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AI Managed a Baseball Team—Here’s What Happened
Episode 46
Published 6 months, 4 weeks ago
Description
Would you let an algorithm call the shots for your favorite team, or your doctor’s visit?
This week, Jeff and Annie step into a wild new chapter for AI, from baseball diamonds to hospital rooms. The Oakland Ballers are handing the manager’s job to an AI, Google reports 90% of developers now use AI (but most don’t trust it), and OpenAI and Nvidia’s $100B partnership raises bubble alarms. Plus, we explore AI forecasting helping Indian farmers, synthetic viruses designed at Stanford, and an R&B star who just signed a multimillion-dollar deal without ever existing.
In this episode:
This week, Jeff and Annie step into a wild new chapter for AI, from baseball diamonds to hospital rooms. The Oakland Ballers are handing the manager’s job to an AI, Google reports 90% of developers now use AI (but most don’t trust it), and OpenAI and Nvidia’s $100B partnership raises bubble alarms. Plus, we explore AI forecasting helping Indian farmers, synthetic viruses designed at Stanford, and an R&B star who just signed a multimillion-dollar deal without ever existing.
In this episode:
- AI manages its first professional baseball game
- Google’s DORA report: 90% of devs use AI, but trust is shaky
- Synthetic viruses & quantum materials: sci-fi or science?
- Oakland Ballers will field AI manager on Fan Appreciation Day — AP
- Google Cloud 2025 DORA overview (90% use AI)
- Nvidia–OpenAI $100B alliance news
- Scale AI’s SEAL Showdown announcement
- Google on NeuralGCM helping 38M Indian farmers
- News on Akido using Llama/Claude in clinics
- MIT News on SCIGEN quantum materials tool
- RIAA’s updated lawsuit against Suno