Joanna Stern returns to the show to talk about our new best friends, AI chatbots, and I chime in with how the Voight-Kampff test got it all wrong.
Nov 18
434: ‘Knee-Jerk Contrarian’, With Dan Frommer
Special guest Dan Frommer returns to the show. Topics include the indie media business, the iPhone Pocket, the iPhone Air (including rumors about the second generation model), AI “personalities”, and five years of Apple Silicon Macs. Also, six years of Dan’s site, The New Consume ... Show More
1h 54m
Feb 2025
Anthropic’s C.E.O. Dario Amodei on Surviving the A.I. Endgame
<p>This week, Anthropic’s C.E.O., Dario Amodei, returns to the show for a candid, wide-ranging interview. We discuss Anthropic’s brand-new Claude 3.7 Sonnet model, the A.I. arms race against China, and his hopes and fears for this technology over the next two years. Then, we gath ... Show More
1h 7m
Jan 2025
the art of influence, confidence, & not giving a f*ck w/ Emilie Sobel
221: There's nothing I love more than talking to powerful, confident women, and today's episode is exactly that. Emilie is an absolute powerhouse in the influencer industry and gave us so much juice on: what networking truly means, how to work absolutely any room you enter, letti ... Show More
1h 7m
Sep 24
10. The woman who discovered the opiate receptor in the brain + someone is LIVING in the lab?
🧠 welcome to the LAST episode of OVERLOOKED, the series where we shine a light on the women in STEM who history often left in the shadows. For our last episode, we’re talking all about Candace Pert, the groundbreaking neuroscientist who discovered the opioid receptor. Her work n ... Show More
44m 47s
Oct 3
Sora and the Infinite Slop Feeds + ChatGPT Goes to Therapy + Hot Mess Express
<p>This week, we’re talking about the new A.I.-generated video tools and social media feeds from Google, Meta and OpenAI. Is this how A.I. is going to cure cancer? Then, the psychotherapist Gary Greenberg stops by to discuss his recent New Yorker essay about treating ChatGPT as a ... Show More
1h 5m