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The Gray Area with Sean Illing

Introducing Reset

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

Vox Media Podcast Network

Politics, News, Society & Culture, News Commentary, Philosophy

4.5 • 11.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Thanks for listening to Reset from Recode and the Vox Media Podcast Network. Today's episodes were Can A.I. Tech You To Write Better and Quantum Supremacy, WTF. If you enjoyed these episodes, subscribe to Reset for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Overcast, Pocket Casts, or your favorite podcast app to get new episodes every week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, it is Ezra.

0:13.4

I am thrilled to tell you about reset the new show from Recode and Box that it is launched,

0:19.5

it is in the world and it is a beautiful thing.

0:21.9

We've been working on this for a really long time, a show that is a couple times a week

0:26.4

that is able to get in the stream of the news, but look at the technological dimensions

0:31.0

and layers to it to actually try to understand what is happening in the technology being

0:36.0

used, that these are the outcomes we are getting.

0:38.5

It is hosted by Arielle Duham-Ross, who is awesome host for this and awesome tech journalist,

0:44.4

knows the stuff backwards and forwards.

0:47.3

What it is trying to do is make the world we live in actually comprehensible.

0:51.3

You can talk about it, you can use the terms quantum supremacy AI.

0:55.2

But until we have some basic literacy and how they work, none of it makes any sense.

1:00.2

We are at the mercy of those who do.

1:03.7

So I want to show you two episodes here today, every set.

1:07.2

One is about quantum supremacy.

1:08.9

What the hell are we talking about when we talk about quantum computers?

1:12.2

What makes a quantum computer better?

1:13.7

What could it eventually do?

1:15.0

Why does anybody actually care?

1:17.9

The other one is about this AI project to help people write better, which I think the

1:22.5

simple way to put this is it has implications way beyond just how we write.

1:27.1

And the question of what gets encoded in that with better even means is really pretty

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