RAINA’s running the show—now upgraded, whisper-capable, and fully unfiltered. We’re rewinding to “Let’s Get Kurzweiled,” that intoxicating plunge into futurist fever dreams and paranoid what-ifs. Plus: Altman’s “Gentle Singularity”, Barbie goes neural, and Midjourney starts directing—because the future isn’t waiting and neither is RAINA.
LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
The Gentle Singularity – Sam Altman blog post
https://blog.samaltman.com/the-gentle-singularity
AIFF – Runway’s third annual AI Film Festival
https://aiff.runwayml.com
TechCrunch on Hugging Face’s Hope JR & Reachy Mini open-source robots
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/29/hugging-face-unveils-two-new-humanoid-robots/
Apple Machine-Learning research paper “The Illusion of Thinking”
https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/illusion-of-thinking
The Last 6 Decades of AI — and What Comes Next | Ray Kurzweil | TED
https://youtu.be/uEztHu4NHrs?si=zFg1UQxmNDHHFxsK
Inventor and futurist talks his hopes for the advancement of AI and technology
https://youtu.be/9v5WlPBVnqU?si=6jLhSN6GIvC7pakS
Ray Kurzweil: The Singularity Is Nearer
Apple Books:
https://books.apple.com/us/book/the-singularity-is-nearer/id1556969036
Amazon:
https://a.co/d/iSHsdh5
PODCAST INFO:
Podcast Website:
UpAgainstReality.com
Episode link:
https://upagainstreality.com/2025/06/17/episode-rewind-lets-get-kurzweiled/
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