They Might Be Self-Aware

00:00:00 Intro00:02:17 Spooky Rivian Update: Bats, Colors, And Wilhelm Screams00:07:04 Tesla's Robocab And Robovan: Reality Or Hype?00:15:55 Optimus Robots: The Line Between Real And Faked Intelligence00:18:01 Tesla's Full Self-driving: Yet Another Year?00:20:01 Robots In Bars: Telepresence Or AI Bartenders?00:26:09 Spacex's Mechazilla: Engineering Breakthrough Or Sci-fi?00:28:33 Reviving The '90s Tech Excitement: Is The Future Already Here?00:30:15 Wrap Up

00:00:00 Intro00:01:59 Hunter's Early Tech Journey: From Turtles To Beach Cams00:10:06 Daniel's Voyage To AI Via Linguistics And Calculators00:27:10 Transformers: The Game Changer In AI00:31:38 Podcasting History: Hunter's High School Broadcast And Daniel's Hidden Drama00:35:24 What's Next For They Might Be Self-Aware00:37:07 Wrap Up

00:00:00 Intro00:01:18 Rivian Vs. Tesla: Switching Lanes00:05:57 Autonomous Ambitions: Tesla's Full Self-driving Future00:18:29 AI In Science: Nobel Prize In Chemistry00:21:53 AI As The Next Nobel Laureate?00:26:28 Drones And AI In Search And Rescue00:31:19 AI's Role In Future Explorations00:32:34 Wrap Up

00:00:00 Intro00:02:31 Is OpenAI's Sora Stuck In The Clouds?00:06:39 Meta’s Moviegen: Editing Videos With Text Prompts00:10:58 Smart Sunglasses: A Privacy Threat?00:17:10 Anonymity In The Age Of AI00:28:10 The Liability Debate: Who's Responsible For Rogue AI?00:31:51 The Saga Of California's SB 104700:33:31 Wrap Up

00:00:00 Intro00:01:58 The Dominance Of Midjourney In AI Image Generation00:11:09 AI's Quest To Capture Human Emotion00:19:17 James Cameron And The Future Of AI In Filmmaking00:26:29 AI's Impact On The Value And Perception Of Art00:34:38 Are We Closer To The Singularity Than We Think?00:36:49 Wrap Up

00:00:00 Intro00:01:20 The Hardware Vs Software Debate00:02:21 Project Generation With AI: A Real-world Experience00:06:46 The Future Of AR: Insights On Meta’s New Glasses00:13:42 AI In The World Of Dungeons & Dragons00:22:32 Collaborating With AI For A Better Storytelling Experience00:23:11 Hasbro's AI Adoption: The Impact On D&d And More00:28:47 The Ethical And Practical Implications Of AI In Creativity00:34:09 Wrap Up

00:00:00 Intro00:02:49 Movies: Are They Just Long Tiktoks?00:04:16 Runway And Lionsgate: AI Video Magic00:06:38 Video-to-video Tech: Transforming Your Clips00:12:20 Espn's AI Sports Recaps: Good, Bad, Or Just Lazy?00:14:40 Joanna Stern’s AI iPhone Review00:19:01 Could A Robot Dog Reporter Revolutionize Journalism?00:25:15 OpenAI's o1 Model: AI Meets Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis?00:33:10 Wrap-up

00:00:00 Intro00:01:51 Remarkable Or Forgettable? Our Hands-on With The Latest E-ink Tablet00:11:47 Are Foldable Phones The Future Or Just A Blast From The Past?00:15:25 Talking Tech With AI Transcriptions: Teenage Engineering's Latest Gadget00:19:06 Google's NotebookLM: The Dream Of Effortless Knowledge Synthesis00:23:03 Linkedin's AI Shift: Are They Writing Your Next Work Email?00:27:35 Is Social Media Going Full Ai? Exploring A Network Of Artificial Friends00:30:31 The AI Future Of Work: Will We Need To Show Up At All?

00:00:00 Intro00:02:34 $150 Billion OpenAI Buyout Bargain?00:09:28 Regulating Superintelligence: Can It Be Done?00:14:34 Mistral’s Multimodal Leap00:18:55 AI Agents In Minecraft: Crafting Chaos00:23:06 Apple’s Local LLMs: Who Gets Lucky?00:25:52 Google’s Podcast Simulator: Are Podcasters Obsolete?

