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Show Notes
For our last recording of 2025, Emily and Alex take on a TIME article naming the "architects of AI" as their person of the year. We also look back at the year in AI nonsense, and share findings from our Fresh AI Hell Wrapped. Happy Hype-y New Year!
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Also referenced:
Fresh AI Hell:
- Fresh AI Hell, Wrapped
- Adobe for Education outputs sexualized images
- "'Low Tech ChatGPT' on physical paper"
- "Springer Nature retracts, removes nearly 40 publications that trained neural networks on 'bonkers' dataset"
- Hologram lecturers and robot sandwich-makers
- "'ChatGPT for Doctors' Startup Doubles Valuation to $12 Billion as Revenue Surges"
- No more ideas. Need AIdeas!
- "For the First Time, AI Analyzes Language as Well as a Human Expert"
- "Woman Hailed as Hero for Smashing Man’s Meta Smart Glasses on Subway"
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Music by Toby Menon.
Artwork by Naomi Pleasure-Park.
Production by Ozzy Llinas Goodman.