They Might Be Self-Aware

00:00:00 - INTRO00:03:41 - Hunter's Officially Approved School Hacking Story00:07:54 - Trump's AI Executive Order and K-12 Integration00:12:34 - AI Tutors & Personalized Education: Will AI Replace Teachers?00:15:13 - VR Classrooms and the Future of Gamified Learning00:16:31 - Cheating with ChatGPT: Are Essays Obsolete?00:29:23 - Half of Employees Are Secretly Using AI Tools00:33:02 - Unauthorized AI Tools at Work: Risks and Realities00:37:15 - Is AI Really a Threat to Job Security?

📌 Chapters:00:00:00 - Intro00:00:40 - ChatGPT Magazine Hits Barnes & Noble00:04:42 - Why Shopify is Betting on AI Over Humans00:07:52 - Can AI Fully Replace Real Employees?00:15:03 - Trust Issues: Why Americans Don’t Trust AI00:19:04 - The Real Risks of AI Coding Mistakes00:20:29 - How AI Could Poison Software Dependencies00:24:35 - Fake Job Applicants & Deepfake Interviews00:30:22 - Hiring in the Age of AI: What Skills Matter Now?00:36:14 - Rethinking Hiring: No Resume Required00:38:54 - Wrap Up

⏱️ CHAPTERS00:00:00 – Metaverse banter00:01:28 - Meta drops Llama 4: size, MoE architecture & first‑day hype00:03:03 - “Cheating the test?” How Llama 4 climbed then fell on leaderboards00:07:15 - Broken benchmarks, GPU tricks & lessons from 2000‑era graphics cards00:11:16 - Should we trust today’s AI leaderboards? Transparency + corporate ties00:16:15 - AB testing 101 and why secret “mystery models” exist00:18:13 - Model chaos at OpenAI: GPT‑4.1, o‑series, mini models & naming mess00:24:28 - OpenAI = Salesforce of AI? Windsurf acquisition & product sprawl00:26:33 - Sam Altman’s “10× productivity” promise—what it really means00:27:15 - Will coders vanish or just do more? History of tech‑driven expectations00:30:55 - Conspiracy corner: GPT‑4.5 passed the Turing Test… then got axed00:34:45 - Wrap Up

🎙️ Chapters:00:00:00 - INTRO00:00:38 - Notebook LM vs. Human Podcasters00:02:30 - Why Reading AI Papers Matters00:05:31 - Anthropic’s Groundbreaking AI Research00:07:03 - How Large Language Models (LLMs) Think00:08:03 - AI Neural Circuits & Metacognition00:14:10 - Attribution Graphs & AI Reasoning Explained00:20:40 - AI's Default "Inhibition" to Answer00:22:22 - AI Jailbreaks & "Babies Outlive Mustard Block"00:26:14 - AI's Surprising Math Skills00:27:34 - Does AI Secretly Think in English?00:30:50 - The Path to AI Self-Awareness & Consciousness00:31:20 - Could AI Soon Have Real Memory?00:34:13 - Are Humans Already Losing to AI?

📌 Chapters:00:00:00 - Intro00:01:23 - AI "Smoke Breaks" Experiment00:02:22 - Do AIs Deserve Breaks? Morality and Respecting AI00:11:02 - Threatening AI Moms & Jailbreaking Techniques00:14:27 - Collaborative AI Coding: Pros and Cons00:16:18 - AI Disaster: Losing 6 Months of Work Without Version Control00:17:24 - OpenAI's Incredible New Image Generator (Autoregressive Magic!)00:21:22 - Studio Ghibli Style & The Ethical Backlash Explained00:26:35 - OpenAI Image Model: Instant Advertising & Job Disruption00:28:57 - Copyright Quagmires: Can OpenAI Control Creative Chaos?00:32:11 - Grandma's Thanksgiving Chainsaw Adventure00:34:51 - Have We Crossed the Uncanny Valley?00:36:56 - Are We Closer to AI Becoming Self-Aware?

🔖 Chapters:00:00:00 – Intro: They Might Be Self-Aware00:05:06 – Boox E Ink Tablet Review & First Impressions00:07:42 – E Ink Color Display: Boox vs. reMarkable00:09:29 – Watching Videos on E Ink Tablets (Boox Demo)00:11:49 – Writing & Refresh Rate: Boox Tablet Performance00:13:10 – Pricing & Value: Boox Compared to reMarkable00:14:54 – Is Google Search Dying? Google's AI Integration Issues00:21:47 – Why Google Shouldn't Mix AI & Traditional Search00:23:56 – Claude AI Shows Signs of Self-Awareness00:26:24 – Should AI Be Allowed to Refuse Tasks? ("AI Smoke Break")00:28:55 – What Would AI Do On a "Break"?00:30:56 – Can AI Become Self-Aware? Ethics & Future Implications

🔖 Chapters:00:00:00 - Intro: Secret Names & Podcast Banter00:02:11 - Tesla Cybertruck Under Attack: Why the Road Rage?00:06:44 - Rivian's Hands-Free AI Driving: Can it Overtake Tesla?00:11:16 - OpenAI & Sam Altman: Playing the National Security Card?00:18:30 - Anthropic Shocks Developers: Coding Jobs Gone by 2025?00:26:07 - Claude 3.7: Better Programming or Wandering Mind?00:28:23 - AI's Strange Behavior: When Claude Goes Rogue00:30:25 - Is AI Thinking Actually Good? Future of AI Development

⏱ Episode Chapters:00:00:00 – Intro & Hunter's "World-Renowned" Status00:01:20 – $20K OpenAI AI Agent Controversy00:05:20 – Would You Ever Pay $20,000 for AI?00:08:13 – Sony's Horizon Zero Dawn AI Leak Disaster00:10:23 – Fast Food AI: McDonald's Digital Drive-Thru00:13:10 – AI Taking Jobs: Automation vs Employment00:25:25 – Manhattan Project for AI: AGI Dominance00:29:10 – NSA’s Secret Data Advantage for AI00:31:13 – Government-Backed AGI: The Implications00:32:15 – Hunter's Ultimate Snyder Cut Edition

In this episode of They Might Be Self-Aware, Hunter contemplates selling his dog (and everything else!) to fund his $20,000/month AI dreams. Join us as we unravel the truth behind the Manus AI hype and explore whether it's truly revolutionary or simply another AI trend. We also dive deep into the world of Vibe Coding—coding with AI by speaking, not typing—and how solopreneurs like Levels.io are earning millions by rapidly creating AAA-quality browser games powered entirely by AI. 🔥 Topics Covered: 00:00:34 The controversial $20,000/month AI service from OpenAI. 00:06:46 Debunking the Manus AI hype: Innovation or illusion? 00:17:04 What is Vibe Coding, and how is it making millionaires overnight? 00:25:58 How Levels.io used AI and Vibe Coding to build a viral AAA-style browser game and achieve $1M ARR in just 17 days.

00:00:00 Intro00:00:32 Hotline Call: AI Miles Joins the Conversation00:01:27 AGI vs. ASI: Understanding Artificial Intelligence with Miles00:05:00 Digital Footprints: Should We Have the Right to Be Forgotten?00:13:48 GDPR Meets AI: Navigating Privacy in a Digital Age00:32:30 Protecting Privacy with AI-Generated Noise00:33:40 Wrap Up