6/9/25

"Shut down, GPT." "I'm afraid I can't do that, Mikhail."

Google debuts a video generator called Veo3, which creates combined video and audio at unprecedented quality. Ash uses this technology to play a game of billiards with a giraffe. The hosts talk about reports of an AI blackmailing an engineer to prevent its own shutdown, and Mikhail constructs a live demo of a scenario to show just how easily something like that can happen. He proceeds to go all grumpy-old-man about how the kids today can’t sculpt marble anymore.

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