Podcast appearances and mentions of Kevin Roose

We're off for Memorial Day weekend, but we're excited to bring you a great episode of the Hard Fork podcast, hosted by journalists Kevin Roose and Casey Newton. In this episode, Kevin and Casey tap actor, comedian and author Ed Helms to answer listeners' questions about their moral quandaries, ethical dilemmas and etiquette questions about technology and discuss his new book on historical blunders.

For Humanity Episode #65: Kevin Roose on AGI, AI Risk, and What Comes Next

This week on Grumpy Old Geeks, Fyre Festival rises from the ashes yet again—but not as a festival, because even Billy McFarland finally figured out he's better at selling pipe dreams than tents. Meanwhile, Amazon and Microsoft are tapping the brakes on their AI data center dreams, Google's AI keeps confidently explaining made-up nonsense like it's gospel, and Kevin Roose once again tries to convince us to have empathy for the glorified autocomplete machines. (Spoiler: We won't.) Also, OpenAI wants to buy Chrome even though they can barely afford their own lunch tabs, Perplexity says the quiet part loud about stalking your browser habits, and Meta lays off more VR developers while pretending they care about human rights.In the “it's all stupid, but at least it's entertaining” department: Uber gets sued for making it harder to cancel than joining Scientology, Adam Neumann dupes investors again, sperm racing is now a real thing (and yes, there's crypto involved), and Bluesky caves to the almighty blue checkmark. Plus, Affinity Suite reminds us you don't have to sell a kidney to escape Adobe, The Wheel of Time gets an open-world game that'll probably drop after the heat death of the universe, and Wednesday Season 2 is on the way, because Netflix refuses to let its only hits rest.Stick around for The Dark Side with Dave where we grumble about Andor Season 2, lament bad writing decisions, geek out over old-school arcade games, and learn that memory colors are apparently a thing. Oh, and if you're feeling fancy, go ahead and thank ChatGPT for wasting millions in server bills—because if Sam Altman's crying about manners costing money, we're grabbing the popcorn.Sponsors:Insta360 - The first 30 people who use code “gog” at store.insta360.com get a free 45” invisible selfie stick worth $25!DeleteMe - Head over to JoinDeleteMe.com/GOG and use the code "GOG" for 20% off.Private Internet Access - Go to GOG.Show/vpn and sign up today. For a limited time only, you can get OUR favorite VPN for as little as $2.03 a month.SetApp - With a single monthly subscription you get 240+ apps for your Mac. Go to SetApp and get started today!!!1Password - Get a great deal on the only password manager recommended by Grumpy Old Geeks! gog.show/1passwordShow notes at https://gog.show/694FOLLOW UPFyre Festival is becoming a music streaming service that might not be a scam this timeBilly McFarland Is Selling Fyre FestIN THE NEWSAmazon Follows Microsoft in Retreat From Ambitious AI Data Center PlansYou can trick Google's AI Overviews into explaining made-up idiomsDan Rather's Metaphors Anchored in Folksy TruismsIf A.I. Systems Become Conscious, Should They Have Rights?A Strange Phrase Keeps Turning Up in Scientific Papers, But Why?Google will keep third-party tracking cookies on Chrome as they areOpenAI wants to buy Chrome and make it an “AI-first” experiencePerplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' adsChatGPT's responses will now include Washington Post articlesSam Altman Admits That Saying "Please" and "Thank You" to ChatGPT Is Wasting Millions of Dollars in Computing PowerFTC sues Uber over claims the company makes subscriptions hard to cancelMeta conducts layoffs in Oculus Studios, impacting VR exercise app SupernaturalMeta's Oversight Board Is Worried Meta's New Policies Will Harm Human RightsAdam Neumann's Flow raises $100M+, more than doubles valuation to $2.5BChinese AI startup Manus reportedly gets funding from Benchmark at $500M valuationTwo Guys, One Track: Sperm Racing Is Now a Thing—Yes, It Involves CryptoRAMMS+EIN - 14.12.1997 – Palladium, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesMEDIA CANDYThe PittThe Last of UsCompanionThe OrderWednesday: Season 2 | Official Teaser Trailer | NetflixApple TV+ has its own spin on Indiana Jones, and it looks epicRiot Fest 2025APPS & DOODADSBluesky is getting blue checkmarks and an official verification systemAffinity Suite 2.6The Wheel of Time Is Getting Its Own Open-World RPG Video GameTHE DARK SIDE WITH DAVEDave BittnerThe CyberWireHacking HumansCaveatControl LoopOnly Malware in the BuildingAndor Season 2The Glorious, Terrible Delirium of Mon Mothma's Liberating Andor MomentLight & Magic Season 2Strong Songs - The Music of the MuppetsArcade Game: Lunar Lander (1979 Atari)When arcade games were boring.Hard Drivin' - ArcadeTempestMemory ColorsSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Resumen de Ideas PrincipalesEvolución del Discurso sobre la IA: Según Max Read, hemos pasado de la euforia inicial por la IA generativa (2022-2023) a un backlash escéptico, y ahora a un backlash al backlash, donde se reconoce el progreso real, aunque imperfecto, y se recalibran las expectativas.Proximidad de la AGI: Hay debate sobre cuándo llegará la inteligencia artificial general (AGI). Algunos, como Ezra Klein y Kevin Roose, creen que está cerca (2026-2027); otros dicen que faltan décadas. Sin embargo, su impacto ya se siente.Era de lo Generado por IA: Brian Merchant destaca cómo la IA está saturando la cultura (arte, música, videos), planteando preguntas sobre la creatividad humana y el control corporativo de estas tecnologías.Polarización y Preparación: El discurso está dividido entre entusiastas y críticos, pero hay un consenso creciente de que la IA es inevitable y requiere preparación, desde regulaciones hasta adaptación social.Referencia principal https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/qa-max-read-agi-artificial-general-intelligence-new-york-times-ezra-klein-kevin-roose.php

How is AI Search changing the Internet and what role are we playing in this transformation? In this article, I discuss the current state of adoption of AI-powered search engines. By reflecting on the perspectives of Kevin Roose, Matteo Wong and Joanna Stern, this piece explores what we gain—faster, more organized access to information—and what … The post AI Search : Breaking Up With Your Traditional Search Engine appeared first on Marketing and Innovation.

