Tag: podcast
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What the EU’s AI Act means for service firm professionals
While the EU AI Act may not likely have an immediate impact on the legal and tax professions — similar to the recent U.S. Executive Order on AI, which primarily focused on the technology and government sectors — its passing does signal a willingness from lawmakers to tackle AI usage. Still, as a first step by […]
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Babbage: Artificial intelligence enters its industrial age | Babbage from The Economist on Acast
A new type of artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly emerging as a candidate to become the next major general-purpose technology. “Foundational AI” will inject itself into many human endeavours—from writing to coding to drug discovery. We explore why foundation models could end up having an economic impact similar to that of electricity, and why the […]
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The Ezra Klein Show: Is A.I. the Problem? Or Are We? on Apple Podcasts
Another thoughtful conversation about the various alignment problems associated with A.I. We discuss what machine learning is and how it works, how governments and corporations are using it right now, what it has taught us about human learning, the ethics of how humans should treat sentient robots, the all-important question of how A.I. developers plan […]
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The Ezra Klein Show: Sam Altman on the A.I. Revolution, Trillionaires and the Future of Political Power on Apple Podcasts
This is a conversation, then, about the political economy of the next technological age. Some of it is speculative, of course, but some of it isn’t. That shift of power and wealth is already underway. Altman is proposing an answer: a move toward taxing land and wealth, and distributing it to all. We talk about […]