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Civility & Other Dangerous Games
In this week's episode: Why being polite to ChatGPT might be wasting Sam Altman's money. Alarming advancements in deepfake technology and why even "super recognizers" can't keep up. We explain what a "vibe coder" is and why you probably don't want to become one. An Italian newspaper's claim to have published the world's first AI-generated edition.
Poisoned Tunes & Robot Phone Calls to Mom
In this week's episode: Mason talks about AI powered spreadsheets! ... it's cooler than it sounds. Perry & Mason cover a few fascinating AI headlines that caught our attention this week. Mason takes us on a journey into musician Benn Jordan's innovative "Poisonify" project that disrupts AI training on music. And our AI Dumpster Fire of the Week: AI Chatbots that will call your parents so you don't have to!
Feed Drop: AI Hype & Skepticism - Me, Myself, and AI
Today we're sharing with you an episode of another show we like called Me, Myself, and AI. It's a podcast produced by MIT Sloan Management Review and Boston Consulting Group, where hosts Sam and Shervin interview various folks from all sorts of industries and walks of life about the constantly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence. This episode is called "AI Hype and Skepticism", and features nobel-prize winning economist Paul Romer.
Functionally Useless, But Undeniably Cool
In this episode: Mason fills in for Perry as best he can, with a mix of topics that all fall under the broad umbrella of "functionally useless, but cool". Well... except the last segment; that one is inarguably kind of un-cool. We play a little bit of a 100% AI-generated rendition of Quake 2, and discuss how it works under the hood - as well as the general reaction to it. A software engineer named Alex Chan created a PDF file that is larger than the observable universe, and we break down how that was possible. Bullethead, a member of our discord, sent us a Language Diffusion model to check out: the recently released Dream 7B! Finally, Mason pontificates a bit about the highly aggressive noncompete clauses that Google has been pushing on their AI staff.
Prompt Wars, AI Cognition & Video Deception
In this week's episode: We explore "Prompt Wars," an asynchronous multiplayer LLM competition where players craft prompts to battle against others in a fascinating game of AI manipulation We dive into Anthropic's latest research on AI cognition and circuit tracing - essentially digital neuroscience for large language models Mason shares his AI BodgeLab experiment creating a low-effort podcast knowledgebase We discuss the potential risks of AI video chatbots as agents of surroundings and mayhem.
