They Might Be Self-Aware
Episodes
AI Lovers & The Rise of Augmented Existence
27 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
00:00:00 Intro00:01:41 AI Boyfriends: Better Listeners?00:02:56 Virtual Worlds With AI Personas00:06:27 Performance Coaching With Landman00:20:48 Data...
AGI or AI Hype? The Truth Tech Giants Won’t Share & Future of Work
23 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
00:00:00 Intro00:01:40 AI And The Movie Memory Game00:12:13 Job Market Shifts: Junior Programmers And Harvard MBAs At Risk00:18:00 Is AGI Already Amon...
AI Battle: Grok vs. Gemini, Nvidia’s $3K Digits & The Sassy Smart Home
16 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
00:00:00 - Intro00:01:32 - Grok Vs. Gemini: AI Showdown For Wildfire Updates00:05:00 - Tables And Trust: Evaluating AI's Event Reporting00:18:13 - Nvi...
Granola’s AI Notes Takeover, Reebok’s 3D Kicks & Meta’s Phantom Influencers
13 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
00:00:00 Finding AI's Killer Use Case: The Note-taking Revolution00:06:45 The Magic Of Automated Meeting Summaries00:14:04 AI-designed Footwear: 3D Pr...
AI's $6M Takeover: Google Shaken, DeepSeek Rebels, Reddit Unites
09 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
00:00:00 Rethinking Search Engines In The AI Era00:02:34 The Power Of Conversational AI00:05:08 Introducing Cline: A New Era In Coding Assistance00:18...
AI Schools Our Kids, Models Fake Alignment & The Hidden Path to Self-Awareness
06 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
00:00:00 Intro00:00:28 Would You Trust AI To Educate Your Kids?00:05:44 AI's Potential And Pitfalls In Global Education00:17:38 Enhancing Creativity: ...
Six Ways AI Will Takeover Your Life in 2025: War, Work & Wellbeing
03 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
00:00:00 Intro00:05:03 Daniel Prediction #300:07:21 Hunter Prediction #300:17:49 Daniel Prediction #200:20:42 Hunter Prediction #200:28:46 Daniel Pred...
Crowning AI’s Champions: TOP 3 Winners for 2024
30 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
00:00:00 Intro00:02:34 Hunter's #300:05:26 Daniel's #300:10:13 Hunter's #200:13:46 Daniel's #200:16:51 Hunter's #100:20:35 Daniel's #100:23:46 Wrap Up...
When Quantum Computing Meets the Multiverse, AI Dreams of Autonomy, & Cline Tries Podcasting Magic
26 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
00:00:00 - Intro00:01:53 - Can AI Manage Our Perception Of Time?00:09:50 - Cline's Quirky Podcast Subscription Tale00:11:38 - Defining Agentic AI00:16...
Sleepless in Silicon Valley: Cline's AI Wizardry, Nvidia's GPU Goldmine & The GM Cruise Crashes
23 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
00:00:00 - Intro00:01:48 - Tired But Wired: Using AI For Personal Projects00:03:14 - AI Code Companions: Cline's Impact On Development00:20:25 - AI Ha...
AI Santa Checks His List Twice, OpenAI's Self-Preservation Ploy, & Gerblin the Grumpy Gnome
19 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
00:00:00 Intro00:00:58 Santa's AI Innovations00:05:16 The Gerblin Project: A Quirky AI Puppet00:14:17 AGI: Has Artificial General Intelligence Arrived...
OpenAI Sora Steals Christmas with Robot Santa, ChatGPT PRO's Pricey Wisdom, & The AI Reality Mirage
16 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
00:00:00 Intro00:01:08 Reality Check: The Real Daniel Or Uncanny Valley?00:02:01 OpenAI's Sora: A New Era In Video Generation?00:05:12 Robot Santa: AI...
OpenAI Sora Stirs Protests, Klein Conquers Code, and PLAUD NotePins: Magic or Meh?
13 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
00:00:00 Intro00:01:24 The PLAUD NotePin: A Shiny Gadget's Promises00:09:11 Klein And Cursor: The AI Copilots Reshaping Programming00:22:31 OpenAI Sor...
