The Talk Show With John Gruber

414: ‘Annoying Friendliness’, With Joanna Stern

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Joanna Stern returns to the show to talk about our new best friends, AI chatbots, and I chime in with how the Voight-Kampff test got it all wrong.

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    • Links:

    • Joanna on YouTube: “I Spent 24 Hours in the Woods With Talking AI Chatbots”.
    • Joanna’s excellent interview with Craig Federighi on Apple Intelligence, which is also on YouTube.
      • My commentary linking to it.
    • Ann-Marie Alcántara’s Wall Street Journal piece: “When Did Apple’s Notes App Become an Extension of Our Brains?” (also on News+)
    • Larry David on Siri.
    • Voight-Kampff Test.
    • There’s a social media thing where people are posting ChatGPT’s illustrations from the prompt “Based on what you know about me, draw a picture of what you think my current life looks like.”
      • Here’s mine: I’m all alone in a nice study with lots of books, a leather couch, and a manual typewriter.
    • Here’s Joanna’s: Boy Scouts, basketball, cameras, computers, and lots of bagels.
    • Here’s an alternate from Joanna.
    • The Gruber and Coudal families, leaving Barack Obama’s election night rally in Grant Park in Chicago in 2008.

      • This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

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