Beijing, every mention
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every year 2025 anyone Grace Shao 12Condoleezza Rice 6Alex Kantrowitz 6Yann LeCun 2Dwarkesh Patel 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Beijing comes up
Google’s Best Week Ever, AI’s Rising Costs, Putin and Xi’s Immortality Quest
- ▶ 46:34 Alex Kantrowitz Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russia president Vladimir Putin chatted about how advances in science could prolong the human lifespan in a rare hot mic moment in the Chinese capital.
Condoleezza Rice: U.S. Tech at Risk Amid University Cuts, China Threat
- ▶ 2:28 Condoleezza Rice And, ah, I would say that's largely a decision that Beijing made.
- ▶ 8:13 Condoleezza Rice Well, all of that has been wiped away in Hong Kong, and Hong Kong is now really just another province of China, except for some economic freedoms which benefit Beijing. 5 times in the scene
Dwarkesh Patel: AI Continuous Improvement, Intelligence Explosion, Memory, Frontier Lab Competition
- ▶ 1:02:57 Alex Kantrowitz I went to Beijing. 2 times in the scene
Why China's AI Strategy Just Might Work — With Grace Shao
- ▶ 29:54 Grace Shao A year and a half ago, I was visiting Beijing for a work trip, and I just popped into a TCM doctor's office for, like, uh, acupuncture, just as in, like, generic shoulder pains, right?
- ▶ 42:44 Grace Shao Like, if you think about China, of the modern China, you think of Beijing, Shanghai, the quality of life is no different from New York or LA, right? 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:58 Grace Shao And then it's kind of far from Beijing. 3 times in the scene
Why Can't AI Make Its Own Discoveries? — With Yann LeCun
- ▶ 57:10 Yann LeCun And, uh, one thing that is not widely known is that the single most cited paper in all of science is a paper on deep learning from 10 years ago, from 2015, and it came out of Beijing. 2 times in the scene