404 Media: Elites Just Don't Get AI [View all]

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We start this week with Sam telling us all about the commencement speeches where speakers have been praising AI, including former Google CEO Eric Schmidt. That did not go down well! After the break, Jason tells us how he was offered the chance to buy a bunch of images of poop to train AI (really). In the subscribers-only section, Joseph explains how researchers planned to stick cameras onto preschool teachers to train AI.

Story 1
00:56 Students Boo Commencement Speaker After She Calls AI the ‘Next Industrial Revolution’
01:12 - UCF Graduation Speech Sparks AI Backlash
02:18 - Why Humanities Students Booed the Speaker
04:21 - How AI Threatens Humanities & Research Jobs
07:00 - AI Anxiety and the Entry-Level Job Market
09:11 - Eric Schmidt Booed at ASU Commencement
11:17 - “AI Is Inevitable”
13:08 - Commencement Speeches Becoming Protest Targets
15:15 - Magic Johnson’s Different Take on AI
17:33 - Students Using ChatGPT to Graduate

Story 2
24:44 - AI Poop Analysis App Selling User Data
25:47 - Inside the “Poop Check” Dataset Marketplace
28:25 - What the Poop Analysis App Actually Does
32:49 - The Community Forum for Sharing Poop Photos
34:34 - Buying Access to the Dataset
38:15 - Privacy Problems and Hidden Terms of Service
41:32 - The Underground Market for Weird AI Datasets