Mark was travelling this week but managed to set up an interview with Sarah DeRemer a dog photographer based out of LA who is also known as dogtographer.la on Instagram. She's an amazing photographer who took the time to sit down with Mark and talk about her photography and her first visit to the Canadian Rockies.

There are polls on just about everything, but how do they work? Why are they correct a certain percentage, 19 times out of 20? What does that mean? Mark and Jeff discuss the foundation of polls and the problems with how polling is conducted. With elections all over the place, what do the polls mean in relation to the elections being conducted? Can we rely upon them?

Mark and Jeff, after episodes exploring different types of AI ask the question, what makes an AI work? When will a computer become sentient? What defines sentience? What are the drawbacks of AI? Lots of interesting questions

There is a new AI product that will take your content and create a podcast from it. Meet Google Notebook LM. It works differently from ChatGPT because it uses the information you upload and becomes an instance expert at your stuff. It even generates a podcast discussing your documents/slides/sound files. Pretty cool stuff

Have you ever thought about being in two places at one time? In this episode Mark and Jeff discuss and experiment with voice replacements and an AI Agent. This is a follow up to a podcast series by Evan Ratliff where he replaced himself in a bunch of situations with an AI version of himself with interesting results. As usual we also discuss what we have learned in the past week and what media we are consuming.

In this episode, Mark and Jeff discuss a AI voice agents as potentially becoming more and more present in podcasts. They also discuss the possibility of Griefbots to help people deal with the loss of their loved ones. As usual, Mark and Jeff discuss what they learned this past week and what media they are currently consuming.

In this episode, Mark and Jeff discuss the changes to the podcasting business environment and why some types of podcasts are no longer around as well as the need for some podcasts to only book controversial guests! New season, new intro (live version of our regular intro music)

In the last episode of Season 3, Mark and Jeff make predictions for the fall of 2024 and then compare them to those made by ChatGPT 4o. The results were interesting.