Everyone Pivots to A.I. + Bad News for Crypto

Hard Fork

The New York Times

Technology

4.3 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Snapchat launches a chatbot. Meta plans to “turbocharge” its A.I. work. Elon Musk explores “BasedAI.” At this point, who isn’t making an A.I. play? Plus: Is crypto finally dead? Also, a new TikTok filter is making people terrifyingly hot.

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0:00.0	I had a very exciting night last night.
0:03.5	I was out at a party with my wife, and we're in San Francisco at a nice little,
0:10.8	broad, worst joint.
0:13.3	And who walks in?
0:15.8	But one, Casey Newton, you were there by total happenstance in the same restaurant.
0:21.7	It was delightful, meatcute.
0:24.0	It was very fun to see you out in the wild, unanticipated, and of course my friends were
0:29.4	very excited to meet you having heard so many of my complaints about you over the last
0:34.0	several months.
0:36.0	But they put on a brave face and took your hand and it was cool.
0:39.7	I did just feel a little weird for the other people at the bar while we were like sitting
0:42.7	there just gabbling.
0:44.4	Like, we talk a lot about the risks of big American cities these days.
0:48.8	You know, we've got crime, we've got break ins, we've got, you know, open air drug markets.
0:53.2	They don't tell you about the biggest risk of going out in San Francisco, which is that
0:56.5	a podcast might spontaneously break out.
1:02.2	I introduced my wife to one of your friends and they were just like, Sydney.
1:12.2	So even when I go out, I cannot escape my AI past.
1:19.2	I'm Kevin Rousse.
1:22.8	I'm tech columnist at New York Times.
1:24.3	And I'm Casey Newton from Platformer.
1:26.1	You're listening to Hardform.
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