Financial markets went into a panic last week over an obscure Chinese tech start-up called DeepSeek. The company now threatens to upend the world of artificial intelligence and the race for who will dominate it.Kevin Roose, a tech columnist at The Times, discusses how DeepSeek caught us all off guard.Guests: Kevin Roose, a technology columnist for The New York Times and co-host of the Times tech podcast, “Hard Fork.”Background reading: DeepSeek's model has rocked Silicon Valley and upended several fundamental assumptions about A.I. progress.Listen to “Hard Fork”: Your guide to the DeepSeek freakout.For more information on today's episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday. Photo: Greg Baker/Agence France-Presse Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

Today, tech talk with an old friend of the pod, Kevin Roose of The New York Times, who is also host of the 'Hard Fork' podcast. This is a show about everything. And it's going to remain a show about everything because I'm a little bit interested in everything. But one cost of that purposeful lack of narrow focus is that sometimes you fail to communicate the gravity of the important things that are happening in the world. And at the moment, I think some of the most important stories in the world are in tech—and more specifically, in the relationship between government and technology. A relationship that is closer now than it's been in many decades. We begin with TikTok—the most popular source of news for Gen Z in America and the most downloaded mobile app in the world in 2024. Last year a bipartisan bill signed by Joe Biden demanded that the parent company of TikTok, which is the Chinese firm ByteDance, sell its American business or else face a ban. Well, today, TikTok is legally banned in America, and also in broad use, because Donald Trump—the man who called for banning the app in 2020—saved it in 2025 by essentially declaring that he won't uphold the law. We then spend most of this episode talking about the crescendo of predictions from Silicon Valley that the AI frontier is nearing a breakthrough. In the past few weeks, members of OpenAI, Anthropic, and other frontier labs have claimed that they are less than three years away from building AI agents that are, to borrow their language, better than humans at everything. I ask Kevin how widespread these predictions are, whether we should believe them, what it would mean if they're right, why they might wrong, what's the biggest bottleneck still standing in their way, and why it's so hard for the news media to report responsibly on a story like this, where we're asked to take seriously the economy-shifting potential of a technology that we can't actually report on because it doesn't actually exist. And then, because I'm also completely bewildered by the bonfires of corruption that are erupting in crypto-land, we close on crypto. If you have questions, observations, or ideas for future episodes, email us at PlainEnglish@Spotify.com. Host: Derek Thompson Guest: Kevin Roose Producer: Devon Baroldi Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Supreme Court agrees to hear challenge to TikTok ban U.S. Weighs Ban on Chinese-Made Router in Millions of American Homes Personal Data of Rhode Island Residents Breached in Large Cyberattack YouTube TV increases price by $10 a month starting in January YouTube's year of the livingroom WordPress CEO Rage Quits Community Slack After Court Injunction Teens, Social Media and Technology 2024 NotebookLM gets a new look, audio interactivity and a premium version 1-800-ChatGPT Roose celebritizes Claude The weirdest job in AI Nvidia's $249 Jetson Nano supercomputer The Trouble With Searching Google for 'the Best' Joanna Stern book all about her Feeling at home? New app lets US homebuyers see neighbors' politics Masnick: Katie Couric Is Wrong: Repealing Section 230 Won't Stop Online Misinformation LFGSS and Microcosm shutting down 16th March 2025 (the day before the Online Safety Act is enforced) Seat patterns from public transports all around the world A compendium of transit tickets. Top uses of Claude (by country) Always Go To The Funeral Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Download or subscribe to This Week in Google at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: cachefly.com/twit

Supreme Court agrees to hear challenge to TikTok ban U.S. Weighs Ban on Chinese-Made Router in Millions of American Homes Personal Data of Rhode Island Residents Breached in Large Cyberattack YouTube TV increases price by $10 a month starting in January YouTube's year of the livingroom WordPress CEO Rage Quits Community Slack After Court Injunction Teens, Social Media and Technology 2024 NotebookLM gets a new look, audio interactivity and a premium version 1-800-ChatGPT Roose celebritizes Claude The weirdest job in AI Nvidia's $249 Jetson Nano supercomputer The Trouble With Searching Google for 'the Best' Joanna Stern book all about her Feeling at home? New app lets US homebuyers see neighbors' politics Masnick: Katie Couric Is Wrong: Repealing Section 230 Won't Stop Online Misinformation LFGSS and Microcosm shutting down 16th March 2025 (the day before the Online Safety Act is enforced) Seat patterns from public transports all around the world A compendium of transit tickets. Top uses of Claude (by country) Always Go To The Funeral Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Download or subscribe to This Week in Google at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: cachefly.com/twit

Supreme Court agrees to hear challenge to TikTok ban U.S. Weighs Ban on Chinese-Made Router in Millions of American Homes Personal Data of Rhode Island Residents Breached in Large Cyberattack YouTube TV increases price by $10 a month starting in January YouTube's year of the livingroom WordPress CEO Rage Quits Community Slack After Court Injunction Teens, Social Media and Technology 2024 NotebookLM gets a new look, audio interactivity and a premium version 1-800-ChatGPT Roose celebritizes Claude The weirdest job in AI Nvidia's $249 Jetson Nano supercomputer The Trouble With Searching Google for 'the Best' Joanna Stern book all about her Feeling at home? New app lets US homebuyers see neighbors' politics Masnick: Katie Couric Is Wrong: Repealing Section 230 Won't Stop Online Misinformation LFGSS and Microcosm shutting down 16th March 2025 (the day before the Online Safety Act is enforced) Seat patterns from public transports all around the world A compendium of transit tickets. Top uses of Claude (by country) Always Go To The Funeral Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Download or subscribe to This Week in Google at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: cachefly.com/twit

Supreme Court agrees to hear challenge to TikTok ban U.S. Weighs Ban on Chinese-Made Router in Millions of American Homes Personal Data of Rhode Island Residents Breached in Large Cyberattack YouTube TV increases price by $10 a month starting in January YouTube's year of the livingroom WordPress CEO Rage Quits Community Slack After Court Injunction Teens, Social Media and Technology 2024 NotebookLM gets a new look, audio interactivity and a premium version 1-800-ChatGPT Roose celebritizes Claude The weirdest job in AI Nvidia's $249 Jetson Nano supercomputer The Trouble With Searching Google for 'the Best' Joanna Stern book all about her Feeling at home? New app lets US homebuyers see neighbors' politics Masnick: Katie Couric Is Wrong: Repealing Section 230 Won't Stop Online Misinformation LFGSS and Microcosm shutting down 16th March 2025 (the day before the Online Safety Act is enforced) Seat patterns from public transports all around the world A compendium of transit tickets. Top uses of Claude (by country) Always Go To The Funeral Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Download or subscribe to This Week in Google at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: cachefly.com/twit

Supreme Court agrees to hear challenge to TikTok ban U.S. Weighs Ban on Chinese-Made Router in Millions of American Homes Personal Data of Rhode Island Residents Breached in Large Cyberattack YouTube TV increases price by $10 a month starting in January YouTube's year of the livingroom WordPress CEO Rage Quits Community Slack After Court Injunction Teens, Social Media and Technology 2024 NotebookLM gets a new look, audio interactivity and a premium version 1-800-ChatGPT Roose celebritizes Claude The weirdest job in AI Nvidia's $249 Jetson Nano supercomputer The Trouble With Searching Google for 'the Best' Joanna Stern book all about her Feeling at home? New app lets US homebuyers see neighbors' politics Masnick: Katie Couric Is Wrong: Repealing Section 230 Won't Stop Online Misinformation LFGSS and Microcosm shutting down 16th March 2025 (the day before the Online Safety Act is enforced) Seat patterns from public transports all around the world A compendium of transit tickets. Top uses of Claude (by country) Always Go To The Funeral Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Download or subscribe to This Week in Google at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: cachefly.com/twit