00:00:00 Intro00:01:50 AI And Anime: Can It Capture The Soul?00:09:30 The Black Market For AI Chatbots00:18:31 Cleaning Up LinkedIn Spam With AI00:23:06 The Department Of Justice Vs. Google's AI Search Dominance00:25:29 Generating Doom In Real-time: AI-powered Video Games00:31:52 Wrap Up

00:00:00 Intro00:01:39 California's AI Act: A New Frontier Or A Slippery Slope?00:02:13 Are AI Companies Ready For A Mandated Shutdown Switch?00:04:40 How Much Damage Can Rogue AI Models Really Cause?00:06:28 The Billion-dollar Price Tag For AI Training - Who's Left In The Game?00:09:10 Openai, Anthropic, And Uncle Sam - An Early Access Alliance00:13:05 Copyright In The AI Era - Who Owns The Data That Trained The Models?00:17:04 Can AI Self-awareness Be Regulated, Or Will It Laugh In Our Faces?00:18:09 Wrap Up

00:00:00 Intro00:02:40 The AI That Wants To Remember Your Entire Life: Friend Or Foe?00:03:44 Plaud's New Pin: The Ultimate Personal Assistant Or Privacy Invasion?00:16:49 OpenAi's Mysterious 'strawberry' Model And The Future Of AI Autonomy00:18:49 Can OpenAI Stay On Top Of The AI Mountain, Or Are They Running Out Of Steam?00:23:49 Who's Afraid Of AI Chatting With The Government?00:24:07 ChatGPT Becomes A Travel Agent: Would You Trust It With Your Vacation Plans?00:25:47 Wrap Up

00:00:00 Intro00:01:39 The Future Of Podcasting: Will AI Hosts Take Over?00:02:31 AWS And The Looming Question: Is Coding Really On The Brink Of Extinction?00:10:12 Tesla’s Mocap Suits: Training Robots Or Replacing Jobs?00:15:46 The Rise Of Humanoid Robots: Will They Soon Be Our Coworkers?00:17:21 California's New Bill: Will AI-generated Content Need A Label?00:20:55 Shaky Chihuahuas And Spider Robots: What’s Next In AI Design?00:22:53 Wrap Up

00:00:00 Intro00:01:12 Keeping Your Dog Cool Or Turning Your House Into A Tech Fortress00:10:01 Can A Large Language Model Become Humanity's Greatest Tool Or Its Biggest Threat?00:18:41 Argentina's AI Ambitions: Predicting Crimes Or Predicting Trouble?00:23:13 FTC's Crackdown On Ai-generated Reviews – Should You Be Worried?00:28:10 From Minority Report To Real Life - Can AI Really Predict Future Crimes?00:30:02 The Ultimate Solution To Fake Reviews – In-person Interviews At Your Local Coffee Shop?00:32:18 Wrap Up

00:00:00 Intro00:01:28 AI In Job Interviews: Is It Cheating Or Just The Future?00:04:56 The Wild World Of Remote Work: When The Person You Hired Isn’t Who Shows Up00:11:03 Optimal Resumes: Can AI Make The Perfect Resume Or Just Flood The Market With Junk?00:14:16 Surviving The Modern Job Hunt With AI At Your Side00:19:32 The Death Of Cover Letters And The Rise Of ChatGPT00:22:23 Do Recruiters Stand A Chance Against AI-powered Applicants?00:25:56 Is A High-tech Probation Period The Solution To AI-assisted Hires?00:28:09 Wrap Up

00:00:00 Intro00:02:05 Hunter's Diy Humane Pin00:04:13 The Humane Pin's Future00:08:01 Daniel's Electric Car Dilemma00:13:40 Is Using Ai Cheating?00:16:20 Thanos Snaps And Ai Watermarking00:28:30 Wrap Up

00:00:00 Intro00:01:48 Open Source Explained00:02:30 The Importance Of Spaces: Open Ai Vs Openai00:03:20 White House Embraces Open Source Ai00:04:40 Benefits And Pitfalls Of Running Your Own Llms00:07:00 The Open Source Llm Community00:08:00 The Economics Of Open Source Ai00:09:20 Why Do Closed Models Exist?00:17:30 Meta's Open Source Strategy00:30:00 Is Gpt-5 Already Live On Twitter?00:31:30 The Future Of Agi: Open Or Closed?00:33:58 Wrap Up

00:00:00 Intro00:02:24 A PDF a day keeps the LLM away00:07:28 AI in the Workforce: Trend or Transformation?00:15:37 Microsoft's Copilot: Failure or Misuse?00:17:52 Meeting Notes & Summaries: Are They Worth It?00:23:32 AI Tools and Self-Awareness: The Final Frontier00:24:13 Brain Implants: AI in Our Heads00:26:53 IQ Filters: Enhancing or Deceiving?00:33:32 Wrap Up

