About this episode
Photo by Mike Stimpson on Unsplash
Published 30 June 2025
e519 with Michael, Andy and Michael – stories about AI conversations with pets and people, LLM data retention, AI slop, Clippy-esque prompts, AI workloads in space and a whole lot more.
Michael, Andy and Michael begin with an AI story about the possibility for translating what your pet has to say. There have been similar stories, and certainly it is only a matter of time before there is a breakthrough to help humans talk to the animals.
Next up, a video from John Oliver on AI slop for the masses, that interestingly enough starts off with cats. The team then moves on to what LLMs know about those that use them. A couple of articles from Schneier and Geeky Gadgets illustrate the challenges emerging with current data retention policies. Andy asked ChatGPT to write his bio back in 2023, and the hallucinations from that experience is in the show notes below.
After a conversation on the future of Computer Science, the team considers AI workloads in space using the Syntilay example of designing shoes. Then, a Mastodon post on the newest prompts from Microsoft Word reminds the cohosts of the fan favorite Clippy. Next, there’s an AR example of advertising popup b