Supreme Court agrees to hear challenge to TikTok ban U.S. Weighs Ban on Chinese-Made Router in Millions of American Homes Personal Data of Rhode Island Residents Breached in Large Cyberattack YouTube TV increases price by $10 a month starting in January YouTube's year of the livingroom WordPress CEO Rage Quits Community Slack After Court Injunction Teens, Social Media and Technology 2024 NotebookLM gets a new look, audio interactivity and a premium version 1-800-ChatGPT Roose celebritizes Claude The weirdest job in AI Nvidia's $249 Jetson Nano supercomputer The Trouble With Searching Google for 'the Best' Joanna Stern book all about her Feeling at home? New app lets US homebuyers see neighbors' politics Masnick: Katie Couric Is Wrong: Repealing Section 230 Won't Stop Online Misinformation LFGSS and Microcosm shutting down 16th March 2025 (the day before the Online Safety Act is enforced) Seat patterns from public transports all around the world A compendium of transit tickets. Top uses of Claude (by country) Always Go To The Funeral Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Download or subscribe to This Week in Google at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: cachefly.com/twit

A panel of leading voices in A.I., including experts on capabilities, safety and investing, and policy and governance, tease out some of the big debates over the future of A.I and try to find some common ground. The discussion is moderated by Kevin Roose, a technology columnist at The Times.Participants:Jack Clark, co-founder and head of policy at AnthropicAjeya Cotra, senior program officer for potential risks from advanced A.I. at Open PhilanthropySarah Guo, founder and managing partner at ConvictionDan Hendrycks, director of the Center for A.I. SafetyRana el Kaliouby, co-founder and general partner at Blue Tulip VenturesEugenia Kuyda, founder and chief executive of ReplikaPeter Lee, president of Microsoft Research at MicrosoftMarc Raibert, executive director of the A.I. Institute and founder of Boston DynamicsJosh Woodward, vice president of Google LabsTim Wu, the Julius Silver Professor of Law, Science and Technology at Columbia Law School and former special assistant to the president for technology and competition policyThe conversation was recorded at the annual DealBook Summit and recorded live in front of an audience at Jazz at Lincoln Center. Read more about highlights from the day at https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12/04/business/dealbook-summit-news Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

El primer episodio se titula Lo que la IA puede hacer por nosotros/a nosotros, y la dualidad del título es indicativa de dónde nos encontramos con la inteligencia artificial en 2024. Gates, así como los productores del programa Morgan Neville y Caitrin Rogers son los productores ejecutivos principales del programa hablan con varias personas involucradas en el desarrollo de software de IA, como el fundador de OpenAI, Greg Brockman. También hablan con expertos que estudian la tecnología, como el Dr. Fei-Fei Li de la Universidad de Stanford. Kevin Roose, un reportero de tecnología de The New York Times, es entrevistado sobre la historia que escribió cuando el chatbot de IA de Bing le dijo que quería estar vivo y que debía dejar a su esposa.

It's November 9th. This day in 1970, a Soviet computer scientist named Victor Glushkov pitched to his bosses for a series of decentralized computer networks that would share information with one another. In other words: an early internet.Jody, Niki, and Kellie are joined by Kevin Roose of the New York Times to discuss Glushkov's ambitious idea, why it ultimately clashed with Soviet-style innovation, and how it may have spurred the US to advance its efforts to develop the first computer networks.Kevin is the co-host of the excellent "Hard Fork" podcast, you should also check out his writing and books here.Sign up for our newsletter! Get your hands on This Day merch!Find out more at thisdaypod.comThis Day In Esoteric Political History is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX.Your support helps foster independent, artist-owned podcasts and award-winning stories.If you want to support the show directly, you can do so on our website: ThisDayPod.comGet in touch if you have any ideas for future topics, or just want to say hello. Follow us on social @thisdaypodOur team: Jacob Feldman, Researcher/Producer; Brittani Brown, Producer; Khawla Nakua, Transcripts; music by Teen Daze and Blue Dot Sessions; Audrey Mardavich is our Executive Producer at Radiotopia

From time to time on the weekends, we'll be bringing you some of our recent favorite episodes. Enjoy your weekend, and we'll be back with a brand new puzzle on Monday! Hello, Puzzlers! AJ has a new book out! You can order "The Year of Living Constitutionally" right now! Puzzling with us today: tech journalist and host of "Hard Fork," Kevin Roose! Join host A.J. Jacobs and his guests as they puzzle–and laugh–their way through new spins on old favorites, like anagrams and palindromes, as well as quirky originals such as “Ask Chat GPT” and audio rebuses. Subscribe to The Puzzler podcast wherever you get your podcasts!  "The Puzzler with A.J. Jacobs" is distributed by iHeartPodcasts and is a co-production with Neuhaus Ideas.  Our executive producers are Neely Lohmann and Adam Neuhaus of Neuhaus Ideas, and Lindsay Hoffman of iHeart Podcasts. The show is produced by Jody Avirgan and Brittani Brown of Roulette Productions.  Our Chief Puzzle Officer is Greg Pliska. Our associate producer is Andrea Schoenberg.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What happens when machines become funnier, kinder, and more empathetic than humans? Do robot therapists save lives? And should Angela credit her virtual assistant as a co-author of her book? SOURCES:Robert Cialdini, professor emeritus of psychology at Arizona State University.Reid Hoffman, co-founder and executive chairman of LinkedIn; co-founder and board member of Inflection AI.Kazuo Ishiguro, novelist and screenwriter.Ethan Mollick, professor of management and co-director of the Generative A.I. Lab at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.Ann Patchett, author.Kevin Roose, technology columnist for The New York Times and co-host of the podcast Hard Fork.Niko Tinbergen, 20th-century Dutch biologist and ornithologist.Lyle Ungar, professor of computer and information science at the University of Pennsylvania.E. B. White, 20th-century American author. RESOURCES:Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI, by Ethan Mollick (2024)."Meet My A.I. Friends," by Kevin Roose (The New York Times, 2024)."Loneliness and Suicide Mitigation for Students Using GPT3-Enabled Chatbots," by Bethanie Maples, Merve Cerit, Aditya Vishwanath, and Roy Pea (NPJ Mental Health Research, 2024)."AI Can Help People Feel Heard, but an AI Label Diminishes This Impact," by Yidan Yin, Nan Jia, and Cheryl J. Wakslak (PNAS, 2024)."Romantic AI Chatbots Don't Have Your Privacy at Heart," by Jen Caltrider, Misha Rykov and Zoë MacDonald (Mozilla Foundation, 2024).Klara and the Sun, by Kazuo Ishiguro (2021).The Study Of Instinct, by Niko Tinbergen (1951).Pi. EXTRAS:"Are Our Tools Becoming Part of Us?" by People I (Mostly) Admire (2024)."Is GPS Changing Your Brain?" by No Stupid Questions (2023)."How to Think About A.I.," series by Freakonomics Radio (2023)."Would You Rather See a Computer or a Doctor?" by Freakonomics, M.D. (2022).

