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Big Technology Podcast

ChatGPT Gets Lazy, Elon Musk Blasts Advertisers and Releases The Cybertruck, Jack Ma Returns

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

Technology, Religion & Spirituality, Business News, Business, Religion, Science, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Entrepreneurship, Management, Marketing, Politics, News Commentary, Government, Investing, Tech News, Social Sciences, News

4.6395 Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Louise Matsakis is a reporter at Semafor covering AI. She joins us for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) ChatGPT getting lazy 2) The commoditization of AI companies 3) Anthropic’s unique board governance 4) Anthropic’s EA connections and the state of EA 5) Amazon’s Q chatbot 6) Elon Musk tells advertisers to F themselves 7) The drawbacks of brand safety puritanism 8) The Cybertruck is here. 9) Jack Ma appears in public for the first time in years. -- Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rate us five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of choice. For weekly updates on the show, sign up for the pod newsletter on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/6901970121829801984/ Questions? Feedback? Write to: [email protected]

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0:00.0

Is chat GPT getting lazier? We've got lingering concerns about the world's leading AI companies.

0:05.5

Elon Musk tells advertisers to go F themselves and sets the cyber truck free.

0:10.8

Jack Ma is back and plenty more coming up right after this.

0:15.6

Will AI improve our lives or exterminate the species?

0:20.5

What would it take to abolish poverty? Are you eating

0:24.3

enough fermented foods? These are some of the questions we've tackled recently on the next big idea.

0:30.0

I'm Rufus Griscombe, and every week I sit down with the world's leading thinkers for in-depth

0:35.7

conversations that will help you live, work, and play smarter.

0:39.4

Follow the next big idea wherever you get your podcasts.

0:45.5

Welcome to Big Technology Podcast Friday edition where we break down the news in our traditional, cool-headed and nuanced format.

0:52.3

Wow, what a week of news. It just continues here. And we're going to

0:55.8

break it all down. Joining us today is a great reporter. Luis Medsakis of Semaphore is here with us to talk,

1:02.0

of course, about the week's news and some of her great reporting on the latest in the AI dramas and

1:07.1

plenty more. Louise, welcome to the show. Hey, Alex, it's great to be here.

1:17.2

Great to have you. You're about to come out with a story talking about how Chachipit might be getting lazier. Now, this is something that we all maybe feel spiritually, but what are your

1:22.5

reporting show you on that front? Yeah, so over the last few weeks, a number of mostly professionals, I would say.

1:30.8

So these are people who already pay for chat GBT Plus, which is the $20 month subscription,

1:36.8

which gets you access to GPT4, which is their most advanced model right now. And they're basically like,

1:43.5

look, when I ask the chatbot to like produce 50 lines of code

1:46.9

or, you know, just to do tedious work to maybe like, you know, put a list together of

1:51.2

upcoming dates for me, it won't do it.

1:54.4

Or in I think the cases that are the funniest, it will instead give people instructions on

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