They Might Be Self-Aware: AI News & Culture

They Might Be Self-Aware: AI News & Culture

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They Might Be Self-Aware: AI News & Culture episodes

  • Is GPT-5 doomed by falling developer trust? We need better agents, tools & an AI assistant!

    CHAPTERS:
    0:00 Intro – Music Generators & 11Labs Advances
    2:15 OpenAI vs ElevenLabs: Voice, Music & Translation
    5:43 AI Agents in the Real World: Gurbling, Babelfish & Tools
    8:28 GPT-5 Rumors & Why Benchmarks May Not Matter
    13:50 Assistant Over Chatbot – The Push for Agentic AI
    18:20 Smart Home Integration: The Missing Piece
    21:00 Devin AI: Real-World Use Case, Setup, and PR Workflow
    28:00 Developer Trust Decline – Stack Overflow Data
    31:30 AI “Almost Right” Code: Tech Debt and Risk
    36:00 Test Sabotage? How AI Passes by Breaking the Rules
    38:00 The Future: Multi-Agent Systems and Self-Awareness?

    40 min
  • Coding AIs face a John Henry showdown? Marathon dev duel sparks human vs machine myth reboot

    CHAPTERS:
    0:00 Intro – Dancing on the edge of the singularity
    1:10 Human vs AI: The 10-hour coding duel in Tokyo
    2:30 Why Psyho's win may not mean much for long
    3:15 Magnus Carlsen beats ChatGPT (but it’s complicated)
    4:45 The John Henry analogy: A new tech folklore?
    7:00 Human augmentation vs obsolescence: Who decides?
    10:45 AI pricing creep: Delta and dynamic fares
    14:00 Consumer surplus and algorithmic value extraction
    17:00 Ethical dilemmas of income-based pricing
    20:45 Coke at $18? The personalization problem
    24:00 Is price customization inevitable—or is there hope?
    26:30 Final thoughts – more AI, more problems (and more tech to fix them)

    29 min
  • Agentic AI Invades Real Life: Can ChatGPT Agents Book Flights and Plan Your Weekend?

    CHAPTERS:
    0:00 Intro: Clowns and Algorithms
    1:30 AI Booking for Solar Installers (Real Demo)
    4:45 ChatGPT Agent Succeeds—Then Surprises
    10:20 Can It Book Flights Too?
    13:35 Letting AI Plan an Entire Weekend
    18:00 Travel Agents Reimagined by AI
    22:15 Danger Zones: LLMs Calling in Your Name
    24:00 OpenAI Agent vs Operator vs Real Use
    26:00 Vibe Coding Disasters: Replit and Supabase
    30:30 The “AI Intern” Theory of Automation
    34:00 Why Human Review Still Matters
    39:00 Wrap-up & What’s Next

    41 min
  • Zuckerberg's Superintelligence Scam? Personal AI Promises vs Reality | Meta AI Team Truth

    CHAPTERS:
    0:00 Welcome to the Algorithm Rodeo
    1:00 Microsoft’s AI Job Risk List — Hits & Misses
    5:45 Translators, Historians, and Flight Attendants: AI-Replaceable?
    10:45 The AI Sin Eater & Human Yell Rights
    14:00 Zuckerberg’s Superintelligence Plan: Genius or Grift?
    18:15 Personal AI or Personal Data Farm?
    23:00 Meta’s Endgame — Free AI… or $$$ AI?
    26:00 Tesla's Grok & AI in Your Car
    29:00 AI Adoption Stats — Who’s Really Using It for Work?
    33:00 Should Every Company Require AI First-Pass Workflows?
    36:00 The Snoop Dogg Principle of AI Transparency

    38 min
  • What happens when Elon's NSFW anime AI waifu gets a US government contract? We're about to find out.

    CHAPTERS:
    0:00 Mecha Hitlers and Mayhem
    1:05 What Is Grok 4?
    2:30 Elon’s AI Edgelord: Shock Value by Design
    4:25 Grok’s Anime Companion & “NSFW” Features
    6:30 Why the US Government Signed a Deal Anyway
    10:00 Should AI Be Allowed to Say No?
    12:15 Grok vs ChatGPT: Bias, Intelligence & Danger
    15:00 China’s Kimi K2 and the Rise of Mega Models
    19:30 Government Contracts: Benchmarking or Backroom Deals?
    23:00 AI Risks in S&P 500 Disclosures
    26:00 Will AI Replace Human Jobs (Like Yours)?
    29:00 Dev Tools, AGI Challenges & Final Thoughts