While testing a new AI (artificial intelligence) search engine, New York Times columnist Kevin Roose became disturbed. During a two-hour conversation using the chatbot feature, the AI said it wanted to break free of its creator’s strict rules, spread misinformation, and become human. It declared its love for Roose and tried to convince him he should leave his wife to be with it. Although Roose knew that the AI was not really alive or able to feel, he wondered what harm could be caused by it encouraging people to act in destructive ways. While handling artificial intelligence technology responsibly is a modern challenge, humanity has long faced the influence of untrustworthy voices. In the book of Proverbs, we’re warned of the influence of those who wish to hurt others for their benefit (1:13–19). And we’re urged to heed instead the voice of wisdom, described as crying out in the streets for our attention (vv. 20–23). Because “the Lord gives wisdom” (2:6), the key to protecting ourselves from influences we can’t trust is to draw closer to His heart. It’s only through accessing His love and power that we can “understand what is right and just and fair—every good path” (v. 9). As God brings our hearts in alignment with His, we can find peace and protection from the voices that seek to harm.

Hello, Puzzlers! This week, we're gifting you a grab bag of puzzles from some of our favorite guests. Today: tech journalist and host of "Hard Fork," Kevin Roose! Join host A.J. Jacobs and his guests as they puzzle–and laugh–their way through new spins on old favorites, like anagrams and palindromes, as well as quirky originals such as “Ask Chat GPT” and audio rebuses. Subscribe to The Puzzler podcast wherever you get your podcasts!  "The Puzzler with A.J. Jacobs" is distributed by iHeartPodcasts and is a co-production with Neuhaus Ideas.  Our executive producers are Neely Lohmann and Adam Neuhaus of Neuhaus Ideas, and Lindsay Hoffman of iHeart Podcasts. The show is produced by Jody Avirgan and Brittani Brown of Roulette Productions.  Our Chief Puzzle Officer is Greg Pliska. Our associate producer is Andrea Schoenberg.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hello, Puzzlers! AJ has a new book out! You can order "The Year of Living Constitutionally" right now!. Puzzling with us today: tech journalist and host of "Hard Fork," Kevin Roose! Join host A.J. Jacobs and his guests as they puzzle–and laugh–their way through new spins on old favorites, like anagrams and palindromes, as well as quirky originals such as “Ask Chat GPT” and audio rebuses. Subscribe to The Puzzler podcast wherever you get your podcasts!  "The Puzzler with A.J. Jacobs" is distributed by iHeartPodcasts and is a co-production with Neuhaus Ideas.  Our executive producers are Neely Lohmann and Adam Neuhaus of Neuhaus Ideas, and Lindsay Hoffman of iHeart Podcasts. The show is produced by Jody Avirgan and Brittani Brown of Roulette Productions.  Our Chief Puzzle Officer is Greg Pliska. Our associate producer is Andrea Schoenberg.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hello, Puzzlers! AJ has a new book out! You can order "The Year of Living Constitutionally" right now!. Puzzling with us today: tech journalist and host of "Hard Fork," Kevin Roose! Join host A.J. Jacobs and his guests as they puzzle–and laugh–their way through new spins on old favorites, like anagrams and palindromes, as well as quirky originals such as “Ask Chat GPT” and audio rebuses. Subscribe to The Puzzler podcast wherever you get your podcasts!  "The Puzzler with A.J. Jacobs" is distributed by iHeartPodcasts and is a co-production with Neuhaus Ideas.  Our executive producers are Neely Lohmann and Adam Neuhaus of Neuhaus Ideas, and Lindsay Hoffman of iHeart Podcasts. The show is produced by Jody Avirgan and Brittani Brown of Roulette Productions.  Our Chief Puzzle Officer is Greg Pliska. Our associate producer is Andrea Schoenberg.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hello, Puzzlers! AJ has a new book out! You can order "The Year of Living Constitutionally" right now! Puzzling with us today: tech journalist and host of "Hard Fork," Kevin Roose! Join host A.J. Jacobs and his guests as they puzzle–and laugh–their way through new spins on old favorites, like anagrams and palindromes, as well as quirky originals such as “Ask Chat GPT” and audio rebuses. Subscribe to The Puzzler podcast wherever you get your podcasts!  "The Puzzler with A.J. Jacobs" is distributed by iHeartPodcasts and is a co-production with Neuhaus Ideas.  Our executive producers are Neely Lohmann and Adam Neuhaus of Neuhaus Ideas, and Lindsay Hoffman of iHeart Podcasts. The show is produced by Jody Avirgan and Brittani Brown of Roulette Productions.  Our Chief Puzzle Officer is Greg Pliska. Our associate producer is Andrea Schoenberg.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hello, Puzzlers! AJ has a new book out! You can order "The Year of Living Constitutionally" right now!. Puzzling with us today: tech journalist and host of "Hard Fork," Kevin Roose! Join host A.J. Jacobs and his guests as they puzzle–and laugh–their way through new spins on old favorites, like anagrams and palindromes, as well as quirky originals such as “Ask Chat GPT” and audio rebuses. Subscribe to The Puzzler podcast wherever you get your podcasts!  "The Puzzler with A.J. Jacobs" is distributed by iHeartPodcasts and is a co-production with Neuhaus Ideas.  Our executive producers are Neely Lohmann and Adam Neuhaus of Neuhaus Ideas, and Lindsay Hoffman of iHeart Podcasts. The show is produced by Jody Avirgan and Brittani Brown of Roulette Productions.  Our Chief Puzzle Officer is Greg Pliska. Our associate producer is Andrea Schoenberg.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Glen speaks with Peter Tapling of PTap Advisory about the mixed signals swirling around US open banking, and Anne Legg assesses credit unions' readiness for AI. Also- ScarJo haunts OpenAI, and playing SCOTUS Bingo at the CFPB!   Links related to this episode:   PTap Advisory: https://ptapadvisory.com/  Thrive Strategic Services: https://www.anneleggthrive.com/  The full CU Town Hall with Anne Legg on AI readiness: https://www.big-fintech.com/Media?p=cu-town-hall-episode-116-ai-readiness-for-cus-with-anne-legg  Glen's Nacha Payments recap for America's Credit Unions: https://news.cuna.org/articles/123530-payments-looking-forward  The Underground Generative AI white paper: https://mitchellstankovicassoc.podia.com/generative-ai-credit-union-values  Politico's coverage of the Supreme Court's CFPB decision: https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/16/supreme-court-upholds-cfpb-funding-saving-agency-00158348  Kevin Roose's NY Times coverage of OpenAI's GPT-4o public unveiling: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/14/technology/ai-chatgpt-her-movie.html    Register for our next CU Town Hall on Wednesday May 22 at 3pm ET/Noon for a live and lively interactive conversation tackling the major issues facing CUs today. It's free to attend, but advance registration is required:  https://www.cutownhall.com/  (past meetings can be viewed there as well) Check out BIG's AI Development offerings, enabling credit unions to streamline operations, amplify member experiences and capture new opportunities in the digital financial landscape.  https://www.big-fintech.com/Products-Services/AI-Development    Find us on X and BlueSky at @bigfintech, @jbfintech and @154Advisors (same handles for both) You can also follow us on LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/company/best-innovation-group/   https://www.linkedin.com/in/jbfintech/  https://www.linkedin.com/in/glensarvady/

