This was crazy. Google's Willow Quantum Chip is using a new Quantum Echo's algorithm that ran

computations 13,000 times faster than supercomputers, Kevin. Oh, I see it's performance review season

over there in Google Quantum Computing. Oh, you know, my Echo Chip did a quantum compute. You compute. I need a raise. No matter how many times I learn

what quantum computing is, I do immediately forget it the next day. And it just, like, this is how I am.

This is why I love reading mystery so much is because I forget who did it like the day after

I put the book down. That's what quantum computing is for me. You know, we have to fill out our performance reviews soon at the New York Times. And I think I'm just going to put in there that I solved a quantum computing problem this year. Because how will they fact check me? Now, why don't they email me asking to, like, help on your performance review? Oh, you want to do a 360 review? I want to do a 360. You've got some feedback? Yeah.

I'm Kevin Russo Tech Coleman at the New York Times.

I'm Casey Noon from Platformer.

And this is Hard Fork.

This week, Open AI's big sloppy mess, why the company is backpedaling over Sora.

Then, the Times Karen Weiss joins us to discuss her scoop on Amazon's plans to reduce its hiring needs by hundreds of thousands of workers. And finally, AI browsers are here, our first impressions of chat GPT Atlas.

Well, Casey's been another busy week for the OpenAI research and deployment corporation.

I learned that's what they call themselves.

Really?

Yeah, they have these hoodies. I saw a guy on the train the other day with a research and deployment company. It didn't even say Open AI, but that's sort of their new tagline. Interesting. Well, I would say based on the events of the past week, Kevin, maybe Open AI should do a little more research and a little less deployment. Yeah, so let's talk about it. We're going to talk about two open AI stories this week, one about their new browser. We'll talk about a little later. But first, we've got to talk about what's been happening with SORA. We've talked about this the last couple weeks on the show, but this continues to be a total mess for Open AI, this app and the various sort of controversies and backlashes swirling around it. So, Casey, what is going on with SORO? What is the latest here?

Well, I would say there have been two big developments over the past week, Kevin. One, the company

has said that it is going to essentially like crack down on political deep fakes based on

historical figures after the families of some

deceased political figures started to complain.

And then the company has also said it's going to try to build some guardrails around the use

of copyrighted intellectual property after many people in Hollywood freaked out, including

Breaking Bad Star Brian Cranston.

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