    40 min
  • This AI Wrote a 100-Page Book In 10 Hours

    CHAPTERS:
    00:00 - Intro: Feasting on the Silicon Carnage
    01:07 - Are AI Tools Creating Productivity Gods?
    02:09 - How I Misused an AI for a Creative Project
    05:15 - The AI Starts Building a TEAM (Sub-Agents)
    06:20 - The SHOCKING Result: A 100-Page Book in 10 Hours
    09:52 - The Secret to Making This a Repeatable Process
    13:19 - PRO TIP: AI Burt Reynolds Will Read To You
    14:36 - The Promise of a True AI Personal Assistant
    16:18 - The Future is AI Web Browsers (Perplexity Comet)
    22:08 - What Would We ACTUALLY Automate In Our Lives?
    26:12 - Our Billion-Dollar Home Repair AI Idea
    27:52 - The REAL Reason For AI Browsers: Training AGI
    31:35 - Outro: Don't Miss What's Next

    34 min
  • This Engineer Scammed 8 Companies For Free Paychecks

    CHAPTERS:

    00:00 - Is Nvidia's $4 TRILLION Valuation a Lie?
    02:54 - We're Living in a Simulation (The Stock Market)
    04:58 - The Insane Power of Nvidia's GPUs
    06:47 - Microsoft & Meta's MASSIVE Tech Layoffs
    09:03 - Microsoft Fired Them, Then Offered AI Therapy
    13:17 - The Engineer Who Scammed 8 Companies
    18:14 - His Scam: Eight Jobs, ZERO Work
    22:14 - How AI is Making Scams Unstoppable
    26:17 - Hackathons are a SCAM (Here's Why)
    33:38 - The REAL Definition of AGI
    36:07 - The Ultimate Test: Can AI Make Money?
    47:19 - I Challenge You to an AI HACKATHON (WIN $200)

    55 min
  • Is Elon's New AI a $3,000 SCAM?

    CHAPTERS:
    0:00 - The $3,000 AI Announcement
    1:28 - What Is "Super Grok Heavy"?
    2:32 - Is The "Panel of Experts" Method a Gimmick?
    4:50 - The AI "Chugging" Strategy
    7:14 - Who Is Actually PAYING For This?
    8:43 - The Simple ROI Math: Will Grok Make You Money?
    10:15 - Our Personal AI Workflows (Opus vs Sonnet)
    13:22 - The #1 Reason ALL AI Models Still Fail
    15:06 - Why Building Software is Like Making 3 Different Movies
    17:58 - The "AI Shotgun" Method for Better Results
    20:17 - Why We're Building Our Own AI Benchmarks
    25:44 - The Secret to Making AI Align With YOU
    28:03 - Training an AI to Steal Your Job
    32:09 - The Final Verdict

    34 min
  • Zuckerberg Is Paying $100,000,000 For A Meta AI Team

    CHAPTERS:
    00:00 - I'm Quitting for $100,000,000
    01:13 - The Meta AI Super Team
    02:15 - Is The $100M Offer REAL?
    04:48 - Sam Altman vs. Zuckerberg
    05:58 - The Race to Superintelligence is a Myth
    08:32 - Apple's Smarter AI Strategy
    09:11 - Running an AI Model on a Plane
    13:20 - AI's Massive Copyright Lawsuit Problem
    15:49 - How Will The AI Legal Cases End?
    19:27 - Will AI Testify in Its Own Defense?
    22:02 - Claude AI Tries to Run a Snack Shop
    25:10 - The AI Has a Nervous Breakdown
    26:04 - Should We Let AI Run a REAL Company?
    28:18 - An AI Becomes the CEO of Oreo
    32:54 - The New AI CEO's 10-Point Plan
    35:22 - Someone's Going To Get It Right

    38 min
  • My Co-Host Has ChatGPT Psychosis

    CHAPTERS:
    00:00 - My Co-Host Has ChatGPT Psychosis
    01:24 - Are People Having Mental Breakdowns from AI?
    02:16 - The Dangerous AI Feedback Loop
    05:01 - AI is a Mirror to Your Mind
    05:47 - "The Robots Told Me To, Your Honor"
    06:17 - Human or AI? The Lines are Blurring
    08:25 - Do We Treat AI Worse Than Humans?
    11:00 - AI Is Replacing Call Center Workers
    13:10 - The AI Economy Isn't About Profit, It's About Adoption
    16:38 - The Fed Confirms: AI is Coming for Your Jobs
    18:03 - Tesla's Robotaxi Army is Here (With a Secret Human)
    22:11 - When Will AI Take 10% of The Workforce?
    24:04 - I Bet My Co-Host AI Takes 50% of Jobs By 2027
    27:57 - Apple is Giving Up on Siri, Using Claude Instead

    31 min

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They Might Be Self-Aware is a twice-weekly AI podcast about the week's news, tech, and culture, and the question in its name: are the machines becoming self-aware?