OpenAI’s “breakthrough”
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🗓️ 28 November 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
After being banned from talking about artificial intelligence at Thanksgiving, guest host Matt Levin is eager to chime in on the ongoing Sam Altman controversy and news about a powerful artificial intelligence development at OpenAI. Plus, tech tycoons are behaving more and more like foreign dignitaries. And: Doritos’ new crunch-cancellation technology.
Here’s everything we talked about:
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- “Unpacking the hype around OpenAI’s rumored new Q* model” from MIT Technology Review
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- “Elon Musk Meets With Netanyahu in Israel Amid Backlash Against Social Media Post” from The New York Times
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- “The sound of crunching chips is annoying. Doritos has made a silencer.” from The Washington Post
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| 0:26.0 | It's a matter for a long time, me at Charlton Thorpe. Hey everybody I'm Connor Risdell |
| 0:29.9 | welcome back to make me smart where we make today makes sense. |
| 0:33.6 | And I'm Matt Levin, filling in for the Great Kimberly Adams. |
| 0:36.6 | Thanks everyone for joining us on this Monday, November 27th. |
| 0:40.4 | Hope everybody had a wonderful Thanksgiving. |
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| 0:47.2 | how the kids were back, we had 14 for Thanksgiving, |
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| 1:03.0 | Thanksgiving meal and so I've seen enough turkey for quite some time but it was good. |
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| 1:10.0 | Well we're going to do what we usually do, some news, some smiles, and then we'll get you on your way. |
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| 1:15.1 | You've got like a whole raft of things here. |
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