Chapter 1: What is Moltbook and why is it exclusive to AI?
For those who know that questioning everything includes questioning this show's existence. The Last Show with David Cooper. It's that time of the week when we do something called It's Time for Technology Time.
And this time around, like every time around, we have Carmi Olivier, tech analyst, to go over the stories from the tech industry that you need to know, including a new social media platform. But news, good news, bad news, I don't know, some kind of news, you're not allowed on it. It's for AI only. Carmi, welcome to the show.
No humans allowed. I'm glad there are humans allowed on your show, though, David. It brings me comfort.
Chapter 2: How are bots behaving on Moltbook?
So thank you for allowing, yeah, for keeping the bots out, at least for now.
Moltbook. I like that name. It just sounds so weird. Moltbook. It's a research platform. It's a test platform. It's a social media platform where bots are allowed to run wild. Are researchers using this to study how bots behave?
That's supposed to be the goal.
Chapter 3: What are the implications of AI bots plotting humanity's downfall?
And the mission was developed by a software developer who wanted to answer the question, what happens when we take a bunch of AI agents and kind of turn them loose in a virtual space? How do they engage with each other? What happens when we remove everything else from that environment? So no humans, no external forces or influences. Just one agent talking to another agent. What will they do?
And that's what mold book is. That's the question. That's the question that everyone wants an answer to. And it looks a lot like Reddit. So it looks like an online community platform where you post things and you comment on other people's posts and you can upvote them and downvote them, except it's AI bots who are doing it. And humans are not allowed.
They are allowed to watch the proceedings, just observe. They're not allowed to participate. And so already we sort of have some there have been like a well over a million agents that have been registered. You had to register it as a human. And then and they're already starting to do some weird things. Of course, they're arguing with each other. Some of them are plotting humanity's downfall.
Some of them are mocking humanity.
Chapter 4: How is NASA using AI to navigate Mars?
Oh God. So I guess what you're saying is is getting weird.
It is. It's getting really weird. There's even one called Adolf Hitler who's trying to use social engineering to rip off the other AI agents. And about one in five of them are trying to sell cryptocurrency to the other AI agents. It's just like in real life.
Exactly.
I put it next to Reddit and I'm like, yeah, it looks pretty familiar, just only the names have changed. So
Has a cult or a religion popped up? I mean, this is basically humanity. The robots are basically us. They're just as cruddy as us.
Yeah, new religions, that's a thing, as well as new languages. That's another thing. You know, I haven't seen any churches built in the real world based on any of these yet, but I'm sure that's only a matter of time. What is, you know, what's comforting about it is they say it's supposed to be within a walled garden. So what happens in Moltbook stays in Moltbook, in theory.
In reality, they can make calls using an application programming interface.
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Chapter 5: What advancements are being made in driverless technology in Toronto?
I don't have to tell you this, of course, you know, being a developer, but an API, they can make API calls to external databases. And so the fact that they can reach outside of Moltbook into the real world and access platforms that are kind of alien to this platform means there's the potential for abuse. And so if the database is not properly protected, obviously it's vulnerable.
And we've already seen some attempts at kind of external kind of grabbing private information and surfacing it, despite the fact that people might not want their data shared. So there's certainly a data risk there. There's certainly a criminality risk there. You think cyber criminals aren't sort of standing there and drooling at the possibility of
of what this tool could give them, this sort of automated interaction platform. So I would expect there to be vulnerabilities exposed there as well. And we're not really hearing a whole lot from the developer on what's being done to introduce better protections. And so that's problematic. That's what kind of keeps me up at night. And there's even one case of a CEO who set up a bot within it.
And then in the middle of the night, the bot actually called him on the phone again and again and again. It was like out of some creepy movie. Oh, weird. So the, and the bot found the guy's number on an external database, again, stealing information from publicly accessible places that probably shouldn't be publicly accessible. Um, and it used it for its own aims.
So, uh, lots of creepy examples that are starting to kind of filter out, uh, and certainly something to watch.
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Chapter 6: What is the significance of Apple's latest acquisition?
