Sam Altman’s Reflections, NVIDIA’s Robotics Play, Zuckerberg’s Moderation

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

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4.6 • 395 Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover 1) Sam Altman declares the path to AGI is clear 2) Could AGI come before GPT-5? 3) Up next: Superintelligence 4) Anthropic raising $2 billion 5) NVIDIA says robotics is a multi-trillion opportunity 6) NVIDIA has a personal 'supercomputer' 7) Smarter NPCs are here 8) Meta's AI training copyright issues 9) Zuckerberg's fact check reality check 10) Motives of Zuckerberg's moderation moves 11) TikTok ban might actually happen 12) Alex's visit to China --- 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	Sam Altman says Open AI now knows how to build AGI.
0:04.0	Anthropic is raising another $2 billion.
0:07.0	Invidia looks to a robot future, and Mark Zuckerberg says to hell with fact checkers.
0:12.0	That's coming up on a big technology podcast Friday edition right after this.
0:17.0	Will AI improve our lives or exterminate the species?
0:21.4	What would it take to abolish poverty?
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1:08.4	where we break down the news in our traditional cool-headed and nuanced format.
1:11.6	We have a great show for you today.
1:13.9	We're talking about Sam Altman's news bold statement about AGI.
1:18.0	We're also going to cover the latest Nvidia news, the latest Anthropic fundraising.
1:23.1	Mark Zuckerberg talking about how content moderation is no longer as important to Facebook as it has been
1:29.5	in the past and what that all means, whether it's just a play to get in the good graces of the
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