Peering Into A.I.’s Black Box + Who’s The Real Techno-Optimist? + Reading Ancient Scrolls With A.I.

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🗓️ 20 October 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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A.I. models are black boxes. You input a prompt and the model outputs nearly anything: a sonnet, an image or a legal brief riddled with lies. Today, a look at three ways that researchers are unlocking that black box in hopes of bringing transparency to A.I. Then, Marc Andreessen’s techno-optimist manifesto has left us asking, Is he OK?! Plus: decoding a 2,000-year-old ancient scroll with the help of A.I.

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0:00.0	Casey, we talk a lot on this show about multi-modal AI, but you know what else is going
0:06.5	multi-modal?
0:07.5	What's that?
0:08.5	Our podcast.
0:09.5	So we're starting a YouTube show.
0:11.6	A YouTube show.
0:13.4	Next week, we will not only release the audio podcast version of this show, but we'll
0:18.0	also have a version that goes up on YouTube where you will be able to see both of our
0:22.2	faces.
0:23.2	A dramatic face reveal that the YouTube community hasn't seen since Dream revealed his
0:27.9	face as part of a Minecraft event.
0:30.2	I'm a little, I'm very excited to start a YouTube show, but I'm also a little nervous
0:33.2	because I feel like we're just going to sort of speedrun the evolution of a YouTube show.
0:36.8	Like we're going to start off making like, you know, harmless video game reviews and
0:40.8	then we're going to say something horrible and get canceled and we'll have to make one
0:43.9	of those tearful apology videos.
0:46.2	All our brand sponsors will abandon us.
0:48.4	Well, look, I'm thrilled because every day I wake up asking myself one question, which
0:51.9	is what are total strangers think about my physical appearance?
0:55.4	So Kevin, wait, if people want to get this show, how do they do it?
0:58.6	Can it be done?
0:59.6	It can be done.
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