AI's breakthrough for LLMs was dependent upon an unanticipated result when additional computing power was added to the base algorithms. A great deal of money and effort has been invested into the next generation of AI with the anticipation that the first company to develop Artificial General Intelligence will dominate the landscape. Mark and Jeff discuss why there may be a significant problem with the current approach

The Unfavourable Semi-circle was a mysterious Youtube channel that appeared in 2015. Mark and Jeff discuss what it was and what is known about it. To this day it is still a mystery.

Many young people are very fearful of the advent of AI particularly because it may make all kinds of work redundant. AI tools do help leverage time but are AI agents ready to come in an replace workers entirely? if not, how far away are they?

One of Mark's dogs passed away recently and in this episode we discuss the process of dealing with an elderly dog's passing and their journey over the rainbow bridge.

David Graeber did some research on jobs and found that a lot of people thought their jobs were meaningless. He classified these jobs as Bulls&%t! jobs and even classified them. In this episode Mark and Jeff dive into what makes a job a BS job

We're back! After a few weeks of conflicting schedules and travel, we are back in business baby. Today we are talking about the enshitification of the internet (a term coined by Cory Doctorow) and take a closer look at what it means and examples of it.

At this time of year we contemplate where we have been and where we are going. In the gap between Christmas and New Year's Jeff and Mark discuss their wishes for countries, individuals and people in general for 2026.... Have a Happy New Year!

Today's episode explores a bit about different types of vaccinations, how they work and what benefit we get from them. Mark is traveling in a few months and had to get some vaccinations to travel.