Artificial Intelligence

PU 32: Germany's Digital Strategy Is Absolutely Bonkers

Driven by a national delusion that Germans are somehow naturally very bad at digital technology, the country's government is rushing headfirst into a…

Apr 19

1:05:51

PU 27: LLMs Are a Dead-End

Why current AI technology can't get us what its proponents are promising. Why the media keeps getting the AI story wrong. Why AI layoffs are just an…

Mar 15

1:42:40

PU 24: The ELIZA Effect

An MIT professor developed the first chatbot in 1964 and discovered that we tend to ascribe human traits to even the simplest computer programs. This…

Feb 22

1:16:03

PU 22: Moltbook Madness

The AI tech bros are going crazy: They are convinced their chatbots are gaining consciousness, which is why they made a chatbot-only social network for…

Feb 8

1:19:58

PU 15: State Secret or Vibe Physics?

A recent patent application that made the news in Germany looks suspiciously like someone with chatbot delusion tried to vibe code a threat to NATO's…

Dec 21, 2025

48:51

PU 8: Robotics Slop

According to the Wall Street Journal, the 1X NEO is a $20,000 robot that does your chores. The problem is that NEO is really bad at it. And the thing…

Nov 2, 2025

35:10

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