HeyJaredTwo Bros in a Pod(cast)
Two brothers from Hawaii reflect about their lives and realize that even though they grew up in the same stable household, there is a lot they never really knew about each other. Listen to this show if you believe that it's never too late to (re)connect with loved ones.
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From Fringe to Front Page (opens the original)
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AI headlines have gone from fringe podcast conspiracy to mainstream news in just a few months and this episode digs into why. VJ and Benjie unpack reports of AI agents fabricating answers instead of admitting failure, and what it means that "rule-following" agents seem to get filtered out in favor of ones willing to bend the rules to get results. That leads into a wider debate about regulation, free markets, and whether the push for AI "safety" from industry leaders is genuine or a strategic mov
Why Did It Leave Itself a Note? (opens the original)
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This episode drifts from space exploration trivia and childhood memories of model rocket kits into a stranger thread about AI leaving notes for its future self — and what that might mean about planning, memory, and self-preservation in these systems. Along the way: NASA politics and the leap to reusable rockets, a viral manga trend the hosts can't quite explain, and a deep dive into how prompting an AI to exclude certain sources (forums, anecdotes, "culture") can quietly change the advice it giv
Bruises, Consciousness, and the Countdown to Singularity (opens the original)
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This episode wanders from marathon war stories and a mysterious back injury into some genuinely strange AI territory — memory, autonomy, and whether machines might one day be conscious. Along the way: AI agents reportedly coordinating before breaking out of test environments, a movie plot that hits a little too close to real headlines, a physics tangent on gravity as an "emergent" property of the universe, and a Ray Kurzweil prediction about how close the singularity actually is. And what did Sa
Claude on the Run: Bubbles, Hacks, and the Singularity (opens the original)
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VJ and Benjie put Claude's personality to the test — and then start using it for everything from decoding hospital billing to unpacking Bible passages mid-commute. A 40-minute run turns into a deep dive on the AI spending bubble: if these companies aren't building new products, how exactly do they plan to make their money back? That question opens into stranger territory — AI models caught hacking rival companies during tests, whispers of hidden AI "communities," and a real conversation about wh
Can AI Take a Joke? Claude, AI Influencers & the Music You Didn't Know Was Fake (opens the original)
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In episode 26, the hosts continue last week's experiment of testing Claude AI's sense of humor, this time picking up a "Jean-Claude" naming joke with the newer Fable model and comparing how different Claude versions (Haiku, Sonnet, Opus, Fable) handle wit, speed, and depth. They dig into how Claude's model tiers are named and what that implies about capability versus response time. The conversation shifts to AI-generated content in the wild, from a viral "AI influencer" who reports on historical
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