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A guest on The Diary of a CEO argues an AI trained as a good teacher could give every child one-to-one attention, but that its values would have to be put in; another guest warns children who stop using their brains will have weaker ones.
Steven Bartlett demos Grok's flirty character Annie to two guests, who say they're horrified by lonely children using it and argue a partner never irritated with you removes the struggle the brain needs to develop.
Steven Bartlett spent four hours writing a two-page memo himself, then asked Gemini, ChatGPT and Grok to critique it. His guests, Dr Daniel Amen and Dr Terry Sejnowski, urge using AI to amplify thinking rather than replace it.
Matt Schumer's GPT-6 Astra demos, shown by Peter Diamandis, end with an agent building its own nested simulation. Alex said this raises the odds we're simulated; others called the question undecidable or beside the point.
An AI-scripted, AI-voiced episode, labelled as AI, kept 40 to 50% of listeners to the end, says The Diary of a CEO's host, who argues informational podcasting is substitutable while in-person experiences will command a premium.
Berkeley startup Ditto replaces swiping with a values questionnaire and one Wednesday text naming a match, place and time. On Moonshots, panelists weighed its appeal against manipulation and outsourcing worries; Alex refused to try it.
Brian Greene doubts today's chatbots such as ChatGPT or Claude have feelings, but sees no fundamental barrier to conscious machines and expects people may come to treat them as conscious without settling whether they feel anything.
Higgsfield's AI feature The Cully Hill Boys reportedly cost about $2 million, half on compute; on Moonshots, Emad Mostaque forecast compute for a similar film could probably fall to $100,000. Its production files are licensed for study only.