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Episode number:: L007  Titel: AI Companions: Consolation, Complicity, or Commerce? The Psychological and Regulatory Stakes of Human-AI Bonds Welcome to an exploration of Artificial Human Companions —the software and hardware creations designed explicitly to provide company and emotional support. This technology, spanning platforms like Replika and Character.ai, is proliferating rapidly, particular...

Episode number:: Q007  Titel: AI Companions: Consolation, Complicity, or Commerce? The Psychological and Regulatory Stakes of Human-AI Bonds Welcome to an exploration of Artificial Human Companions —the software and hardware creations designed explicitly to provide company and emotional support. This technology, spanning platforms like Replika and Character.ai, is proliferating rapidly, particular...

Episode number: L006 Title: The AI Bubble 2025 – Is the $17 Trillion Tech Giant Bet Doomed to Fail? Artificial Intelligence (AI) is heralded as the defining technological force of the 21st century. Yet, by 2025, the sector is displaying the classic symptoms of a speculative bubble, one that dwarfs the late 1990s dot-com mania in both scale and systemic risk. As of Q3 2025, AI-related investments h...

Episode number: L006 Title: The AI Bubble 2025 – Is the $17 Trillion Tech Giant Bet Doomed to Fail? Artificial Intelligence (AI) is heralded as the defining technological force of the 21st century. Yet, by 2025, the sector is displaying the classic symptoms of a speculative bubble, one that dwarfs the late 1990s dot-com mania in both scale and systemic risk. As of Q3 2025, AI-related investments h...

Episode number: L005 Titel: From Pattern to Mind: How AI Learns to Grasp the World Modern AI is caught in a paradox: Systems like AlphaFold solve highly complex scientific puzzles but often fail at simple common sense. Why is that? Current models are often just "bags of heuristics"—a collection of rules of thumb that lack a coherent picture of reality. The solution to this problem lies i...

Episode number: Q005 Titel: From Pattern to Mind: How AI Learns to Grasp the World Modern AI is caught in a paradox: Systems like AlphaFold solve highly complex scientific puzzles but often fail at simple common sense. Why is that? Current models are often just "bags of heuristics"—a collection of rules of thumb that lack a coherent picture of reality. The solution to this problem lies i...

Episode number: Q004 Title: AI browsers: 5 alarming facts – The price of convenience The hype surrounding AI-powered browsers such as ChatGPT Atlas and Perplexity Comet promises a revolution – the automation of everyday tasks. But the price is high: digital security and privacy. In this episode, we uncover the often disturbing truths behind this new technology and reveal what users need to know be...

Episode number: L004 Title: AI browsers: 5 alarming facts – The price of convenience The hype surrounding AI-powered browsers such as ChatGPT Atlas and Perplexity Comet promises a revolution – the automation of everyday tasks. But the price is high: digital security and privacy. In this episode, we uncover the often disturbing truths behind this new technology and reveal what users need to know be...

Episode number: Q003 Title: AI-to-AI bias: The new discrimination that is dividing our economy A new, explosive study by PNAS reveals a bias that could fundamentally change our working world: AI-to-AI bias. Large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-4 systematically favor content created by other AI systems over human-written texts – in some tests with a preference of up to 89%. We analyze the conse...

Episode number: L003 Title: AI-to-AI bias: The new discrimination that is dividing our economy A new, explosive study by PNAS reveals a bias that could fundamentally change our working world: AI-to-AI bias. Large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-4 systematically favor content created by other AI systems over human-written texts – in some tests with a preference of up to 89%. We analyze the conse...

Episode number: L002 Title: AI assistants in a crisis of confidence: Why a 45% error rate jeopardizes quality journalism and our processes The largest international study by EBU and BBC is a wake-up call for every publication and every process manager. 45% of all AI-generated news responses are incorrect, and with Google Gemini, the problem rate is as high as 76% – primarily due to massive source...

Episode number: Q002 Title: AI assistants in a crisis of confidence: Why a 45% error rate jeopardizes quality journalism and our processes The largest international study by EBU and BBC is a wake-up call for every publication and every process manager. 45% of all AI-generated news responses are incorrect, and with Google Gemini, the problem rate is as high as 76% – primarily due to massive source...

Episode number: L001 Title: LLM Brain Rot: Why social media is poisoning our AI future and the damage is irreversible The shocking truth from AI research: Artificial intelligence (AI) suffers from irreversible cognitive damage, known as “LLM brain rot,” caused by social media data. What we know as doomscrolling is proving fatal for large language models (LLMs) such as Grok. A groundbreaking study...

Episode number: Q001 Title: LLM Brain Rot: Why social media is poisoning our AI future and the damage is irreversible The shocking truth from AI research: Artificial intelligence (AI) suffers from irreversible cognitive damage, known as “LLM brain rot,” caused by social media data. What we know as doomscrolling is proving fatal for large language models (LLMs) such as Grok. A groundbreaking study...