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Can We Defeat Deepfakes?
Season 1 Episode 194
We’ve all heard that nothing ever gets deleted from the internet. Luke Arrigoni says that just isn’t true. His company deletes thousands of deepfakes…
9 hours ago
The Printing Press: The Invention Built on Debt and Sin… from Business History
Season 1
Before 1450, books were written out by hand. It was slow and expensive. But Johannes Gutenberg borrowed a ton of money to create a printing press tha…
1 week ago
Should We Pause AI?
Season 1 Episode 193
Everybody’s worried about the risks of AI. So we called up one of the most insightful writers we know on the subject: Zvi Mowshowitz. Zvi writes abou…
2 weeks ago
Bonus: Planning for Your Financial Future
Season 1 Episode 192
On this bonus episode of What’s Your Problem, Jacob talks to Christine Chase, a Vice President, Financial Consultant at Fidelity Investments. Christi…
2 weeks, 2 days ago
Can a Robot Kill Fish Humanely?
Season 1 Episode 191
The fish we eat usually die slowly, suffocating after they’re pulled out of the water. Saif Khawaja is the co-founder and CEO of a company called Shi…
3 weeks ago
Using Satellites to Prevent Famines
Season 1 Episode 190
Catherine Nakalembe is an assistant professor at the University of Maryland and the head of the Africa program at NASA Harvest, which uses satellite …
4 weeks ago
The Quantum Shift in Biomedical Discovery from Smart Talks with IBM
Season 1
When Dr. Lara Jehi began treating epilepsy patients in the 2000s, critical surgical decisions were driven more by clinician intuition and expertise t…
1 month, 1 week ago
Can We Slow Down Aging?
Season 1 Episode 189
Nir Barzilai is a physician and a researcher at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, where he runs the Institute for Geroscience. Nir…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Why Doctors Use Evidence but Managers (Mostly) Don’t
Season 1 Episode 188
Helen Pearson is the author of the book “Beyond Belief: How Evidence Shows What Really Works.” Helen's problem is this: How do you get people to make…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
The Job AI Was Supposed to Kill
Season 1 Episode 187
In 2016, Geoffrey Hinton, one of the inventors of modern AI, predicted that AI would replace radiologists within years. Ten years later, we have a sh…
2 months ago