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All In Podcast Episode 180 Recap and Notes May 24 2024

May 24 2024

  • General AI Hospital

    • Sam Altman
    • Mira Murati
    • Ilya Sutskever
    • Scarlett Johansson
  • Scarlett Johansson - OpenAI controversy

    • Sam approached her to use her voice - she refused
    • Their latest bot “Sky” apparently has similar voice
    • They have removed the voice now
    • The actress who provided the voice is someone else
      • apparently
    • Challenging situation for both sides when company/film/app wants to use a particular celebrity’s voice/likeness
  • OpenAI employee exit agreements

    • Lots of apparent restrictions
  • Super alignment team from OpenAI leaves

    • Ilya, Jan Leike, etc
    • Apparently there are some differences over safety’s importance, etc? Or maybe that’s speculation
  • NVidia smashes earnings

    • Rapid rise



    • Might want to be careful and avoid Intel’s fate when they got big into dotcom boom and since haven’t gone up much

    • Or will it be like Cisco?

      • Cisco got commoditized
    • They might have a much better moat than Cisco - their technology is harder to copy probably?

    • Cisco was also different because they courted the enterprise a lot

  • Americans’ perception of the economy

    • Larry Summers said actual inflation was 18% recently



    • Another way you can see increases



  • Plastics in testicles

    • Phthalates in all kinds of food
    • Its in american tap water
    • We might be able to remove them - but while in the body they are endocrine disruptors
    • Chinese study shows how this affects fertility
    • University of New Mexico found high numbers of pthalates a lot in animals and humans
    • It also comes from tires, phones, clothes, desks, but especially food
    • We can try to use bioplastics
      • Could be a big opportunity
    • Providers will try to differentiate themselves with low-pthalate packaging, etc

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