Joanna Stern is PROBABLY Not a Robot
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
If Apple doesn't provide me a large language model to talk to in a way, I don't care.
It took me like half an hour to watch the video because I kept pausing it and laughing so much.
I'm a little scared about Waymos on New Jersey highways.
It's a different type of driver.
They say AI is going to change health care. What does that really mean? AI is going to change our streets, our highways. What does that really mean? Oh, we're going to get humanoid robots in our homes that are just going to change our lives forever. What does that really mean?
Joanna, thank you for joining me on The Wave Phone Podcast.
Thank you for having me.
Yeah.
All the way here in Kearney, New Jersey, which is 20 minutes away from my house.
Yeah. Well, we like having people in person on the podcast more than virtual because it's just more personal. It's more fun.
We're right here. Yeah. You know what? The two most powerful people in New Jersey tech media are in this podcast.
room i am willing to accept that do you think there's anyone else in new jersey i haven't thought about that actually i'm not really sure there's got to be other tech media we know there's a lot of important media people right jersey tech media i don't know certain people where they're from but i'm i'm just gonna go ahead and accept the crime i'm pretty sure it's just i'm willing to take it i mean there's a lot of others and we are the top is what i'm saying here i like it i like the confidence we should talk a little bit about tech because there's there's a bunch going on we have your book here in front of us we're also going to talk about this i'm really excited about my new way of promoting the book is just is just holding it up to your face during the entire podcast all the podcast editors very angry i like the block we're just talking about the cover by the way the title is very in the colors and the shapes and i have to talk to you about humanoid robots as well
Oh, I would love to.
I have so many takes.
I know you do.
They sometimes get me in trouble, but I'd love to hear your thoughts.
I love your takes, and they're mostly right. So, yeah.
Perfect. So tell me about this book. It's called I Am Not a Robot. What is going on?
You're using AI to do almost everything. You can search that all. You really just have to search I Am Not a Robot, but Joanna Stern, because if you search I Am Not a Robot, then you just get captchas, and it's a disaster. Great idea for the name of a book, not actually a great idea when you go to sell the book.
Ephrasia.
Yeah, it's a terrible SEO cap show situation. Yeah, this is about my year trying to use AI in as many parts of my life as possible. And that's my pitch. Go buy the book.
Giving it a shot, being optimistic, open to it being either awesome or terrible, just fully immersing yourself.
Fully immersing myself. And I don't define AI as just generative AI. It's not just chatbots. You've got self-driving cars in here, humanoid robots.
Yeah.
Healthcare, tons of different applications of what once was called deep learning, but now everyone just calls AI or chatbots or generative AI.
Yeah, there's neural nets. There's all sorts of things. It's just all artificial intelligence all the time.
Yep.
Awesome.
Not only do I have a book out, I have a new media company, which we know we're going to talk about. But it's called New Things, and you can go to thenewthings.com. Or look at these sound effects.
We got a sound effect.
Or you can go to my YouTube channel, Joanna Stern.
Perfect. We'll link everything below so people can find it. First, we can talk. Actually, there's a little bit of tech news that we haven't talked about a ton yet on the podcast, which is Apple's new CEO. That's a fun one. What do you think about that?
You feel like you haven't talked about that a lot on this podcast?
Well, we have talked about it, but I haven't gotten other people's thoughts outside of the podcast, and now I'm excited to start doing that.
Because I've been listening to this podcast in my car, and I'm pretty sure you've done a lot of coverage of this.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–4:40
2
How does Joanna Stern's experience with AI shape her views?
4:40–9:11
3
How does Joanna's new media venture differ from traditional media?
9:11–9:47
4
What are the implications of John Ternus becoming the new Apple CEO?
9:47–15:54
5
What challenges does Joanna face in her independent media journey?
15:54–20:17
6
How does Joanna's book explore the impact of AI on daily life?
20:17–1:13:58