Artificial Stupidity
The human side of AI: each week, Hannah and Noo are your guides to this week's AI news.
Episodes
Do we want humanoid robots to have personality? Are robots being cute-washed? Do we want Disney designing robots?
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Nvidia CEO introduces its Disney collab bot
Can chatbots drive people to psychosis? Do we realise how powerful our language is? Can we trust AI companies to mitigate these risks?
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Sources and Links:
They Asked an A.I. Chatbot Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling - Kashmir Hill's NYTimes article
ChatGPT induced psychosis - Reddit Thread
Early methods for studying affective use and emotional well-being on ChatGPT - Open...
Will AI make us more productive? What can we learn about the age of AI from the internet revolution? Do we need to rethink the global economic structure?
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Sources and Links:
AI Alone Cannot Solve The Productivity Paradox - Carl Benedikt Frey
What does a utopic AI future look like? Noo is joined by the show's chief research assitant (ChatGPT) to continue the discussion on Dario Amodei's Machines of Loving Grace.
Listen to part one here
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Sources and links:
What will AI do to war? How will biases in data affect decision making in autonomous weapon systems, policing and surveillance? Who is ultimately accountable when these systems go wrong?
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Sources and links:
Drones, AI and new technology will dramatically change nature of war - The Guardian
As AI evolves, pressure mounts to regulate 'killer robots' - UN
Has Google won at AI with its new self improving AlphaEvolve agent? What does this model mean for human scientists and mathematicians? Is this AI agent a real creative thinker?
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Are AI chat bots making more things up? Is it getting worse?How worried should we be about lying AI?
Hannah and Noo unpack all this and more on this week's episode.
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Sources and links:
A.I. Is Getting More Powerful, but Its Hallucinations Are Getting Worse - New York Times article
Apple News AI mishaps - BBC News article
Are you ready to become the boss of 10 AI agents? That's what Microsoft predicts for the future of work. But are we all cut out to be bosses of AI teams? And what skills are needed to thrive in this brave new world?
Join Noo and Hannah as they unpack all this in today's episode.
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How do you prove you're human in a world flooded with AI? Would you sell the rights to your identity? Would you listen to this podcast if it's hosts were AI generated?
Join Hannah and Noo as they discuss all this and more in today's episode.
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(We are actually human by the way)
Sources and Links:
Excerpt from Thy's show (c...
What do we need to learn in an world of AI? Will everyone be cheating? How could AI be a better teacher?
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Sources and Links:
Jonathan Haidt on The Ezra Klein Show
Can AI answer medical questions better than your doctor? (Study)
What goes on inside the mind of an AI? Can it really be 'thinking'?
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Sources and links:
Tracing the thoughts off a large language model - Anthropic
God, Human, Animal, Machine - Meghan O'Gieblyn
Anthropic makes a breakthrough in opening AI’s ‘black box’ - Fortune
Is OpenAI's new 4o image generator all it's cracked up to be? Will it get rid of the content industries? What happens when everyone can make great design with a single prompt?
Join Hannah and Noo as they separate the hype from the tripe over OpenAI's new image generator.
Sources and Links:
Steven Barlett's LinkedIn Post: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7311296027062341633/
Noo and Hannah discuss pornography and its intersection with AI. Will AI, as Scott Galloway suggests, cause a rise in porn-addicted, lonely, isolated men?
Sources and links:
Scott Galloway's Substack - "Porn"
The Guardian - "The dirty secret that drives new technology: it's porn"
This week, Hannah and Noo discuss a short story written by an unreleased OpenAI model. Does this show that AI can truly be creative and what does it mean for the future of literature and the arts?
RIP to many friends of the show.
Sauces and links 🌭:
OpenAI's metafictional short story
Love Death + Robots "When the Yogurt Took Over" (Netflix lin...
This week, Noo and Hannah discuss the first half of Dario Amodei's essay Machines of Loving Grace which imagines a utopic AI future. The conversation takes some unexpected turns from humans turning into cats, to psychoactive spa treatments.
Links and sources:
Machines of Loving Grace by Dario Amodei
This week, Hannah and Noo discuss the prospect of falling in love with an AI chat bot. The pros, the cons, and whether we should feel any differently about robot companionship than we do about human affections.
Links and Sources:
NYT pod: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/podcasts/the-daily/ai-chatgpt-boyfriend-relationship.html
MIT on addictive intelligence: https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/05/1095600/we-need-to-prep...
Noo and Hannah discuss some new releases in the world of AI humanoid robots. Will they mean we can all exist in a housework-free utopia or will there be some more sinister consquences?
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This week Hannah and Noo discuss Sam Altman's latest blog post and the possibility of a future economy trading in slices of compute. Then they circle back to the present to chat about Anthropic's new research on the extent of AI use across different professions today.
Links and Sources:
Dario Amodei's statement on the Paris AI Action Summit
Noo and Hannah discuss the AI headlines of the week - Elon Musk's bid to buy Open AI, the AI Summit in Paris and the world of AI music.
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Hannah and Noo discuss the fallout following the release of DeepSeek. Safety concerns and new releases from OpenAI mark the real beginning of the AI arms race.
Sources and Further Reading:
Robert Miles on the AI arms race (if you click one link make it this): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FCEiCnHcbo&ab_channel=RobertMilesAISafety
Anthropic CEO on DeepSeek chips: https://darioamodei.com/on-deepseek-and-export-controls...
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