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<p>It’s a wonderful time of the year: squash, pumpkin, and gourd season. But how do those <a href="https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/squash-science-breeding-genetics/?utm_source=wnyc&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=scifri" target="_blank">giant, award-winning pumpkins</a> gr ... Show More

<p>Have you ever gotten to the end of, say, a jar of peanut butter and wondered if it should go in trash or recycling? If it’s worth rinsing out? And where will it actually end up?</p><p>Journalist Alexander Clapp had those same questions, and went to great lengths to <a href="ht ... Show More

<p>Twenty years ago, a young oncologist started journaling to process his experience treating cancer patients. That cathartic act became the Pulitzer Prize-winning book <i>The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer.</i></p><p>Fifteen years after the book was published, ho ... Show More

Jon Krohn joins us for a year-end episode about 2020’s biggest data science breakthroughs and for a big podcast announcement for 2021. In this episode you will learn: Global warming [4:37] Our big podcast announcement [6:57] Who is Jon Krohn? [12:14] Top 3 technological brea ... Show More

Satya Nadella on: Why he doesn’t believe in AGI but does believe in 10% economic growth; Microsoft’s new topological qubit breakthrough and gaming world models;Whether Office commoditizes LLMs or the other way around. Watch on Youtube; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.-------- ... Show More

When we think about machine learning today we often think in terms of immense scale — large language models that require huge amounts of computational power, for example. But one of the most interesting innovations in machine learning right now is actually happening on a really s ... Show More

Today’s AI Daily Brief asks when artificial intelligence will begin making real scientific discoveries. We look at Periodic Labs, which just raised more than $300 million to build AI scientists and autonomous labs for physics and chemistry, and Thinking Machines, which is creatin ... Show More

<p>Adam Brown is a founder and lead of BlueShift with is cracking maths and reasoning at Google DeepMind and a theoretical physicist at Stanford.</p><p>We discuss: destroying the light cone with vacuum decay, holographic principle, mining black holes, & what it would take to trai ... Show More

Sadie St Lawrence returns for her 4th annual prediction episode on the Super Data Science Podcast. Together with host Jon Krohn, they reflect on 2024’s most transformative trends—like agentic AI and enterprise AI monetization—and predict what's coming in 2025, from AI-driven scie ... Show More

Ege Erdil and Tamay Besiroglu have 2045+ timelines, think the whole "alignment" framing is wrong, don't think an intelligence explosion is plausible, but are convinced we'll see explosive economic growth (economy literally doubling every year or two).This discussion offers a tota ... Show More

The Andrej Karpathy episode.During this interview, Andrej explains why reinforcement learning is terrible (but everything else is much worse), why AGI will just blend into the previous ~2.5 centuries of 2% GDP growth, why self driving took so long to crack, and what he sees as th ... Show More

We&#39;re experimenting and would love to hear from you!In this episode of Discover Daily, we delve into the latest developments in the OpenAI lawsuit, where AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton has thrown his support behind Elon Musk&apos;s legal challenge. The episode explores the contro ... Show More

<p>In this episode, Microsoft's Corporate Vice President for Cloud Artificial Intelligence, Joseph Sirosh, joins host Kyle Polich to share some of the Microsoft's latest and most exciting innovations in AI development platforms. Last month, Microsoft launched a set of three power ... Show More