Episode notes
Dr. JR recaps the wildest AI news of the week and looks ahead to a bizarre 2026.
Stories & Predictions:
- Hallucinating E-Noses: AI sensors catching "ghost scents." (Ref: Univ. of Portsmouth/Lancaster Univ.)
- Mirumi the Staring Robot: The clip-on robot for your bag. (Ref: Yukai Engineering).
- AI Acoustic Leakage: Reconstructing speech through concrete. (Ref: Unshielded cable research, 2025).
- Med-Gemini: 91.1% accuracy on USMLE-style questions. (Ref: Google Research).
- Whale Alphabets: Decoding sperm whale phonetics. (Ref: Project CETI).
- Vibe Coding: The shift toward natural language app generation. (Ref: Industry trends 2026
Keywords
Agentic AIAI InnovationsFriday DownloadProject CETIMed-GeminiShadow AIRoboticsRobot Olfactory SensorsMrBeast