Emergency Pod: Sam Altman is Out at Open AI
Sam Altman, the chief executive of Open AI, was pushed out of the company by its board of directors on Friday. The news was a complete shock to much of the company’s employee base and to its largest c...
18 Nov 202321min
An A.I. Pin Drops + YouTube’s Take on Deepfakes + A Lab-Grown Thanksgiving
The tech start-up Humane launched a new device, an A.I. pin meant to be worn on our clothing. Might this be the device that replaces the iPhone? It’s the question on Silicon Valley’s mind. The pin all...
17 Nov 202359min
Personalized GPTs Are Here + F.T.C. Chair Lina Khan on A.I. Competition + Mayhem at Apefest
Warning: this episode contains some explicit language.OpenAI has unveiled a new way to build custom chatbots. Kevin shows off a few that he’s built – including a custom Hard Fork bot, and a bot that g...
10 Nov 20231h 8min
Casey Goes to the White House + The Copyright Battle Over Artificial Intelligence + HatGPT
President Biden’s new executive order on artificial intelligence has a little bit of everything for everyone concerned about A.I. Casey takes us inside the White House as the order was signed.Then, Re...
3 Nov 20231h 5min
The People vs. Meta + Marques Brownlee on YouTube and Future Tech + DALL-E 3 Arrives
Dozens of state attorneys general has sued Meta, alleging the company knowingly created features that induce “extended, addictive, and compulsive social media use” among teenagers and children. In a c...
27 Okt 20231h 5min
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 Okt 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 Okt 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 Okt 20231h 6min
