Show Notes for Ep. 64 "Playing Chess is Easier than Caring"
Welcome to Season 3 of Mohanraj and Rosenbaum are Humans! In this episode (originally recorded in January 2024), the hosts of MRAH tackle AI and its rapidly expanding impact. They also discuss the history of AI/language learning models and the difference between genuine and simulated emotion.
Recorded January 28, 2024 / Published January 20, 2025
Contents
- 0:00:00 – was AI like we expected it to be?
- 0:09:12 – on how AI is like aliens in sci-fi
- 0:13:05 – on how to define sentience
- 0:21:41 – what does it mean to be conscious?
- 0:26:22 – simulation vs. caring
- 0:35:28 – the history of AI
- 0:50:14 – is AI media easy to identify?
- 1:01:55 – have our tools of detection gotten better?
- 1:11:39 – where do we get our news, authentic or otherwise?
- 1:18:37 – what is AI actually doing?
- 1:22:15 – connecting it to neurodiversity
- 1:31:12 – weather systems and how AI collects information
Works and People Mentioned
Organized by order of appearance.
- Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
- Rachel in Love
- Uplift
- C. J. Cherryh, Foreigner_series
- Ancillary series
- The Cartographer Wasps
- The Wounded Sky
- Second Person, Present Tense
- Set This House in Order
- Diaspora
- Dance of the Comets
- SORA AI Video Creator
- Machine Learning President RPG
- What the Doomsayers Get Wrong About Deep Fakes
- Boyhood movie
- Before Sunrise
- Cory Doctorow, What Kind of Bubble is AI?
