More Human After All ft. Brian Merchant
TRASHFUTURE25 Mar 2024

More Human After All ft. Brian Merchant

"I believe AI makes us more human," said Peter Deng of OpenAI at SXSW - which is just one of the responses that AI people have when people ask bizarre questions like "what does your product do," and "hey how did you get all that training data?" Technology writer Brian Merchant joins the gang to discuss this phenomenon, Amazon's foray into building a second generation human, and, of course, the AI app that aims to replace condoms.

Like this episode? We've got a Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture

Episoder(982)

*PREVIEW* The French Lieutenant's Win

*PREVIEW* The French Lieutenant's Win

This was not an episode that were happy to record, in the sense that—gallows humour aside—this sucks! It's bad. But, for this immediate post-mortem bonus episode, Riley, Milo, and November discuss the...

8 Nov 202410min

The French Lieutenant's Wager feat. Dominik Leusder

The French Lieutenant's Wager feat. Dominik Leusder

Economist and host of the Eurotrash Podcast Dominik Leusder rejoins the gang to discuss the recent U.K. budget - who’s in, who’s out, who’s “hot” and who’s “not.” Also, a final look at the US presiden...

5 Nov 20241h 1min

*PREVIEW* What's Under the Line

*PREVIEW* What's Under the Line

For this week's bonus, Riley has read as much as he can stomach of the Labour 2024 book 'Taken as Red,' but we also spend some time discussing recent reports that the human cost of Neom is over 20,000...

1 Nov 20249min

It's Called a Tama-God-Chi

It's Called a Tama-God-Chi

Wouldn’t it be nice if we could have nuclear-powered data centres sucking up all the information about everyone ever, with easily-ignorable caveats for ‘protecting’ ‘American’ ‘citizens’ rights.’ Woul...

29 Okt 20241h 12min

*PREVIEW* The Trashfuture Podcast Ltd FY24 Pension Allocation Call

*PREVIEW* The Trashfuture Podcast Ltd FY24 Pension Allocation Call

Riley, November, and Hussein review some of TF Ltd’s strategic investments in the Humane Pin and the Apple Vision Pro, before moving on to look at the replacement of more humans in creative roles with...

25 Okt 202410min

*PREVIEW* Britainology 92: Supernanny

*PREVIEW* Britainology 92: Supernanny

For this month's first Britainology, Milo subjects Nate to the early-2000s British reality TV show Supernanny, with an episode featuring a particularly unruly 9-year-old girl named Meghann. It's famou...

24 Okt 202410min

Certified Gerard Butler in Gamer (2009) Moment feat. Justin Roczniak

Certified Gerard Butler in Gamer (2009) Moment feat. Justin Roczniak

We’ve brought on friend of the show and Well There’s Your Problem host Justin Roczniak (@who_shot_jgr) to discuss Tesla’s promise to deliver, and they’re serious this time, self-driving cars. However,...

22 Okt 20241h 10min

*PREVIEW* Hannibal l'Equity feat. Ethan Shone

*PREVIEW* Hannibal l'Equity feat. Ethan Shone

For this week’s bonus, we speak with friend of the show and openDemocracy journalist Ethan Shone (@EJShone93) about the… corporate proximity to Starmer’s Labour and its recent investment conference. W...

19 Okt 202410min

Populært innen Humor

rss-spartsklubben
papaya
enkel-servering
harm-og-hegseth
storefri-med-mikkel-og-herman
tusvik-tnne
folk-flest-med-linn-og-nils
topp-3-med-wold-og-fladseth
mikkels-paskenotter
tore-og-haralds-podkast
ma-pa-behandling-med-morten-ramm
rss-nesten-hele-uka-med-lepperod
misjonen-med-antonsen-og-golden
rss-snorre-med-gaute
wolfgang-wee-uncut
hanna-de-heldige
jan-thomas-og-einar-blir-venner
verdens-verste
rss-det-alle-snakker-om-med-siri-og-kim
rss-dannet-uten-piano