Artificial Stupidity

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.html

MIT 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=66065

Nozick’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 Gamma

Discover Neo Gamma

Introducing Helix

Discover 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 post

Dario Amodei's statement on the Paris AI Action Summit

The Anthropic Economic Index

Mo Gawdat and Scott Galloway

Lex 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.

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Mikey Shulman 20VC Interview

BBL Drizzy

Timbaland Remix Competition

Noo’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=RobertMilesAISafety⁠

Anthropic 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=AIExplained⁠

O3-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=Fireship⁠

ByCloud on DeepSeek drama: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yblat9IWPMo&ab_channel=bycloud⁠

Open 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-models⁠

Security 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.