Artificial Stupidity

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

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.

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Sources and links:

A.I. Is Getting More Powerful, but Its Hallucinations Are Getting Worse - New York Times article

Apple 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.

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Sources and Links:

Microsoft blog post

Geoffrey Hinton CBS interview

A Theory of Media That Explains 15 Years of Politics - The Ezra Klein episode Hanah forgot

Machines 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.

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(We are actually human by the way)

Sources and Links:

Workdays with Thy

Cada's voice cloning

Excerpt from Thy's show (courtesy of James Cridland)

Eleven Labs

Michael Parkinson Podcast - "Virtually Parkinson"

Goatseus Maximus

Goatseus Maximus Explained

What do we need to learn in an world of AI? Will everyone be cheating? How could AI be a better teacher?

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Sources and Links:

Anthropic Education Report

Anthropic Economic Index

Claude Code

Claude for Education 

Bloom's Taxonomy 

Jonathan Haidt on The Ezra Klein Show

Can AI answer medical questions better than your doctor? (Study)

What goes on inside the mind of an AI? Can it really be 'thinking'?

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Sources and links:

Tracing the thoughts off a large language model - Anthropic

God, Human, Animal, Machine - Meghan O'Gieblyn

Anthropic 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 Sex

Deepfake stats

More deepfake stats

Sophie Rain

The Guardian - "The dirty secret that drives new technology: it's porn"

Huberman study on click through rates

The 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 story

Jeanette Winterson's op-ed

Steve Jobs predicting ChatGPT

Love 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