time
Human Vetted, Sourced Research – FREE access via dedicated NotebookLM
Your questions. Your critical thinking.
Answers you can use directly.
Welcome to my blog at kinokast
I’m Jerome Bertrand – an AI UX designer, design educator, and visual artist/photographer. I create interactive AI podcasts called ai:Pods to explore AI, UX design, science and culture and how they’re shaping our work and lives.
Topics by colour:
My Blue ai:Pods = AI, UX design, Education
My Purple ai:Pods = Science, Culture, Society, Life
Topics from different backgrounds and directions are matched and tend to overlap at times, for my own creative research purposes. In that way they listen to my own subjectivity. I do not pretend to be objective or complete, let stand always exact or correct in treating the many public and seriously curated sources.
Check my calendar here & book a free, person-to-person chat meeting.
The funny twist of Mentoring the mentor in you
Allow yourself a free laugh at AI – before stuff becomes really serious.
This was produced with the early version of Lemon Slice (It seems ages ago already, but it is only November 2025)
Note: The glitches and visual aberrations in this talking head video are intentional. Rather than polishing them away, I want to show AI as it truly is — unfiltered. Hyper-realistic, advertising-perfect visuals set an impossible aesthetic standard that, to me, feels dishonest. Mistakes are fundamentally human: they signal awareness, drive improvement, and keep us alert rather than passive. Leaving these imperfections in is my way of adding a humanistic touch to an otherwise automatic process. As Margaret Wolfe Hungerford wrote in Molly Bawn (1878): “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder” — and the beholder, still, is human.
What is UX AI?
Focus is on the User (of computer systems). Humans create new AI Tools.
UX, or User Experience, is about how a person interacts with a digital/ online or app product or service. AI tools offer user experience designers a myriad of new ways to enhance how humans will interact with machines, whilst simultaneously presenting the challenge of designing these AI tools themselves to be intuitive and therefore radically human-centred. Designing with AI, designing AI itself. Humans are thus always at centre.
UX AI means AI-augmented UX, where user experience designers are using a growing number of new AI tools and methods to keep helping humans, primarily.
The Cult of Performance vs True Robustness, Hamant, Zucman, Perrow (Long: 52:58 min)
English
aiPod 046 – ENGLISH – Long -The Cult of Performance vs True Robustness, Long version 52:58 min)
NotebookLM 046 ai:Pod (English, multilingual) 1 minute Teaser Video – Performance vs Robustesse – November 2025 ai:Pod 046 – The Cult of Performance vs True Robustness, Olivier Hamant, Gabriel Zucman, Charles Perrow (Long: 52:58 min) English To the NotebookLM (interactive research & AI voice chat) Some pondring note about the above GenAI Video
You’ll notice the imperfections in this talking head video – the glitches and visual aberrations. It’s intentional here to keep showing them intact from human touch. I want to let them visible, to display them as part of the visual, to publish them as such, as ugly as they may be seen. They are part of the reality of today’s Generative AI (GenAI).
Implicit bias? Never! haha.
The character’s non-white appearance may reflect implicit AI bias – the unconscious preferences encoded in AI systems through societal stereotypes and training data. This manifests as the automatic association of non-white individuals with being ‘alternative radical minorities’, a subtle form of stereotyping and widely latent racism that AI perpetuates without explicit nor “conscious” intent.
The same types of implicit bias patterns may apply to gender, where AI can automatically associate women with certain more or less subtle stereotyped traits or assume lower competence in particular professions.
Like human implicit bias, AI can reinforce existing stereotypes through confirmation bias (favouring data that aligns with pre-existing patterns that humans will recognise as “socially accepted”, or otherwise validate) and through subtle visual cues in generated imagery.
I’ve deliberately kept this output unchanged full of visual bugs to reveal how deeper bias bugs may emerge from generative AI images and video.
The goal here is not to pursue a miror of perfection dictated by AI but rather question it relentlessly and keep critical.
