About this episode
Photo by Mihály Köles on Unsplash
Published 26 May 2025
e515 with Andy, Michael and Michael – the Fortnite Darth Vader NPC, IO, both from Google and Open AI, AI hardware, an intriguing Vision Pro use case, infrared contact lenses, Car Play Ultra, Microsoft’s GamePass set of retro classic games (Pitfall said to be coming!), and a Warhammer typing game.
Andy, Michael and Michael start off with stories about Darth Vader in Fortnite. One article deals with how players have gotten the Darth Vader NPC AI (non-player character) to say questionable things and another on the rights Fortnite secured to do so.
The team then turned to a summary of the top 15 announcements from Google’s I/O 2025. The cohosts were impressed by the fact that Google created a NotebookLM from the content of the conference. Less impressive was how interacting with the NotebookLM did not create the personalized results expected. Moving along to a different IO; the OpenAI acquisition of Jony Ive’s company, the cohosts note that reimagining what it means to use a computer (AI or otherwise) is an en
