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Dear AI Companies: Stop the “Doom Trolling” | AI Reality Check

aired Jun 25, 2026 · 22.0m
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confidence 0.99
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Summary

The last three years have been sort of exhausting for me. It was sort of like when you first saw that pinch-to-zoom feature on an early iPhone.

Why listen

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of like, companies, these, including: As a computer scientist and a technology commentator, I was excited by ChatGPT when it was first released.

Key takeaways
  1. 01So it seems self-evident to me that, hey, with enough experimentation, we would for sure find some impressive applications for large language models, and I was curious to learn wha
  2. 02presidential race might no longer be run by humans
  3. 03Now, at the time, I remember that that seemed out of proportion with how large language models actually worked
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