Podcast Episodes

Substack CEO on the platform’s new AI detector

Substack, the platform popular for online newsletters, recently launched an artificial intelligence detection feature powered by Pangram.

The detecto…

2 weeks ago

Gig workers train humanoids on household chores

Is your shirt-folding technique good enough to train a robot how to do it? Could MySpace be creeping back into our browsers? We get into all this on …

2 weeks, 3 days ago

AI chatbots have linguistic slips when they go off-script

Let’s say you're chatting away with AI — perfect grammar, great vocabulary. Then, boom: a random word in another language! That's the topic for today…

2 weeks, 4 days ago

AI-driven law could be an answer to accessible legal help

AI has already changed the legal field, bringing new efficiencies — along with some high-profile mistakes — to tasks like research and drafting contr…

2 weeks, 5 days ago

China’s soft power play in the global AI arms race

Last month, President Xi Jinping spoke at an AI conference in Shanghai, China. There he promoted AI accessibility for the world, touting China’s adop…

2 weeks, 6 days ago

Opening the curtain of AI business integration

OpenAI released its first ChatGPT model in November of 2022. Since then, companies across the U.S. have worked to integrate AI models into their work…

3 weeks ago

Meta and Microsoft report different AI earnings

Meta and Microsoft — as well as other tech titans — have been reporting quarterly earnings, and investors are looking at AI spending with a more skep…

3 weeks, 3 days ago

Centering humans in AI education might be key to innovation and research

Shri Narayanan, professor of engineering, psychology and linguistics at the University of Southern California, teaches his students to privilege huma…

3 weeks, 4 days ago

USC is betting on an AI education across all its fields of study

The University of Southern California is aiming to integrate AI across its campus, thanks to a $200 million dollar gift from a venture capitalist. Ga…

3 weeks, 5 days ago

An "antacid" to fight climate change

The ocean is already one of the best climate solutions we’ve got. It absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere that would otherwise contribute to gl…

3 weeks, 6 days ago