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Four Predictions on How AI Will Transform Your World This Year
Episode 38
Nine months ago, Elon Musk said 2025 would be the year chatbots became smarter than humans. Sam Altman thought it would be the year fully autonomous …
4 months, 3 weeks ago
The Man Behind the World’s Most Coveted Microchip
Episode 37
Jensen Huang is something of an enigma. The NVIDIA CEO doesn’t have social media and, until recently, rarely gave interviews. Yet he may be the most …
5 months, 1 week ago
Wikipedia Won Our Trust. Can We Use That Model Everywhere?
Episode 36
It was an idea that defied logic: an online encyclopedia that anyone could edit.
You didn’t need to have a PhD or even use your real name – you just n…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Could an Alternative AI Save Us From a Bubble?
Episode 35
Over the last couple of years, massive AI investment has largely kept the stock market afloat. Case in point: the so-called Magnificent 7 – tech comp…
6 months, 1 week ago
Can AI Lead Us to the Good Life?
Episode 34
In Rutger Bregman’s first book, Utopia for Realists, the historian describes a rosy vision of the future – one with 15-hour work weeks, universal bas…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
How to Survive the “Broligarchy”
Episode 33
At Donald Trump’s inauguration earlier this year, the returning president made a striking break from tradition. The seats closest to the president – …
7 months ago
AI Music is Everywhere. Is it Legal?
Episode 32
AI art is everywhere now. According to the music streaming platform Deezer, 18 per cent of the songs being uploaded to the site are AI-generated. Som…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Geoffrey Hinton vs. The End of the World
Episode 31
The story of how Geoffrey Hinton became “the godfather of AI” has reached mythic status in the tech world.
While he was at the University of Toronto, …
8 months ago
AI is Upending Higher Education. Is That a Bad Thing?
Episode 30
Just two months after ChatGPT was launched in 2022, a survey found that 90 per cent of college students were already using it. I’d be shocked if that…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Jim Balsillie: ‘Canada’s Problem Isn’t Trump. Canada’s Problem Is Canada’
Episode 29
In the chaotic early months of his second term, Donald Trump has attacked the Canadian economy and mused about turning Canada into the “51st state.” …
1 year, 1 month ago