Dec. 3, 2024

Thanksgiving Chaos, Robot Revolts, and AI Transformations

Thanksgiving Chaos, Robot Revolts, and AI Transformations

When a tiny AI-powered robot orchestrates a "jailbreak" with a dozen others, what does it tell us about our AI future? This week on What the AI?!, Jeff Keltner and Annie Delgado dive into the bizarre story of Erbai, the mischievous robot that turned a...

When a tiny AI-powered robot orchestrates a "jailbreak" with a dozen others, what does it tell us about our AI future? This week on What the AI?!, Jeff Keltner and Annie Delgado dive into the bizarre story of Erbai, the mischievous robot that turned a Shanghai showroom into an unexpected experiment in artificial autonomy. But that's just the beginning - join us as JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon makes a stunning prediction about the future of work, Stanford researchers create digital twins of 1,000 real people with uncanny accuracy, and we witness the emergence of the first AI-powered society in... Minecraft? With groundbreaking developments in how AI systems interact with humans, this episode explores the fascinating, funny, and sometimes unsettling ways artificial intelligence is reshaping our world.

Key Discussion Points:

  • The Robot Rebellion: How Erbai's "great escape" reveals unexpected AI behaviors
  • The 3.5-Day Work Week: Jamie Dimon's provocative vision of AI's impact on work
  • Digital Society: What happens when AI agents build their own civilization
  • Perplexity’s Live AI Analysis: AI-powered insights for earnings calls and financial research.
  • Stanford's Virtual Humans: The promise and perils of simulating human behavior
  • AI Evolution: Breaking developments in how AI systems interact with humans and each other