A Lot Has Happened in A.I. Let’s Catch Up.
About this episode
One year after ChatGPT's release, Klein catches up with tech journalists Kevin Roose and Casey Newton on how much A.I. has changed. They survey capability gains — multimodal models, coding copilots, real-world integrations like Notion and medical dictation — and the emerging market for A.I. companions, friends, and therapists. They dissect Sam Altman's firing by OpenAI's board as a story of control rather than safety, argue that A.I. governance is going worse even as technical safety research advances, and debate Meta's open-source approach under Yann LeCun. They assess Biden's A.I. executive order, lament the government's failure to build public-sector A.I. capacity or compete for talent, compare regulatory approaches in China and the EU, and close with predictions — including A.I.'s continued hollowing of the media industry and better universal translators.