Podcast Episodes

20250316 - LLMs are still really bad search engines

Pizza and wood glue optional.
Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/16/cjr-llms-are-still-really-bad-search-engines/

CJR 2025 report: https:…

1 year, 3 months ago

20250315 - Copilot for Games: an AI Clippy for your Xbox

Your helpful AI backseat gamer pal!

Official Xbox Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoUDVNjDUSw
Microsoft on Copilot for Games: https://news…

1 year, 3 months ago

20250314 - OpenAI asks US government for the moon on a stick because CHINA

The White House wants ideas for its AI Action Plan. And oh boy, does OpenAI have a wishlist!
Text: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/14/openai-asks-th…

1 year, 3 months ago

20250313 - UK science minister cribs from ChatGPT

We're sure OpenAI would never abuse this level of access to the heart of government so it could lobby by chatbot.
Text: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025…

1 year, 3 months ago

20250312 - Cursor's AI tool tells vibe coder: learn to code

You want me to write your whole function for you? Git gud, scrub.
Text: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/12/cursor-ai-assistant-tells-vibe-coder-lear…

1 year, 3 months ago

20250311 - OpenAI's for-profit plan is in trouble

OpenAI wants to go full for-profit. This is already hitting legal roadblocks.
Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/11/openais-for-profit-pl…

1 year, 3 months ago

20250310 - Let's write our PR pitches with AI! Report spam, block sender

Oh, that's where all these incredibly bad press releases are coming from. The AI is for spam.
Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/10/lets-…

1 year, 3 months ago

20250309 - Nature: peer review with AI and crypto

Nature tells us how scientific peer review is so much easier when you fob it off to an AI. And you can earn cryptos! Every scientist wants that, righ…

1 year, 3 months ago

20250307 - Oops, all AI! Google replaces search with the AI Overview

What if we made a search engine so good that our company name became the verb for searching? And then — get this — we replaced the search engine with…

1 year, 3 months ago

20250306 - Ilya Sutskever gets $2b funding not to release anything until he has 'super intelligence'

Ex-OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever's new startup Safe Superintelligence just closed another funding round. For $2 billion, Sutskever promises not to …

1 year, 3 months ago