Radio Better Offline: Cherlynn Low, Alex Cranz & Victoria Song
Better Offline
Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 688 Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2025
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to Radio Better Offline, a tech talk radio show recorded out of iHeartRadio's studio in New York city.
In this episode, Ed Zitron is joined by tech reporters Alex Cranz, Cherlynn Low and Victoria song to talk about the broken promises of generative AI, and how useless things get funded far more than useful ones.
Alex Cranz:
https://bsky.app/profile/cranz.bsky.social
Cherlynn Low:
https://www.engadget.com/about/editors/cherlynn-low/
https://x.com/cherlynnlow
https://bsky.app/profile/cherlynn.bsky.social
Victoria Song:
https://bsky.app/profile/vicmsong.bsky.social
https://www.theverge.com/authors/victoria-song
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| 0:38.9 | Hello and welcome to better offline. We're in beautiful New York City, Nevada. |
| 0:41.3 | We're in, on 55th Street. |
| 0:44.4 | And I am Ed Zittron, of course, and I'm surrounded by incredible people. |
| 0:59.0 | To my right, the Sherlyn Lowe of Engadgett. Hello. |
| 1:00.0 | How are you doing, Sherlin? |
| 1:01.0 | All right. |
| 1:02.0 | And we've got Alex Cranz, reporter critic extraordinaire. |
| 1:04.0 | Yeah, I just like to be really happy about Nevada. |
| 1:06.0 | It's beautiful here. |
| 1:07.0 | Nevada is great. |
| 1:08.0 | New York City, Nevada. |
| 1:09.0 | Sunny, it's warm. |
| 1:10.0 | I love it. People love it. And of course, Victoria's Song from The Verge. Hello, hello. Sunny, New York, New York in Nevada. That's the thing. People think I do this accidentally. No one knows what I do deliberately, and that's because neither do I. So we were all just talking on the way in here about possibly the best tech journalism we've ever read. And it's a story by a guy called Kevin Ruse. He appears to be a child who was allowed to write for the New York Times. Article is called Powerful AI is Coming. And we're going to read you a few sentences. We're going to discuss this. Here are some things I believe about artificial intelligence. I believe that over the past several years, AI systems |
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