Why A.I. Might Not Take Your Job or Supercharge the Economy
Typically when we put out a call for audience questions, there’s no single topic that dominates. This time was different. The questions we received were overwhelmingly focused on artificial intelligen...
7 Apr 20231h 3min
The Most Amazing — and Dangerous — Technology in the World
“We rarely think about chips, yet they’ve created the modern world,” writes the historian Chris Miller.He’s not exaggerating. Semiconductors don’t just power our phones and computers; they also enable...
4 Apr 202357min
Best Of: A Powerful Theory of Why the Far Right Is Thriving Across the Globe
In last November's midterm elections, voters placed the Republican Party in charge of the House of Representatives. In 2024, it’s very possible that Republicans will take over the Senate as well and v...
31 Mar 20231h 31min
Trump’s Legal Jeopardy and America’s Political Crossroads
Donald Trump’s legal troubles are mounting. A Manhattan grand jury investigation into the hush-money payment to Stormy Daniels could soon make Trump the first former American president ever to be crim...
28 Mar 202358min
A Radical Way of Thinking About Money
It’s been two weeks since the Silicon Valley Bank run, and we’re still feeling the ripple effects — not just at banks like Signature, First Republic and Credit Suisse, which are definitely taking a be...
24 Mar 20231h 2min
Freaked Out? We Really Can Prepare for A.I.
OpenAI last week released its most powerful language model yet: GPT-4, which vastly outperforms its predecessor, GPT-3.5, on a variety of tasks.GPT-4 can pass the bar exam in the 90th percentile, whil...
21 Mar 20231h 34min
My View on A.I.
This is something a bit different: Not an interview, but a commentary of my own. We’ve done a lot of shows on A.I. of late, and there are more to come. On Tuesday, GPT-4 was released, and its capabili...
19 Mar 202316min
Why Silicon Valley Bank Collapsed — And What Comes Next
Last Friday, in the largest bank failure since 2008, Silicon Valley Bank failed.Banks fail all the time. But unless it’s a big or highly-connected bank, most of us don’t pay much attention. That’s bec...
16 Mar 202358min
