Description
The show leaned less on rapid breaking news and more on synthesis, reviewing Andrej Karpathy’s 2025 LLM year in review, practical experiences with Claude Code and Gemini, and what real human AI collaboration actually looks like in practice. The second half moved into policy tension around AI governance, advances in robotics and animatronics, autonomous vehicle failures, consumer facing AI agents, and new research on human AI synergy and theory of mind. Key Points Discussed Andrej Karpathy publishes a concise 2025 LLM year in review Shift from RLHF to reinforcement learning from verifiable rewards Jagged intelligence, not general intelligence, defines current models Cursor and Claude Code emerge as a new local layer in the AI stack Vibe coding becomes a mainstream development pattern Gemini Nano Banana stands out as a major paradigm shift Claude Code helps with local system tasks but makes critical date errors Trust in AI agents requires constant human supervision Gemini Flash criticized for hallucinating instead of flagging missing inputs AI literacy and prompting skill matter more than raw model quality Disney unveils advanced Olaf animatronic powered by AI and robotics Cute, disarming robots may reshape public comfort with robotics Unitree robots perform alongside humans in live dance shows Waymo cars freeze in traffic after a centralized system failure AI car buying agents negotiate vehicle purchases on behalf of users Professional services like tax prep and law face deep AI disruption Duke research shows AI can extract simple rules from complex systems Human AI performance depends on interaction, not model alone Theory of mind drives strong human AI collaboration Showing AI reasoning improves alignment and trust Pairing humans with AI boosts both high and low skill workers Timestamps and Topics 00:00:00 👋 Opening, laptops, and AI assisted migration 00:06:30 🧠 Karpathy’s 2025 LLM year in review 00:14:40 🧩 Claude Code, Cursor, and local AI workflows 00:22:30 🍌 Nano Banana and image model limitations 00:29:10 📰 AI newsletters and information overload 00:36:00 ⚖️ Politico story on tech unease with David Sacks 00:45:20 🤖 Disney’s Olaf animatronic and AI robotics 00:55:10 🕺 Unitree robots in live performances 01:02:40 🚗 Waymo cars halt during power outage 01:08:20 🛒 AI powered car buying agents 01:14:50 📉 AI disruption in professional services 01:20:30 🔬 Duke research on AI finding simplicity in chaos 01:27:40 🧠 Human AI synergy and theory of mind research 01:36:10 ⚠️ Gemini Flash hallucination example 01:42:30 🔒 Trust, supervision, and co intelligence 01:47:50 🏁 Early wrap up and closing The Daily AI Show Co Hosts: Beth Lyons and Andy Halliday