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The (AI) Cost of Being Polite, is Artificial Intelligence Getting TOO Familiar with Users, and Robots vs. Humans. Plus, on TDIH, Hans Christian Oersted Discovers Electromagnetism.

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Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

News, Tech News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6732 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Today's episode; the cost of saying “Please” and “Thank You” in your AI prompts, AI may be getting TOO familiar with us (and it’s making some people uncomfortable), and in a race of robots versus humans - how did the robots fare? Plus, on This Day in History, Hans Christian Oersted and the discovery of electromagnetism. ChatGPT spends 'tens of millions of dollars' on people saying 'please' and 'thank you', but Sam Altman says it's worth it | TechRadar 'Tens of millions of dollars well spent': Saying 'thank you', 'please' to ChatGPT costing OpenAI millions, Sam Altman says | The Business Standard Experts have major warning to anyone who says 'please' and 'thank you' to ChatGPT | Tyla ChatGPT Creeps People Out by Calling Them by Name Without Being Asked | PCMag ChatGPT is referring to users by their names unprompted, and some find it 'creepy' | TechCrunch Chinese robots ran against humans in the world’s first humanoid half-marathon. They lost by a mile | CNN Robots run a half marathon, slowly | TechCrunch TDIH: Scientist of the Day - Hans Christian Oersted TDIH: Hans Christian Oersted TDIH: Magnet Academy - Hans Christian Oersted Contact the show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Home where we have some of the more interesting, intriguing, and cool stories from around the world

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and throughout history. I'm Reggie Rizzou alongside Marcus Path on today's episode,

1:12.6

The Cost of saying please and thank you in your AI props.

1:16.6

AI is also getting too familiar with us, and it's making some people uncomfortable.

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And in a race of robots versus humans, how did the robots fare?

1:24.6

On this day in history, electromagnetism is identified for the first

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time. That's all coming up on cool stuff. I think we've all been told to be polite and say

1:34.6

your please and thank you's, but should you be saying it in your AI prompts? According to Chat GPT,

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