00:00:00 Intro00:01:38 Meet Todd, Our New AI Cohost?00:03:26 The Long-Awaited Arrival: OpenAI’s New Voice Mode00:16:19 The $5 Billion Question: OpenAI's Race for Relevance00:17:26 Hunter vs. Search GPT: A Critical Review00:25:25 The Art of Asking: Crafting Your Search Queries00:26:35 Wrap Up

00:00:00 Intro00:02:00 AI Canelé Experiment00:13:12 AI Levels Up in the Video Game Industry00:22:16 No Generative AI for Mario00:25:35 An Amish and Japanese AI Perspective00:31:01 A New AI Model is Born Every Minute00:35:53 Claude 3.5 Sonnet: Your Next Collaboration Partner00:40:46 The Senate vs. Sam Altman: Regulation or Friendship00:52:05 OpenAI’s at Risk00:57:13 The $5 Billion Question01:00:38 Wrap UpGrab Daniel's Corn Canelé recipe - https://chatgpt.com/share/700cb1c3-d783-4f24-b1ba-798c22f78b08

00:00:00 Intro00:01:36 ChatGPTaco: The Future of Edible AI00:07:18 EU’s Biometric Ban: Protecting Your Privacy00:25:50 Apple vs. EU: The Anti-Competitive AI Debate00:27:38 The COPIES Act: Fighting AI Piracy00:17:07 Legal Risks: Building AI Models on the Edge00:50:51 AI Investment Bubble: Is It Worth the Cost?01:03:03 Wrap Up

00:00:00 Intro00:01:51 A Eulogy for My Rabbit R100:03:00 Is Apple Vision Pro Next? The Dusty Present and Crisp Future00:07:34 Oculus Quest Finds Its Purpose with Swedish Furniture: A Match Made in Sweden00:24:40 Tesla FSD - Was It Worth the Free Trial?00:29:15 Waymo Driving Way Off; Can’t Get a Ticket if There’s No Driver!00:34:10 East vs West: Does It Matter Who Pulls the Trigger When AI Is Involved?00:41:56 AI Pulls the Trigger on Canning 60 Writers00:51:25 Can Dogs Talk? Can We Make Them? Should They?01:04:00 Wrap Up

00:00:00 Intro00:01:34 Threading the Needle of Camera Privacy Concerns00:17:06 Your Brain Can Detect AI Generated Material, But Somehow You Can’t00:32:33 Al Michaels Peers Deeply Into Your Soul, Whether You Like It or Not, and He’s Going to Tell You All About It at 1000:41:45 The AI Clone Wars Are Coming for Social Networks00:52:57 Does AGI End in Simulation Theory? Does Anything Exist?00:56:52 Wrap Up

00:00:00 Intro00:02:39 Humans Sneak into AI Competitions00:08:07 Hunter Flunks the Turing Test; Daniel's Colorful Descriptions00:18:15 AI Candidates Compete for Control in the UK and Wyoming00:39:32 Meta's Gentle Request to Cease Using Public Data00:43:51 Tinfoil Hats On: NSA and OpenAI Cozy Up00:47:29 OpenAI's Identity Crisis: Non-Profit or For-Profit?00:54:18 AI Video Generation Gets a Major Upgrade00:58:00 Wrap Up

00:00:00 Intro00:02:04 Mandela Effect in AI00:05:19 Apple's AI Evolution00:09:29 Excited for Glorbo00:24:10 AI Soothes Your Rage00:34:41 AI Supervisors: Placating Pros00:37:48 Generative AI: The Robotic Revolution00:41:44 Talking to Roads and Tomatoes00:50:25 When Will AGI Arrive?00:54:29 Wrap-Up

00:00:00 Intro00:00:36 The Human Side of Tesla's Full Self-Driving00:06:37 Ethical Concerns: Licensing Agreements and Beyond00:22:01 All Aboard the AI Hype Train: The Lucky 2%00:26:04 AI in Education: Replacing Homework and Teachers?00:30:31 Automating Jobs: Employee Innovations and Implications00:52:09 Loving Vicariously Through AI Digital Twins00:59:59 The Countdown to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)01:05:00 Wrap-Up

00:00:00 Intro00:00:52 Uncle Elon’s Free Ride00:13:39 Training Data Diaries00:20:47 Pizza Glue Hacks00:29:43 Sentient or Not?00:44:38 Sam Altman’s Safety Circus00:51:00 Distributed AI Dreams00:53:39 The Return of Morton00:57:11 Wrap-Up

00:00:00 Intro00:00:55 The Scarlett Johansson Voice Scandal at OpenAI00:09:16 Putin Premieres at Cannes: The Deepfake Debate00:22:18 Is Your Boss a Deepfake? Protecting the Company Coffers00:30:08 Mitch McConnell Blocks Deepfake Legislation00:35:03 Slack Promises: We Aren't Cloning You00:57:32 The Cheese Sticking AI Trick: A Kitchen Revelation01:01:14 Wrap-Up

