Dave & Gunnar Show
Not our circus, not our monkey.
Episodes
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Episode 276: I Think I Had That Shirt
November 1st, 2025 | 54 mins 6 secs
ai, chatgpt, future of work, gemini, generative ai, scooby do, storytelling, suno, tech transforms
Dave makes a spooky guest appearance on the Tech Transforms Podcast with Carolyn Ford and Laura Klebanow!
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Episode 275: I'll Visit You in Jail
October 11th, 2025 | 29 mins 9 secs
agentic ai, ai code generation, ai models, ai-generated music, avian image format, avif, birds, birdsongs, cd players, deepseek, distillation, don't you (forget about me), doom, email, fake music, gemini, image generation, iron man, music, owls, phishing, sql, steganography, subliminal learning, the klezmonauts, ultrasonics, url lengtheners
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about hidden signals in AI models and hidden signals in birds!
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Episode 274: We've Always Enjoyed Arby's
August 27th, 2025 | 24 mins 54 secs
ad blockers, can't help myself, conferences, e-tattoos, emotion tracking, existential dread, generative ai, giant turnip, guggenheim, latent reflection, llama, llms, publications, raspberry pis, research papers, revisionist history, smart glasses, south pole explorers, soviet arcade games
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about smart glasses and AI existential dread!
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Episode 273: Let the Good 5G In
August 17th, 2025 | 53 mins 8 secs
5g, 5g protection stickers, abundance, agentic ai, ai memory, ai videos, anthropic, botany battle, chatgpt, claude, claude code, cursor, doom, e-tattoos, electric bills, internet archive, let me ai that for you, misalignment, openai, para auditor, qr codes, seinfeld, star wars, texans
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about e-tattoos, AI agent blackmail, and AI memory dossiers!
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Episode 272: Seed Oils Made Y’all Weak
July 15th, 2025 | 35 mins 40 secs
advertisements, ai teams, ai-generated video, american psycho, bodyoids, business cards, cd-roms, character cards, commodore 64, counterfeit parts, fake ids, his dark materials, influenders, instapaper, japan, organoids, philip pullman, pocket, the simpsons, threatening ai, trading cards, wallabag
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about fake bodies, fake passports, fake speakers, a fake Commodore 64 CD-ROM, and Erich Morisse being mean to AI!
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Episode 271: Blade Runner Pepsi Challenge
July 7th, 2025 | 27 mins
arcade machines, bmx robots, briefcases, chain of thought, chatbots, cot, emergent misalignment, enslaving humanity, gemini, h-cot, hijacking chain of thought, human or not, llms, malicious-educator, moen, multimodal ai, personality tests, tamagotchi, vaping, voight-kampff tests
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about best practices for manipulating AI models to enslave humanity!
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Episode 270: Cylon Monkey Paw: 5 AI Predictions for 2025 & How to Build Intelligent Agents
April 8th, 2025 | 45 mins 56 secs
agentforce, agentic ai, agents, ai, apis, battlestar galactica, cylons, digital labor, forbidden planet, generative ai, integration, lams, large action models, large language models, llm routers, llms, mulesoft, predictions, public sector, robby the robot, salesforce, slack, slms, small language models, the monkey paw
Dave visits Carolyn Ford on the Tech Transforms podcast to talk about all things agentic AI!
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Episode 269: Knowingly Violating Laws and Product Warranties
March 29th, 2025 | 29 mins 47 secs
adapters, cloudflair, cockroaches, digital license plates, dishbrain, doom, hdmi, hydrogels, ipads, lavarand, license plates, lightning, microcontrollers, ncc-1701, null, organoids, paperlike, parking tickets, patents, pong, progresso, screen protectors, sgi, soup drops, speeding tickets, star trek
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about cockroaches with backpacks, hydrogels with Pong, and hackers with digital license plates!
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Episode 268: Grape Job!
