011 WTFuture - VIDEO podcast - The Revelations of Instant Extinction, Tinnitis Dreams, AI Edge Reflections

011 WTFuture - VIDEO podcast - The Revelations of Instant Extinction, Tinnitis Dreams, AI Edge Reflections

From Future Now by Allan Lundell

May 30, 2026 · 1h 19m · Episode 173

About this episode

The episode explores various topics including AI, tinnitus, inter-species communication, and UFO sightings, with a humorous and philosophical twist.

This week’s show kicks off with the hosts untangling the literal and figurative wires of modern podcasting before nerding out over “Edge AI” running locally on smartphones to save energy and protect privacy. The banter takes a wonderfully weird turn when Al brainstorms an AI assistant specifically designed to intentionally repeat sentences not heard properly in a soothing voice to hearing-impaired friends to save them from social isolation. This quickly spirals into a debate over the origins of tinnitus; Bobby suspects it’s triggered by high-frequency Bluetooth headphones and EMFs, while Al hopefully wonders if the ringing is actually a neural data channel or a precursor to telepathy. The crew then marvels at AL’s one minute cinematic video recreating the exact day a dinosaur-killing asteroid hurled molten glass beads into the gills of paddlefish in North Dakota. Before diving into global politics, they take a delightful detour into inter-species communication, pondering whether a local crow leaving a dead bat as a “gift” is a sign of cross-species neighborliness, which even prompts them to trick the backyard flock by playing crow sounds from an app. The conversation blasts into…

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