This week, the story of a very brief, very absurd revolution at the world’s leading artificial intelligence company, OpenAI. And we try to answer the quite real question that might be animating all of the drama.
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An Anthropology of Gooners
A reporter spends a year diving into a subculture of young men online who unite around their extreme commitment to constant, unadulterated porn consumption. Why are they doing this, what is it doing to them, and what does their existence tell us about the internet we’re all stuck ... Show More
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The Next Gen AI Models: Reliable, Consistent, Trustworthy — With Aidan Gomez
Aidan Gomez is the co-author of the "Attention Is All You Need" paper that launched the AI revolution and CEO of Cohere, an enterprise AI company. Gomez joins Big Technology to discuss the myths, facts, and realities of today's AI landscape. Tune in to hear why the real value of ... Show More
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Ray Dalio on the Principles of Success
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47m 20s
Nov 2021
Business Weekly: Scary Smart with Mo Gawdat
Mo Gawdat was Chief Business Officer of Google X, the experimental development arm of the internet behemoth. He's since written books on how to find happiness and his new one, Scary Smart, warns of the potential dangers posed to the world by super-smart artificial intelligence. M ... Show More
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Understanding AGI Alignment Challenges and Solutions - with Eliezer Yudkowsky of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute
<p>Today's episode is a special addition to our AI Futures series, featuring a special sneak peek at an upcoming episode of our Trajectory podcast with guest Eliezer Yudkowsky, AI researcher, founder, and research fellow at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute. Eliezer joi ... Show More
43m 3s
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How today’s AI giants mirror global empires of the past, with journalist Karen Hao
<p>In her New York Times bestseller “Empire of AI,” journalist Karen Hao traces the rise of an intriguing and controversial tech giant: OpenAI. In years spent chronicling the company, she came to a theory of how OpenAI’s operating model mimics imperialist empires of the past – an ... Show More
38m 16s