About this episode

The episode discusses the ongoing developments and controversies in the AI industry, featuring key players like OpenAI and Anthropic.

Episode 750 arrives with a simple reminder: the bullshit never sleeps. This week Jason and Brian dive headfirst into a game of Douchebag Ping Pong featuring OpenAI, Anthropic, Elon Musk, and the rest of the AI industrial complex. OpenAI is preparing to go public while simultaneously transforming ChatGPT into an everything app, Anthropic wants the world to slow down AI development before Skynet shows up for work, and then immediately releases a more powerful model because apparently self-awareness only goes so far. Meanwhile, Sam Altman’s eyeball-scanning side hustle is laying people off, proving that convincing humans to hand over their biometric data remains a surprisingly difficult sales pitch. The AI arms race gets even weirder as SpaceX unveils plans for orbital data centers the size of flying football fields while Google and Anthropic shovel billions into Elon’s compute empire just to keep their models fed. On Earth, Seattle is trying to ban new AI data centers before they drink the city dry, Meta is planting AI infrastructure in India, Google is slashing Gemini prices, and a Mississippi judge discovers that lawyers on both sides of a case used AI to invent legal citations…

People in this episode

Hosts: Jason DeFillippo, Brian Schulmeister

Topics covered

• AI development
• technology news
• OpenAI
• Anthropic
• Elon Musk
• biometric data
• AI infrastructure

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceX, Google, Meta

Products: ChatGPT

Books & works: Skynet

Places: Seattle, Mississippi

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