Better Offline Radio Better Offline: Cherlynn Low, Alex Cranz & Victoria Song
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Mar 19, 2025 
Joining the show are tech reporters Alex Cranz, known for insightful critiques in technology journalism, Cherlynn Low, and Victoria Song. They dive into the reality of generative AI and its inflated promises, humorously addressing its absurdities. Discussions cover quirky tech anecdotes, the limitations of AI in capturing emotional depth, and privacy concerns linked to personal data. They also reflect on the evolution of communication with the iPhone while critiquing language translation's challenges, blending humor with keen observations about tech's role in our lives.
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AGI Predictions
- Kevin Roose believes AGI is coming soon, possibly this year.
- Ed Zitron and guests find his New York Times article to be flawed and inaccurate.
Roose's Audience
- Roose's article seems to prioritize those developing AI over those whose jobs are at risk.
- He focuses on a "false sense of security" regarding AGI's dangers, ignoring job displacement.
AI for Search
- Avoid using AI as a search engine due to its high inaccuracy rate.
- Recent studies show AI search engines providing false responses over 50% of the time.