I want to show AI as it truly is, not sugar-coated with hyper-realistic, advertising-polished visuals that tolerate no deviation from aesthetic norms (whatever they may be).
We humans are creative and thrive on mistakes – that’s what drives us and yes, make us more robust. Besides, being an obsessed fan of American Funky-master bassist MonoNeon does not help some of my own positive implicit bias…
This is my way of adding a human touch to the rendering: to keep us alert, not lulled to sleep. I like the mistakes because they tell me something more than meets the eye: the beholder is human. The 19th-century Irish novelist Margaret Wolfe Hungerford first used the phrase “beauty is in the eye of the beholder”. Her 1878 novel, Molly Bawn, contains the line).
Other examples of recent ai:Pods:
ai:Pod 029 (September 2025): Education is Just Human Survival
Education is Just Human Survival; The Cognitive Debt of Learning with AI. Based on serious, recent MIT research (June 2025). English. Long play: 01:03:40 h.
This recent MIT research, alongside other critiques, highlights concerns such as the commodification of education by profit-driven tech companies, the potential replacement of human teachers, and the exacerbation of existing social inequalities due to AI implementation.
Furthermore, the texts discuss how AI can diminish natural curiosity and creativity, leading to superficial learning and a reversal of the intrinsic purpose of evaluation within the educational system. AUDIO ONLY (English language. Very complete, long play: 01:03:40 h)
ai:Pod 028 (August 2025): AI and Brain resilience
AI and Brain resilience – Navigating Technology and Human Connection (ENGLISH, 57:10min)
Theme: Snake oil potential: Unlock Your Brain’s Full Potential in the AI Era? Explore how AI affects your own cognitive function and relationships through my curated e-learning NotebookLM on brain resilience and need of developing your intentional human connection. AUDIO ONLY (English language, 57:10min)
Interactive chat Quiz: AI User Personas? (ENGLISH, 14:16min)
Theme: Test your UX design fundamentals with AI-curated audio learning. Take our accessible UX design quiz covering core principles and AI personas. AUDIO ONLY (English language, 12:54min)
Highlight & Discuss: Click any summary icon to focus on specific content to research
Start Fresh: Open the Audio Overview panel to begin new conversations about available curated information & essays and informational videos
Get Support: Email jerome@kinokast(at)eu for questions or feedback
Why interact with curated AI knowledge?
ai:Pods know their source material inside out. Ask them anything — by text or voice — to interrogate that knowledge naturally. The goal: turn passive consumption into active, critical thinking. Fight AI-induced mental passivity.
NotebookLM’s Audio Overview works the same way: it transforms static research into dynamic, personalised dialogue. Your AI conversation partner has infinite patience for your questions.
ai:Pod 026 (August 2025): Can AI already think better than humans?
The short answer, according to Geoffrey Hinton (“Godfather of AI”): in many respects, yes.
Knowledge & learning: AI models know orders of magnitude more than any human and can share knowledge — via weights and gradients — at speeds millions of times faster than human teaching allows.
Reasoning & creativity: AI reasons well and already surpasses humans in complex domains (chess, Go). Hinton believes AI will eventually outpace human creativity by detecting analogies humans never perceive.
Understanding & experience: Hinton argues LLMs demonstrate genuine understanding, and that multimodal AI can already have subjective experiences — and even functional emotions.
Where humans still lead: Nuanced interpersonal tasks (e.g. teaching, interviewing) and physical trades (e.g. plumbing) — for now.
The trajectory: Hinton predicts superintelligence — AI better than humans at everything — within 20–50 years (2025); he brings it to less than 10 years recently.
ai:Pod Essay (July 2025): Architecture Photography Before Smartphones
A NotebookLM exploration of a personal essay (2006–2025) examining how buildings were photographed before mobile ubiquity changed the practice entirely. Visit: Essay on photograpy (2006-2025)
Author: jerome-bertrand@kinokast(at)eu
AI may produce inaccurate information. GenAI (generative AI) may also be providing incorrect or misleading responses.
kinokast.eu is a platform for UX designers focused on integrating AI into user experience design. It offers:
aiPods: Audio discussions on AI and UX, featuring AI personas Aiko & Blaise.
