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Artificial Stupidity
by Artificial Stupidity
Hannah and Noo are your friendly human guides to this week's AI news. Don't worry, they don't know what's going on either.
Episodes
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52. One Year of Artificial Stupidity
It's the last episode of Artificial Stupidity (for now)! What have we learnt from making the show for the last year? How have our conversations around AI developed? What's been our favourite episode? Email us at [email protected] Follow us on...
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51. What Should Hollywood Do With AI?
How should actors grapple with AI? What role do we want AI to play in film and TV? Can AI generated film be truly creative? Email us at [email protected] Follow us on Instagram and TikTok Sources and…
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50. Why Is Grok Taking People's Clothes Off?
Why is Grok generating nude imagery? What is the UK government doing about it? How can we stop AI from generating this kind of imagery? Email us at [email protected] Follow us on Instagram and TikTok Sources and...
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49. Disney's Love Affair With OpenAI
Why has Disney invesnted $1bn in OpenAI? What does it suggest about the future of the creative industries and AI companies? Will we see future deals like this? Email us at [email protected] Follow us on Instagram and...
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48. Is AI The Next Jamie Oliver?
Would you use AI for recipes? How do you feel about Frankenstein-ed recipes? What happens to food bloggers in the age of AI? Email us at [email protected] Follow us on Instagram and TikTok Sources and links: Google AI...
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47. Talking To The Machine: Anthropic Interviewer
Anthropic is interviewing its users, what did it find out? How do people feel about working with AI? How do they see AI's role in their future? Email us at [email protected] Follow us on Instagram and TikTok Sources and links:...
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46. Does AI Put The Human Back Into Humanities?
How does AI help us realise what is important in education? Is there value in the process of writing and thinking, even if AI can do it better? What do we gain by thinking with other humans? Email us at [email protected] Follow us on Instagram and...
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45. Would You Let Sam Altman Scan Your Retinas?
How do you prove your human in a world of AI? Are retina scans the answer? What does Open AI's Sam Altman have to do with all of this? Email us at [email protected] Follow us on Instagram and TikTok Sources and links: World Network Human…
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44. Meet Your AI Matchmaker
How is AI transforming dating? Would you want to be matched by an AI? Can it solve the problems of modern dating? Email us at [email protected] Follow us on Instagram and TikTok Sources and links: You Don’t Need to Swipe Right. A.I. Is…
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43. An AI Number One?
Is there skill involved in making AI music? Does the whole thing become a marketing exercise? What will happen to human musicians? Email us at [email protected] Follow us on Instagram and TikTok Sources and links: Xania Monet becomes first AI artist to...
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42. The AI Missionary
What happens when AI meets Christianity? Do we want AI to have Christian values? Does it give the Church more or less power? Email us at [email protected] Follow us on Instagram and TikTok Sources and links: An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI…
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41. Are You Ready For OpenAI's SlopTok?
Is Sora 2 an endless reinforcement slop machine? What does it mean for OpenAI’s business model? Will we all become beetles mating with bottles? Email us at [email protected] Follow us on Instagram and TikTok Sources and links: Beetles Meeting Sora 2 blog Another...
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40. Will AI Kill Your Job? (Part 2)
How do the different AI models perform on real world tasks? Is your job at risk? How worried should we be? Email us at [email protected] Follow us on Instagram and TikTok Sources and links: Measuring the performance of our models on real world tasks - OpenAI OpenAI…
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39. Has Open AI Killed LinkedIn? (Part 1)
Why has OpenAI launched a jobs board? Is it a sign that human jobs have a future? Or is it a clever PR play? Email us at [email protected] Follow us on Instagram and TikTok Sources and links: Expanding economic opportunity with AI - OpenAI blog post
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38. AI On Air
What do we want from podcast hosts? Can AI do it better? Would you like your Artificial Stupidity hosts to be replaced with AI? Email us at [email protected] Follow us on Instagram and TikTok Sources and links: 5,000 Podcasts. 3,000 Episodes a Week. $1 Cost Per Episode — Behind an…
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37. Dr Deepfake
Why are doctor deepfakes on the rise? Is this just the next iteration of "snake-oil"? What will happen to our trust in the medical profession? Sources and links: 4 ways to future-proof against deepfakes in 2024 and beyond - World Economic Forum The Doctors Are Real, but the Sales Pitches Are…
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36. Miss England Embraces AI Models
Why has Miss England introduced an AI round? What does it mean for the modelling industry? Is this the future? Email us at [email protected] Sources and links: Is Miss England's AI round dangerous or progressive? American Boy - Estelle A Dubai Chocolate theory of the internet -...
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35. Is AI Rotting Your Brain?
