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 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Sources and links:10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis)Will AI Kill The Web?Will AI Kill Content Creation?The New Rules of AI Hiring - From Someone Building Them

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 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Sources and links:Hollywood's AI Moment - The DailyActors vs. Studios, and the Existential AI War, With SAG-AFTRA Lead Negotiator - The TownAnthropic C.E.O.: Massive A.I. Spending Could Haunt Some Companies

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 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Sources and links:‘Add blood, forced smile’: how Grok’s nudification tool went viralElon Musk’s A.I. Is Generating Sexualized Images of Real People, Fueling Outrage

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 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Sources and links:OpenAI Disney agreement

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 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Sources and links:Google AI summaries are ruining the livelihoods of recipe writers: ‘It’s an extinction event’Pork Roast with Crispy Crackling - Recipe Tin Eats (Noo's favourite recipe)

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 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Sources and links:Introducing Anthropic Interviewer

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 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Sources and links:I'm a Professor. A.I. Has Changed My Classroom, but Not for the Worse. - NYTimesThis Is Your Brain on Deep Reading. It’s Pretty Magnificent. - NYTimes*Apologies for the static on the mic. This will be fixed next week!

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 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Sources and links:World NetworkHuman and you know it

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 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Sources and links:You Don’t Need to Swipe Right. A.I. Is Transforming Dating Apps - New York Times

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 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Sources and links:Xania Monet becomes first AI artist to chart on US Billboard rankings - NMEMusic sector workers to lose near a quarter of all work over next four years due to AI, says study - NMEHow Was I Supposed to Know? - Xania MonetBrian Eno on Ezra Klein

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 ⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠Sources and links:An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI - The GuardianPope Leo XIV 'Not Going to Authorize' an AI Version of Himself - CNETHow a Goat AI Bot Became a Crypto Millionaire

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 ⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠Sources and links:Beetles MeetingSora 2 blogAnother Sora 2 blog

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 ⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠Sources and links:Measuring the performance of our models on real world tasks - OpenAIOpenAI study explained - YouTube

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 ⁠TikTok⁠Sources and links:Expanding economic opportunity with AI - OpenAI blog post

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] us on Instagram and TikTokSources and links:5,000 Podcasts. 3,000 Episodes a Week. $1 Cost Per Episode — Behind an AI Start Up’s Plan - The Hollywood Reporter

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 ForumThe Doctors Are Real, but the Sales Pitches Are Frauds - New York TimesAI-generated content is raising the value of trust - The EconomistA Dubai Chocolate Theory of the Internet - Search Engine

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] and links:Is Miss England's AI round dangerous or progressive?American Boy - EstelleA Dubai Chocolate theory of the internet - Search Engine

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 StudyClaude for EducationEzra Klein and Maryanne Wolf on 'Deep Reading' - NY TimesThe Only Real Solution to the A.I. Cheating Crisis. - NY Times

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] and links:Duolingo interviewDuolingo memoIgniteTech article

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] and Links:Genie 3 videoStudy on the health effects of VR

Does AI spell the death of search and what can be done to save the web?Emails us at [email protected] and Links:AI is killing the web. Can anything save it? - The EconomistDemocratizing Web Traffic with Cloudflare's C.E.O. - The New York Times

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 of AI recruitment start up Jack & Jill.Email us at [email protected] and Links:The AI Recruitment TakeoverJack & Jill

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] and links:Netflix's new TV show 'The Eternaut' uses AINetflix just normalised AI for VFX – and I'm devastated - Tom Mayair head · Made by shy kids with Sora1000 True Fans - Kevin KellyYouTube Shows Are Increasingly Going To Netflix - Deadline

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] and Links:Welcome to Your Job Interview. Your Interviewer Is A.I. - NYTimes articleYoung People Face a Hiring Crisis. AI Is Making It Worse. - Derek Thompson SubstackJack & Jill AI

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] and Links:The Velvet Sundown Suno

Do we want humanoid robots to have personality? Are robots being cute-washed? Do we want Disney designing robots?Email us at [email protected] CEO introduces its Disney collab botNeo humanoid robots

