In this episode, Kendall and rachel talk about:
* rachel's need to finish things and coping mechanisms around that
* The recent spate of cold weather/storms and a tale of Kendall's friend and the whisky night
* (This podcast may be sponsored by Friday Deployment Spirits, i guess)
* An unsurprising objection regarding terminology
* How Kendall is obviously a Markov Chain bot, and how have i never noticed this before
* The fact that AI-directed research is nothing new
* Public access to AI-type tools and how it has expanded the hype cycle
* Environmental concerns around resources required
* Robots and why they should just exist to do stuff humans don't want to do
* Implications of the mismatch in public expectations vs the reality of what AI is actually capable of
* Losing the ability of finding the needles of useful information in the haystack of real and generated content
* How the hype is definitely hype but it should still be in your pitch deck
* The word rachel was looking for: Captcha
* Usefulness as a writing tool, but not as an author
* Kendall's tantalizing taste of socialized medicine
* rachel recommends: Shelter Point distillery's Smoke Point whiskey (Vancouver Island, BC)
* Kendall recommends: barrel-finished/aged gins
* rachel also recommends: The Future by Naomi Alderman
* Kendall also recommends: Brandon Sanderson's The Way of Kings, Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale.
Special thanks to Mel Stanley for our theme music <3