Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAGI: "Imminent", "Inevitable", and Inane, 2025.04.21
Episode 56
Emily and Alex pore through an elaborate science fiction scenario about the "inevitability" of Artificial General Intelligence or AGI by the year 202…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
AI Hell in a Handbasket, 2025.04.14
Episode 55
It's been 4 months since we've cleared the backlog of Fresh AI Hell and the bullshit is coming in almost too fast to keep up with. But between a page…
11 months ago
"AI" Agents, A Single Point of Failure (with Margaret Mitchell), 2025.03.31
Episode 54
After "AI" stopped meaning anything, the hype salesmen moved on to "AI" "agents", those allegedly indefatigable assistants, allegedly capable of oper…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Linguists Versus 'AI' Speech Analysis (with Nicole Holliday), 2025.03.17
Episode 53
Measuring your talk time? Counting your filler words? What about "analyzing" your "emotions"? Companies that push LLM technology to surveil and summa…
11 months, 4 weeks ago
The Anti-Bookclub Tackles 'Superagency', 2025.03.03
Episode 52
Emily and Alex read a terrible book so you don't have to! Come for a quick overview of LinkedIn co-founder and venture capitalist Reid Hoffman's opus…
1 year ago
The War on Knowledge (with Raina Bloom), 2025.02.24
Episode 51
In the weeks since January 20, the US information ecosystem has been unraveling fast. (We're looking at you Denali, Gulf of Mexico, and every holiday…
1 year ago
Petro-Masculinity Versus the Planet (with Tamara Kneese), 2025.01.27
Episode 50
Sam Altman thinks fusion - particularly a company he's personally invested in - can provide the energy we "need" to develop AGI. Meanwhile, what if w…
1 year, 1 month ago
The UK's Misplaced Enthusiasm (with Gina Neff), 2025.01.20
Episode 49
In January, the United Kingdom's new Labour Party prime minister, Keir Starmer, announced a new initiative to go all in on AI in the hopes of big eco…
1 year, 1 month ago
Sam Altman's Fever Dream, 2025.01.13
Episode 48
Not only is OpenAI's new o3 model allegedly breaking records for how close an LLM can get to the mythical "human-like thinking" of AGI, but Sam Altma…
1 year, 2 months ago
Episode 47: Hell is Other People's AI Hype, December 9 2024
Episode 47
It’s been a long year in the AI hype mines. And no matter how many claims Emily and Alex debunk, there's always a backlog of Fresh AI Hell. This week…
1 year, 3 months ago