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] and Links:They Asked an A.I. Chatbot Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling - Kashmir Hill's NYTimes articleChatGPT induced psychosis - Reddit ThreadEarly methods for studying affective use and emotional well-being on ChatGPT - OpenAI and MIT Research

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 FreyAlpha Evolve episode

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 hereEmail us at [email protected] and links:Machines of Loving Grace by Dario AmodeiChatGPT more empathetic than human doctors

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] and links:Drones, AI and new technology will dramatically change nature of war - The GuardianAs AI evolves, pressure mounts to regulate 'killer robots' - UNStargateAll My Sons - Arthur MillerStop Killer Robots

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:AlphaEvolveAlphaEvolve explained

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] and links:A.I. Is Getting More Powerful, but Its Hallucinations Are Getting Worse - New York Times articleApple News AI mishaps - BBC News article

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: [email protected] and Links:Microsoft blog postGeoffrey Hinton CBS interviewA Theory of Media That Explains 15 Years of Politics - The Ezra Klein episode Hanah forgotMachines of Loving Grace - Dario Amodei

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 actually human by the way)Sources and Links:Workdays with ThyCada's voice cloningExcerpt from Thy's show (courtesy of James Cridland)Eleven LabsMichael Parkinson Podcast - "Virtually Parkinson"Goatseus MaximusGoatseus Maximus Explained

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] and Links:Anthropic Education ReportAnthropic Economic IndexClaude CodeClaude for Education Bloom's Taxonomy Jonathan Haidt on The Ezra Klein ShowCan AI answer medical questions better than your doctor? (Study)

What goes on inside the mind of an AI? Can it really be 'thinking'?We have an email now! Contact us at [email protected] and links:Tracing the thoughts off a large language model - AnthropicGod, Human, Animal, Machine - Meghan O'GieblynAnthropic makes a breakthrough in opening AI’s ‘black box’ - Fortune

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 Barlett's LinkedIn Post: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7311296027062341633/Introducing OpenAI 4o Image Generation: https://openai.com/index/introducing-4o-image-generation/

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 SexDeepfake stats More deepfake statsSophie RainThe Guardian - "The dirty secret that drives new technology: it's porn"Huberman study on click through ratesThe Dead Internet Theory

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 storyJeanette Winterson's op-edSteve Jobs predicting ChatGPTLove Death + Robots "When the Yogurt Took Over" (Netflix link)The book Noo couldn't remember: "Even an AI could do that"

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 Amodei Extract from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

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: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/podcasts/the-daily/ai-chatgpt-boyfriend-relationship.htmlMIT on addictive intelligence: https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/05/1095600/we-need-to-prepare-for-addictive-intelligence/Ada Lovelace institute on AI companions: https://www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/blog/ai-companions/Harvard study on AI Companions: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=66065Nozick’s experience machine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience_machine

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 GammaDiscover Neo GammaIntroducing HelixDiscover Helix

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 Altman's blog postDario Amodei's statement on the Paris AI Action Summit The Anthropic Economic IndexMo Gawdat and Scott GallowayLex Fridman podcast: Will AI take programmer jobs?

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 InterviewBBL DrizzyTimbaland Remix CompetitionNoo’s Timbaland Remix

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): ⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FCEiCnHcbo&ab_channel=RobertMilesAISafety⁠Anthropic CEO on DeepSeek chips: https://darioamodei.com/on-deepseek-and-export-controls⁠ AI explained video on o3-mini and AI War: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LGwcBLGOio&ab_channel=AIExplained⁠O3-mini system card: https://openai.com/index/o3-mini-system-card/⁠Fireship on distillation theft: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpwoGjpYygI&t=15s&ab_channel=Fireship⁠ByCloud on DeepSeek drama: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yblat9IWPMo&ab_channel=bycloud⁠Open AI AMA: ⁠https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1ieonxv/ama_with_openais_sam_altman_mark_chen_kevin_weil/⁠Cisco security blog: ⁠https://blogs.cisco.com/security/evaluating-security-risk-in-deepseek-and-other-frontier-reasoning-models⁠Security risks of DeepSeek: https://www.euronews.com/next/2025/01/31/harmful-and-toxic-output-deepseek-has-major-security-and-safety-gaps-study-warns

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.