This conversation explores various themes surrounding the advancements in AI technology, including its implications for productivity, consciousness, and security. It discusses the innovative applications of AI in fire safety, the concept of AI as a 'vampire' extracting value from human productivity, and the emerging threats in bioscience due to AI. The dialogue also delves into the evolving nature of empathy through AI, the significant investments by tech giants in AI infrastructure, and the vulnerabilities present in self-driving cars. Finally, it touches on the philosophical concept of 'tau' as a measure of reality's coherence.
CHAPTERS ⤵
00:00 - Curious AI News & Other Developments
02:10 - AnchorWeave keeps AI video worlds from warping by “remembering” local space as the camera moves
03:31 - AI Robot Vehicles Team Up to Extinguish Fires
04:54 - The AI Vampire: How Artificial Intelligence Feeds on Human Creativity
06:51 - Consciousness as a virtual organism: a weirdly compelling model of “you”
09:19 - Anthropic Is Killing Bitcoin: Why Some Think AI and Crypto Can’t Coexist
13:24 - Generative AI in bioscience: emerging biosecurity threats and a roadmap to reduce real world risk
15:00 - This Machine Eye Could Give Robots Superhuman Reflexes
17:08 - When Chatbots Start to Sound More Human Than Humans Do
18:41 - Google’s $185B AI spending shock: why the infrastructure race just shifted gears
20:26 - AI Can Hijack Vehicles: New Security Fears for Smart Cars
21:53 - I read OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepMind safety frameworks, here’s the clear comparison
23:26 - LinkedIn Identity Verification and the Hidden Privacy Tradeoffs
26:12 - 5 subtle ways we make people shut down in conversation, plus safer moves that rebuild closeness
28:49 - 5 subtle ways we make people shut down in conversation, plus safer moves that rebuild closeness
SOURCES ⤵https://zunwang1.github.io/AnchorWeave
https://techxplore.com/news/2026-02-ai-robot-vehicles-team-extinguish.html
https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-ai-vampire-eda6e4f07163
https://medium.com/@vinbhalerao/consciousness-as-a-virtual-organism-0c63532ebed4
https://ai.gopubby.com/anthropic-is-killing-bitcoin-088288759706
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.15975
https://singularityhub.com/2026/02/19/this-machine-eye-could-give-robots-superhuman-reflexes/
https://techxplore.com/news/2026-02-chatbots-humans-empathy.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2026-02-ai-hijack-vehicles.html
https://longerramblings.substack.com/p/i-read-every-major-ai-labs-safety
https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/
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