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Hey, it's Mike.

Today, something a little different.

It's the first full episode of Black Box, a new series I've been working on about this moment we're living through, this collision between people and artificial intelligence.

Contemplating the way the world is about to change can be dizzying.

It can feel like we're falling into a completely new place.

This first episode asks the question, if that's true, if we are falling, who pushed us?

You can subscribe to Black Box, wherever you listen to today in focus.

And with that, on with episode one. resist temptation. Why is it sitting on a wooden plank?

Especially when there's a tasty short-term yield on offer.

With that bit of wire on it.

But when it means sacrificing long-term growth...

But hey, it's cheese.

Those who do succumb... Gotta go for it, it's cheese. Those who do succumb,

gotta go for it.

Oh, end up regretting it.

Short-term temptation or yield with potential long-term growth.

The Scottish American Investment Company managed by Bailey Gifford, capital at risk and income not guaranteed.

The first time Jeffrey Hinton ran into a scientific problem in the world that he couldn't explain. He was very young.

So I remember when I was about five coming home from school on a bus.

There was an old bus with an engine that wasn't very well mounted so the engine made the whole bus vibrate and I was

sitting on a seat that had some tough velvet-like material on it and the seat sloped downwards towards the back and I put a penny a

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