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Jul 15, 2025 40 min

AI Is Learning to Strategize Like Us

from What the AI?! Hosted by Upstart

What happens when AI outsmarts your doctor, charms your date, and impersonates a U.S. senator? This week, Jeff and Annie dive into some AI stories. A fertility breakthrough gives new hope to families after 18 years of trying. Microsoft claims its AI can now beat real doctors at complex diagnoses. And in a truly unsettling twist, someone used a fake voice clone of Marco Rubio to try and access classified information.It’s not just breakthroughs—it’s questions of trust, privacy, and what happens when AI starts thinking (and strategizing) like us. We also discuss: XAI’s Grok 4 Heavy: $300/month for a truth-seeking muscle machine Perplexity’s new AI browser that can book your meetings and browse for you New research shows LLMs have strategy fingerprints—and personalities Relevant Links: Columbia's STAR system finds viable sperm using AI DeepMind’s Isomorphic Labs starts cancer drug trials Grok 4 and Grok 4 Heavy benchmark results Perplexity launches AI-powered Comet browser Nikkei reports scientists used hidden AI prompts Anthropic proposes AI transparency framework AI deepfake impersonates Marco Rubio Microsoft MAI-DxO claims diagnostic breakthrough AI models show unique strategy patterns in games

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