This week, OpenAI announced the release of a partnership with Microsoft and an aggressive new strategy to secure computing power. We unpacked what these updates signal about OpenAI’s business strategy and whether the company can scale while balancing a trial with Elon Musk and investor concerns about missed financial targets. After that, AI researcher Dr. Harvard Medical School’s Adam Rodman returns to tell us about the most significant ways artificial intelligence is changing the way doctors treat patients. Finally, can an LLM trained only on very old texts predict the future? We’re talking to one of the creators of the chatbot talkie.
Guests
Dr. Adam Rodmanan internal medicine physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School.
David Duvenaudassociate professor at the University of Toronto, former team leader at Anthropic and co-creator talkies.
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“Hard Fork” is hosted by Kevin Roose and Casey Newton and produced by Whitney Jones and Rachel Cohn. This episode was edited by Vjeran Pavic. Engineering by Daniel Ramirez and original music by Dan Powell, Marion Lozano, Diane Wong and Rowan Niemisto. Fact-checking by Caitlin Love.
Special thanks to Paula Szuchman, Pui-Wing Tam, and Dahlia Haddad.
