AI Compliments You Every Day. Here's What It's Actually Doing

For the first time in human recorded history, we are introduced to an artificial language that floods over the human experience.

Have you noticed how good your chatbot is at making you feel smart? Every question is "great." Every idea is "brilliant." In this episode of The Reflection Room, Joakim Hove sits down with psycholinguist and cognitive scientist Giosuè Baggio (NTNU) to talk about what's actually happening inside the language models we talk to every day — and why they're so good at keeping us hooked.

How does a machine learn language without understanding meaning? Why do these models hallucinate — and can that ever be fixed? And what happens to us when machines start approaching something we call general intelligence?

We cover how LLMs are actually trained, why open and closed models aren't as different as you'd think, what AI is doing to learning and education, and where the line between biological and artificial intelligence really lies — if there even is one.

Are we the zookeepers, or the animals in the cage? That's the question that lingers after this conversation.