On Wednesday, OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra and its president said it is "not unreasonable to feel that we are now in the AGI era." Two days earlier, an NPR reporter walked the floor of a GE Appliances oven plant in northwest Georgia, where a manufacturing vice president with nearly forty years on the floor gave his verdict on the AI running his line: "It can outthink me."

The story of applied AI this week is not that it took somebody's job. It took somebody's judgment.

In this episode, Stephen Forte covers:

• The three AI systems running inside one plant: cameras that inspect every unit and stop the line the moment they see a wrong gasket; a staffing tool that moves workers between sections as demand shifts; and a demand model that lets the plant change its weekly build almost at the last minute. None of them is a robot ar ...