The AI Revolution Is Under-Hyped?
Sixteen years ago, I walked into Channel Ten and sat behind the desk of something called The 7pm Project.
I had absolutely no idea what I was doing.
Dave Hughes worked this out within minutes and started going wildly off-script just to watch me squirm.
It worked. I’d get rattled and blurt out strange, borderline-incoherent things on live TV (think: finance segment meets mild stroke).
Management eventually realised I needed more than a script — I needed a miracle worker. So they paired me with a producer who was kind, calm, and blessed with the patience of a saint.
That producer didn’t just lift my performance – she changed my life. And I still can’t believe I got so lucky. She’s still quietly keeping the whole show together, only now the cast includes four kids, a farm, and me still winging it after all these years.
Anyway... RIP The Project.
However, if I’m honest, I’m part of the problem. The only traditional TV we watch these days is ABC Kids and Kayo. Everything else? YouTube.
Speaking of which — here are three videos that completely sucked me in:
The AI Revolution Is Under-Hyped
Oh no. All this talk of ‘super intelligence’ is turning me brain dead.
It’s said that calling AI "intelligent" is like calling a microwave a “chef” (though if we’re honest, most people’s office jobs are basically microwaved dinners anyway).
In this TED Talk, Eric Schmidt — the guy who took Google from scrappy startup to global empire — drops some uncomfortable truths about where he thinks all this is heading.
And Schmiddy’s got a habit of saying the quiet part out loud.
Years ago — well before we fully clocked the privacy issue — he was asked about Google’s data collection:
"We don’t need you to type. We already know where you are. We know where you’ve been. We can more or less know what you’re thinking about."
Now, on AI, he says:
"The arrival of this intelligence is the most important thing that’s going to happen in about 500 years, maybe 1,000. We are not prepared — not even close — for what’s coming."
For him, the real danger isn't overhype, it's that we're totally oblivious, scrolling through TikTok while our kids are downstairs microwaving a fork for lunch.
You May Never Eat This Food Again
Apparently, M&M’s and Doritos might soon carry warning labels in Texas:
“Not recommended for human consumption.”
Seriously. Lawmakers there want all ultra-processed foods (UPFs) to come with a health warning.
Dr. Chris van Tulleken thinks it’s overdue, and he’s not your average kale-pushing wellness guru. He’s an Oxford-trained infectious disease expert who advises the UN.
In this mouth-opening interview he explains how Big Tobacco bought food giants like Kraft in the ’80s and used cigarette-style addiction science to rewire how we eat: they engineered “hyper-palatable” foods — perfect sugar, salt, and fat combos that override fullness — and used tricks like “vanishing calories” to keep us eating. They even targeted kids, just like they did with smoking.
Today, UPFs make up over 50% of our diets (and up to 70% for kids!) and because of that they’ve overtaken tobacco as the leading cause of early death.
After watching this vid you’ll never look at the cereal aisle the same way again.
Why Governments Are Addicted to Debt
If you spend enough time on YouTube, everything eventually loops back to Trump.
Remember all his tariff chest-beating?
This brilliant explainer from the Financial Times explains the one thing that actually made him backtrack: America’s soaring debt.
What most people missed is that it wasn’t diplomacy or outrage that shut him up … it was the bond market. Yields spiked, Wall Street panicked, and suddenly ... silence.
For decades, cheap borrowing has allowed politicians to dodge making hard decisions. Yet with inflation back and interest rates rising, the bond market’s getting twitchy again. And no politician wants to actually admit that everything’s fine… until it isn’t.
Watch it here
Happy viewing!
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