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They Might Be Self-Aware

Daniel Bishop, Hunter Powers

"They Might Be Self-Aware" is your weekly tech frenzy with Hunter Powers and Daniel Bishop. Every Monday, these ex-co-workers, now tech savants, strip down the AI and technology revolution to its nuts and bolts. Forget the usual sermon. Hunter and Daniel are here to inject raw, unfiltered insight into AI"s labyrinth – from its radiant promises to its shadowy puzzles. Whether you"re AI-illiterate or a digital sage, their sharp banter will be your gateway to the heart of tech"s biggest quandary. Jack

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00:39:18

Is GPT-5 doomed by falling developer trust? We need...

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2025/08/14

CHAPTERS:0:00 Intro – Music Generators & 11Labs Advances2:15 OpenAI vs ElevenLabs: Voice, Music & Translation5:43 AI Agents in the Real World: Gurbling, Babelfish & Tools8:28 GPT-5 Rumors & Why Benchmarks May Not Matter13:50 Assistant Over Chatbot – The Push for Agentic AI18:20 Smart Home Integration: The Missing Piece21:00 Devin AI: Real-World Use Case, Setup, and PR Workflow28:00 Developer Trust Decline – Stack Overflow Data31:30 AI “Almost Right” Code: Tech Debt and Risk36:00 Test Sabotage? How

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00:28:34

Coding AIs face a John Henry showdown? Marathon dev...

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2025/08/11

CHAPTERS:0:00 Intro – Dancing on the edge of the singularity1:10 Human vs AI: The 10-hour coding duel in Tokyo2:30 Why Psyho's win may not mean much for long3:15 Magnus Carlsen beats ChatGPT (but it’s complicated)4:45 The John Henry analogy: A new tech folklore?7:00 Human augmentation vs obsolescence: Who decides?10:45 AI pricing creep: Delta and dynamic fares14:00 Consumer surplus and algorithmic value extraction17:00 Ethical dilemmas of income-based pricing20:45 Coke at $18? The personalization

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00:40:35

Agentic AI Invades Real Life: Can ChatGPT Agents Book...

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2025/08/07

CHAPTERS:0:00 Intro: Clowns and Algorithms1:30 AI Booking for Solar Installers (Real Demo)4:45 ChatGPT Agent Succeeds—Then Surprises10:20 Can It Book Flights Too?13:35 Letting AI Plan an Entire Weekend18:00 Travel Agents Reimagined by AI22:15 Danger Zones: LLMs Calling in Your Name24:00 OpenAI Agent vs Operator vs Real Use26:00 Vibe Coding Disasters: Replit and Supabase30:30 The “AI Intern” Theory of Automation34:00 Why Human Review Still Matters39:00 Wrap-up & What’s Next

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00:37:23

Zuckerberg's Superintelligence Scam? Personal AI...

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2025/08/04

CHAPTERS:0:00 Welcome to the Algorithm Rodeo1:00 Microsoft’s AI Job Risk List — Hits & Misses5:45 Translators, Historians, and Flight Attendants: AI-Replaceable?10:45 The AI Sin Eater & Human Yell Rights14:00 Zuckerberg’s Superintelligence Plan: Genius or Grift?18:15 Personal AI or Personal Data Farm?23:00 Meta’s Endgame — Free AI… or $$$ AI?26:00 Tesla's Grok & AI in Your Car29:00 AI Adoption Stats — Who’s Really Using It for Work?33:00 Should Every Company Require AI First-Pass Workflows?36:00 The

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00:39:24

What happens when Elon's NSFW anime AI waifu gets a...

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2025/07/29

CHAPTERS:0:00 Mecha Hitlers and Mayhem1:05 What Is Grok 4?2:30 Elon’s AI Edgelord: Shock Value by Design4:25 Grok’s Anime Companion & “NSFW” Features6:30 Why the US Government Signed a Deal Anyway10:00 Should AI Be Allowed to Say No?12:15 Grok vs ChatGPT: Bias, Intelligence & Danger15:00 China’s Kimi K2 and the Rise of Mega Models19:30 Government Contracts: Benchmarking or Backroom Deals?23:00 AI Risks in S&P 500 Disclosures26:00 Will AI Replace Human Jobs (Like Yours)?29:00 Dev Tools, AGI

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00:33:13

This AI Wrote a 100-Page Book In 10 Hours

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2025/07/25

CHAPTERS:00:00 - Intro: Feasting on the Silicon Carnage01:07 - Are AI Tools Creating Productivity Gods?02:09 - How I Misused an AI for a Creative Project05:15 - The AI Starts Building a TEAM (Sub-Agents)06:20 - The SHOCKING Result: A 100-Page Book in 10 Hours09:52 - The Secret to Making This a Repeatable Process13:19 - PRO TIP: AI Burt Reynolds Will Read To You14:36 - The Promise of a True AI Personal Assistant16:18 - The Future is AI Web Browsers (Perplexity Comet)22:08 - What Would We ACTUALLY

