High-low brow conversations about culture, science, and tech. With hosts Joey Camire, Aaron Powers, and executive producer/nerd herder Jess Vander. SYLVAIN is a strategy and design company.
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High-low brow conversations about culture, science, and tech. With hosts Joey Camire, Aaron Powers, and executive producer/nerd herder Jess Vander. SYLVAIN is a strategy and design company.
How are you personally preparing mentally, psychologically for the increased engagement with AI? This week, Joey and Jess talk about AI psychosis, Blake Lemoine, the Turing Test, cognative security, red teaming, and hats. They don’t (yet) talk about NonsenseLLM. references * Psycho Killer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wke3tdWrd3k) and the big suit (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rauu_MNZXgo) * X: Keith Sakata, MD (https://x.com/keithsakata/status/1954884361695719474?s=46&t=vBQGHWBS66IV09hhLDB7_A) * The New York Times: They Asked an A.I. Chatbot Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling. (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/technology/chatgpt-ai-chatbots-conspiracies.html) * The New York Times: Chatbots Can Go Into a Delusional Spiral. Here’s How It Happens. (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/technology/ai-chatbots-delusions-chatgpt.html?utm_campaign=likeshopme&utm_content=ig-nytimes&utm_medium=instagram&utm_source=dash+hudson) * Washington Post The Google engineer who thinks the company’s AI has come to life (https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/11/google-ai-lamda-blake-lemoine/) * Bloomberg Technology: Google Engineer on His Sentient AI Claim (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgCUn4fQTsc) * Turing Test (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test) * Johns Hopkins Magazine: The science behind why we see faces in nature (https://hub.jhu.edu/magazine/2024/winter/pareidolia-faces-in-nature/) * Study: Barking Up the Wrong Tree: Human Perception of Dog Emotions Is Influenced by Extraneous Factors (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08927936.2025.2469400) * Pareidolia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia) * Red team (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_team) * Planning red teaming for large language models (LLMs) and their applications (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-foundry/openai/concepts/red-teaming) * Ig Nobel Prize (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ig_Nobel_Prize) * Six Thinking Hats (https://www.debonogroup.com/services/core-programs/six-thinking-hats/)
Critical Nonsense
High-low brow conversations about culture, science, and tech. With hosts Joey Camire, Aaron Powers, and executive producer/nerd herder Jess Vander. SYLVAIN is a strategy and design company.
