Science the Hell Out of This! Podcast

If you pay attention to the buzz around AI, you may have read news articles about people using AI Chatbots as their psychiatrist, doctor, lawyer, and even as their boyfriend. However, most of these people probably don’t realize that all their questions, discussions, feelings, opinions, and personal details that they share with these large language models aren’t secret. The information is available...

Machine learning models are interesting pieces of math, and when I first learned them, it always fascinated me how somebody came up with the ideas. It seemed entirely random. Some of these models are very complex, and for a long time, it seemed like people tried random things to get the results. Even when professors said, use a ReLU or sigmoid activation function, I didn't quite understand how the...

What if a secret message was hidden right underneath your nose - in plain sight - and only a select few could ever hope to decipher it? The study of communicating secret messages and deciphering them is a field called cryptography. In this essay, I briefly describe a secret communication method used in World War II and then showcase how an analogous method is being used to manipulate AI. In World...