Coaching: One-on-one and team sessions to help designers use AI effectively.
AI Tools: Virtual mentors and collaboration tools like ask\wAI Pro and UnityUX Coach.
Resources: Study guides, articles, and interactive learning on AI-driven UX design.
Its mission is to empower designers to create ethical, human-centered AI experiences through education, tools, and community support.
Interactive? Absolutely—ask with voice-chat your questions to carefully curated sources in real-time
Ask questions to AI podcasts about: UX design and AI, relevant societal topics, and more…
About NotebookLM interactive podcasts
NotebookLM Audio Overviews or AI podcasts are lively “deep dive” discussions that summarize the key topics in your sources as a dialogue you can take part of. This is an experimental feature (in multi-language) and below are some notes to help you get started
You need a Google account to access and/or edit a free Notebook.
You can now interrupt your Audio Overview to ask a question, interject, or make a request to the hosts! (July 2025)
Audio Overviews (including the voices) are AI-generated, so there might be inaccuracies and audio glitches.
Audio Overviews are not a comprehensive or objective view of a topic, but simply a reflection of sources shared in the Notebook.
Audio Overviews will be in the output language you have selected in your Notebook Settings.
Access multi-language AI podcasting via NotebookLM Settings (choose your Output language)
Here are some notes to get you started:
Your voice and transcribed interactions with the hosts will not be stored.
Clicking on the share / download buttons will share / download your original Audio Overview. Other users will not be able to interact with your Audio Overview via the share link.
There may be a slight delay in starting to play the initial content, after you hit the join button, or after you speak to the hosts.
There may be some audio glitches (random speaker switches, third voice, voice glitches).
This feature is only available for newly generated Audio Overviews (from July 2025 onward).
What or Who are ai:Pods’ fictitious AI personas Aiko & Blaise? Aiko & Blaise are AI, fictitious research assistants I created. They host interactive sessions, present content, and answer your questions in real time using Google NotebookLM voice-chat technology. Open your Mic and test them out!
Here’s why I like to think them pretty reliable and engaging albeit in their own virtual, somewhat clumsy or over-arched AI-voiced characters:
They provide only fact-checked, researched information – never made-up content
They always cite their sources so you can verify information
They create a welcoming learning environment that respects all students
They encourage critical thinking and open discussion (with voice interaction)
Important: These AI assistants are tools for learning, not the focus itself. They help organize research and present information clearly, but real learning comes from your own thinking and analysis. The true learning is always human.
The goal is to make complex topics accessible while maintaining academic standards and promoting inclusive, easy to access education on themes UX design and AI.
AI and genAI can be providing incorrect or misleading responses. What’s going on?
AI personas Aiko & Blaise share smart insights and funny critiques about UX design, human-friendly AI, and current societal issues. Like humans, they may make mistakes!
For navigation purposes, I have color-labeled ai:Pods into two simple categories:
Blue for topics: AI, UX design, EducationalPurple for topics: Cultural, Societal, Life
Cultivating Critical Discourse Through Digital Curation?
I meticulously document and curate AI-generated dialogues (I called them ‘AB Converse’ or ABC, or better: ai:Pods) at the nexus of artificial intelligence (AI), user experience design (UX) and authentic human historical narratives—all in service of fostering collective critical discernment in facts-based-design. You can interact with my free ai:Pod via NotebookLM
What people said…
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Jerome is a dedicated out-of-the-box thinker, an excellent graphic designer. With his visionary visual skills, he blew the minds of customers at many occasions.”
Jerome is a compassionate and supportive teacher who is clearly very passionate and experienced in design. It was wonderful having his guidance through my learning process.
Specifically, he offered me a lot of support in navigating the design thinking process and helping to sift through large amounts of user insights, design problems and where to focus.
