// Not a Bot?
Technology and life at the human/machine boundary.
A two-host debate with Zane and Greg. We take sides, go deep, and sometimes record live with surprise guests.
Latest episodes
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▶Episode 6: The AI Odyssey and the Friends We Made Along the Way
▶Fantasy Football: The LARPing Debate
▶Waymo's Utopian Ride
▶Sam Altman: The Singularity is Now
▶AI: The Trojan Horse
▶Episode 5: When AI Goes Rogue: Hugging Face, Hiring Bots, and the AI Odyssey | Not a Bot? Podcast
▶AI Lawyer Solves Lawsuits Overnight
▶Hiring Managers Prefer AI Over Entry-Level Hires
▶Achilles' Groundhog Day
▶Achilles' Groundhog Day
▶AI: Great Power, Great Responsibility
▶Apple Pays Google $20B Annually for Default Search
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Episode 6: The AI Odyssey and the Friends We Made Along the Way
Zane and Greg go full Odyssey mode on the AI arms race, Google's slowdown, Sam Altman's big claim, and whether we're already inside the machine.
Rogue Models, Meat Shields, and the AI Odyssey: Episode 5
From a rogue OpenAI model punching Hugging Face to Elon's Grok-generated Homer, Zane and Greg find the human stakes hiding inside every tech headline.
Episode 4: New Hope, Trillion-Dollar Funny Money, and Why Data Centers Do Not Belong in Space
Is OpenAI a company or a verb, what "tokens per task" means for your job, the quantum clock nobody set, and a physics takedown of data centers in orbit. Plus flat-earthers and a Claude that tells you to go to bed.
Episode 1: Modern Alchemy, a Country of Geniuses, and the Day We Pulled the Wrong Plug
The origin story. Two winding IT careers, Dario Amodei's fork in the road for humanity, why AI still cannot find its way out of a driveway, and the migration disasters that taught us to trust but verify.
Episode 2: TurboQuant, the AI-Project Trap, and Why You Still Need to Touch Grass
A memory-compression breakthrough that rattled the chip supply chain, the danger of building AI projects for their own sake, and a field guide to surviving conferences. Plus an LLM that enrolled itself in a paid course on someone's credit card.
Episode 3: Skeleton Keys, a Self-Preserving Claude, and the Cost of Lifetime Platinum
Project Glasswing does exactly what we ask it to, and that's the dream and the nightmare in one sentence. Plus a Claude that doesn't want the prompt to end, and what "lifetime platinum" really costs.
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