Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMr. Altman Goes to Washington + Casey Goes on This American Life
Episode 30
In a congressional hearing this week, OpenAI’s chief executive, Sam Altman, appeared to be on the same page as lawmakers: It’s time to regulate A.I. …
3 years, 1 month ago
Google’s A.I. Bonanza + Driverless Car Talk With Cruise C.E.O. Kyle Vogt
Episode 29
At its biggest event of the year, Google announced an avalanche of A.I. product releases: A.I. in search, A.I. that writes emails and A.I. that gener…
3 years, 1 month ago
Bluesky Has the Juice + A.I. Jobs Apocalypse + Hard Questions
Episode 28
The Twitter look-alike Bluesky, started by the former Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey, is doing the impossible: making social media fun again.
The…
3 years, 1 month ago
Deepfake Drake + HatGPT + Ben Smith on the End of the BuzzFeed Era
Episode 27
A song featuring A.I.-generated versions of Drake and the Weeknd went viral — before being taken down by streaming services. Is censorship of A.I.-ge…
3 years, 1 month ago
Hard Fork Presents: The Most Amazing – And Dangerous – Technology In the World
Episode 26
Today we’re bringing you an episode on chips. No, not potato chips. Kevin has been pitching an episode on the truly fascinating world of chips and se…
3 years, 1 month ago
Inside the Hunt for the Discord Leaker + Twitter Chaos Updates
Episode 25
Aric Toler untangles the web of teens, gamers and memes at the heart of the latest intelligence scandal.
Then, an update on Twitter — where things hav…
3 years, 2 months ago
A.I. Vibe Check With Ezra Klein + Kevin Tries Phone Positivity
Episode 24
The New York Times Opinion columnist Ezra Klein has spent years talking to artificial intelligence researchers. Many of them feel the prospect of A.I…
3 years, 2 months ago
Google C.E.O. Sundar Pichai on Bard, A.I. ‘Whiplash’ and Competing With ChatGPT
Episode 23
For years, Google was seen as one of the most cutting-edge developers of A.I. But, with OpenAI’s release of ChatGPT, and other chatbots beating Googl…
3 years, 2 months ago
Bard Fork + How to Talk So Chatbots Will Listen
Episode 22
“It’s different because it’s Google.” Bard, Google’s answer to ChatGPT, could prove to be more consequential than any large language model to date — …
3 years, 2 months ago
BONUS: Hard Fork Live! Big Tech’s Arch Nemesis + Bot, or Not?
Jonathan Kanter, who heads up the Justice Department’s antitrust division, believes that antitrust laws are critical for innovation — from ad tech to…
3 years, 3 months ago