The AI Productivity Paradox, New LLM Architecture, AlphaFold Shutting Down, 10 Math Breakthroughs

NEWS

00:35 AlphaFold shuts down
03:51 Gemini? Gemini? Bueller? Bueller?

04:20 OpenAI solves 10 major math problems

09:00 A possible third LLM scaling law discovered
13:13 OpenAI previews new model, Astra, to lawmakers

SECURITY

16:55 OpenAI vs Apple lawsuit

21:50 Frontier models keep hacking other companies

ECONOMICS

30:15 AI writes 17× more code—but why are companies only ~30% more productive?

35:00 Where software development actually spends its time

38:00 Why AI changes amount of code and why that may not equate to products shipped

MATH / SCIENCE

40:45 The Dark Night of Mathematics

49:00 OpenAI gives free AI access to 100,000 scientists
49:32 OpenAI releases 10 new math proofs

52:00 AI breaks a theorem solver to get the result it wanted!

WEIRD

54:22 AI Teacher sex bots program shutdown... surprise surprise
55:20 Google Earth AI deepfakes

58:00 What happens to AI models when you remove their ability to refuse requests?

1:02:00 HumorGen and how AI still can't write jokes

Each week, join Chris Slowe (founding engineer, former CTO, and now Senior Technical Fellow @ Reddit), Marty Weiner (founding engineer at Pinterest, also a former CTO at Reddit, and co-founder at VerifyYou), and Zach Weinersmith (Creator SMBC Comics, Co-Author of several NYTimes best sellers including A City on Mars and Soonish) as we delve into the latest in AI and Tech News.

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