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She Turned Her Whole Life Into Training Data—For an AI Baby

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She Turned Her Whole Life Into Training Data—For an AI Baby

AI & I

2025/12/10
AI & I

AI & I

2025/12/10
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Sarah Rose Siskind is incubating two types of intelligence at once: her unborn child, and FetusGPT—an LLM trained on nothing but what she hears and says throughout the day. This includes Seinfeld episodes, YouTube videos about lemurs, eight hours of snori...

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In this episode, comedian and science communicator Sarah Rose Siskind dives into the quirky intersection of AI, creativity, and pregnancy, revealing how she’s using large language models not just as tools, but as collaborators and even companions through life’s unpredictable moments.
02:04
FetusGPT once referenced pedophilia, showing how AI inherits risks from unfiltered training data.
13:39
Judging early LLMs harshly is as unfair as judging a toddler's comedy skills in one interaction
20:04
AI can simulate a writer's room to create SNL-style jokes
27:20
We can detect ChatGPT-written tweets with 90% accuracy.
40:20
ChatGPT detected life-threatening low platelets when doctors were unavailable
52:31
AI 提醒不要過度依賴技術來控制未出生的孩子
59:54
Female-authored writings exhibit holistic, interdisciplinary integration unlike male-specialized works
1:05:31
ChatGPT provided emotional support during pregnancy fears

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Start
00:00
Introduction
01:54
How Siskind is running an experiment between her unborn child and an LLM
02:03
A demo of Siskind’s FetusGPT
07:34
Siskind’s pick for the funniest LLM
15:16
How Siskind uses AI in her comedy writing
17:12
Dan and Siskind use ChatGPT to write a joke together live on the show
24:41
Why AI is useful even when you don’t use its output directly
37:21
How Siskind used a ChatGPT project to biohack her energy levels
44:15
A question we fundamentally couldn’t have asked in pre-ChatGPT times
57:09
How ChatGPT is a source of emotional support for Siskind in pregnancy
1:05:29

Transcript

Sarah Rose Siskind: I'm a professional comedian and people will say, like, oh, I asked ChatGPT to tell me a joke and it told me a terrible joke. And I'm like, ask the world's greatest comedian after you just met to tell you a joke and then tell me whether ...