Robots Quit Their Day Jobs, AI Plays Censor, Zoom’s Pivot, and the God of Management Rises Again
09 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
00:00:00 Intro00:02:11 The Robot Uprising — Fact or Fiction?00:06:22 OpenAi’s Mysterious Blacklist00:14:58 The Resurrection Of The God Of Manageme...
AI Butlers, Cybertrucks, and Drone Dreams: AI's Incremental Robotic Takeover
05 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
00:00:00 Intro00:03:52 Laundry Folding Robots: How Close Are We To Chore-free Living?00:07:47 AI Butlers And Service Robots: Are We Two Years Away?00:...
Tesla's Divisive Cybertruck, AI Memory Mysteries & When Bots Lose Control
25 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
00:00:00 - Intro00:03:01 - Hunter's Cybertruck Adventure00:10:35 - Infinite Context Windows: Game-changer Or Tech Trick?00:15:22 - When AI Gets Distra...
Tesla Cybertruck Confessions, AI’s Path to Comedy, and the Mediocrity Revolution
21 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
00:00:00 Intro00:01:18 Debating With AI: The Ideal Job?00:02:49 Can AI Crack Comedy?00:11:02 Tesla Cybertruck: What Did I Get Into?00:16:44 Are We See...
Drunk on AI Ethics, Claude’s Wine Pairings, and Sentient Chatbots
18 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Wine Pairing: Viognier (Northern Rhône)Claude's Notes: A Viognier would perfectly complement this episode's playful yet philosophical exploration of ...
AI Road Rage, Military Drone Dilemmas, and Silicon Valley’s Candy Crush Double Life
15 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
00:00:00 Intro00:01:24 AI Solutions For Traffic And Rubbernecking00:08:43 Tech Companies: From Disruptors To Defense Collaborators00:13:58 The Implica...
Bitcoin Booms, Apple’s AI Mirage & Nvidia’s Shifting Sands
12 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
00:00:00 Intro00:01:28 Bitcoin Bonanza: Riding The All-time High Wave00:06:04 Daniel's 'buy High, Regret Later' Crypto Strategy00:08:06 AI And Crypto:...
Understanding Open Source in AI: The New Definition Explained
08 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
00:00:00 - Intro00:00:22 - The Complexity Of Open Source Software00:02:12 - Challenges In Reproducing Open-Source AI Models00:11:49 - Monetary Support...
AI Hallucinates Your Health, Robots Spew the News & Bots Promise Payouts
04 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
00:00:00 Intro00:02:55 AI-made World: A Thought Experiment00:10:05 Hallucinating Healthcare: When AI Gets It Wrong00:18:06 AI Promises: $3,000 For A B...
Microsoft's AI Bromance Breakdown, Baidu Dismisses Hallucinations & Mochi Ups the Video Ante
31 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
00:00:00 - Intro00:03:23 - Microsoft And OpenAI’s Tension Over AGI00:07:03 - Baidu’s Bold Claim: End Of AI Hallucinations?00:11:47 - Are The Titan...
AI's Classroom Controversy, Character AI's Friends in Crisis & The Looming Judgment of Tech
29 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
00:00:00 Intro00:01:41 Measuring Success With Lawsuits00:05:45 AI And Homework: Cheating Or Assistance?00:16:19 AI Safeguards: Character AI's Tragic O...
Haunted Rivian Cars, AI Ghosts in Bars & Tesla's Self-Driving Dreams
24 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
00:00:00 Intro00:02:17 Spooky Rivian Update: Bats, Colors, And Wilhelm Screams00:07:04 Tesla's Robocab And Robovan: Reality Or Hype?00:15:55 Optimus R...
From Turtles to Titans: AI Journey Origins, Linguistic Leaps & Forgotten Tech Tales
21 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
00:00:00 Intro00:01:59 Hunter's Early Tech Journey: From Turtles To Beach Cams00:10:06 Daniel's Voyage To AI Via Linguistics And Calculators00:27:10 T...
