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Anyone listen to the podcast "Shell Game?"

In Season 1 (2024), journalist Evan Ratliff explored the potential for LLM powered voice cloning to delegate everything tedious from answering spam calls, doing therapy and hanging out on work meetings to see how the AI could manage being Evan for him….

Better Offline – The Hater’s Guide to the AI Bubble

I've been listening to Better Offline, where tech journalist Ed Zitron takes a harsh view against the techno-optimism of the AI industry, arguing that the fundamentals don't add up by any stretch. In a recent 3 part episode, Zitron lays out ho…

Compiling AI research

I'm trying to synthesise the latest research on frontier AI models to better understand what’s actually known about their capabilities at the cutting edge. There’s a lot of debate online about how LLMs compare to humans around theories of conscious…