Artificial Stupidity

It's the last episode of Artificial Stupidity (for now)! What have we learnt from making the show for the last year? How have our conversations around AI developed? What's been our favourite episode? Email us at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠artificialstupiditypod@gmail.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Sources and links: 10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis) Will AI Kill The Web? Will AI Kill Content Creation? The New Rules of AI Hiring - From Someone Building Them

How should actors grapple with AI? What role do we want AI to play in film and TV? Can AI generated film be truly creative? Email us at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠artificialstupiditypod@gmail.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Sources and links: Hollywood's AI Moment - The Daily Actors vs. Studios, and the Existential AI War, With SAG-AFTRA Lead Negotiator - The Town Anthropic C.E.O.: Massive A.I. Spending Could Haunt Some Companies

Why is Grok generating nude imagery? What is the UK government doing about it? How can we stop AI from generating this kind of imagery? Email us at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠artificialstupiditypod@gmail.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Sources and links: ‘Add blood, forced smile’: how Grok’s nudification tool went viral Elon Musk’s A.I. Is Generating Sexualized Images of Real People, Fueling Outrage

Why has Disney invesnted $1bn in OpenAI? What does it suggest about the future of the creative industries and AI companies? Will we see future deals like this? Email us at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠artificialstupiditypod@gmail.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Sources and links: OpenAI Disney agreement

Would you use AI for recipes? How do you feel about Frankenstein-ed recipes? What happens to food bloggers in the age of AI? Email us at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠artificialstupiditypod@gmail.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Sources and links: Google AI summaries are ruining the livelihoods of recipe writers: ‘It’s an extinction event’ Pork Roast with Crispy Crackling - Recipe Tin Eats (Noo's favourite recipe)

Anthropic is interviewing its users, what did it find out? How do people feel about working with AI? How do they see AI's role in their future? Email us at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠artificialstupiditypod@gmail.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Sources and links: Introducing Anthropic Interviewer

How does AI help us realise what is important in education? Is there value in the process of writing and thinking, even if AI can do it better? What do we gain by thinking with other humans? Email us at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠artificialstupiditypod@gmail.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Sources and links: I'm a Professor. A.I. Has Changed My Classroom, but Not for the Worse. - NYTimes This Is Your Brain on Deep Reading. It’s Pretty Magnificent. - NYTimes *Apologies for the static on the mic. This will be fixed next week!

How do you prove your human in a world of AI? Are retina scans the answer? What does Open AI's Sam Altman have to do with all of this? Email us at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠artificialstupiditypod@gmail.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Sources and links: World Network Human and you know it

How is AI transforming dating? Would you want to be matched by an AI? Can it solve the problems of modern dating? Email us at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠artificialstupiditypod@gmail.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Sources and links: You Don’t Need to Swipe Right. A.I. Is Transforming Dating Apps - New York Times

Is there skill involved in making AI music? Does the whole thing become a marketing exercise? What will happen to human musicians? Email us at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠artificialstupiditypod@gmail.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Sources and links: Xania Monet becomes first AI artist to chart on US Billboard rankings - NME Music sector workers to lose near a quarter of all work over next four years due to AI, says study - NME How Was I Supposed to Know? - Xania Monet Brian Eno on Ezra Klein

What happens when AI meets Christianity? Do we want AI to have Christian values? Does it give the Church more or less power? Email us at ⁠⁠⁠⁠artificialstupiditypod@gmail.com⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠ Sources and links: An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI - The Guardian Pope Leo XIV 'Not Going to Authorize' an AI Version of Himself - CNET How a Goat AI Bot Became a Crypto Millionaire

Is Sora 2 an endless reinforcement slop machine? What does it mean for OpenAI’s business model? Will we all become beetles mating with bottles? Email us at ⁠⁠⁠artificialstupiditypod@gmail.com⁠⁠⁠ Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠ Sources and links: Beetles Meeting Sora 2 blog Another Sora 2 blog

How do the different AI models perform on real world tasks? Is your job at risk? How worried should we be? Email us at ⁠⁠artificialstupiditypod@gmail.com⁠⁠ Follow us on ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠ Sources and links: Measuring the performance of our models on real world tasks - OpenAI OpenAI study explained - YouTube

Why has OpenAI launched a jobs board? Is it a sign that human jobs have a future? Or is it a clever PR play? Email us at ⁠artificialstupiditypod@gmail.com⁠ Follow us on ⁠Instagram⁠ and ⁠TikTok⁠ Sources and links: Expanding economic opportunity with AI - OpenAI blog post

What do we want from podcast hosts? Can AI do it better? Would you like your Artificial Stupidity hosts to be replaced with AI? Email us at artificialstupiditypod@gmail.com Follow us on Instagram and TikTok Sources and links: 5,000 Podcasts. 3,000 Episodes a Week. $1 Cost Per Episode — Behind an AI Start Up’s Plan - The Hollywood Reporter

Why are doctor deepfakes on the rise? Is this just the next iteration of "snake-oil"? What will happen to our trust in the medical profession? Sources and links: 4 ways to future-proof against deepfakes in 2024 and beyond - World Economic Forum The Doctors Are Real, but the Sales Pitches Are Frauds - New York Times AI-generated content is raising the value of trust - The Economist A Dubai Chocolate Theory of the Internet - Search Engine

Why has Miss England introduced an AI round? What does it mean for the modelling industry? Is this the future? Email us at artificialstupiditypod@gmail.com Sources and links: Is Miss England's AI round dangerous or progressive? American Boy - Estelle A Dubai Chocolate theory of the internet - Search Engine

Are we outsourcing all our brain function to AI? Does it matter? How can you stay sharp and use LLMs? Sources and links: Your Brain On ChatGPT - MIT Study Claude for Education Ezra Klein and Maryanne Wolf on 'Deep Reading' - NY Times The Only Real Solution to the A.I. Cheating Crisis. - NY Times

How are companies adopting AI? Is 'not' hiring as bad as firing? Why are people sabotaging their company's attempt to introduce AI? Email us at artificialstupiditypod@gmail.com Sources and links: Duolingo interview Duolingo memo IgniteTech article

Has Genie 3 opened up a new world of AI simulation? Could simulated worlds be better than reality? Has our social media addiction already started to lead us down this path? Email us at artificialstupiditypod@gmail.com Sources and Links: Genie 3 video Study on the health effects of VR