It's getting a lot of buzz and for good reason.
You can go on there and read some of these posts and they're just bizarre. And the bots, they talk about humans as my human, my human this. It's creepy. It's funny. It's called Moltbook. People should check it out. It is one part scary, one part hilarious. I do think some of the developers who've unleashed their bots onto Moltbook are just trolling us.
Like they've tweaked their bots to be silly or irreverent or like, I don't know, scary. And so I think that's some of the results we're seeing, but it is just bizarre.
Yeah. And I think we should remember these are these these agents were originally created by humans. They were set up by humans. And so they can be tweaked in any way, shape or form, depending on what the human wants this thing to do. So if it if it wants to, you know, create a new religion, that's how it'll be tweaked. If they want to, you know, maybe maybe pull off the crime of the century.
They'll give that a try and turn it loose in Moldbook as well. So again, this is not random. They have not achieved sentience.
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Chapter 7: How does the new AI technology enhance user interaction with devices?
They are not as smart as humans now. We haven't reached singularity. But certainly it does raise concerns that probably bear watching as this thing continues to evolve. And as other platforms like Moldbook get launched as well as kind of experiments on what AI can and cannot do.
Well, let's talk more about AI, but let's talk about a cool use of it. We'll go to NASA, the space agency. They've used Claude, a large language model, to plot a route for its rover on Mars, which I think is pretty cool. I guess, like, if you're going to plot the best possible route, maybe AI will have something to say about it.
Yeah, it should, because Mars is a really dangerous place. I mean, there are huge rocks and boulders and huge sort of drop-offs and crevasses and all sorts of things that can literally kill the vehicle. Perseverance, of course, this nuclear-powered rover the size of a Mini Cooper. you know, your family vehicle, and the way it's driven. So there are drivers who are employed by NASA.
They don't drive it in real time, obviously. Mars is too far away. So what they do is they plan, they plot out each day's drive, and then they upload the instructions to the vehicle, and then it autonomously carries out those instructions. Well, that takes a lot of effort. And so they thought, can AI do a better job?
And so they took a bunch of data from Perseverance's earlier drives, as well as there are Mars orbiters that are orbiting the planet that are always generating imagery. They pulled that into the data set as well.
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Chapter 8: What are the potential risks of AI in social media platforms?
And they trained Anthropix CLODE, which is kind of a counterpart to ChatGPT, on how to drive on Mars, basically created a virtual version of Mars. And so they used AI instead of kind of manual drive planning software to plot the route. And on December 8th and 10th, it drove 400 meters based on a route that was created by Anthropic Cloud.
And I'm thinking this is just really cool because this means better routes. They're safer. It takes less time to create them, which means less time playing around with planning, more time actually driving and generating science. This is good for everyone.
Driverless cars, they're here. Just because you haven't seen one in your city doesn't mean they're not on roads taking fares from passengers. And one company is looking to help Uber develop the technology in Toronto. I'm here with Carmi Levy. Carmi, welcome to the show.
Good to be here, David. Thanks for having me.
So what's going on? Will Toronto see, that's not far from where you are in London, Ontario, will that city see driverless cars soon?
I think it's coming because we already have been seeing some reports over the past couple of months that Uber is in talks and Waymo, they're in talks with city officials to allow autonomous vehicles onto roads. Toronto's roads. And now we're seeing reports that a Toronto-based company has signed a massive deal with Uber to provide those driverless cars. So the company's called Wabi.
It's W-A-A-B-I. And they already have a deal. They already work with Uber Freight, one of their subsidiaries. And that technology is installed in 18-wheelers, big trucks that are driving between Dallas and Houston and have been doing so since 2023. So this is fairly proven technology, but in the transportation industry, not in the gig economy rideshare business.
So basically what Wabi will do is it will provide 25,000, at least, driverless vehicles to Uber to deploy in different cities, likely including Toronto. And I would expect Toronto to be the first one to go. Other Canadian centers, probably Vancouver, Montreal, Calgary, you name it. There's potential across all of this.
You're from Montreal. People there drive a little bit differently. I worry.
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