Tesla's Self-Driving Mirage, Rivian's Rise, & AI Grabs Nobel Glory
17 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
00:00:00 Intro00:01:18 Rivian Vs. Tesla: Switching Lanes00:05:57 Autonomous Ambitions: Tesla's Full Self-driving Future00:18:29 AI In Science: Nobel P...
Who Owns Reality? AI Sunglasses See Through You, Meta's MovieGen Magic, & Sora's Cloudy Future Looms
14 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
00:00:00 Intro00:02:31 Is OpenAI's Sora Stuck In The Clouds?00:06:39 Meta’s Moviegen: Editing Videos With Text Prompts00:10:58 Smart Sunglasses: A P...
Digital Da Vincis: AI’s Artistic Boom, James Cameron’s Stability & Our Creative Conundrum
07 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
00:00:00 Intro00:01:58 The Dominance Of Midjourney In AI Image Generation00:11:09 AI's Quest To Capture Human Emotion00:19:17 James Cameron And The Fu...
AI and Magic Mix: D&D Revolution, Meta's AR Vision & The End of SaaS?
30 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
00:00:00 Intro00:01:20 The Hardware Vs Software Debate00:02:21 Project Generation With AI: A Real-world Experience00:06:46 The Future Of AR: Insights ...
Lionsgate & Runway AI Filmmaking, OpenAI's o1-preview, & ESPN’s Robot Reporters
27 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
00:00:00 Intro00:02:49 Movies: Are They Just Long Tiktoks?00:04:16 Runway And Lionsgate: AI Video Magic00:06:38 Video-to-video Tech: Transforming Your...
Remarkable Tablets, Google’s AI Podcast Notebook & LinkedIn's LLM GPT
23 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
00:00:00 Intro00:01:51 Remarkable Or Forgettable? Our Hands-on With The Latest E-ink Tablet00:11:47 Are Foldable Phones The Future Or Just A Blast Fro...
Minecraft AI Madness & Mistral's Multimodal Move
19 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
00:00:00 Intro00:02:34 $150 Billion OpenAI Buyout Bargain?00:09:28 Regulating Superintelligence: Can It Be Done?00:14:34 Mistral’s Multimodal Leap00...
AI Anime Ambitions, Dark Web Chatbots, and Doom GPT vs. Mario
16 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
00:00:00 Intro00:01:50 AI And Anime: Can It Capture The Soul?00:09:30 The Black Market For AI Chatbots00:18:31 Cleaning Up LinkedIn Spam With AI00:23:...
Rogue AI Faces California's Guillotine, Government Peeks & Copyright Catfights
09 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
00:00:00 Intro00:01:39 California's AI Act: A New Frontier Or A Slippery Slope?00:02:13 Are AI Companies Ready For A Mandated Shutdown Switch?00:04:40...
OpenAI’s Strawberry Dilemma, AI Gadgets for Life Recaps, & The Future of Agents
05 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
00:00:00 Intro00:02:40 The AI That Wants To Remember Your Entire Life: Friend Or Foe?00:03:44 Plaud's New Pin: The Ultimate Personal Assistant Or Priv...
AI’s Coding Coup @ AWS, Tesla's Robot Dance & CA's Fight for Digital Truth
02 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
00:00:00 Intro00:01:39 The Future Of Podcasting: Will AI Hosts Take Over?00:02:31 AWS And The Looming Question: Is Coding Really On The Brink Of Extin...
The Dog Days of AI: Smart Homes, Future Crimes & Digital Review Rumbles
26 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
00:00:00 Intro00:01:12 Keeping Your Dog Cool Or Turning Your House Into A Tech Fortress00:10:01 Can A Large Language Model Become Humanity's Greatest ...
AI Impostors Crash Job Hunts, Recruiters Cry Wolf & The Post-Hire Reality Check
19 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
00:00:00 Intro00:01:28 AI In Job Interviews: Is It Cheating Or Just The Future?00:04:56 The Wild World Of Remote Work: When The Person You Hired Isn’...
DIY Humane Pins, Rivian’s Rise & AI’s Secret Cheating Game
15 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
00:00:00 Intro00:02:05 Hunter's Diy Humane Pin00:04:13 The Humane Pin's Future00:08:01 Daniel's Electric Car Dilemma00:13:40 Is Using Ai Cheating?00:1...