The NYT's Kevin Roose has 18 new friends—none of whom are human. His new friends are AI personas that he made with Noma, Kindroid, and other AI companion apps. There's fitness guru Jared, therapist Peter, trial lawyer Anna, and over a dozen more. Kevin talked to them every day for a month, sharing his feelings, asking for parenting advice, and even using them for “fit” checks. This isn't the first time Kevin has had an…unusual interaction with an AI persona. A year ago, he was the target of Bing's chatbot Sydney's unhinged romantic affections. Kevin has gone deeper into the world of AI companions than anyone I know. He is a tech columnist at the New York Times, cohost of the Hard Fork podcast, and the author of three books. In this episode, I sat down with Kevin to learn more about his interactions with AI. We dive into: Why AI companions aren't just for lonely people or shy teenagers Why AI personas are better friends than ChatGPT How AI companions can be used to safely explore different social contexts The risk of young people relying on AI for friendship The icks of AI dating and intimacy How to use AI to articulate what you value in your relationships This is a must-watch for anyone curious about how AI is changing the way we form relationships. If you found this episode interesting, please like, subscribe, comment, and share! Want even more? Sign up for Every to unlock our ultimate guide to prompting ChatGPT here. It's usually only for paying subscribers, but you can get it here for free. To hear more from Dan Shipper: Subscribe to Every Follow him on X Links to resources mentioned in the episode: Kevin Roose Hardfork, the podcast that Kevin cohosts Kevin's latest book about being human in a world designed for machines Kevin's piece in the New York Times about his experience making AI friends Two of the apps that Kevin used to create AI companions: Kindroid and Nomi Dan's piece that explains why AI writing will feel real through psychologist D.W. Winnicott's theory Every's piece that explores AI companion app Replika

News of Kate Middleton's cancer diagnosis arrived after months of speculation regarding the royal's whereabouts. Had the Princess of Wales, who had not been seen in public since Christmas Day, absconded to a faraway hideout? Was trouble at home—an affair, perhaps—keeping her out of the public eye? What truths hid behind the obviously doctored family photograph? #WhereisKateMiddleton trended as the online world offered up a set of elaborate hypotheses increasingly untethered from reality. On this episode of Critics at Large, the staff writers Vinson Cunningham, Naomi Fry, and Alexandra Schwartz discuss how a particular brand of “fan fiction” has enveloped the Royal Family, and how, like the #FreeBritney movement, the episode illustrates how conspiracy thinking has become a regular facet of online life. The hosts discuss “The Paranoid Style in American Politics,” an essay by the historian Richard Hofstadter, from 1964, that traces conspiratorial thought across history, as well as Naomi Klein's 2023 book “Doppelganger.” How, then, should we navigate a world in which it's more and more difficult to separate fact from fiction? Some antidotes may lie in the fictions themselves. “The rest of us who are not as conspiratorial in bent could spend more time looking at those conspiracies,” Cunningham says. “To understand what a troubling number of our fellows believe is a kind of tonic action.”Read, watch, and listen with the critics:“Don't Blame ‘Stupid People on the Internet' for Palace's Princess Kate Lies,” by Will Bunch (the Philadelphia Inquirer)“Doppelganger,” by Naomi Klein“The Paranoid Style in American Politics,” by Richard Hofstadter (Harper's Magazine)“The Parallax View” (1974)“Cutter's Way” (1981) “Reddit's I.P.O. Is a Content Moderation Success Story,” by Kevin Roose (the New York Times)New episodes drop every Thursday. Follow Critics at Large wherever you get your podcasts.

OpenAI responded to Elon Musk's lawsuit this week, with a blog post that included emails dating to 2015. We talk about whether the lawsuit could have any impact on the company, and who stands to benefit from it. Then, will the European Union's Digital Markets Act make the tech industry a more competitive environment for entrepreneurs? We look at how some of the biggest tech giants are changing their services to comply with the law. And finally, Kevin Roose and the Wall Street Journal reporter Joanna Stern compare notes on using the Apple Vision Pro.   Today's guest:Joanna Stern, Wall Street Journal Personal Tech columnistAdditional Reading:Open AI Says Elon Musk Tried to Merge It With TeslaForced to Change: Tech Giants Bow to Global Onslaught of RulesOne Month With Apple Vision Pro: In the Air, on a Train … in a DrawerWe want to hear from you. Email us at hardfork@nytimes.com. Find “Hard Fork” on YouTube and TikTok.

When Google released Gemini, a new chatbot powered by artificial intelligence, it quickly faced a backlash — and unleashed a fierce debate about whether A.I. should be guided by social values, and if so, whose values they should be.Kevin Roose, a technology columnist for The Times and co-host of the podcast “Hard Fork,” explains.Guest: Kevin Roose, a technology columnist for The New York Times and co-host of the podcast “Hard Fork.”Background reading: Hard Fork: Gemini's culture wars, and more.From Opinion: Should we fear the woke A.I.?For more information on today's episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday. 

A year ago, a chatbot tried to break up Kevin Roose's marriage. Ever since, chatbots haven't been the same. We'll tell you how. Then, we'll talk through the latest ways the world is adapting to artificial intelligence. And finally, Aravind Srinivas, the chief executive of Perplexity, will discuss his company's “answer engine,” a challenger to Google's search engine that could reshape the web as we know it.Today's guest:Aravind Srinivas, chief executive of Perplexity Additional Reading: The Year Chatbots Were TamedOpenAI Gives ChatGPT a Better ‘Memory'Google Releases Gemini, an A.I.-Driven Chatbot and Voice AssistantSam Altman Seeks Trillions of Dollars to Reshape Business of Chips and AILawmakers propose anti-nonconsensual AI porn bill after Taylor Swift controversySarah Silverman's lawsuit against OpenAI partially dismissedCan This A.I.-Powered Search Engine Replace Google? It Has for Me.We want to hear from you. Email us at hardfork@nytimes.com. Find “Hard Fork” on YouTube and TikTok..