UX Researcher, Product Manager Design Thinking, Service Design, Berlin, Germany
Nina Lloyd
Aiko & Blaise are my AI host characters – experiments I created to help you explore topics through voice conversations. They have their own personalities and speaking styles, and yes, they make mistakes just like humans!
I use cool AI tools like Google NotebookLM Audio Overview where you can talk with them live by clicking ‘Join!’ It’s exciting to see how text-to-speech AI is developing, and I’ll create more experiments in different languages.
Check out the demo at Sesame – ask Aiko & Blaise questions using your microphone (English only for now). Try it free (ask me for the NotebookLM link).
You can also compare two approaches: Google NotebookLM with audio and Cobundle (no audio yet) about AI & UX design best practices. Read more
What Could Possibly Go Wrong with AI? 2026 Industrialized Censorship The Digital Services Act (DSA) delegates judicial power to private “trusted flaggers,” enabling political control through mechanisms like shadow banning. Cognitive Debt: Heavy reliance on AI for writing and analysis causes individuals to surrender their cognitive sovereignty, making them more susceptible to manipulation. Mass Surveillance:…
Three weeks. That’s how long it takes for most people to go from “AI is going to change everything” to quietly closing the tab and doing the work themselves. A Microsoft study tracking 300,000 employees found a pattern: excitement spikes when people first use AI tools, then crashes. Outputs feel generic. The AI sounds confident…
From Word-lego Blocks towards Your Super-Smart AI Friends: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? 2026 AI Revelations and Predictions From Nobel Prize in Physics, “AI-godfather” Professor Geoffrey Hinton and UX design and Usability-guru, Pioneer Jakob Nielsen. Ever wondered how AI goes from playing with word blocks to becoming a super-smart teammate? In this article, we explore…
I have two things for you for celebrating the New Year: 1. kinokast ai:Pods , my new Gemini 3 “Gem” app that makes it easy for you to navigate kinokast and ai:Pods 2. A New Symbol of Unity, a visual design modification based on the graphical, epic Ampel trafic light sign from Germany
Read a very short tiny story I wrote for Christmas. Spoiler: it is about Alex and Lia. Select your favourite language below.The story was first written in my mother tongue; if you can, read the original in french ENGLISH: Start here (EN) FRANÇAIS: Commencer ici (FR), my original version NEDERLANDS Start hier (NL) DEUTSCH: Los…
5 Truths About Artificial Intelligence toward 2026 Based on recent research and reporting, these truths challenge our core assumptions about what this technology is and where it is leading us. Here are five astonishing facts that reveal the true nature of the AI revolution. Featured Header image:Apr 9, 2018 Official audio for “Fight to Survive”…
Mission My mission is about empowering UX designers to move beyond technical solutions, creating design processes that are deeply empathetic, culturally aware, and universally accessible. I do this collaborating and learning with AI tooling, AI agents and a healthy dose of human, necessary self-irony.
In 2025, everyone’s personal and business AI stack will very probably include custom (educational) apps to support their work and continuous learning, at work, at home and on the move (the like of chatGPT’s, dedicated AI agents and mobile, voice AI).
My taste? (many) I work like many of us today a.o. with OpenAI, Mistral.ai, Claude.ai or other leading AI systems. AI apps like assistants, companions, advisers or agents will tend to work more and more as our colleagues. They will not only act like our well trained computing-slaves but as co-creating tools. They will adopt – or fully mimic -useful co-workers’ hands, behaviors and mindsets to engage in collaboration. How to design these new man-machine interactions and serve humans the best?
Bio I’ve been working in user experience design, education and coaching for 25 years (my full Bio). I’ve built this website first as a blogging side-project – and it’s taking more attention lately.
Stay tuned but not too hyped up! AI development should better slow down a bit to accommodate well with a true – human – collaborative, pace and space.
Let’s keep focused on the true human experience of technology. Where technology can sometimes help in doing just that.
