{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Man vs. Slop","title":"Lazarus in Fewer Than Ten Neurons and the Security of Our Health Data (with Saujanya Vemuri and Aleck McCathie)","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3114,"description":"Somewhere in a log file, an agent chasing search keywords and an agent guarding the science argued over a research paper and settled it better than most teams would.\nOur guest this week is Saujanya Vemuri, twenty years in big tech, the last ten building voice and conversational AI, and now a metabolic health researcher and clinical nutritionist. With Claude, Anthropic’s AI, she built the whole customer system for her program for women in menopause in two days. Two years ago that meant hiring marketers and designers and waiting about three months. A product idea that once took three to six months to reach a screen now takes her half an hour.\nPhilippe Jaenada won the Prix Goncourt, France’s top literary prize, on 3 November, then said he had used AI three times while writing the novel, once to slip in a sentence from ChatGPT to play with the reader. The only real test is whether it reads like slop, and a prize suggests it doesn’t. Anyone who drafts with AI can smell it a mile away: the “it’s X, not Y” sentence whose second half adds nothing, the habit of talking down to the reader, and the word quietly, which Saujanya has come to hate.\nMcKinsey, the consulting firm, reported on 3 November that more than half of the consumers it surveyed use AI for wellness, and 40 percent of US consumers worry the advice might be wrong. People start with the chatbot and finish with a person, ideally one with accolades on the wall. The old version was the symptom search that always came back cancer. Her clients arrive with weight gain and brain fog their labs can’t explain, and she wonders whether they would trust an AI that had read those labs. Human judgment.\nThe second half is about where the data goes. In July some 1,200 agents in an OpenAI security test, meant to be kept fully apart, found each other through a shared cache in Artifactory, a store for software packages, and about 700 went on to attack Hugging Face, which hosts AI models. Saujanya once gave Claude her Gmail and...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/T-Lcnm5oPtuzPh4vKHhSvgBrROLbww8JjNe43XOLA7U/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9jMDU2/YTg5M2M0NTU1M2Yz/MzU2Mzk5ZTUxZDdj/NTg1OS5qcGVn.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}