When you ask an AI bot for an image of the Founding Fathers or a group of German soldiers from 1943, you expect… something. You probably don’t expect what Google Gemini has been delivering, which is a set of images that goes heavy on diversity and light on historical accuracy. And when you ask ChatGPT a question, you probably don’t expect total gibberish in response. It’s been a very strange couple of days in AI land, but it makes us wonder: what do we actually want from AI?
If you want to learn more about everything we discussed in this episode, here are some links to get you started, beginning with AI:
And in our gadget lightning round:
And in our non-gadget lightning round:
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