Episodes
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11 episodes in 2022
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33m Elon Musk Laid Me Off At Twitter: Simon Balmain
In this emergency episode of the Big Technology Podcast, host Alex Kantrowitz interviews laid-off Senior Community Manager Simon Balmain to unpack the chaotic internal execution, leadership …
13 statements 5 featured 4 assessments
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31m Fantasy and Fact: AI, Sentience and The Dangers Of Hype, from World Summit AI
Recorded live at World Summit AI, this panel hosted by Alex Kantrowitz brings together leading AI researchers and a cognitive neuroscientist to demystify artificial intelligence, separate fu…
9 statements 3 featured
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1h 3m Saagar Enjeti and Marshall Kosloff on Midterms, Trump, Economy, and Ukraine
Host Alex Kantrowitz is joined by political analysts Saagar Enjeti and Marshall Kosloff to analyze the 2022 midterm political landscape, economic inflation, and foreign policy in Ukraine bef…
21 statements 4 featured 9 assessments 4 contradicted
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55m How Amazon Reinvents with Artificial Intelligence
In this episode of Studio Shift, tech journalist and author Alex Kantrowitz breaks down the internal cultures, operating mechanics, and strategic vulnerabilities of Silicon Valley giants lik…
21 statements 6 featured 2 assessments
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1h 3m Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen On Product, Competition, And Transparency
In a live recording of the Big Technology Podcast, host Alex Kantrowitz interviews Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen regarding algorithmic amplification, platform governance, tech compet…
22 statements 6 featured 9 assessments 2 contradicted
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1h 2m Is AI Dangerously Overhyped? — With Gary Marcus
Cognitive scientist Gary Marcus joins host Alex Kantrowitz on the Big Technology Podcast to critically evaluate generative AI, deconstruct claims of machine sentience like Google's LaMDA, an…
18 statements 4 featured 2 assessments
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39m Pt. 2: Google Engineer Says Its AI is SENTIENT (And Responds To Criticism)
Former Google senior software engineer Blake Lemoine discusses his assertion of LaMDA's sentience, the ethical and legal implications of artificial personhood, and the necessity of democrati…
13 statements 6 featured 1 assessments
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41m Google Engineer Says Its AI is SENTIENT
In this in-depth interview, former Google senior software engineer Blake Lemoine details his testing of Google's LaMDA AI system, arguing why its emotional responsiveness, philosophical soph…
16 statements 4 featured 3 assessments
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44m Jonathan Haidt: Why Social Media Makes Our Society Stupid
Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt joins Alex Kantrowitz on the Big Technology Podcast to analyze how social media architecture induces 'structural stupidity' across democratic institutions,…
23 statements 6 featured 5 assessments
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32m Wait, The Robots Didn't Take Our Jobs? — With Erik Brynjolfsson
In this interview recorded at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Big Technology Podcast host Alex Kantrowitz speaks with Stanford economist Erik Brynjolfsson about why AI has not caused mass…
9 statements 4 featured 4 assessments 1 contradicted
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57m Ethereum Co-Founder Gavin Wood On What Web3 Is Actually Good For
Ethereum co-founder and Polkadot creator Gavin Wood discusses the ideological origins, architectural foundations, and real-world necessity of Web3, explaining how cryptographic systems can o…
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