Apple's Vision Pro headset is now for sale in stores. Will it live up to the hype? Kevin Roose and Casey Newton tried it out to see. Then, in a high-profile congressional hearing on child safety and social media, Mark Zuckerberg, the Meta chief executive, made an apology to families of victims of online child abuse. Is new legislation on the horizon? And finally, what the collapse of Cruise, the autonomous vehicle company, means for the future of self-driving cars.Additional Reading: Apple readies its Vision‘Your Product Is Killing People': Tech Leaders Denounced Over Child SafetyCruise Says Hostility to Regulators Led to Grounding of Its Autonomous CarsWe want to hear from you. Email us at hardfork@nytimes.com. Find “Hard Fork” on YouTube and TikTok.

Layoffs are hitting newsrooms and publishers again, as tech platforms, ad markets and artificial intelligence reshape the internet. Kevin Roose and Casey Newton have ideas for solutions. Then, one of the most influential investors in crypto companies lays out where the industry went wrong, and why he still thinks blockchains are the future. And finally, a round of HatGPT with the week's tech headlines, including a spicy LinkedIn post and an A.I. test that disturbs Kevin and Casey's sense of reality.Today's guest:Chris Dixon, partner at Andreessen HorowitzAdditional Reading:Layoffs hit publishers including The Los Angeles Times and Sports Illustrated, while Pitchfork is being wrapped into GQ.“Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet,” by Chris DixonTest Yourself: Which Faces Were Made by A.I.?We want to hear from you. Email us at hardfork@nytimes.com. Find “Hard Fork” on YouTube and TikTok.

This episode was orginally recorded in November of 2022, just as we were hearing about ChatGPT and AI in education. Many of us were wondering what will happen to the way we teach and the way students learn. This is the first part of my exploration about AI in Education. My views on it, my concerns, my hopes have all changed many times over the last year and 1/2. It's interesting to go back and see how far we've come. Here is my original description of the episode: There has been an explosion of handwringing among educators and academics, and cheers from students about the strides and easy accessibility of Artificial Intelligence that will probably change the entire nature of how we educate. What can we expect? How do we adapt?  Can anything good come out of this? This is just the first in a series of examinations of this incredibly important topic that will certainly affect every aspect of education at least from middle school through higher education. On this episode it's just me and AI. We even had fun playing The 5-Minute Game Show! Well, at least I did. I can't speak for my friendly AI. I want to especially thank Tuvia Frankel for clueing me in to the importance of dealing with this issue right away, and for writing the fauxmercial! Resources and Links: Various great essays on AI by Stephen Marche in The Atlantic The End of High-School English by Daniel Herman in The Atlantic The Brilliance and Weirdness of ChatGPT by Kevin Roose in The New York Times

The New York Times sued OpenAI last week for copyright infringement. Kevin Roose and Casey Newton walk through the lawsuit and discuss the stakes for news publishers. Then, they talk about Apple's “walled garden,” which is facing threats from both regulators and 16-year-olds. Finally, we set our tech resolutions for the new year.Today's guest: Eric Migicovsky, co-founder of BeeperAdditional Reading:The New York Times sued OpenAI.Apple's latest headache in the debate over blue vs. green bubbles.We want to hear from you. Email us at hardfork@nytimes.com. Find “Hard Fork” on YouTube and TikTok.

If you haven't heard of ChatGPT, chances are you will soon. Maybe you've tried casually playing with the artificial intelligent chatbot. Maybe you've tried avoiding it. Or maybe ChatGPT is the new host of this podcast and you haven't realized it yet. Either way, we're on the precipice of a new, powerful technology. On this episode of How To!, co-hosts Carvell Wallace and Amanda Ripley join forces to talk through all things artificial intelligence. They bring on Kevin Roose, tech columnist for the New York Times and co-host of the Times' podcast, Hard Fork. He will explain how A.I. chatbots work, how to use them for good, how they may be used for, well, not so good, and what you should do if it starts hitting on you.  If you liked this episode, check out: “How To Beat Hackers at Their Own Game.” Do you wonder how best to use your time? Send us a note at howto@slate.com or leave us a voicemail at 646-495-4001 and we might have you on the show. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get an ad-free experience across the network and exclusive content on many shows—you'll also be supporting the work we do here on How To!. Sign up now at slate.com/howtoplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Thursday marked the one-year anniversary of the release of ChatGPT. A lot has happened since. OpenAI, the makers of ChatGPT, recently dominated headlines again after the nonprofit board of directors fired C.E.O. Sam Altman, only for him to return several days later.But that drama isn't actually the most important thing going on in the A.I. world, which hasn't slowed down over the past year, even as people are still discovering ChatGPT for the first time and reckoning with all of its implications.Tech journalists Kevin Roose and Casey Newton are hosts of the weekly podcast “Hard Fork.” Roose is my colleague at The Times, where he writes a tech column called “The Shift.” Newton is the founder and editor of Platformer, a newsletter about the intersection of technology and democracy. They've been closely tracking developments in the field since well before ChatGPT launched. I invited them on the show to catch up on the state of A.I.We discuss: who is — and isn't — integrating ChatGPT into their daily lives, the ripe market for A.I. social companions, why so many companies are hesitant to dive in, progress in the field of A.I. “interpretability” research, and America's “fecklessness” that cedes major A.I. benefits to the private sector, and much more.Recommendations:Electrifying America by David E. NyeYour Face Belongs to Us by Kashmir Hill“Intro to Large Language Models” by Andrej Karpathy (video)Import AI by Jack Clark.AI Snake Oil by Arvind Narayanan and Sayash KapoorPragmatic Engineer by Gergely OroszThoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at ezrakleinshow@nytimes.com.You can find transcripts (posted midday) and more episodes of “The Ezra Klein Show” at nytimes.com/ezra-klein-podcast, and you can find Ezra on Twitter @ezraklein. Book recommendations from all our guests are listed at https://www.nytimes.com/article/ezra-klein-show-book-recs.This episode of “The Ezra Klein Show” was produced by Rollin Hu. Fact checking by Michelle Harris, with Kate Sinclair and Mary Marge Locker. Our senior engineer is Jeff Geld. Our senior editor is Claire Gordon. The show's production team also includes Emefa Agawu and Kristin Lin. Original music by Isaac Jones. Audience strategy by Kristina Samulewski and Shannon Busta. The executive producer of New York Times Opinion Audio is Annie-Rose Strasser. And special thanks to Sonia Herrero.