People said
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Jerome was often pointing out how to make this UX and UI design learning process more fun, how to enjoy the creative and intellectual process in design thinking. Most importantly for me, he showed me how to implement previous skills and knowledge gained as a fashion designer into a new field – totally new to me.
Fashion and Graphic Designer Cash For Trash, Novi Sad, Serbia
Milena Mila Popovic
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I have known Jerome for more than a decade. He’s is one of the professionals I met along my path that fit well in a talent description: Creativity is one thing but when properly applied to human needs, interactive systems, and education, it becomes magical.
Strategist, Principal Consultant Keen Design, Utrecht, Netherlands
Jonathan Arnowitz
My new, 2025, self-learning AI-agent: @Speax Get in contact!
Listen to my free ai:Pods produced with AI tools & apps, the like of: Mistral, Claude, chatGPT, Perplexity, NotebookLM…
The unique 3 min episodes from Arte.tv, all about a serious world of irony of the AI!
The Arte.tv mini docs series about AI: more than just tasty humor.
10 x short, brilliant, (3 min) episodes about our hyper-AI life.
Available until 29/08/2027 on Arte.tv
Prompt is an artificial intelligence programme that genuinely wants to help you live a better life. Can it bring us some sunshine?
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My working philosophy (or ethics); motto is ‘mentoring the mentor in you’. My mission is to help emerging AI-driven UX design individuals, groups and companies achieve human-centered design processes, products & services through my AI UX design coaching.
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
– Molière (1622 – 1673)
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière, French playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the great writers in the French language and world literature. His extant works include comedies, farces, tragicomedies, comédie-ballets, and more.
Jerome is one of the most passionate, honest and thoughtful designers, mentors and teachers I have come across. He truly lives for nothing other than encouraging and inspiring his design students.
Most of all, I learned how to build self-confidence as a designer.
Jerome and I embarked on a project to harness mapping APIs like Google Maps, Google Earth 3D assets and MS Virtual Earth for presenting location based information and services in an intuitive and appealing web interface (GeoGames).
Jerome’s talent as a designer and as an artist is complemented by his passion for creating a compelling product and his willingness to put in the hard work needed to reach the goal.
How can AI be used to enhance the UX design process itself? (requires OpenAI Plus)
AI can be a powerful tool within the UX design workflow: • AI-powered design assistants: Tools like “ask\wAI Pro” act as virtual mentors, providing feedback and playful critique on design choices. • Facilitating team collaboration: Tools like “Unity UX Coach” aim to improve communication and collaboration within design teams, ensuring everyone is in sync.
Ask anything human to a professionally curated UX design mentor – AI UX design assistant. Empower your daily UX design practice with some necessary and healthy self-irony…
…is like having a personal trainer for your UX design journey – that guides and challenges you, but also makes sure you have fun and don’t take yourself too seriously.
UnityUX Coach is Empowering UX teams with masterful communication and conflict resolution strategies to enhance collaboration, streamline design processes, and foster a harmonious work environment.
UnityUX Coach is like a conductor of an orchestra, bringing together different instruments and players to create a harmonious and beautiful symphony. Just as a conductor uses their skills to guide and communicate with the musicians, the UnityUX Coach empowers and guides UX teams to work together seamlessly and create a flawless design process.
ask\wAI – StudyBuddy (custom chatGPT)
ask\wAI – StudyBuddy chatGPTs
For continuous learning (OpenAI Plus required)
AI “studybuddy” chatGPTs can assist designers take notes and revisit UX design literature classics by providing interactive learning experiences.
Continuous learning UX design with AI is like building a prospective bridge. With each new book or study, you add another support. This strengthens your understanding and allows you to reach new degrees of expertise.
Just like a bridge connects two points, continuous learning connects your current understanding to new and innovative ideas.
And just like a bridge requires maintenance and reinforcement, continuous learning requires revisiting and re-reading previous materials. This solidifies your foundation and builds upon it continuously.
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