A.I. Goes Nuclear
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4.3 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Decades ago, Three Mile Island was shut down after a near catastrophic nuclear meltdown. So why is Microsoft paying over a billion dollars to open it back up?
Guest: Matt Reynolds, senior writer at Wired
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| 1:12.3 | what you do. |
| 1:14.0 | So my name is Matt Reynolds and I'm a senior writer at Wired magazine |
| 1:18.2 | where I write about climate change and energy and basically a bunch of kind of climate-adjacent things. |
| 1:25.0 | I decided that I was going to put that same question to Microsoft's AI-Chadbot co-pilot. |
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