What’s a Hard Fork?
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
It's your day to play.
It's your morning to make the most of.
It's your way to love.
It's your climate to consider.
It's your answer to what should I watch? It's your money to save. It's your song to analyze line by line. It's your 10 ways to find a little calm. It's your world to understand.
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Casey, how would you describe our podcast, Hard Fork, to someone who's never heard of it before?
I'd say the premise of our show is, what if an esteemed technology columnist for the New York Times was constantly interrupted by his gay friend? And then we just kind of did that for an hour. No, it's a lot more than that.
It's a show where we talk about the news. So Sam Bankman-Fried is having one of the worst weeks because this week he went to jail.
We'll go to a robot lab. Hello, Kevin and Casey. Ride around in self-driving cars.
We're getting picked up in a car called Banana Slug.
And get creative with AI.
Here's the prompt we gave ChatGPT. Give me a recipe for a cocktail that features all three of the following ingredients. Kiwi hot sauce, lavender, and lime.
Oh my God. Cheers. I've had worse cocktails. I'll be honest.
What is the Hard Fork podcast’s premise and tone?
We talked to the biggest players in tech, like the CEO of Google. I do think it's a bit ironic that Microsoft can call someone else an 800-pound gorilla, given the scale and size of their company.
We're talking to school teachers, college professors, and listeners with real tech problems in their lives that need to be solved.
How do Kevin and Casey describe the show’s format and topics?
Kate, should this person create a synthetic version of their beloved's voice and have it tell them that they love them?
No.
They should not. It's a conversation about tech and the future. We're two friends, both reporters. We get together once a week to talk about the biggest stories in tech. And gossip a little. Let's be real. Oh, yeah. You can find Hard Fork wherever you get your podcasts.
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Meta Shifts the Blame + Do Data Center Bans Work? + The Final HatGPT
OpenAI’s Two-Week Pause + Jill Lepore on the Threat of the “Artificial State” + Train of Thought
Zuckerberg’s Anti-Doom Fantasy + Finally an A.I. Detector That Works + A.I. Math