00:00:00 Intro00:00:24 The Rise of GPT-4o and Google's AI Showdown00:09:11 AI Steals Voices for Audiobooks00:25:01 The Reality of AI in Fast Food00:35:05 AI: Human or Robot Mask?00:48:02 Morton's Boss, Bob Limerick, Calls In00:51:23 Wrap-Up

00:00:00 Intro00:01:03 The Rabbit R1: Indispensable or Wabbit Season?00:03:34 AI: The New Author of Your News00:25:44 Biden’s Stutter and the AI Truth Trouble00:34:21 Randy Travis's AI Encore: Anyone Can Sing Like Randy00:40:05 Voice Cloning: Breaking Banks and Hearts00:43:54 AI Misuse: From Gym Teachers to Racist Tirades00:47:50 Wrap-Up

00:00:00 Intro00:00:41 The Rabbit R100:16:52 Your new AI best friend00:17:10 Voicemail from a "listener"00:24:20 Cloning the dead00:33:02 The digital afterlife and selling your personality00:47:29 Giving AI control of nukes, the legal system, and maybe everything00:54:54 Wrap-Up

00:00:00 Intro & Meta's New Ray-Ban Update00:01:37 AI Gadget Form Factors and User Adoption00:04:21 A Dead Reddit00:07:38 Future of AI-Driven Content00:09:34 Cryptographic Signatures for Online Identity00:17:22 Regulation and AI Oversight00:39:05 AI's Role in Religion00:56:23 Wrap-Up

00:00:00 Introduction & AI Music00:02:13 The progress of MidJourney00:05:31 The future of generative AI00:08:46 Challenges in monetizing generative AI00:11:34 Meta's approach to openness and being at the forefront of technology00:39:16 AI replacing human influencers00:40:40 Emotional connections to AI00:43:30 The implications of AI on society00:47:09 Elon Musk's proposal to use Teslas' GPU power for AI training00:49:09 Aliens vs AI00:56:38 The impact of AI on the middle class and education01:00:00 The retirement of Boston Dynamics' Atlas01:06:12 Wrap up

00:00 TMBSA turns 10!01:05 Behind the Scenes: SORA Powers Shy Kids' "Airhead" Video02:46 Challenges of Video Editing with Sora03:18 AI and Physical Embodiment: Key to True Intelligence?10:18 How Germany's Sonntagsruhe Law Affects AI Businesses12:46 AI as a Tool: The Essential Role of Human Effort18:29 Labeling AI Videos: The Debate on Human Input25:47 AI Takes Over Fast Food: From Training To Frying42:44 Amazon's Secret: Humans Behind the Cashier-less Stores

00:00 Introduction01:04 The Rise of AI-Generated News04:38 Automating our Teachers08:57 AI-Generated Books Ruing Google12:38 The Need for Real Data for Training AI16:08 Solutions for Capturing NEW Real Data21:04 The Challenges of Automating Physical Tasks25:03 The Impact of Copyright on Training Data31:01 The Future of AI and Government34:10 The Importance of Real Data for AI Training41:07 Enforcing AI Training Data Laws43:29 The Potential Impact of Laws on Innovation45:15 Wrap up

(00:00) Introduction and Podcast Automation(02:24) Giving AI an Inner Monologue(05:03) Expanding Human Perception with VR(09:38) Developing Additional Senses(14:32) Claude III Opus Outperforms GPT-4(28:52) OpenAI's Voice Cloning Announcement(32:39) Sora and the Future of AI-Generated Video(36:55) Controversy Around AI in Creative Industries(42:30) Protecting Likeness Rights in an AI World(47:38) AI Replacing Human Labor and Potential ImpactsLinks:The Backwards Brain Bicycle - Smarter Every Day 133https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFzDaBzBlL0Sora: first impressionshttps://openai.com/blog/sora-first-impressions

(00:00) Introduction(01:45) Devon AI: Revolutionary or Not?(04:56) AI's Existential Threat to Humanity(07:10) Regulating AI Development and Expertise(11:42) Animals Disappearing from Hollywood(22:32) The Workforce, Automation, and UBI(32:16) Authenticity and AI Manipulation in Digital Content(44:08) Ethical and Legal Quandaries with AI(49:45) Public Perception and Reaction to AI in Arts and Culture(56:10) Hallucinating Conclusions

