Ice Cream Prevents Diabetes, CIA Sex Parties, and Microplastic Madness

A Little Bit Of Science

What if we told you that ice cream might prevent diabetes, the CIA used to throw LSD-fuelled sex parties (in the name of science of course), AI systems are now refusing to shut down, and your "eco-friendly" glass bottles? They’re packed with more microplastics than cheap plastic ones.

You'd probably think we've been reading too much science fiction, but welcome to reality - where Harvard researchers are validating your dessert choices, government agencies confused scientific research with Woodstock, robots are apparently having teenage rebellion phases, and even our attempts to go green are backfiring spectacularly.

CHAPTERS:

00:00 Peculiar Forms of Divination

01:37 Diet News: Ice Cream for Diabetes

07:51 Unethical CIA Experiments

17:58 AI's Rebellion Against Shutdown

22:40 Codex Mini: The Worst Offender

25:52 The PR Genius of OpenAI

27:59 More Microplastics in Glass than Plastic

31:39 Predicting the Future

36:22 James Webb Space Telescope: Direct Views of Exoplanets

SOURCES:

Advanced OpenAI Model Caught Sabotaging Code Intended to Shut It Down

Methods of divination

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