Google Eats Rocks + A Win for A.I. Interpretability + Safety Vibe Check
This week, Google found itself in more turmoil, this time over its new AI Overviews feature and a trove of leaked internal documents. Then Josh Batson, a researcher at the A.I. startup Anthropic, join...
31 Touko 20241h 19min
ScarJo vs. ChatGPT + Neuralink’s First Patient Opens Up + Microsoft’s A.I. PCs
This week, more drama at OpenAI: The company wanted Scarlett Johansson to be a voice of GPT-4o, she said no … but something got lost in translation. Then we talk with Noland Arbaugh, the first person ...
24 Touko 20241h 17min
OpenAI's Flirty New Assistant + Google Guts the Web + We Play HatGPT
This week, OpenAI unveiled GPT-4o, its newest A.I. model. It has an uncannily emotive voice that everybody is talking about. Then, we break down the biggest announcements from Google IO, including the...
17 Touko 20241h 6min
Meet Kevin’s A.I. Friends
Kevin reports on his monthlong experiment cultivating relationships with 18 companions generated by artificial intelligence. He walks through how he developed their personas, what went down in their g...
10 Touko 20241h 17min
AI at Your Jobs + Hank Green Talks TikTok + Deepfake High School
We asked listeners to tell us about the wildest ways they have been using artificial intelligence at work. This week, we bring you their stories. Then, Hank Green, a legendary YouTuber, stops by to ta...
3 Touko 20241h 13min
TikTok on the Clock + Tesla’s Flop Era + How NASA Fixed a ’70s-Era Space Computer
On Wednesday, President Biden signed a bill into law that would force the sale of TikTok or ban the app outright. We explain how this came together, when just a few weeks ago it seemed unlikely to hap...
26 Huhti 20241h 11min
The Music Episode
This week, we drop the Hard Fork Music Megamix. Plus, we talk to two of the New York Time's composers who make the music for our show. It’s all the tracks you know and love, all in one place. Today’s ...
19 Huhti 20241h 2min
A.I.’s Data Wall + a Surprise Privacy Bill + What Happened to the TikTok Ban?
This week, the companies building artificial intelligence are facing a limit to what training data is publicly available on the internet. Will that stop them from building God? Then, a new bipartisan ...
12 Huhti 20241h 6min
