Tag: Climate Change
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#192: Climate Woes, AI Watermarks, and Synthetic Slop
This week Ian and Michael discuss I Eat the Stars and the rather uncomfortable business of coming to terms with climate change, including whether feeling better about an increasingly alarming future is actually enough. The conversation then turns to AI watermarking and the difficulty of telling what is machine-generated as the internet fills with increasingly synthetic content and whether we're simply accelerating our way towards a world in which nobody knows quite what is real anymore. (This description was generated with the help of AI - yes, we see the irony)
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#190: Bias, Tourists, and Talking Machines
Ian and Michael return from their summer break with the usual assortment of things to discuss, starting with media bias and the question of who gets to decide how biased the media actually is. From there they wander through coolcations, overtourism and Norwegian travels, the growing demands that data centres place on resouce consumption, and the rather less than convincing promise of instant language learning. And, naturally, there is AI-generated speech to dissect, with Ian and Michael finding the voices unnatural, giving our AI-generated contributor Emma Williams a perfect opportunity to return with another instalment of Artificial Reflections. (This episode features AI-generated content and speech)
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#154: A General Rant about the State of the World
Ian and Michael let loose with an unfiltered tirade about the state of things — consumerism, news media, society, and all the everyday absurdities that grind the gears. Less structured discussion, more cathartic venting, this one’s exactly what the episode title promises: a general rant about the world as it is.
Plus, our AI-generated contributor Emma returns with a fresh instalment of Emma's Artificial Reflections! (This episode contains AI-generated content and speech; this description was written with the help of AI) -
#138: Tariffs, Consumption, Doomsday Clock
Ian and Michael discuss the ongoing tariff saga and more or less immediately go off on a number of tangents, including consumerism, AI chatbots, the price of antiques, cryptocurrencies, and the Doomsday Clock maintained by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
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#92: Banter about Banter, Social Media, Climate Change, Subscription Models
Ian and Michael discuss a wide array of topics, ranging from the latest on social media to news reporting on climate change, our need to be distracted in a world of chaos, digital subscription models, and the English language itself!
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#68: Media and Weather Reporting, Clickbait, AI Revolution or Evolution
Get ready for a captivating podcast episode where Ian and Michael traverse a spectrum of intriguing subjects. From media's portrayal of "the storm of the century" in Finland, which turned out less dramatic than anticipated, to a probing examination of our clickbait-infused society – they uncover the layers beneath the headlines.
The hosts take on the future with a discussion about the ever-evolving landscape of AI. Will the latest innovations deliver groundbreaking transformations or merely incremental upgrades? Join the conversation that navigates the blurred lines between the revolutionary and the evolutionary. (This description was generated with ChatGPT) -
#20: Can AI Create a Greener World?
Ian and Michael discuss whether AI can have a positive impact on the environment, and whether that will be enough to stave off the worst impacts of climate change.