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Episode 2289: Gary Marcus on how Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is, in the long run, inevitable
Gary Marcus is amongst the world’s leading skeptics on the AI revolution. So it’s worth taking note when Marcus admits that “of course we are getting…
1 year, 9 months ago
Episode 2288: Simon Kuper on the chilling parallels between MAGA America and Apartheid South Africa
Is it entirely coincidental that some of the leading figures in the MAGA movement - including Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and David Sacks - all grew up in…
1 year, 9 months ago
Episode 2287: Joseph O'Neill explains how to resist contemporary Fascism
Our job is to make Trump fail. That, at least, is the view of the writer Joseph O’Neill, whose essays in the New York Review of Books offer not just…
1 year, 9 months ago
Episode 2286: Seth Rogovoy on why A Complete Unknown, the new Dylan biopic, is a complete failure
As the author of the well-received Bob Dylan: Prophet Mystic Poet, Seth Rogovoy knows his Dylan. So his critical review of the A Complete Unknown, th…
1 year, 9 months ago
Episode 2285: Toby Walsh on the revolutionary promise and peril of AI in 2025
The Artificial Intelligence revolution has dwarfed everything else in tech during 2024. But according to Toby Walsh, author of the upcoming The Short…
1 year, 9 months ago
Episode 2284: Soli Ozel on the possibility of a 2025 "Pax Hebraica" in the Middle East
So what’s it to be in the Middle East in 2025: Mad Max style anarchy or a "Pax Hebraica" orchestrated from Israel? According to regional expert Soli …
1 year, 9 months ago
Episode 2283: Jonathan Rauch's six key moments of 2024
Time waits for no one. As 2024 winds down, what are the key moments of a year that perhaps overpromised and underdelivered? According to the Brooking…
1 year, 9 months ago
Episode 2282: Adam Kirsch on the nonsense of "Settler Colonialism"
As both a much published poet and cultural critic, Adam Kirsch brings an etymological sensibility to the great issues of our day. In his new book, On…
1 year, 9 months ago
Episode 2281: Parmy Olson on why Google DeepMind will trump OpenAI in 2025
Bloomberg columnist, Parmy Olson, won the FT Business Book of 2024 for Supremacy, her story of the race between Sam Altman’s OpenAI and Demis Hassabi…
1 year, 9 months ago
Episode 2280: Who will win the multi trillion dollar race for AI supremacy in 2025?
Yesterday, we featured a conversation between Andrew and That Was the Week newsletter publisher Keith Teare looking back at the major tech events of…
1 year, 9 months ago