Emily and Mike are mad this week. Join the dynamic duo as they dissect the disaster of Google AI Overviews stealing from content creators, then stealing the eyeballs and ad revenue of people looking for that content. A big new deal with Apple could make it worse. Superintelligent also tackles the inevitable dorkiness of smart glasses and the mental health risks of constant connectivity and personal AI assistants. And Mike and Emily share tales of driving blind in El Salvador and wandering the deserts looking for aliens. Are they real or not?

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Chapters

00:00 Introduction and Setting the Scene

01:06 The Impact of AI on Website Traffic

04:08 Google’s Content Monetization Strategy

06:31 Navigating the Future of AI Personal Assistants

12:25 Apple and Google’s Strategic Partnership

18:52 The Future of Smart Glasses and AI Integration

22:03 The Future of Smart Glasses

24:43 Wearable Tech in Industry

27:42 The Psychological Effects of AI

29:39 The Balance of Digital and Physical Exploration

31:42 Beliefs About Aliens and Exploration

Keywords

Google, Apple, Google AI Overviews, artificial intelligence, Google Gemini, Apple Intelligence, iPhone AI features, personal AI assistant, smart glasses, Ray-Ban Meta, wearable technology, Ziff Davis, layoffs, web traffic decline, digital marketing, SEO strategy, AI impact on journalism, tech news, Superintelligent podcast, Mike Elgan, Emily Forlini, UFO sightings, alien theories, government drones, mental health in tech, digital detox, generative AI, large language models, Google Apple partnership, future of search, Project Astra, AI hallucinations, tech commentary.

Disclosures

We used Gemini Pro 3 via Kagi (my son and our producer, Kevin, works at Kagi) to 1) generate keywords from the transcript (most of which we used); 2) suggest topics to link to (some of which we used); and 3) write a first draft of the show summary paragraph (which we heavily edited). We recorded and edited the episode using Riverside and used Riverside’s “Magic Audio” (which boosts and normalizes the audio).

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Wandering the Desert Looking for Aliens