Podcast Episodes

Slop Social

Episode 66

Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI, OpenAI adds shopping to ChatGPT in a challenge to Google, researchers secretly experimented on Reddit users with AI-generated comments, and so much mor…

Published on 3 months, 4 weeks ago

The Era of Experience

Episode 65

Hosts Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis dive into OpenAI’s desire to buy Google Chrome, Perplexity AI’s talks with Samsung and Motorola, Google DeepMind’s claim that AI could cure all disease in a decade,…

Published on 4 months ago

Vegetative Electron Microscopy Doesn't Exist

Episode 64

Jeff Jarvis and Jason Howell dive into this week’s AI headlines: OpenAI prototypes a ChatGPT social feed, GPT-4.5 retires as GPT-4.1 arrives, OpenAI boosts memory and chat history features, Nvidia ex…

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago

Yann LeCun: Human Intelligence is not General Intelligence

Episode 63

Yann LeCun, Meta’s chief AI scientist and Turing Award winner, joins us to discuss the limits of today’s LLMs, why generative AI may be hitting a wall, what’s missing for true human-level intelligenc…

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago

Nothing is Forever

Episode 62

Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis discuss OpenAI's record-breaking $40 billion funding round, ChatGPT's image generation update sparking controversy, Amazon unveils its first agentic AI model, and Elon Mu…

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago

Benchmarks for Mortals

Episode 61

Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis discuss OpenAI's ChatGPT-4o image generation update, Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro release, the emotional impact of chatbots on users, The Atlantic's LibGen database search too…

Published on 5 months ago

NVIDIA's Economy of Tokens

Episode 60

Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis discuss NVIDIA's GTC conference with CEO Jensen Huang's keynote on tokens, the Vera Rubin CPU, and the intersection of AI and robotics, plus more!

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Published on 5 months, 1 week ago

New Week, New Seek (with Sameer Samat)

Episode 59

Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis examine OpenAI's new agent tools for developers, the Manus AI model, and Apple's AI feature delays, plus insights from Sameer Samat, Head of Android at Google, on Androi…

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago

The Agents Are Everywhere

Episode 58

Jason Howell returns from Mobile World Congress with some AI trends to discuss along with Jeff Jarvis. OpenAI has some pricey plans in the works, Amazon announces Alexa Plus, and more!

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Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

Agentic Browser Wars

Episode 57

Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis discuss Anthropic's Claude 3.7 SONNET, Chegg suing Google over AI summaries, Perplexity's new Comet browser, the UK delaying AI regulation, and more!

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Published on 6 months ago