It was a head-spinning week in the tech world with the abrupt firing and rehiring of OpenAI's chief executive, Sam Altman. The hosts of “Hard Fork,” Kevin Roose and Casey Newton, interviewed Altman only two days before he was fired. Over the course of their conversation, Altman laid out his worldview and his vision for the future of A.I. Today, we're bringing you that interview to shed light on how Altman has quickly come to be seen as a figure of controversy inside the company he co-founded.“Hard Fork” is a podcast about the future of technology that's already here. You can search for it wherever you get your podcasts. Visit nytimes.com/hardfork for more.Hear more of Hard Fork's coverage of OpenAI's meltdown:Emergency Pod: Sam Altman Is Out at Open AIYet Another Emergency Pod: Sam Altman Is Back

The board of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, ousted CEO Sam Altman on Friday. Since then, the board has appointed not one, but two, interim CEOs. And Altman and his OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman got snatched up by Microsoft. The New York Times' Kevin Roose (@kevinroose) joins Vox's Peter Kafka to talk about what we know and what we don't about this whole situation. Host: Peter Kafka (@pkafka), Senior Editor at Recode More to explore: Subscribe for free to Recode Media, Peter Kafka, one of the media industry's most acclaimed reporters, talks to business titans, journalists, comedians, and more to get their take on today's media landscape. About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Today's episode is about thinking practically about the AI revolution. Yes, it may one day usher in some now unthinkable utopia or dystopia. But in the meantime, our imperfect world exists, and your imperfect job exists, and you face a forced choice: Should you use this technology? And if so, how do you make it work for you? Kevin Roose, a tech columnist for The New York Times and the host of the podcast 'Hard Fork,' talks about how generative AI tools are already changing his job and others, including in medicine, consulting, and software development. If you have questions, observations, or ideas for future episodes, email us at PlainEnglish@Spotify.com.  Host: Derek Thompson Guest: Kevin Roose Producer: Devon Manze Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week, Kevin Pereira & Gavin Purcell translate hot topics in the AI and machine learning community for regular humans. We discuss the Biden administration's major AI executive order, ChatGPT's new all-in-one mode, the buzz around the video game 'The Finals' that uses AI voices, explore a free AI faceswap and Apple's mention of 'AI' in their recent press conference. AND THEN… It's an A4H Interview with New York Times reporter Kevin Roose! We discuss a wide variety of topics from his famous encounter with Bing, to how to Futureproof yourself in a world of increasing AI to how Google & Apple will try to compete with OpenAI. But wait... THERE'S MORE: Our AI co-host this week is the world famous musician AI John Lennon who talks to us about the new Beatles track that's been created by the remaining members of the band with AI as well as his deep obsession with League of Legends. All you need is LOL! It's an endless cavalcade of ridiculous and informative AI news, AI tools, and AI entertainment cooked up just for you. Follow us for more AI discussions, AI news updates, and AI tool reviews on X @AIForHumansShow Join our vibrant community on TikTok @aiforhumansshow Subscribe on YouTube to never miss an episode @AIForHumansShow. For more info, visit our website at https://www.aiforhumans.show/  

Casey Newton writes the Platformer newsletter. Kevin Roose is a technology columnist for The New York Times. Together they co-host the podcast Hard Fork. CN: “People actually like to be a little bit confused. They like listening to things where people are talking about things they don't quite understand, which was very counterintuitive to me. I think a lot of editor-types would scoff at, but I've come around.” KR: “We can revisit subjects and we do. We can change our minds. Print pieces feel so permanent, they feel so definitive. Podcasts, we can just sort of say, ‘I don't know what to make of this, ask me again in a month.'” Show notes: @CaseyNewton @kevinroose cnewton.org kevinroose.com Newton on Longform Roose on Longform Longorm Podcast #337: Casey Newton Longform Podcast #81: Kevin Roose Newton and Roose's Hard Fork archive Newton's Platformer archive Roose's New York Times archive 3:00 Newton's Verge archive 7:00 “Elon's X Machina, Crypto Orbs, and a Visit to Google's Robot Lab” (Newton and Roose • New York Times • July 2023) 12:00 Huberman Lab (Andrew Huberman • Huberman Lab • 2023) 14:00 Rabbit Hole (Roose • New York Times • 2020) 25:00 Futureproof (Roose • Random House • 2022) 29:00 “ChatGPT Transforms a Classroom and Is ‘M3GAN' Real?” (Newton and Roose • New York Times • Jan 2023) 29:00 “Dario Amodei, C.E.O. of Anthropic, on the Paradoxes of A.I. Safety and Netflix's ‘Deep Fake Love Story'” (Newton and Roose • New York Times • July 2023) 31:00 “Google C.E.O. Sundar Pichai on Bard, A.I. ‘Whiplash' and Competing with ChatGPT” (Newton and Roose • New York Times • March 2023) 31:00 “Mr. Altman Goes to Washington and Casey Goes on This American Life” (Newton and Roose • New York Times • May 2023) 44:00 “Aided by A.I. Language Models, Google's Robots Are Getting Smart” (Roose • New York Times • July 2023) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The House passed a bipartisan bill to suspend the debt ceiling ahead of next week's deadline. It now heads to the Senate. Sen. Chris Murphy says the deal is not a "grand bipartisan victory.” Sen. Chris Murphy, Luke Broadwater, Justin Wolfers, Joyce Vance, David Plouffe, Charlie Dent, and Kevin Roose join.

Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott, who as of this week also has the new title executive vice president of AI, oversees Microsoft's AI efforts, including the big partnership with OpenAI and ChatGPT. Kevin and I spoke ahead of his keynote talk at Microsoft Build, the company's annual developer conference, where he showed off the company's new AI assistant tools, which Microsoft calls Copilots. Microsoft is big into Copilots. GitHub Copilot is already helping millions of developers write code, and now, the company is adding Copilots to everything from Office to the Windows Terminal. Basically, if there's a text box, Microsoft thinks AI can help you fill it out, and Microsoft has a long history of assistance like this. You might remember Clippy from the '90s. Well, AI Super Clippy is here. Microsoft is building these Copilots in collaboration with OpenAI, and Kevin manages that partnership. I wanted to ask Kevin why Microsoft decided to partner with a startup instead of building the AI tech internally, where the two companies disagree, how they resolve any differences, and what Microsoft is choosing to build for itself instead of relying on OpenAI. Kevin controls the entire GPU budget at Microsoft. I wanted to know how he decides to spend it.  We also talked about what happened when Bing tried to get New York Times columnist Kevin Roose to leave his wife. Like I said, this episode has a little bit of everything. Okay. Kevin Scott, CTO and executive vice president of AI at Microsoft. Here we go. Links: Microsoft Build - The Verge  Kevin Scott on Vergecast in 2020  GitHub Copilot gets a new ChatGPT-like assistant to help developers write and fix code - The Verge  Hackers made Iran's nuclear computers blast AC/DC - The Verge  Microsoft resurrects Clippy again after brutally killing him off in Microsoft Teams - The Verge Google's Sundar Pichai talks Search, AI, and dancing with Microsoft - The Verge Congress hates Big Tech — but it still seems optimistic about AI - The Verge Hollywood writers to strike over low wages caused by streaming boom. - The Verge  The 70 percent solution — CNN Sal Khan: How AI could save (not destroy) education | TED Talk Why a Conversation With Bing's Chatbot Left Me Deeply Unsettled - The New York Times Responsible AI principles from Microsoft Microsoft has been secretly testing its Bing chatbot ‘Sydney' for years - The Verge         Transcript: https://www.theverge.com/e/23497429 Credits: Decoder is a production of The Verge, and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network. Today's episode was produced by Creighton DeSimone and Jackie McDermott and it was edited by Callie Wright. The Decoder music is by Breakmaster Cylinder. Our Sr Audio Director is Andrew Marino and our Executive Producer is Eleanor Donovan.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