Are we outsourcing all our brain function to AI? Does it matter? How can you stay sharp and use LLMs? Sources and links: Your Brain On ChatGPT - MIT Study Claude for Education Ezra Klein and Maryanne Wolf on 'Deep Reading' - NY Times The Only Real Solution to the A.I. Cheating Crisis. - NY Times
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34. AI Won’t Take Your Job, But Refusing To Use It Might
How are companies adopting AI? Is 'not' hiring as bad as firing? Why are people sabotaging their company's attempt to introduce AI? Email us at [email protected] Sources and links: Duolingo interview Duolingo memo IgniteTech article
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33. Do You Want To Live In An AI Simulation?
Has Genie 3 opened up a new world of AI simulation? Could simulated worlds be better than reality? Has our social media addiction already started to lead us down this path? Email us at [email protected] Sources and Links: Genie 3 video Study on the health effects of VR
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32. Will AI Kill The Web?
Does AI spell the death of search and what can be done to save the web? Emails us at [email protected] Sources and Links: AI is killing the web. Can anything save it? - The Economist Democratizing Web Traffic with Cloudflare's C.E.O. - The New York Times
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31. The New Rules of AI Hiring - From Someone Building Them
Can we trust machines to shape our careers? What values should be built into AI tools that decide our professional futures? Could AI fix the bias in hiring better than humans can? Join Hannah and Noo as they go behind the scenes of AI's recruitment revolution and interview Arya Tandon - hire #1…
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30. Netflix Embraces AI
Netflix has used AI for the first time in one of its shows, but what does that mean for the film industry? Will audiences embrace AI-generated VFX, or is this the start of a slippery slope? Email us at [email protected] Sources and links: Netflix's new TV show 'The Eternaut' uses…
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29. The AI Recruitment Takeover
Will your next job interview be with a bot? Did you write your CV with ChatGPT? Is the logical next step to get through the whole interview process without any human interaction? Email us at [email protected] Sources and Links: Welcome to Your Job Interview. Your Interviewer Is…
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28. The AI Band That Conquered Spotify
Does it matter if people are grooving to AI generated music? Was this an inevtible next step in a world where we can stream unlimited music? Should Spotify ban AI music? Email us at [email protected] Sources and Links: The Velvet Sundown Suno
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27. How Cute Do You Want Your Robots?
Do we want humanoid robots to have personality? Are robots being cute-washed? Do we want Disney designing robots? Email us at [email protected] Nvidia CEO introduces its Disney collab bot Neo humanoid robots
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26. How Dangerous is Superhuman Persuasion?
Can chatbots drive people to psychosis? Do we realise how powerful our language is? Can we trust AI companies to mitigate these risks? Emails us at [email protected] Sources and Links: They Asked an A.I. Chatbot Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling - Kashmir Hill's NYTimes...
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25. Can AI Solve The Productivity Paradox?
Will AI make us more productive? What can we learn about the age of AI from the internet revolution? Do we need to rethink the global economic structure? Email us at [email protected] Sources and Links: AI Alone Cannot Solve The Productivity Paradox - Carl Benedikt Frey Alpha…
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24. Machines of Loving Grace Part 2 (feat. ChatGPT)
What does a utopic AI future look like? Noo is joined by the show's chief research assitant (ChatGPT) to continue the discussion on Dario Amodei's Machines of Loving Grace. Listen to part one here Email us at [email protected] Sources and links: Machines of Loving Grace by Dario...
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23. AI in Warfare: Digital Dehumanisation
What will AI do to war? How will biases in data affect decision making in autonomous weapon systems, policing and surveillance? Who is ultimately accountable when these systems go wrong? Email us at [email protected] Sources and links: Drones, AI and new technology will…
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22. Has Google Completed AI?
Has Google won at AI with its new self improving AlphaEvolve agent? What does this model mean for human scientists and mathematicians? Is this AI agent a real creative thinker? Sources and Links: AlphaEvolve AlphaEvolve explained
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21. Are AI Hallucinations Really a Problem?
Are AI chat bots making more things up? Is it getting worse?How worried should we be about lying AI? Hannah and Noo unpack all this and more on this week's episode. Email us at [email protected] Sources and links: A.I. Is Getting More Powerful, but Its Hallucinations Are Getting...
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20. Get Ready to Meet Your AI Colleagues
Are you ready to become the boss of 10 AI agents? That's what Microsoft predicts for the future of work. But are we all cut out to be bosses of AI teams? And what skills are needed to thrive in this brave new world? Join Noo and Hannah as they unpack all this in today's episode. Email us:...
