Peering Into A.I.’s Black Box + Who’s The Real Techno-Optimist? + Reading Ancient Scrolls With A.I.
A.I. models are black boxes. You input a prompt and the model outputs nearly anything: a sonnet, an image or a legal brief riddled with lies. Today, a look at three ways that researchers are unlocking...
20 Loka 20231h 4min
Social Media In Wartime + Betting on the Future + A.I. Passes the Smell Test
As the Israel-Hamas war broke out, misinformation and fake imagery surged on X, the platform formerly known at Twitter. Can Meta’s Threads fill the real-time news hole that X created? Should it?Then, ...
13 Loka 20231h 6min
Google’s Trial Heats Up + How to Wear A.I. + It’s Our Birthday!
The antitrust trial against Google has led to some of tech’s biggest players testifying in court, and things have gotten spicy. The New York Times reporter Cecilia Kang tells us the wildest moments in...
6 Loka 20231h 6min
All Gas, No Brakes in A.I. + Metaverse Update + Lessons From a Prompt Engineer
ChatGPT can now hear, see and speak — and that’s just the start of the deluge of A.I. news this week. Kevin and Casey unpack the lightning-speed updates.Then, Meta’s next-generation headset, Quest 3, ...
29 Syys 20231h 6min
Breaking Bard + Who Owns Your Face? + Gamer News!
Today’s Guests:Kashmir Hill is a Times business reporter covering technology and privacy.Additional Reading:Google unveiled new features for its A.I. chatbot, Bard.Kashmir Hill’s “Your Face Belongs to...
22 Syys 202359min
Casey v. Kevin on US v. Google + Walter Isaacson on Two Years With Elon Musk
Is Google allowed to spend billions of dollars to make its search product the default browser? That is the question at the center of U.S. et al. v. Google — the most important tech trial of the modern...
15 Syys 202358min
Escape From Burning Man + Musk vs. the A.D.L. + Listener Questions
This week: How tech executives’ favorite place to take their pants off turned into a muddy hellscape. We talk to one executive who couldn’t just call a helicopter to escape.Then, Jonathan Greenblatt, ...
8 Syys 20231h 4min
The Secretive Billionaires Building a Tech Utopia + Casey’s External Brain + HatGPT
A group of tech titans is gobbling up land north of San Francisco with aspirations to alleviate the Bay Area’s housing crisis, promote innovation, and experiment with new forms of governance. It’s not...
1 Syys 202359min
