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The Intelligence from The Economist

The Intelligence: Bombs squad

The Intelligence from The Economist

The Economist

News, Daily News, Global News

4.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

The game theory was simpler during a cold war between two states armed to the teeth; the nuclear world order has since become far more complex and dangerous. Nvidia is on a tear making the artificial-intelligence community’s favoured chips. What plans, and perils, lie ahead for the firm (10:55)? And why there are ever fewer accountants on the books in America (18:25).

Additional audio "As an accountant" courtesy of Rocky Paterra.


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0:37.0

Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from The Economist. I'm your host

0:46.1

Jason Palmer. Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping

0:51.1

your world. Much of the talk about artificial intelligence

1:00.0

is about the software, but it all runs on increasingly specialized hardware, much of it made by

1:06.1

NVIDIA. We look at the plans of its charismatic co-founder to make Hay while the AI sun is absolutely blazing.

1:16.4

And America has a troubling shortage in one of its more unglamorous but critical professions,

1:21.6

accountants.

1:22.8

We ask why the ranks are thinning and what the industry is doing

1:25.8

to get them back in and bean counting. But first,

1:35.0

you, you might say it was the technology.

1:37.0

You might say it was the technology that most transformed geopolitics.

1:48.0

The nuclear bomb, balancing defense, danger, deterrence, has been a preoccupation of every

1:57.9

occupant of America's Oval Office since the start of the Cold War.

2:02.2

From Dwight Eisenhower...

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