Jan 31 2024 52 mins 5
In this episode, Kendall and rachel talk about:
- rachel's need to finish things and coping mechanisms around that
- The recent spate of cold weather/storms and a tale of Kendall's friend and the whisky night
- (This podcast may be sponsored by Friday Deployment Spirits, i guess)
- An unsurprising objection regarding terminology
- How Kendall is obviously a Markov Chain bot, and how have i never noticed this before
- The fact that AI-directed research is nothing new
- Public access to AI-type tools and how it has expanded the hype cycle
- Environmental concerns around resources required
- Robots and why they should just exist to do stuff humans don't want to do
- Implications of the mismatch in public expectations vs the reality of what AI is actually capable of
- Losing the ability of finding the needles of useful information in the haystack of real and generated content
- How the hype is definitely hype but it should still be in your pitch deck
- The word rachel was looking for: Captcha
- Usefulness as a writing tool, but not as an author
- Kendall's tantalizing taste of socialized medicine
- rachel recommends: Shelter Point distillery's Smoke Point whiskey (Vancouver Island, BC)
- Kendall recommends: barrel-finished/aged gins
- rachel also recommends: The Future by Naomi Alderman
- Kendall also recommends: Brandon Sanderson's The Way of Kings, Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale.
Special thanks to Mel Stanley for our theme music <3
