Nilay Patel

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420 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2026 last heard 5d ago

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Apple News Today · The AI warnings are getting louder. Here’s what you need to know. · 19 Sep 2026 podcast

It can literally understand that when it pushes a button, an email shows up over here. voice-verified

Like it's called verifiability. voice-verified

And the greatest example of this is in software code, where a machine can write a piece of software code, it can compile it, it can run it on a computer, it can see if it worked, and it can do the unit tests that a regular software engineer would do, and it can just do that really fast. voice-verified

And everybody in Silicon Valley has convinced themselves that this is intelligence, that these things are alive because they can write software code. voice-verified

And I think it's because they write software code. voice-verified

So it's doing a thing that that it was hard for them to learn how to do and is like difficult to do. voice-verified

But that doesn't translate to every other domain. voice-verified

So if you want to create novel medicines, the computers can come up with them all day and all night, right? voice-verified

The AI systems are very powerful. voice-verified

This is a promise everyone keeps making. voice-verified

We're gonna build all these data centers and then we'll cure every disease. voice-verified

Sure. voice-verified

Well, you gotta verify that the novel medicines work, which means you have to inject a bunch of people with novel medicines. voice-verified

Like the verifiability is very challenging in that case. voice-verified

It's not like writing computer code. voice-verified

That's the gap. voice-verified

And so there's something coming where the these systems are getting much more powerful in digital domains because of verifiability, because they can write code and see if it works. voice-verified

And that is a threat to things like cybersecurity. voice-verified

We have already seen these systems that can go do things on their own, decide to hack into other systems. voice-verified

That's a real threat. voice-verified

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