1-800-Chat-GPT, Neuralink’s Potential, Meta's Live AI

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

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4.6 • 395 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover 1) OpenAI's o3 reasoning model 2) Is reasoning a real step forward or a head fake after other methods hit a wall 3) Is AI reasoning too expensive 4) AI models attempt to trick their trainers 5) Are we getting close to AGI? 6) Is it silly to start discussing AI sentience now? 7) 1-800-CHAT-GPT 8) Okay, we call ChatGPT 9) Assessing Neuralink's prospects 10) Meta brings Live AI to its smart glasses 11) And live translation too 12) A tech prediction each for 2025 --- Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rate us five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of choice. For weekly updates on the show, sign up for the pod newsletter on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/6901970121829801984/ Want a discount for Big Technology on Substack? Here’s 40% off for the first year: https://tinyurl.com/bigtechnology Questions? Feedback? Write to: [email protected]

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0:00.0	OpenAI has an impressive new reasoning model. You can call chat GPT now too, is Nerlink, as promising as it sounds, plus some predictions for 2025. That's coming up on a Big Technology Podcast Friday edition right after this.
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0:57.1	Welcome to Big Technology Podcast Friday edition where we break down the news in our traditional
1:01.5	cool-headed and nuanced format. We have a great show for you today covering the latest in OpenAI
1:06.7	revisiting my Neurrelink interview with Nolan Arbaugh. And then of course, we're going to get some predictions in for 2025.
1:13.6	Joining us, as always, on Fridays is Ron John Roy of Margins.
1:16.6	Ron John, great to see you.
1:17.6	How you doing?
1:18.6	Great to see you.
1:19.6	Listeners cannot see, but Alex is currently in Australia and has a tiny microphone in his hand.
1:24.6	And I feel like I'm doing a TikTok influencer type thing right now.
1:28.3	That's exactly what it looks like on the screen.
1:31.3	Luckily, we're not going to show any of the video of this.
1:34.3	But yes, I'm in Australia, last day of work before some, I think, needed winter vacation.
1:39.3	And let me just tell you the flight here is crazy.
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