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19. AI Radio Presenters and Identity Theft
How do you prove you're human in a world flooded with AI? Would you sell the rights to your identity? Would you listen to this podcast if it's hosts were AI generated? Join Hannah and Noo as they discuss all this and more in today's episode. Email us at [email protected] (We are...
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18. AI in Schools: Tutor or Cheater?
What do we need to learn in an world of AI? Will everyone be cheating? How could AI be a better teacher? Email us at [email protected] Sources and Links: Anthropic Education Report Anthropic Economic Index Claude Code Claude for Education Bloom's Taxonomy Jonathan Haidt on The Ezra...
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17. What's in an AI Brain?
What goes on inside the mind of an AI? Can it really be 'thinking'? We have an email now! Contact us at [email protected] Sources and links: Tracing the thoughts off a large language model - Anthropic God, Human, Animal, Machine - Meghan O'Gieblyn Anthropic makes a breakthrough in...
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16. Will AI Kill Content Creation?
Is OpenAI's new 4o image generator all it's cracked up to be? Will it get rid of the content industries? What happens when everyone can make great design with a single prompt? Join Hannah and Noo as they separate the hype from the tripe over OpenAI's new image generator. Sources and Links: Steven...
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15. AI, Porn and Lonely Men
Noo and Hannah discuss pornography and its intersection with AI. Will AI, as Scott Galloway suggests, cause a rise in porn-addicted, lonely, isolated men? Sources and links: Scott Galloway's Substack - "Porn" AI and the Future of Sex Deepfake stats More deepfake stats Sophie Rain The Guardian -...
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14. Can AI Write Great Literature?
This week, Hannah and Noo discuss a short story written by an unreleased OpenAI model. Does this show that AI can truly be creative and what does it mean for the future of literature and the arts? RIP to many friends of the show. Sauces and links 🌭: OpenAI's metafictional short story Jeanette...
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13. Machines of Loving Grace
This week, Noo and Hannah discuss the first half of Dario Amodei's essay Machines of Loving Grace which imagines a utopic AI future. The conversation takes some unexpected turns from humans turning into cats, to psychoactive spa treatments. Links and sources: Machines of Loving Grace by Dario...
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12. Love at First Prompt
This week, Hannah and Noo discuss the prospect of falling in love with an AI chat bot. The pros, the cons, and whether we should feel any differently about robot companionship than we do about human affections. Links and Sources: NYT pod:...
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11. Say Hello to Your New Robot Butler
Noo and Hannah discuss some new releases in the world of AI humanoid robots. Will they mean we can all exist in a housework-free utopia or will there be some more sinister consquences? Links and Sources: Introducing Neo Gamma Discover Neo Gamma Introducing Helix Discover Helix
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10. Would You Like a Slice of Compute?
This week Hannah and Noo discuss Sam Altman's latest blog post and the possibility of a future economy trading in slices of compute. Then they circle back to the present to chat about Anthropic's new research on the extent of AI use across different professions today. Links and Sources: Sam...
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9. Does Pharrell Williams Use AI to Write Songs?
Noo and Hannah discuss the AI headlines of the week - Elon Musk's bid to buy Open AI, the AI Summit in Paris and the world of AI music. Sources and Links: Mikey Shulman 20VC Interview BBL Drizzy Timbaland Remix Competition Noo’s Timbaland Remix
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8. First Shots Fired in the AI Arms Race
Hannah and Noo discuss the fallout following the release of DeepSeek. Safety concerns and new releases from OpenAI mark the real beginning of the AI arms race. Sources and Further Reading: Robert Miles on the AI arms race (if you click one link make it this):...
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7. Why You're Wrong About DeepSeek
Noo and Hannah talk about a massive cash injection for AI from the US government and the new Chinese chatbot that has shocked the world.
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6. Could AI Stop You Winning an Oscar?
Hannah and Noo talk about the controversy over The Brutalist's use of AI and discuss the new AI apps developed by the UK government.
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5. The UK Government's Plan to Stop AI Stealing Your Job
This week, Hannah and Noo address predictions that AI agents will join the workforce in 2025. Then they dive into the UK government's brand new action plan to become a world leader in AI.
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4. Will AI Accounts Flood Your Social Media and A Brief History of Open AI
Noo and Hannah discuss the controversy over Meta’s AI characters and whether these bots are about to take over social media. They also dive into Open AI’s history as the company looks to update its structure to allow uncapped profits.
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3. The Future of AI in Medicine and Have We Reached AGI?
Hannah and Noo discuss new AI tools to fight gobal health epidemics like diabetes and tuberculosis. They also discuss OpenAI's recently released o3 model which set new records on the ARC-AGI benchmark. More information on the benchmark.
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