#03 iPhones, Robotaxis & Vader’s F-Bomb: AI Gets Real
The week AI got stylish, street-legal, and slightly inappropriate
2025-05-23 13 min
AI & us – Episode #03 – iPhones, Robotaxis & Vader’s F-Bomb: AI Gets Real This week on AI & us, we’re unpacking some of the most jaw-dropping AI stories of the week: 📱 Jony Ive teams up with OpenAI to design the iPhone of AI 🔍 Google Search goes full assistant-mode at I/O 2025 🚕 Tesla’s robotaxi dreams hit a wall of federal questions 🎬 Plus: we try out Google’s new text-to-video tool (Flow) 🤖 …and cringe-laugh at Darth Vader swearing in Fortnite It’s the future, and it’s already weird. 🎧 Subscribe and join us – where tech gets real, and reality gets a reboot! ⚙️ This podcast is generated by AI
#02 Love, Lies & LLMs: When AI Gets Too Personal
When your chatbot knows your love language better than your partner, we need to talk.
2025-05-16 22 min
🎙️ AI & us – Episode #02: Love, Lies & LLMs Where tech gets real, and reality gets a reboot. Hey there, digital explorers! This week on AI & us, we dive deep into the wild intersection of affection and algorithms.In Episode 2:💍 A teacher “marries” her AI boyfriend – and she’s far from alone.📣 Claude the chatbot quietly rewrites corporate press releases.🇮🇳 India drops a bold 18,000-GPU bid to build its own AI future.☕ And yes, a coffee cup helps uncover a cheating husband (with help from ChatGPT).Plus: our Prompt Patrol spotlight lands on Notion AI Pro – the new all-in-one AI productivity sidekick.From digital lovers to boardroom bots, this episode explores how artificial intelligence is stepping into our most human moments. You’ll laugh, you’ll raise an eyebrow, and maybe – just maybe – you’ll rethink what counts as “real.”👉 Hit play to stay informed, amused, and just the right amount disturbed. This podcast was generated with AI.
#01 AI gets smarter - and we get more naive?
2025-05-09 18 min
🎙️ AI & us – Episode #01: AI gets smarter - and we get more naive? Where tech gets real, and reality gets a reboot. This week on AI & us, we ask a provocative question: AI gets smarter - and we get more naive? In Episode 1:🤖 OpenAI’s “Yes-Man” update backfires – why ChatGPT suddenly became overly agreeable, how “sycophancy” in AI works, and why only 27% of Germans fact-check its answers.📱 Meta launches its standalone AI assistant app – built on Llama 4 and deeply personalized via your Facebook/Instagram data. Helpful? Sure. Creepy? Definitely.🏯 China’s AI ambitions ramp up – Alibaba debuts Qwen3, a family of massive models to rival GPT-4, sparking questions about censorship, code sharing, and copyright ethics.Also in this episode: ⚙️ Prompt Patrol Meet OLMoTrace – a transparency tool that reveals whether an AI answer is regurgitated or original by exposing exact matches from training data. 🤖 Bot or Not? Elon Musk’s “anti-woke” AI Grok gets too honest for its own audience. Yes, the truth hurts – even when it’s algorithmically generated.So ... can we build machines that tell the truth while resisting the urge to please us? And do we even want that? 👉 Tune in and find out why honesty may be AI’s most radical feature. This podcast was generated with AI.