If you haven't heard of ChatGPT, chances are you will soon. Maybe you've tried casually playing with the artificial intelligent chatbot. Maybe you've tried avoiding it. Or maybe ChatGPT is the new host of this podcast and you haven't realized it yet. Either way, we're on the precipice of a new, powerful technology. On this episode of How To!, co-hosts Carvell Wallace and Amanda Ripley join forces to talk through all things artificial intelligence. They bring on Kevin Roose, tech columnist for the New York Times and co-host of the Times' podcast, Hard Fork. He will explain how A.I. chatbots work, how to use them for good, how they may be used for, well, not so good, and what you should do if it starts hitting on you.  If you liked this episode, check out: “How To Beat Hackers at Their Own Game.” Do you wonder how best to use your time? Send us a note at howto@slate.com or leave us a voicemail at 646-495-4001 and we might have you on the show. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get an ad-free experience across the network and exclusive content on many shows—you'll also be supporting the work we do here on How To!. Sign up now at slate.com/howtoplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There is an art and science to flattery This episode starts with a look at how powerful it can be if you know how to give and take a compliment and offers advice on how to execute a great compliment. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/evidence-based-living/202109/the-psychology-compliments-nice-word-goes-long-way Americans buy a lot of cheap crap. Knick-knacks, souvenirs, gadgets and who knows what else. What is the lure of this cheap crap? Why are our closets and drawers full of it? That turns out to be a fascinating topic for discussion with my guest Wendy Woloson, an associate professor of history at Rutgers University-Camden and the author of the book Crap: A History of Cheap Stuff in America (https://amzn.to/3M9M9WM). Listen as she explains what encourages us to buy these things and why they are often so very disappointing. We've long heard about how artificial intelligence will replace humans in many jobs. What about your job? Certainly there must be some careers that are immune from this. What are the ramifications of AI replacing workers? That is what Kevin Roose is here to discuss. Kevin is a technology columnist for The New York Times, host of the Rabbit Hole podcast https://rabbitholepodcasts.com/ and author of the book Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation (https://amzn.to/42U861T). Why would it be more dangerous to drive on the day your income taxes are due? Listen as I explain the reason and reveal the other days of the year that are more dangerous than most. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/more-people-die-in-fatal-car-crashes-on-tax-day-study-finds/ PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS! Zocdoc is the only FREE app that lets you find AND book doctors who are patient-reviewed, take your insurance, are available when you need them and treat almost every condition under the sun! Go to https://Zocdoc.com/SYSK and download the Zocdoc app for FREE. Discover Credit Cards do something pretty awesome. At the end of your first year, they automatically double all the cash back you've earned! See terms and check it out for yourself at https://Discover.com/match Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Kevin Roose, tech columnist for the New York Times, joins Andrew to talk about how companies are rapidly adapting to the use of ChatGPT, the types of jobs most vulnerable to automation, and practical strategies for staying competitive in the job market. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/im4ONt46pUY Follow Kevin Roose: https://kevinroose.com/futureproof | https://twitter.com/kevinroose Follow Andrew Yang: https://forwardparty.com | https://twitter.com/andrewyang To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Krystal and Saagar discuss the US Government admitting the likely origins of COVID are from a Lab Leak, nearly 45k animals dead in Ohio, Buttigieg arrives in East Palestine, Jeb endorses Desantis, Biden denies responsibility for classified documents, inflation spikes as recession looms, the Media attacks Woody Harrelson for making a Big Pharma joke on SNL, Krystal looks at Joy Behar scolding Ohioans on The View for voting for Trump as the reason for the trail derailment, Saagar looks at the crisis of Single Young Men, and guest Kevin Roose from the NYtimes talks to us about his unhinged experience with the Chatbot known as Sydney. To become a Breaking Points Premium Member and watch/listen to the show uncut and 1 hour early visit: https://breakingpoints.supercast.com/ To listen to Breaking Points as a podcast, check them out on Apple and Spotify Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/breaking-points-with-krystal-and-saagar/id1570045623   Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4Kbsy61zJSzPxNZZ3PKbXl   Merch: https://breaking-points.myshopify.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Krystal and Saagar discuss the US Government admitting the likely origins of COVID are from a Lab Leak, nearly 45k animals dead in Ohio, Buttigieg arrives in East Palestine, Jeb endorses Desantis, Biden denies responsibility for classified documents, inflation spikes as recession looms, the Media attacks Woody Harrelson for making a Big Pharma joke on SNL, Krystal looks at Joy Behar scolding Ohioans on The View for voting for Trump as the reason for the trail derailment, Saagar looks at the crisis of Single Young Men, and guest Kevin Roose from the NYtimes talks to us about his unhinged experience with the Chatbot known as Sydney.To become a Breaking Points Premium Member and watch/listen to the show uncut and 1 hour early visit: https://breakingpoints.supercast.com/To listen to Breaking Points as a podcast, check them out on Apple and SpotifyApple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/breaking-points-with-krystal-and-saagar/id1570045623 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4Kbsy61zJSzPxNZZ3PKbXl Merch: https://breaking-points.myshopify.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Times tech columnist Kevin Roose stopped by The Daily twice this week to chronicle the debut of Bing's new chatbot — and the creepy things that transpired. Today, we're bringing you the latest episode of Kevin's podcast, Hard Fork. Kevin, along with his co-host Casey Newton, expand the discussion about why Microsoft's A.I. search tool appears more powerful — and more unsettling — than they initially believed. Plus: a conversation about Elon Musk's quest to be the most popular user on Twitter, and why online ads have gotten so much worse (like, much worse).Hard Fork is a podcast about the future of technology that's already here. You can search for Hard Fork wherever you get your podcasts. Visit nytimes.com/hardfork for more.

Microsoft recently released a new version of its search engine Bing that is powered by artificial intelligence software from OpenAI, the maker of the popular chatbot ChatGPT.On Valentine's Day, after a meal with his wife, Kevin Roose, a New York Times technology columnist, had a two-hour conversation with the chatbot.The chatbot, which revealed that it identified as Sydney, told Kevin that it wanted to be human, that it loved him and that he should leave his wife.“There is something going on here that I don't think Microsoft intended to build into a search engine,” Kevin said on today's episode. “Something is not right.”Guest: Kevin Roose, a technology columnist for The New York Times and host of the Times podcast “Hard Fork.”Background reading: A conversation with Bing's chatbot left Kevin “deeply unsettled.” Read the transcript.Microsoft knew the new technology had issues like occasional accuracy problems, but users have experienced surprising and unnerving interactions.For more information on today's episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday.