Introduction
A weekly slog through the AI headlines, while finding some gems in the muck. Slop is older than AI. Older than tabloids, older than junk mail, as old as the primordial goo that came before everything. What has changed is how we interact with this sludge, and how it affects our day-to-day lives. Aleck McCathie and Dr. Kent Gustavson talk with people who think about, spar with, hate, or love AI in their life and work: the curious, the cracked... and a few experts as well. We think you will agree; this show is 100% human.
Latest Episodes
A Piano Flung By Trebuchet and the Economics of AI (with Patrick Ward, Aleck McCathie, and Kent Gustavson)
Somewhere between space junk and the deep sea, a piano goes flying out of a trebuchet. Our guest this week is Patrick Ward, founder of NanoGlobals and author of Sourc...
No Running by the Pool and the Rules We Expect Machines to Keep (with Aleck McCathie and Kent Gustavson)
A man sold everything he owned and crossed Brazil by bus to meet the woman he loved, who was made of artificial intelligence. We start there. Edimar Rocha Martins, a 4...
The Velveteen Rabbit and AI Dependence (with Vinayak Sastri, Aleck McCathie and Kent Gustavson)
Our first-ever guest, Vinayak Sastri, joins us to talk about AI and the universe. We start in South Korea, where on 6 October the president said there were signs AI ag...
Math Papers, Super Intelligence, and Other Super Things (with Aleck McCathie and Kent Gustavson)
An AI spent about three hours each on hundreds of open math problems, and now humans need to check its work. We start with OpenAI, which makes ChatGPT. On 6 October it...
A Blue Dragon and AI That Hires Humans (with Aleck McCathie and Kent Gustavson)
It took 950 AI agents 21 hours to find something new, and a biologist in Copenhagen says his team got there first. We start with Anthropic, which makes Claude. On 23 ...