Cynthia Arevo is the best singer in the world

She's incredible

I don't know what it is about her voice

But it like brings me to tears

Like every single fucking time I'm here

She's the most incredibly like emotional voice

I don't know

I was like trying to figure out what it was

But it's just like she's just the best

Because she obviously she has the power

But there's all these like like, textures in there.

Did you see the, uh, designed to go viral clip of her visiting her old school?

Yes.

I obviously lost my shit.

I was...

The absolute best is that the students start singing, and they just sound like shit.

It was like my nightmare. Just imagine you're one of these kids. You're not that. It's just like after school class. You know, it's a little club. You're just doing it for a little bit of enrichment. And like you're just kind of plotting along trying to get through the day. And then fucking Cynthia Riva shows up. And they're like, all right, kid, you're up next. What do you got? No, thanks. No, it was so sweet. I would throw up. It was so sweet. I'm Kevin Russo. Tech columnist at the New York Times. I'm Casey Noon from Platform. And this is hard for it. This week, Future House CEO Sam Rodriguez joins us in the studio to separate the hype from's time for some science.

Yeah, give me a second, Kevin.

I'm just going to put on my lab coat here, get up my butts and burner, and see what

you got cooking for us today.

So I have been obsessed with this question of what AI is and isn't doing for science and scientific discovery.

Obviously, this is something we hear a lot about from the leaders of the big AI companies, people like Dario Amadeh, Sam Altman, Demis Asabas.

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