Podcast: Leaked Microsoft AI strategy aims for user addiction, plus Apple Siri and Anthropic Mythos updates
Summary
A podcast episode discussing the leak of Microsoft's strategy deck for their new AI assistant Scout, which reportedly includes a phase explicitly aimed at making users "addicted." The episode also covers Apple's announcement of a new version of Siri at WWDC, and Anthropic releasing their Mythos tool to the public after previously claiming it was too powerful to release. The discussion features Dr. Erica Mealy, Discipline Lead for Technology.
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· 3 pulledMicrosoft's strategy deck for their new AI assistant Scout has been leaked. It lays out three phases of launch, and phase one is simply 'make people addicted.'
Apple just held its Worldwide Developers Conference, where they announced an 'entirely new version of Siri'. How different can this Siri be?
And the Mythos tool Anthropic claimed was too powerful to be released to the public... has been released to the public. What could possibly go wrong?
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