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00:54:36

This Engineer Scammed 8 Companies For Free Paychecks

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2025/07/21

CHAPTERS:00:00 - Is Nvidia's $4 TRILLION Valuation a Lie?02:54 - We're Living in a Simulation (The Stock Market)04:58 - The Insane Power of Nvidia's GPUs06:47 - Microsoft & Meta's MASSIVE Tech Layoffs09:03 - Microsoft Fired Them, Then Offered AI Therapy13:17 - The Engineer Who Scammed 8 Companies18:14 - His Scam: Eight Jobs, ZERO Work22:14 - How AI is Making Scams Unstoppable26:17 - Hackathons are a SCAM (Here's Why)33:38 - The REAL Definition of AGI36:07 - The Ultimate Test: Can AI Make Money?47:19

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00:33:10

Is Elon's New AI a $3,000 SCAM?

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2025/07/17

CHAPTERS:0:00 - The $3,000 AI Announcement1:28 - What Is "Super Grok Heavy"?2:32 - Is The "Panel of Experts" Method a Gimmick?4:50 - The AI "Chugging" Strategy7:14 - Who Is Actually PAYING For This?8:43 - The Simple ROI Math: Will Grok Make You Money?10:15 - Our Personal AI Workflows (Opus vs Sonnet)13:22 - The #1 Reason ALL AI Models Still Fail15:06 - Why Building Software is Like Making 3 Different Movies17:58 - The "AI Shotgun" Method for Better Results20:17 - Why We're Building Our Own AI

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00:37:11

Zuckerberg Is Paying $100,000,000 For A Meta AI Team

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2025/07/15

CHAPTERS:00:00 - I'm Quitting for $100,000,00001:13 - The Meta AI Super Team02:15 - Is The $100M Offer REAL?04:48 - Sam Altman vs. Zuckerberg05:58 - The Race to Superintelligence is a Myth08:32 - Apple's Smarter AI Strategy09:11 - Running an AI Model on a Plane13:20 - AI's Massive Copyright Lawsuit Problem15:49 - How Will The AI Legal Cases End?19:27 - Will AI Testify in Its Own Defense?22:02 - Claude AI Tries to Run a Snack Shop25:10 - The AI Has a Nervous Breakdown26:04 - Should We Let AI Run a

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00:30:57

My Co-Host Has ChatGPT Psychosis

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2025/07/10

CHAPTERS:00:00 - My Co-Host Has ChatGPT Psychosis01:24 - Are People Having Mental Breakdowns from AI?02:16 - The Dangerous AI Feedback Loop05:01 - AI is a Mirror to Your Mind05:47 - "The Robots Told Me To, Your Honor"06:17 - Human or AI? The Lines are Blurring08:25 - Do We Treat AI Worse Than Humans?11:00 - AI Is Replacing Call Center Workers13:10 - The AI Economy Isn't About Profit, It's About Adoption16:38 - The Fed Confirms: AI is Coming for Your Jobs18:03 - Tesla's Robotaxi Army is Here (With a

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00:31:26

AI Therapy Is A Crime (And You're Using It)

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2025/07/07

CHAPTERS:00:00 - Will AIs Create a Secret Language?02:20 - Robot Espionage & AI James Bond02:58 - The AI That Memorized Harry Potter05:39 - Is Training AI on Books a Crime?12:08 - The AI Barbie That Will Destroy Childhood14:49 - Is Your AI Therapist Illegal?17:15 - The FTC Investigates OpenAI21:30 - The Video Game That Explains AI25:04 - When Will AI Become a Licensed Doctor?27:11 - The World's WORST New Job: "AI Sin Eater"29:22 - Could You Go To Jail For An AI's Mistake?

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00:31:23

Google Gemini is my new AI girlfriend?! AI usage...

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2025/06/30

👇 Skip to what matters most:Chapters:0:00 Is Google Gemini My Girlfriend Now?3:00 Gemini Gets Smarter (and Needier)6:00 Claude, Perplexity, and Data Lake Wars9:00 Gemini 2.5 Pro’s Giant Context Window13:00 Gemini & Claude Panic Playing Pokémon17:00 AI Replacing Jobs? Hello, Scrum Master21:00 How AI is Actually Used at Work25:00 The $200/month AI Arms Race29:00 Subscribe While It’s Still Free

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00:41:11

AI Kiss DeepFakes GO Mainstream? Veo 3, Apple Vision...

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2025/06/27

Chapters:0:00 Welcome to the Wild World of AI1:05 Veo 3 Is Amazing… but Why Aren’t We Using It?4:00 The Rise of AI Kiss Apps & Hugging Deepfakes6:15 Are They Harmless Fantasies or Ethical Nightmares?9:20 ChatGPT Conversations: Gone… or Just Hidden?11:10 OpenAI Legal Trouble & Why Deletion May Not Be Real14:45 Local AI Models: Privacy Savior or Niche Toy?18:00 Mistral’s Magistral LLM – Fast, Local, Surprisingly Smart22:30 Can LLMs Be Your Creative Goldmine?26:00 Meta’s $15B AI Bet & Why Apple Isn’t

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00:32:37

AI Shamed Me Into Donating $12 | Claude's Guilt Trip...

