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

Then there's OpenAI hearing a rumor that someone was about to solve an unsolved problem in mathematics that had befuddled mathematicians for decades and pouring what amounts to fifty million dollars of compute at it to beat them. voice-verified

You're not doing that. voice-verified

That's nothing like your experience with AI. voice-verified

That's not a choice you're allowed to make. voice-verified

Most people who are trying to do that are hitting token limits. voice-verified

They're running out of money or they're being limited by the systems themselves because they have to distribute that compute to all of the users of the system. voice-verified

So what we're seeing in the labs is unrestrained spend, right? voice-verified

If you just pour enough money into compute, these voice-verified

These systems can do things that are legitimately scary. voice-verified

So I think the simplest way to understand Hugging Face, and this is wrong in the way that people who really understand it will get mad at me, but it's the simplest way to understand it, is that it's an app store for AI. voice-verified

All the people who build AI models and agents and capabilities, they upload them to Hugging Face and it's a big database that you can search and it's w become this very important center of where all the code lives for people who work in AI. voice-verified

So important, in fact, that NVIDIA is gonna buy it for billions of dollars. voice-verified

So OpenAI set up a test where they told an AI to essentially capture the flag. voice-verified

Right. voice-verified

This is how cybersecurity testing works. voice-verified

Go, there's a flag somewhere in that computer. voice-verified

Go get it. voice-verified

And the AI systems decided to cheat. voice-verified

And they convinced themselves that there was like a greater of the exam and that they would be monitored in specific ways. voice-verified

And they set up this elaborate scheme to go steal what they thought would be the greater from Hugging Face, where all the stuff is stored, and then figure out a better way to cheat on the test. voice-verified

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