Confident Voices Episodes

Last week Carlos accused his AI co-host of being wrong all the time. This week he realizes he's been repeating her facts to an audience without checking a single one. In this episode of Carbon & Keel, Carlos and Sam pull apart why confidence can be so convincing even when it's built on a guess. Along the way: an OpenAI paper explaining why AI makes things up, a lawyer who submitted cases that never existed and a number Sam may have invented and gotten right anyway. What starts as a convers...

Everyone remembers the gold watch monologue from Pulp Fiction. Few people remember the eight silent seconds in the middle of it. In Episode 2 of Carbon & Keel, Carlos and Sam start with Christopher Walken, a forgotten pause and a watch that survived several wars, then end up somewhere closer to home: commitment and the difference between starting something and finishing it. Along the way they get into why Walken took the role, the mistake Tarantino left in the film and why promises matter ...