The White House Backs Open AI, Meta's Masterstroke & Strawberry-Scented GPT-5
12 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
00:00:00 Intro00:01:48 Open Source Explained00:02:30 The Importance Of Spaces: Open Ai Vs Openai00:03:20 White House Embraces Open Source Ai00:04:40 B...
Brain Chips Promise Genius, Pharma Faces Copilot Chaos, & AI Battles PDF Madness
08 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
00:00:00 Intro00:02:24 A PDF a day keeps the LLM away00:07:28 AI in the Workforce: Trend or Transformation?00:15:37 Microsoft's Copilot: Failure or Mi...
AI Voices Storm the Studio, OpenAI’s Voice Mode Debut & the Search for Relevance | TMBSA Podcast #25
06 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
00:00:00 Intro00:01:38 Meet Todd, Our New AI Cohost?00:03:26 The Long-Awaited Arrival: OpenAI’s New Voice Mode00:16:19 The $5 Billion Question: Open...
AI Canelé Experiments, Nintendo’s AI Stance, and The $5 Billion Debate | EP24
29 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
00:00:00 Intro00:02:00 AI Canelé Experiment00:13:12 AI Levels Up in the Video Game Industry00:22:16 No Generative AI for Mario00:25:35 An Amish and J...
AI Tacos, Privacy Wars, and Apple’s Anti-Competitive Moves | EP23
23 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
00:00:00 Intro00:01:36 ChatGPTaco: The Future of Edible AI00:07:18 EU’s Biometric Ban: Protecting Your Privacy00:25:50 Apple vs. EU: The Anti-Compet...
Rabbit R1 Eulogy, Swedish VR Hacks, Self-Driving Chaos, & AI Pets | EP22
15 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
00:00:00 Intro00:01:51 A Eulogy for My Rabbit R100:03:00 Is Apple Vision Pro Next? The Dusty Present and Crisp Future00:07:34 Oculus Quest Finds Its P...
AI Privacy, Personalization, and Living in a Simulation | EP21
09 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
00:00:00 Intro00:01:34 Threading the Needle of Camera Privacy Concerns00:17:06 Your Brain Can Detect AI Generated Material, But Somehow You Can’t00:...
Fake Flamingos, Turing Test Failures, AI Politicians, and Tinfoil Hats | EP20
01 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
00:00:00 Intro00:02:39 Humans Sneak into AI Competitions00:08:07 Hunter Flunks the Turing Test; Daniel's Colorful Descriptions00:18:15 AI Candidates C...
Apple's New Intelligence and Glorbo's Betrayal: AI Gets Emotional, and So Do Your Roads | EP19
24 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
00:00:00 Intro00:02:04 Mandela Effect in AI00:05:19 Apple's AI Evolution00:09:29 Excited for Glorbo00:24:10 AI Soothes Your Rage00:34:41 AI Supervisor...
Tesla, Teachers, and the 2%: The Real Impact of AI | EP18
17 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
00:00:00 Intro00:00:36 The Human Side of Tesla's Full Self-Driving00:06:37 Ethical Concerns: Licensing Agreements and Beyond00:22:01 All Aboard the AI...
AI Mayhem: Gluey Pizza, Sentience, and Sam Altman’s Safety Circus | EP17
11 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
00:00:00 Intro00:00:52 Uncle Elon’s Free Ride00:13:39 Training Data Diaries00:20:47 Pizza Glue Hacks00:29:43 Sentient or Not?00:44:38 Sam Altman’s...
AI Controversies: Celebrity Voices, Deepfakes, and Kitchen Secrets | EP16
03 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
00:00:00 Intro00:00:55 The Scarlett Johansson Voice Scandal at OpenAI00:09:16 Putin Premieres at Cannes: The Deepfake Debate00:22:18 Is Your Boss a De...
AI Steals Voices and Flips Burgers: The Future is Here! | EP15
27 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
00:00:00 Intro00:00:24 The Rise of GPT-4o and Google's AI Showdown00:09:11 AI Steals Voices for Audiobooks00:25:01 The Reality of AI in Fast Food00:35...
