{"podcast":{"title":"Marketplace Tech","slug":"marketplace-tech-318132","podcast_index_feed_id":318132,"rss_url":"https://feeds.publicradio.org/public_feeds/marketplace-tech","website_url":"https://www.marketplace.org/","image_url":"https://img.apmcdn.org/af5db80cfdc39c7440ad974f15e6e23fe14d9f5c/square/834af0-20250303-marketplace-tech-2000.jpg","author":"Marketplace","episode_count":150,"summary":"Monday through Friday, Marketplace demystifies the digital economy in less than 10 minutes. We look past the hype and ask tough questions about an industry that's constantly changing.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-24T20:22:45.892637+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/marketplace-tech-318132"},"episode":{"title":"Uncanny AI: Why AI bots remember random, sometimes useless information","slug":"uncanny-ai-why-ai-bots-remember-random-sometimes-useless-information","published_at":"2026-07-22T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/marketplace-tech-318132/uncanny-ai-why-ai-bots-remember-random-sometimes-useless-information","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/marketplace-tech-318132","url":"https://www.marketplace.org/episode/2026/07/22/uncanny-ai-why-ai-bots-remember-random-sometimes-useless-information","audio_url":"https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/5/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/tracking.swap.fm/track/VnCzW2iO9G8z4eDWfXCd/play.publicradio.org/podcast/o/marketplace/tech_report/2026/07/22/tech_20260722_0722_MP_TECH_pod_128.mp3?awCollectionId=mkp-MKPtech&awEpisodeId=01KY3312Z1GVY3EY7GJ3Q6DB15","summary":"Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino has been using chatbots pretty intensively the last couple years. And there are some details she’s shared about herself that chatbots seem to think are really important. For instance, Claude is obsessed with the fact that she sometimes gets up for work at 4 a.m. It comes up constantly in their chats — apropos of nothing. So, why do large language models latch on to these random tidbits? It's the first topic in our new series “Uncanny AI.” Those moments when it becomes clear AI doesn't think like us. Here to help us unpack what might be going on is Janelle Shane, a laser scientist who writes the AI Weirdness blog.","meta_description":"Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino has been using chatbots pretty intensively the last couple years. And there are some details she’s shared about hersel…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":426,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/marketplace-tech-318132/episodes/uncanny-ai-why-ai-bots-remember-random-sometimes-useless-information/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/marketplace-tech-318132/uncanny-ai-why-ai-bots-remember-random-sometimes-useless-information.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}