
They Might Be Self-Aware
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Ep 19Apple's New Intelligence and Glorbo's Betrayal: AI Gets Emotional, and So Do Your Roads | EP19
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
Ep 18Tesla, Teachers, and the 2%: The Real Impact of AI | EP18
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
Ep 17AI Mayhem: Gluey Pizza, Sentience, and Sam Altman’s Safety Circus | EP17
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
Ep 16AI Controversies: Celebrity Voices, Deepfakes, and Kitchen Secrets | EP16
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
Ep 15AI Steals Voices and Flips Burgers: The Future is Here! | EP15
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
Ep 14Voice Cloning Gone Wild, AI's Impact on Truth & One Gym Teacher’s AI Revenge | EP14
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
Ep 13AI Judges and Nukes: Navigating the Maze of Machine Control & Cloning the Dead | EP13
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
Ep 12Meta's Glasses Come Alive, Reddit Spirits in Deaddit & AI Sacraments | EP12
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
Ep 11AI Music, Love & Aliens | EP11
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
Ep 10Humans Pretend To Be AI, Get Stuck In The Loop & Robots Need Vacation | EP10
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
Ep 9AI Is Writing News, Impersonating Teachers & Congress Is On The Hunt | EP09
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
Ep 8GPT-4 Is Done, Everyone Gets Cloned, AI Elvis Will Protect Us | EP8
(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
Ep 7Government Regulation, AI Lions, Extinction Level Events, Post Technology Living | EP7
(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
Ep 6AI Goats, The Preservation of Life, More Jobs Fall to AI | EP06
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/
Ep 5Beyond Sci-Fi: No Jobs, Elon Musk's Justice, and the Quest for AGI | EP05
(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
Ep 4My Dinner With AI, Artificial General Intelligence, Infecting your BRAIN | EP04
(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
Ep 3Sora Kills ALL Trust, Finding the Fakes, RIP Hollywood, Make AI Do Some Good | EP03
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
Ep 2Apple Vision is Zucked, Sam Altman is making GPT-5 Smarter | EP02
(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?
Ep 1Apple’s Vision Pro, META's Money Pit, Your Toothbrush is Hacked | EP01
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.