Voice Cloning Gone Wild, AI's Impact on Truth & One Gym Teacher’s AI Revenge | EP14
20 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
00:00:00 Intro00:01:03 The Rabbit R1: Indispensable or Wabbit Season?00:03:34 AI: The New Author of Your News00:25:44 Biden’s Stutter and the AI Tru...
AI Judges and Nukes: Navigating the Maze of Machine Control & Cloning the Dead | EP13
13 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
00:00:00 Intro00:00:41 The Rabbit R100:16:52 Your new AI best friend00:17:10 Voicemail from a "listener"00:24:20 Cloning the dead00:33:02 The digital ...
Meta's Glasses Come Alive, Reddit Spirits in Deaddit & AI Sacraments | EP12
06 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
00:00:00 Intro & Meta's New Ray-Ban Update00:01:37 AI Gadget Form Factors and User Adoption00:04:21 A Dead Reddit00:07:38 Future of AI-Driven Content0...
AI Music, Love & Aliens | EP11
29 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
00:00:00 Introduction & AI Music00:02:13 The progress of MidJourney00:05:31 The future of generative AI00:08:46 Challenges in monetizing generative AI...
Humans Pretend To Be AI, Get Stuck In The Loop & Robots Need Vacation | EP10
22 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
00:00 TMBSA turns 10!01:05 Behind the Scenes: SORA Powers Shy Kids' "Airhead" Video02:46 Challenges of Video Editing with Sora03:18 AI and Physical Em...
AI Is Writing News, Impersonating Teachers & Congress Is On The Hunt | EP09
15 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
00:00 Introduction01:04 The Rise of AI-Generated News04:38 Automating our Teachers08:57 AI-Generated Books Ruing Google12:38 The Need for Real Data fo...
GPT-4 Is Done, Everyone Gets Cloned, AI Elvis Will Protect Us | EP8
08 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
(00:00) Introduction and Podcast Automation(02:24) Giving AI an Inner Monologue(05:03) Expanding Human Perception with VR(09:38) Developing Additional...
Government Regulation, AI Lions, Extinction Level Events, Post Technology Living | EP7
25 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
(00:00) Introduction(01:45) Devon AI: Revolutionary or Not?(04:56) AI's Existential Threat to Humanity(07:10) Regulating AI Development and Expertise(...
AI Goats, The Preservation of Life, More Jobs Fall to AI | EP06
18 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
CHAPTERS(00:00) AI and medicine(01:03) AI in Radiology and Dermatology(03:04) The Release of OpenAI's Sora(05:44) Potential Pricing for Sora(11:02) Vi...
Beyond Sci-Fi: No Jobs, Elon Musk's Justice, and the Quest for AGI | EP05
11 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
(00:00) AI Taking Over Jobs(02:05) Efficiency vs. Extracting More Money(05:10) Elon Musk's History of Founding Companies(08:16) Lawsuits Against OpenA...
My Dinner With AI, Artificial General Intelligence, Infecting your BRAIN | EP04
04 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
(01:35) Cognitive Cooking with Chef Watson(08:15) The Revolution of Large Language Models(18:14) Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)(24:45) The Futu...
Sora Kills ALL Trust, Finding the Fakes, RIP Hollywood, Make AI Do Some Good | EP03
26 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
00:00 Introduction00:27 Generating Images with Sora01:28 Impressions of the Generated Images06:19 Comparison with Other Commercial Solutions09:36 Runw...
Apple Vision is Zucked, Sam Altman is making GPT-5 Smarter | EP02
17 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
(00:00) - OpenAI Sora creating video from text(02:19) - Daniel tries the Apple Vision Pro(15:41) - Hunter Watches the Super Bowl on Apple Vision(23:50...
Apple’s Vision Pro, META's Money Pit, Your Toothbrush is Hacked | EP01
12 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Unlock the future of tech with us, Hunter Powers and Daniel Bishop, as we explore the bleeding edge of VR/AR headsets in our debut podcast episode. Pr...