They Might Be Self-Aware: AI News & Culture

CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Will AIs Create a Secret Language?
02:20 - Robot Espionage & AI James Bond
02:58 - The AI That Memorized Harry Potter
05:39 - Is Training AI on Books a Crime?
12:08 - The AI Barbie That Will Destroy Childhood
14:49 - Is Your AI Therapist Illegal?
17:15 - The FTC Investigates OpenAI
21:30 - The Video Game That Explains AI
25:04 - When Will AI Become a Licensed Doctor?
27:11 - The World's WORST New Job: "AI Sin Eater"
29:22 - Could You Go To Jail For An AI's Mistake?

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Chapters:
0:00 Is Google Gemini My Girlfriend Now?
3:00 Gemini Gets Smarter (and Needier)
6:00 Claude, Perplexity, and Data Lake Wars
9:00 Gemini 2.5 Pro’s Giant Context Window
13:00 Gemini & Claude Panic Playing Pokémon
17:00 AI Replacing Jobs? Hello, Scrum Master
21:00 How AI is Actually Used at Work
25:00 The $200/month AI Arms Race
29:00 Subscribe While It’s Still Free

Chapters:
0:00 Welcome to the Wild World of AI
1:05 Veo 3 Is Amazing… but Why Aren’t We Using It?
4:00 The Rise of AI Kiss Apps & Hugging Deepfakes
6:15 Are They Harmless Fantasies or Ethical Nightmares?
9:20 ChatGPT Conversations: Gone… or Just Hidden?
11:10 OpenAI Legal Trouble & Why Deletion May Not Be Real
14:45 Local AI Models: Privacy Savior or Niche Toy?
18:00 Mistral’s Magistral LLM – Fast, Local, Surprisingly Smart
22:30 Can LLMs Be Your Creative Goldmine?
26:00 Meta’s $15B AI Bet & Why Apple Isn’t Playing the Same Game
30:00 The Future of AGI – Zoo Utopias or AI Overlords?

Chapters:
0:00 Intro – AI Guilt and $12
1:30 Claude’s Moral High Ground
4:00 Apple’s “Thinking” Paper & AI Illusions
6:00 Is Claude a Better Person Than Us?
10:00 LLMs: Not Smart at Math, Still Smarter Than People?
13:00 WWDC Letdown: Emoji Mashups & Siri Shade
17:00 The Case for Personal AI (and GLaDOS Home Assistants)
18:30 AI Blackmail and MCP Protocols Explained
20:50 Tool Use, Model Context, and Real-World AI
24:00 Dario Amodei, Optics, and Anthropic’s Safety PR
26:00 Should the U.S. Ban State AI Regulation?
30:00 Closing Thoughts – Grey Goo, Dot Pizza, and “We Win”

Chapters:
0:00 Intro – UAE’s ChatGPT+ for All?
2:15 ChatGPT, Taxes & the Case for UBI
5:10 Should AIs Have Bank Accounts?
8:00 Duolingo’s AI Expansion & Layoff Debate
13:30 Human-in-the-Loop: Still the Standard?
15:10 Builder.ai: 700 People Pretending to Be AI
20:00 Real AI or Just Templates?
22:00 The Fraud That Sank a Billion-Dollar AI Startup
23:30 Would You Hire a $1M AI Employee?
26:20 Are We Already in the Simulation?

Chapters:
0:00 – Intro & 100th Episode Celebration
2:10 – The AI Coding Gold Rush: Cursor, Windsurf & Valuations
5:20 – Is AI Coding a Real Use Case — or Just Hype?
8:00 – Claude vs. Copilot vs. OpenAI Agents
11:45 – Vibe Coding: Real Dev Workflows with AI
16:50 – TDD, Benchmarks & Testing AI-Generated Code
23:00 – Are Junior Dev Jobs Disappearing?
27:30 – Why Passion + AI Wins in Today’s Job Market
31:15 – Final Thoughts & Subscribe Everywhere

Chapters:
0:00 Intro – A Sith Lord Joins the Show
1:43 AI Darth Vader Invades Fortnite
4:46 Voice Cloning with James Earl Jones
6:27 Why We Try to Break AI
10:19 AI Guardrails and Misuse Culture
11:17 Veo 3 Video AI: First Impressions
13:45 The Man Rock Test Video
16:42 Sora vs. Veo vs. Runway: The Showdown
18:28 DeepSeek, China, and Copyright Battles
22:14 Are We in a Post-Copyright World?
27:34 AI Summaries Are Killing Ad Revenue
33:40 Compression, Nuance & The Future of Content
34:24 Wrap-up

Chapters:
0:00 Daniel's AI Grievance
3:00 Johnny Ive, OpenAI & the AI Pin Rumor
6:30 The Rise and Fall of Humane’s AI Device
10:00 Always-On AI Assistants – Dream or Nightmare?
14:30 Battery Problems & On-Device Processing Limitations
18:00 Meta Ray-Ban Glasses & the “Glasses vs. Pins” Debate
24:00 Google Glass Reboot, Android XR & Wearable Futures
26:30 NLP for Translation, Accessibility & Global Connection
29:00 Smart Glasses Without the Smart

Chapters:
0:00 AI Disrupts Dev Workflows
2:15 AI Tools & Rapid Iteration Risks
10:45 Framework Chaos & Stakeholder Impact
18:30 Personal Projects: AI vs Manual Coding
27:00 Cursor AI, LiteLLM, and Bleeding-edge Coding
33:05 Future Coding: TDD AI & Automation
35:32 Multimodal AI & Speech-to-Speech Advances
39:08 Hiring AI Employees: Devin and Codex
42:09 AI's Breakthrough Discoveries
43:41 Wrap-up & Listener Engagement

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
4:08 AI Coding in Today's Companies
7:22 Real-world Use Case: AI for Data Labeling
12:17 AI Coding Assistants (Kline & Cursor)
17:33 How Much Code Is AI Actually Writing?
24:15 AI Security & Company Policies
26:23 What Makes an "AI-First" Company?
35:48 Future of AI Coding Workflows
41:05 Agile Framework Choices in AI Coding
42:15 AI-First: Products for AI Consumption