March 21st, 2025 | 49 mins 43 secs
accordions, captcha, commodore 64, conference calls, deep fakes, doom, fluorescent vests, ghost fleet, good-bye to all that, grape job, infinite jest, kindle, kindle scribe, kindle unlimited, kobo, kobo clara color, libby, linux, lollipops, masks, mercaptan, natural gas, paperlike, parking, parking lots, pdfs, pickle, pilgrim at tinker creek, pittsburgh, radioshack, risc-v, scams, scratch and sniff, security cameras, selfies, stickers, tetris, traffic cam photo booth, virtual reality, zamfir, zefiro
This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about fake faces, fake video calls, fake parking lots, fake bagpipes, fake lollipops, and fake gas leaks!
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Episode 267: Allow the Robot to Cook with Love
December 23rd, 2024 | 34 mins 9 secs
acquired, ai, calculator watches, call of duty, call of duty mobile, casio, digital watches, drones, ethos, food service, frogs, guns-n-roses, hair metal, ikea, kramer, marathons, pizza hut, restaurants, rings, robots, runna, running, scarfs, seinfeld, speeding tickets, sweaters, sweet child o' mine, the penguin, thermite, tipping, ukraine, watches, wi-fi
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about restaurants that don’t exist, restaurants with robots, and robots with speed cameras and thermite!
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Episode 266: Filled with Dad Energy
December 16th, 2024 | 39 mins 46 secs
call of duty, cars, chatgpt, hats, john mcphee, make it stick, navajo rugs, pentium, screaming, slim goodbody, solar power, solar-powered hats, tartrazine, the magnetic fields, transparent skin, tvs, yellow 5
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about thinking caps, solar caps, and transparent bodies!
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Episode 265: A Delightful GIS Demon
December 5th, 2024 | 1 hr 10 mins
british standards, bs 7666, cardinal direction, deep learning, directional systems, epistemic closure, european patroleum survey group, fine tuning, google plus codes, hoop dreams, ibm, instructlab, open source initiative, openstreetmap, osi, overture, overture maps foundation, prithvi wxc, rag, retrieval-augmented generation, shogun, shōgun, synthetic data, tobler's first law of geography, ubi, universal basic income, what3words
This week Dave and Gunnar talk with Steven Pousty about GIS, open source theology, and AI!
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Episode 264: Cryptomining Airbnbs, Psychological Warfare, and What Else?
October 29th, 2024 | 7 mins 36 secs
ai, airbnb, artificial intelligence, chatbots, coaching, concerts, cryptocurrency, cybersecurity, deepfakes, digital age, ethics, gemini, imagine dragons, philosophy, powerful questions, propaganda, psychological manipulation, technology, the coaching habit
This week, NotebookLM talks about the Dave and Gunnar Show Episode 263!
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Episode 263: Failing the Turing Test
September 18th, 2024 | 42 mins 50 secs
airbnb, cryptominers, cynthia woods mitchell pavillion, deep-live-cam, deepfakes, gemini, gemini gems, gemini live, imagine dragons, nuclear war: a scenario, psychological warfare, rhel ai, selfies, the advice trap, the coaching habit, traffic cam photobooth, video conferencing, war day
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about electricity theft, identity theft, and coaching!
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Episode 262: Two Plus Two Was Five the Whole Time
September 3rd, 2024 | 37 mins 59 secs
ai, broadway, creativity, d-day, d-day conneaut, dodge charger, electric vehicles, evs, exhausts, false memories, fratzonic exhaust, game theory, generative ai, higgs boson, homogenization, influence, lake erie, leatherman, leatherman micra, ms-dos, music videos, musicals, ohio renaissance festival, rap, skeuomorphism, ultimatum game, world war ii, wwii
This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about electric vehicle skeuomorphism, people influencing AIs, AIs influencing people, and people influencing AIs influencing people!
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Episode 261: Not Bad if You Don’t Look Directly at Them
August 26th, 2024 | 33 mins 56 secs
aaron swartz, batman, black-bellied whistling ducks, brewery tours, british standards, british standards institution, bsi group, c compilers, def leppard, foo fighters, inaturalist, journey, keyboards, little johnny tables, loverboy, north yorkshire council, pacer, qudi mask, qudi mask 2, reliable gazetters, sammy hagar, seek, steve miller band, the hives, vim, xkcd, yuengling
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about raising standards on masks and raising our standards on compiling reliable gazetteers with BS 7666!