One Prompt Wonder: The Week the AI Race Hit Fast-Forward

(0:00) Open(2:09) Launch Week at the Frontier(9:50) One-Prompt Mario Kart(15:38) Let’s Play: Bumble Rally!(16:55) The Karts & The Bees(20:32) Let’s Play: Parcel Panic!(22:01) Packages Delivered!(27:50) cj’s recommendation: War Games (1983)(29:53) Jeff’s Recommendation: Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023)(30:38) Jake’s Recommendation: The Odyssey (2026) & Big Brother (!!)We’re back! After a long hiatus, the boys return with a special guest: Jeff’s resident AI expert son, Jake.Over one absurd, chaotic span of four days, the world’s top tech labs dropped five massive frontier AI models (Anthropic, Meta, Google, and OpenAI - we’re looking at you). So now we ask the age-old question again: is AI going to cure diseases, or is it just going to force us to play budget Mario Kart made by a computer?  We're answering these (and more!) tough questions this week on *Nonsense*. While the internet complains about data centers and job loss, Jake did what any reasonable person would do: he used a single 1,400-word prompt to have different AI models code full 3D video games from scratch. Armed with 50 million tokens and some serious laziness, Jake set up an experiment: force brand-new frontier models like Astra and Fable to build entire games from scratch in a fresh folder with no human intervention.Listen in as your hosts blind-test two of these creations. Will they prefer the charming, bee-stinging mayhem of *Bumble Rally* or the beautiful, guardrail-less drift madness of *Parcel Panic*? Discover why falling off a bridge with inverted steering might actually be more fun than a polished game, why data centers are getting unfairly bullied compared to golf courses, and why 1983's *War Games* is still top-tier viewing.Put on your seatbelts, watch out for honey traps, and enjoy the nonsense!As Trump backs data centers, new poll shows many Americans disapproveFive AIs made a racing game.* Be patient, game startup can take a few secondsSend us a ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠voice message⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠!Nonsense is available ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.