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THIS BILLION SECONDS: AI@70 -- EP4 AI COMES HOME (opens the original)
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AI@70 Episode 4 - AI COMES HOME AI models get 'trained' inside massive data centres, using some of the most powerful computers ever built. We've now learned how to make those models small enough to run on a laptop. Seventy years after it all kicked off, AI comes home. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
THIS BILLION SECONDS: AI@70 -- EP 3: TALK TO THE CLAW (opens the original)
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Pete Steinberger set the world on fire with OpenClaw, the first general-purpose agent - and one with a soul. We'll look at how being in the right time and the right place with the right vibe fundamentally changed the public perception of AI. It took about three years after the release of ChatGPT for AI tools to get to the point where they could be truly useful. The first folks to gain those benefits were software engineers. It makes sense. The folks designing AI system are software engineers. Th
THIS BILLION SECONDS: AI@70 EP 2 -- THE WATERSHED (opens the original)
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THE NEXT BILLION SECONDS: AI@70 EP 2: THE WATERSHED ChatGPT opened the door to artificial intelligence. Almost immediately, researchers built 'agents' using it - but three years of hard yards passed before agents were 'good enough' to be useful. In this episode we trace the path from 'bad' to 'good enough' agents - and what it unlocked as we 'crossed the watershed'. No one really thought that on the last day of November in 2022, the world would change completely. Not even the folks closest to it
THIS BILLION SECONDS: AI @ 70 Ep 1: AI TAKES THE PENSION (opens the original)
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THIS BILLION SECONDS AI @ 70 -- EPISODE ONE: AI TAKES THE PENSION On the 17th August 1956, artificial intelligence was born. The founders of the field reckoned they'd have thinking machines equivalent to humans in five year, perhaps ten at the most. What looked easy at the outset turned into a seven-decade struggle - across two "AI winters", when the discipline nearly faded away - before we got to ChatGPT. TRANSCRIPT: MARK PESCE, HOST: On the 17th August 1956, artificial intelligence was born. T
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