Goblins and Pigeons
Matt and Dr. Danny discuss curious creatures lurking in the computer. Wired: OpenAI Really Wants Codex to Shut Up About Goblins Futurism: Frontier AI Models Are Doing Something Absolutely Bizarre When Asked to Diagnose Medical…
Training Your Replacement
Matt and Dr. Danny discuss Facebook creating robots from their employees. Reuters: Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training data AP: Meta slashes 8,000 jobs, or 10% of its workforce, as Microsoft…
Network
Matt and Dr. Danny discuss the 1976 movie Network, and how it predicted much of our current predicament. Wikipedia: Network (1976 Film)
Social Media Threats
Matt and Dr. Danny discuss powerful people making threats on social media.
Social Media Reckoning
Matt and Dr. Danny discuss the historic victory against Meta and Google for damaging children. BBC: Campaigners welcome Meta and YouTube’s defeat in landmark social media addiction trial Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants…
AI Val Kilmer
Matt and Dr. Danny discuss the AI resurrection of Val Kilmer, and whether you should amend your will as a result. Variety: Val Kilmer Resurrected by AI to Star in ‘As Deep as the Grave’…
The Metaverse is Dead
Matt and Dr. Danny discuss Facebook’s giant Metaverse faceplant. Quartz: Meta is killing off the metaverse. It lost $80 billion
AI Dating
Matt and Dr. Danny discuss AI’s role in dating.
AI Robot Body
Matt and Dr. Danny discuss delusional robots, their bodies, and white noise. Futurism: Google’s AI Sent an Armed Man to Steal a Robot Body for It to Inhabit, Then Encouraged Him to Kill Himself, Lawsuit…
Kratom and Gas-Station Drugs
Matt and Dr. Danny discuss bans on kratom, and whether the substance might serve a helpful purpose. KCUR: Kansas City bans synthetic kratom and other ‘gas station drugs’ over addiction concerns