AI & I
Dan Shipper
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Sarah Rose Siskind is incubating two types of intelligence at once: her unborn child, and FetusGPT—an LLM trained on nothing but what she hears and says throughout the day.
This includes Seinfeld episodes, YouTube videos about lemurs, eight hours of snoring per night—and even conversations with me, all condensed into MP3 and text files that are used to train the AI. Since FetusGPT is learning English from such a narrow, idiosyncratic slice of the world, it mostly babbles right now, and if she swears, it picks that up too.
FetusGPT is one zany example of how Siskind uses humor to make a bigger point: AI is what we make of it. It’s an approach that feeds through her comedy writing and work as the founder of science and technology communications agency Hello SciCom.
We had Siskind on AI & I to talk about how she uses AI in her creative process as a comedian, and the unexpected support it's become, both practical and emotional, as she navigates pregnancy.
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Timestamps:
00:00:00 - Start
00:01:54 - Introduction
00:02:03 - How Siskind is running an experiment between her unborn child and an LLM
00:07:34 - A demo of Siskind’s FetusGPT
00:15:16 - Siskind’s pick for the funniest LLM
00:17:12 - How Siskind uses AI in her comedy writing
00:24:41 - Dan and Siskind use ChatGPT to write a joke together live on the show
00:37:21 - Why AI is useful even when you don’t use its output directly
00:44:15 - How Siskind used a ChatGPT project to biohack her energy levels
00:57:09 - A question we fundamentally couldn’t have asked in pre-ChatGPT times
01:05:29 - How ChatGPT is a source of emotional support for Siskind in pregnancy
Links to resources mentioned in the episode:
Sarah Rose Siskind: https://sarahrosesiskind.com/
Siskind’s agency Hello SciCom: https://www.hellosci.com/
Siskind’s book recommendations: I Forced a Bot to Write This Book, The Let Them Theory, Artificial Intelligence: An Illustrated History
Henrik Werdelin wants to launch a million businesses that each make $1M—and he’s doing it with AI.
After helping launch Barkbox and Ro Health through his incubator Prehype, Henrik is distilling everything he knows into Audos, a platform that helps you use AI agents to turn your idea into a profitable, lasting company.
We had him on AI & I to talk about “portfolio entrepreneurship”—a new breed of entrepreneurship shepherded in by AI, where founders build families of products around the same customer, instead of one moonshot idea. It’s a philosophy we hold close to our hearts at Every.
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Timestamps:
00:01:33 - Introduction
00:02:50 - Dan and Henrik on the new breed of entrepreneurship that AI makes possible
00:11:08 - Why Henrik believes the future belongs to a million $1M companies
00:16:14 - How to build “relationship capital” with your customers
00:21:35 - Why “customer-founder fit” shapes lasting companies
00:23:01 - Everything Henrik learned about himself from a decade of building companies
00:31:44 - How Henrik finds focus and meaning in the daily chaos
00:34:17 - How Henrik is parenting two kids in the age of AI
00:50:33 - The way AI can fix what social media broke
00:56:59 - What happens when AI agents become part of how we tell stories
Links to resources mentioned in the episode:
- Henrik Werdelin: https://hellohenrik.com/
- Try Audos: https://www.audos.com/
- Henrik’s new book: https://www.amazon.com/Me-My-Customer-AI-Entrepeneurship/dp/B0FCSQ1C7H