You Don’t Need AI for That: Sam Altman and the Dumbest AI Use Cases

Sam Altman thinks the ChatGPT use case that changes everything is turning your family calendar into a daily podcast for your kids on the drive to school. That is, until someone replied asking a simple question... “Why don’t you just talk to your children?”

Juan and Kate review the dumbest AI use cases doing the rounds right now. Grocery lists turned into haikus, Gemini Notebook (formerly known as Google NotebookLM) podcast bots saying “fascinating, let me add to that” to each other. Vibe-coded websites (sites generated by AI purely from an aesthetic prompt) that should have been a three-line email. Anthropic’s weirdly dystopian “there’s hope in hard questions” ad.

Which would all be easier to laugh off if AI weren’t eating this much money and infrastructure. Because od data centers, the same hard drive we bought for this podcast a year ago is now nearly three times the price, while 70% of Microsoft’s AI earnings... come directly from OpenAI.

That’s what this episode is all about, asking ourselves (and you), how did a technology attracting this much money end up being sold to us with bedtime stories, recipes and increasingly elaborate ways to avoid doing simple things ourselves?

👉 What’s the cringiest AI use case you’ve seen? Drop it in the comments. We’re featuring them every Wednesday.

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CHAPTERS

0:00 What Was Sam Altman's Wildest ChatGPT Pitch?

1:13 The Tweet Reply That Got 220,000 Likes

3:20 Is Gemini Notebook's Podcast Feature Useless?

6:24 The Haiku Grocery List Nobody Asked For

7:44 Claude Websites: All Style, Zero Substance

10:16 Anthropic's Cringe 'Hope in Hard Questions' Ad

12:49 Why These 'Cute' AI Demos Feel So Empty

15:31 Why Your Hard Drive Costs 3x More Now

17:14 What AI Should Actually Feel Like (Kate & Juan Disagree)