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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…
18 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