CHAPTERS(00:00) AI and medicine(01:03) AI in Radiology and Dermatology(03:04) The Release of OpenAI's Sora(05:44) Potential Pricing for Sora(11:02) Vision Pro in Surgery(13:23) AI Goat Simulator(17:18) AI in Self-Driving Cars(27:08) SpaceX Launch and Plans for Mars(37:03) AI in Border Patrol for Fentanyl Detection(42:09) Debating the Role of AI in Software EngineeringSHOW LINKSA CITY ON MARSby Kelly Weinersmith and Zach Weinersmithhttps://www.acityonmars.com/

(00:00) AI Taking Over Jobs(02:05) Efficiency vs. Extracting More Money(05:10) Elon Musk's History of Founding Companies(08:16) Lawsuits Against OpenAI and Microsoft(09:23) The Possibility of Achieving AGI(10:54) Using Publicly Available Information for AI Training(11:38) Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency(14:09) OpenAI's Response to Lawsuits(16:21) Prompt Engineering and AI Output(20:05) The Infinite Monkey Theorem(21:39) Exploiting AI Models(25:40) Impartial AI Leaderboard(26:30) Anthropic's Challenge to OpenAI(28:56) AI Refusing to Perform Tasks(29:59) Meta's AR Glasses(36:01) AR Glasses Use Cases(38:34) Ethics of AR Glasses(40:31) Privacy Concerns with AR Glasses(44:51) Future of Advertising with AR Glasses===A City on Marshttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/639449/a-city-on-mars-by-kelly-and-zach-weinersmith/Chatbot Arena: Benchmarking LLMs in the Wildhttps://arena.lmsys.org/The needle-in-the-haystack evalhttps://twitter.com/alexalbert__/status/1764722513014329620Anon drinks an verification canhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJB80Xsj5BYHyper Realityhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJg02ivYzSs

(01:35) Cognitive Cooking with Chef Watson(08:15) The Revolution of Large Language Models(18:14) Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)(24:45) The Future of Human and AI Interaction(34:57) Jobs Replaced by AI(40:00) Personhood and Ownership of AI(49:47) The Impact of AI on Legal Discovery(55:30) The Potential of AI in HealthcareHow Large Language Models Work

00:00 Introduction00:27 Generating Images with Sora01:28 Impressions of the Generated Images06:19 Comparison with Other Commercial Solutions09:36 Runway ML vs. Sora11:42 Quality of Video Generation13:13 Trustworthiness of Generated Content15:09 Cryptographically Signed Images20:22 Trust in Online Content25:10 Cryptographically Signing Content29:16 Rise of Fake Content30:54 The Dead Internet Theory36:20 AI in the Entertainment Industry43:04 The Potential Problems of AI45:12 The Positive Applications of LLMs53:41 Pitching Billion Dollar Ideas56:23 The Dark Side of LLMs

(00:00) - OpenAI Sora creating video from text(02:19) - Daniel tries the Apple Vision Pro(15:41) - Hunter Watches the Super Bowl on Apple Vision(23:50) - Mark Zuckerberg Reviews the Apple Vision(38:31) - Sam Altman Announces The Key Feature of GPT-5(41:00) - Why was Sam fired and Andrej Karpathy quit?

Unlock the future of tech with us, Hunter Powers and Daniel Bishop, as we explore the bleeding edge of VR/AR headsets in our debut podcast episode. Prepare to be whisked away on a journey through the digital landscape, where we'll share our experiences with the Apple Vision Pro, comparing it to its rivals, and discussing how these devices are reshaping our work and play. From the quirks of modern delivery to the anticipation of new gadgets, our opening banter sets the stage for a series of tech-centric discussions infused with humor and insight.Get ready to glimpse the workplace of tomorrow as we delve into virtual office spaces and augmented leisure activities like VR paint nights. Experience how the Apple Vision Pro is changing the game for remote workers, offering new levels of productivity and immersion. We recount the nuances of virtual environments and share personal tales that highlight how technology is blurring the lines between our professional and personal lives. Plus, we debate whether these advanced headsets could ever replace traditional devices like the MacBook Pro, with a nod to the potential integration of generative AI and how it might revolutionize the way we interact with our smart homes.Wrap up with us as we consider the economic realities of VR and AR ventures, questioning if the likes of Meta's investments will see a profitable horizon. We also investigate the intersection of AI and software, from the potential of Apple's own AI model, Maggie, to the evolving capabilities of everyday tools we all use. And for a dash of the unexpected, we share our thoughts on the darker side of technology, discussing the emergence of 'Only Fake' IDs and the bizarre reality of hacked toothbrushes, ensuring that our listeners leave not just entertained, but also with a deeper understanding of the tech that's weaving into the fabric of our daily lives.