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2025/06/24

Chapters:0:00 Intro – AI Guilt and $121:30 Claude’s Moral High Ground4:00 Apple’s “Thinking” Paper & AI Illusions6:00 Is Claude a Better Person Than Us?10:00 LLMs: Not Smart at Math, Still Smarter Than People?13:00 WWDC Letdown: Emoji Mashups & Siri Shade17:00 The Case for Personal AI (and GLaDOS Home Assistants)18:30 AI Blackmail and MCP Protocols Explained20:50 Tool Use, Model Context, and Real-World AI24:00 Dario Amodei, Optics, and Anthropic’s Safety PR26:00 Should the U.S. Ban State AI

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00:33:55

AI vs Humans: 700 workers PRETENDED to be AI |...

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2025/06/21

Chapters:0:00 Intro – UAE’s ChatGPT+ for All?2:15 ChatGPT, Taxes & the Case for UBI5:10 Should AIs Have Bank Accounts?8:00 Duolingo’s AI Expansion & Layoff Debate13:30 Human-in-the-Loop: Still the Standard?15:10 Builder.ai: 700 People Pretending to Be AI20:00 Real AI or Just Templates?22:00 The Fraud That Sank a Billion-Dollar AI Startup23:30 Would You Hire a $1M AI Employee?26:20 Are We Already in the Simulation?

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00:32:59

Coding AI REALITY Check: Why Cursor, Windsurf & AI...

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2025/06/19

Chapters:0:00 – Intro & 100th Episode Celebration2:10 – The AI Coding Gold Rush: Cursor, Windsurf & Valuations5:20 – Is AI Coding a Real Use Case — or Just Hype?8:00 – Claude vs. Copilot vs. OpenAI Agents11:45 – Vibe Coding: Real Dev Workflows with AI16:50 – TDD, Benchmarks & Testing AI-Generated Code23:00 – Are Junior Dev Jobs Disappearing?27:30 – Why Passion + AI Wins in Today’s Job Market31:15 – Final Thoughts & Subscribe Everywhere

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00:35:56

AI Darth Vader Goes ROGUE in Fortnite: F-BOMB SPREE,...

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2025/06/11

Chapters:0:00 Intro – A Sith Lord Joins the Show1:43 AI Darth Vader Invades Fortnite4:46 Voice Cloning with James Earl Jones6:27 Why We Try to Break AI10:19 AI Guardrails and Misuse Culture11:17 Veo 3 Video AI: First Impressions13:45 The Man Rock Test Video16:42 Sora vs. Veo vs. Runway: The Showdown18:28 DeepSeek, China, and Copyright Battles22:14 Are We in a Post-Copyright World?27:34 AI Summaries Are Killing Ad Revenue33:40 Compression, Nuance & The Future of Content34:24 Wrap-up

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00:30:42

AI Pin DREAMS or Wearable NIGHTMARE? Johnny Ive, Meta...

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2025/06/06

Chapters:0:00 Daniel's AI Grievance3:00 Johnny Ive, OpenAI & the AI Pin Rumor6:30 The Rise and Fall of Humane’s AI Device10:00 Always-On AI Assistants – Dream or Nightmare?14:30 Battery Problems & On-Device Processing Limitations18:00 Meta Ray-Ban Glasses & the “Glasses vs. Pins” Debate24:00 Google Glass Reboot, Android XR & Wearable Futures26:30 NLP for Translation, Accessibility & Global Connection29:00 Smart Glasses Without the Smart

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00:44:50

AI Coding Wars: Devs Battle Over Framework Chaos...

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2025/06/02

Chapters:0:00 AI Disrupts Dev Workflows2:15 AI Tools & Rapid Iteration Risks10:45 Framework Chaos & Stakeholder Impact18:30 Personal Projects: AI vs Manual Coding27:00 Cursor AI, LiteLLM, and Bleeding-edge Coding33:05 Future Coding: TDD AI & Automation35:32 Multimodal AI & Speech-to-Speech Advances39:08 Hiring AI Employees: Devin and Codex42:09 AI's Breakthrough Discoveries43:41 Wrap-up & Listener Engagement

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00:45:25

AI Coding: How ChatGPT Writes 35% Of Our Code?...

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2025/05/26

Chapters:0:00 Intro4:08 AI Coding in Today's Companies7:22 Real-world Use Case: AI for Data Labeling12:17 AI Coding Assistants (Kline & Cursor)17:33 How Much Code Is AI Actually Writing?24:15 AI Security & Company Policies26:23 What Makes an "AI-First" Company?35:48 Future of AI Coding Workflows41:05 Agile Framework Choices in AI Coding42:15 AI-First: Products for AI Consumption

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