Artificial Intelligence’s Promises and Perils with Gary Rivlin

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🗓️ 17 April 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Rivlin spent more than a year in the Bay Area shadowing the founders and venture capitalists vying to make big money off of generative AI. And in his new book “AI Valley,” Rivlin takes readers inside both the AI startups and the tech giants like Microsoft, Meta and Google trying to keep up. He chronicles the figures and breakthroughs of generative AI’s recent history – in order to better predict and understand its future. Rivlin’s new book is “AI Valley: Microsoft, Google, and the Trillion-Dollar Race to Cash In on Artificial Intelligence.” Guests: Gary Rivlin, Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and author, “AI Valley: Microsoft, Google, and the Trillion-Dollar Race to Cash In on Artificial Intelligence" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:34.9	Coming up on forum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gary Rivlin has been covering Silicon Valley since the mid-90s,
1:42.8	when the technology gold rush began with startups like Netscape and PayPal, figuring out how to strike it rich off the emerging internet.
1:49.2	In his new book titled AI Valley, he traces the rise of artificial intelligence, complete with visionaries, some epic mistakes, and now the race to dominate the field by players like
1:54.6	OpenAI, Meta, Google, and of course Microsoft.
1:58.6	Rivalin joins us to discuss how the AI revolution is transforming the Valley.
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2:13.6	Well, you know, it might seem like the use of artificial intelligence started with the advent of chat GPT,
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