New episode of the Enough About AI podcast with @donalmulligan.com & @ciaranoconnor.bsky.social is out now, discussing alignment, AI being "too sycophant-y" and the risk of letting superintelligence out of the box.

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New @enoughaboutai.com episode with @ciaranoconnor.bsky.social out, covering alignment issues, the problems of powerful AI persuasiveness, AI in academia, and letting superintelligence out of the box. Find it wherever you get podcasts, or on the site here:
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Topics in this episode:

🔴 We can't avoid talking about them: Musk & Trump 🟡 Regulatory Developments: The EU's AI Act
🟣 US - EU relations: Innovation vs regulation
🔴 DeepSeek and China's bold entry into the contemporary AI model space
🟡 What are Reasoning Models and how do they work?

Hello, we're back! @donalmulligan.com & @ciaranoconnor.bsky.social start a new season for 2025 with a slight change in format to give you roughly quarterly updates on the big themes and topics in #AI.

This new ep gives a summary of what's happened since last November & answer some of your questions

Who is Roko? And what does his basilisk have to do with #genai? Would he be happy if you stood in the way of #artificialintelligence? Episode 6 - Doom of Humanity? #ai #chatgpt

What’s your P(doom) score? Dónal and Ciarán discuss that and what Artificial General Intelligence might mean for us all in Episode 6 - Doom of Humanity? #ai #genai #artificialintelligence #chatgpt

How will artificial intelligence affect jobs? And is this anxiety around tech a new phenomenon? Dónal explains all in Episode 6 - 'Doom of Humanity?' #ai #genai #artificialintelligence #chatgpt

What is the EU AI Act? And how does it work? Dónal and Ciarán discuss attempts to regulate AI in Episode 5.
#genai #ai #artificialintelligence #chatgpt

How has GenAI already been used to impact elections and democracies worldwide? Ciarán runs through some examples in Episode 5 - Misinformation and Regulation.
#genai #ai #artificialintelligence #chatgpt

As soon as GenAI came to public prominence, there were calls to pause its development. These came from leading figures in the field such as Geoffrey Hinton, as Dónal explains in Episode 5. #genai #ai #artificialintelligence #chatgpt

In the fifth episode, Dónal and Ciarán discuss some of the concerns about misinformation and GenAI.
🔴 How have various models already been used for problematic content?
🟡 Can we regulate AI? to combat this?
🟣Why is the Irish govt concerned with AI "doomsayers"?

Latest #EnoughAboutAI podcast is about the calls for regulation of AI tools and the attempts already underway, like the @ec.europa.eu EU AI Act.
@ciaranoconnor.bsky.social takes the lead in detailing AI's potential for accelerating the misinformation crisis in social media. Find it in your feed.

New episode of the #EnoughAboutAI podcast is about training and testing AI models - @ciaranoconnor.bsky.social and I chat about the data. Also a grotesque use of human centipedes as an analogy, but that's top scientific communication for you...
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In the fourth episode, Dónal and Ciarán discuss the vast ocean of data that Large Language Models depend on for their training.

🔴 What data is being used to train models like ChatGPT?
🟡 What happens when AI models train on AI output?
🟣 What issues of bias arise in training models on existing text?

In the third episode, Dónal and Ciarán talk you through everything that's emerged since capable Large Language Models entered the chat

🔴 How did OpenAI come to dominate this space?
🟡 Who are the other companies that have become central to GenAI?
🟣 What are Transformer models?

In the second episode, Dónal and Ciarán see how the long history of computing machines connects to the AI revolution we're in now.

🔴 How does the history of computing go through Co Cork in the 1800s?
🟡 Why are French weaving machines involved?
🟣 Who are Turning and Shannon?

In the first episode, Dónal and Ciarán start the series with some explainers that should help you sound much more knowledgeable discussing the state of AI at your next dinner party.

🔴 What is ChatGPT?
🟡 What's the difference between AI and GenAI?
🟣 Are we all doomed?

Hello! Enough About AI is a podcast for people interested in all things Artificial Intelligence.

The series, hosted by bsky.app/profile/dona... & bsky.app/profile/ciar..., intros the concepts, characters & companies at the heart of the AI revolution.

Available on all platforms & enoughaboutai.com