Romance with AI? Check. Robots replacing workers? Absolutely. Governments scrambling to keep up? You bet. From OpenAI’s latest deep research rollout to Apple’s secretive humanoid project, we’re barreling headfirst into the uncanny valley.

LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

Andrej Karpathy on DeepSeek: The magic of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast
https://youtu.be/ojepHUd1xhI?si=vxYNWwFcZdQNReBF

AGI: (gets close), Humans: ‘Who Gets to Own it?’ | AI Explained
https://youtu.be/oUtbRMatq7s?si=gJ9hBTq5Q6ecyeWh

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