What if we told you that ice cream might prevent diabetes, the CIA used to throw LSD-fuelled sex parties (in the name of science of course), AI systems are now refusing to shut down, and your "eco-friendly" glass bottles? They’re packed with more microplastics than cheap plastic ones.
You'd probably think we've been reading too much science fiction, but welcome to reality - where Harvard researchers are validating your dessert choices, government agencies confused scientific research with Woodstock, robots are apparently having teenage rebellion phases, and even our attempts to go green are backfiring spectacularly.
CHAPTERS:
00:00 Peculiar Forms of Divination
01:37 Diet News: Ice Cream for Diabetes
07:51 Unethical CIA Experiments
17:58 AI's Rebellion Against Shutdown
22:40 Codex Mini: The Worst Offender
25:52 The PR Genius of OpenAI
27:59 More Microplastics in Glass than Plastic
31:39 Predicting the Future
36:22 James Webb Space Telescope: Direct Views of Exoplanets
SOURCES:
Advanced OpenAI Model Caught Sabotaging Code Intended to Shut It Down
The CIA Turned a San Francisco Brothel Into a Lab. What Happened Inside Is the Stuff of Nightmares.
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