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Better Offline

Make Fun Of Them, Pt. 1

Better Offline

Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts

Technology

4.6688 Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In part one of this week's two-part Better Offline, Ed Zitron walks you through a radical new idea: make fun of CEOs, tear down their legacies and push back on their empty promises.

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.5

Guaranteed human.

0:06.6

Quarzone Media.

0:09.5

Hello, well, welcome to BetRofline.

0:11.7

I'm your host, Ed Zittron, of course.

0:23.1

Better Offline. I'm a lot. Let's all fly.

0:27.4

And I want to start you off with a little bit of a question.

0:31.2

Have you ever heard Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, speak?

0:33.3

You ever heard the words come out of his mouth?

0:38.8

Look, I'm going to share with you today some of the trench and insights from Sam Oatman.

0:45.4

I'm going to start with this agonizing 37-minute-long podcast conversation he had with his brother, Jack Altman, from last month.

0:49.0

I warn you, he really is an annoying and stupid dickhead.

0:52.3

Well, I think there would be incredible, like, other products.

0:54.6

Like, there will be crazy new social experiences.

1:01.5

There will be, like, Google Docs-style AI workflows that are just way more productive.

1:04.2

You'll start to see, like, they'll have these, like, virtual employees.

1:10.2

But the thing that I think will be the most impactful on that five-to-tenure time frame is AI will actually discover new science.

1:15.8

Yes, this tech podcast is now actually a food podcast, and today's special is the word salad.

1:21.9

When asked why he believes AI will discover new science, Altman says, I think we've cracked reasoning in the models, adding that we've got a long way to go, and that he thinks we know what to do.

1:27.4

Adding the OpenAI's O3 model is

1:29.2

already pretty smart and that he's heard people say, wow, this is like a good PhD. And that's the

1:35.3

entire answer, by the way. It's a completely nonsensical answer. Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI,

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