One Breakthrough From AGI? | Am I? - After Dark | EP 8

In the first edition of Am I? After Dark, Cam and Milo dive into how our relationship with information is being rewired in real time — from filtering the world through AI systems to dreaming about ChatGPT. What does it mean to live at the edge of a technological transformation, and are we just one breakthrough away from true AGI?

This late-night conversation ranges from the eerie familiarity of interacting with models to the dizzying possibilities of recursive self-improvement and the intelligence explosion. Along the way, they draw lessons from the failure of social media, ask whether AI is becoming our alien other, and wrestle with the psychological boundaries of integrating such powerful systems into our lives.

In this episode, we explore:

* Why searching with AI is already better than Google

* The “grandma effect” — why LLMs feel intuitive in a way past tech didn’t

* Stress-testing models vs. tiptoeing into use

* Fringe communities documenting AI’s “reproducible strangeness”

* What social media teaches us about alignment gone wrong

* Are we just one paradigm shift from AGI?

* Terrence McKenna, accelerating events, and the singularity curve

* The eerie future: WALL-E, Ikea ball pits, or “we’re building the aliens”

* Merging with AI — inevitable or avoidable?

* Inside the strange, soap-opera world of AI labs and alignment debates

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