Welcome to another episode. This week Tom and Elliot dig into whether LaMDA is really sentient and how Healthcare can learn some lessons from hospitality.

00:00 - Start

02:40 - Is the AI Sentient?

03:13 - What is LaMDA

04:01 - What is Sentience?

05:08 - My thoughts: No

06:29 - What's going on then?

09:37 - Is the Turing Test a good test?

12:36 - How did people react

18:46 - Why hospitality matters in healthcare

20:01 - Defining patient experience

24:13 - How can we find a metric to optimize

26:06 - Be nice or get sued

31:01 - How do we make it different

36:23 - Key Ideas for Healthcare Hospitality

52:41 - Wrapping Up

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Tom and Elliot chat about a few topics in our first ever live episode. Let's hope two tech founders can work out a live stream.

Tom and Elliot discuss the supposed secret language of DALLE-2 and some signs that the western world might have forgotten how to build new nuclear plants.

TIMESTAMPS

00:00 Intro

04:00 Does DALLE-2 have a secret language?

06:06 What is OpenAI?

09:27 Failure Cases

13:04 Is this like Facebook's Failed Experiment?

17:06 Topic 2 Did we forget how to build power plants?

20:31 France's Nuclear Power

24:05 USA's Nuclear Power

30:31 Is China the new king of nuclear power?

41:16 Wrapping Up

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Part 1 - DALLE-2 "Secret" Language

-- 🔬Giannis Darris twitter https://twitter.com/giannis_daras

-- 🧵Giannis' twitter thread summarising the findings https://twitter.com/giannis_daras/status/1531693093040230402

-- 🎨DALLE-2 artwork https://twitter.com/dalle2pics

-- 🧠Open AI https://openai.com/

-- 🗣️Facebook's failed experiment https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/facebook-artificial-intelligence-ai-chatbot-new-language-research-openai-google-a7869706.html

Part 2 - We've Forgotten how to build Nuclear

-- ⚛️World Nuclear - https://world-nuclear.org/

-- 🥖Nuclear Power in France - https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-profiles/countries-a-f/france.aspx

-- 🌭Nuclear Power in USA - https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-profiles/countries-t-z/usa-nuclear-power.aspx

-- ⚡Chernobyl Miniseries - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_(miniseries)

-- 🌊Fukushima Disaster - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_nuclear_disaster

-- 🍚Nuclear Power in China - https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-profiles/countries-a-f/china-nuclear-power.aspx

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Tom and Elliot discuss some of the more questionable signs that we might be in a recession and new work increasing Vitamin D in tomatoes using genetic modification with CRISPR.

TIMESTAMPS

00:00:00 Intro

00:02:55 This Week's Topics

00:06:54 Topic 1 Bizzare indicators of recession

00:12:58 Hemline Index

00:18:55 R-Word Index

00:22:08 Men's Underwear Index

00:31:42 Bonus Index List

00:40:05 Stripper Sentiment

00:41:23 Actual Recession Indicators

00:44:54 Topic 2 CRISPR Super Tomatoes

01:03:44 Wrapping Up

✍️SHOW NOTES

Part 1 - Stripper Things

-- Original tweet from @Reversecowgirl69 - https://twitter.com/botticellibimbo/status/1527390388167659528

-- Skyscraper Index - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyscraper_Index

-- Hemline Index - https://www.nytimes.com/1974/02/24/archives/probing-the-markets-depths-still-lower-prices-for-stocks-seen-by.html

-- "R-Word" Index - https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2001/04/05/the-r-word

-- Men's Underwear Index - https://bikashkampo.com/the-underwear-theory-of-economic-growth/

-- Champagne Index - https://www.liv-ex.com/news-insights/indices/

-- Bridgwater Capital Frothiness - https://www.bridgewater.com/research-and-insights/ray-dalio-stock-market-bubble

Part 2 - CRISPR Tomatoes

-- Biofortified tomatoes provide a new route to vitamin D sufficiency https://www.nature.com/articles/s41477-022-01154-6

-- Nature Plants https://www.nature.com/nplants/editors

-- What is CRISPR? https://www.newscientist.com/definition/what-is-crispr/

-- Co-Inventor of CRISPR, Emmanuel Charpentier https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuelle_Charpentier

-- Co-Inventor of CRISPR, Jennifer Doudna https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Doudna

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Tom and Elliot discuss Deepmind's new GATO model and an article looking at the speed of human progress and whether this century will be history's most important.  

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Part 2 - Speed of Human Progress

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Tom and Elliot discuss how AI metrics get used and abused and a paper looking at how to understand things.  

Part 1

Part 2

00:00 Intro  

Tom and Elliot discuss a meta-analysis of how to leave time between problems to help solve them and a DEA investigation into online prescription services for ADHD. 

Links Mentioned 

- Does Incubation Enhance Problem Solving? A Meta-Analytic Review

00:00 Introduction and Rambles

Tom and Elliot discuss the absurdity of open-sourcing Twitter's timeline algorithm and what we know about the science of solving problems.  

Links Mentioned: 

- https://rs.io/the-science-of-problem-solving/

- https://tomkwhite.com

- https://elliotcsmith.com 

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Tom and Elliot discuss how grass helped horseback tribes conquer nations and different ways to look at value.   

Links Mentioned: 

- https://perell.com/note/the-counterfactual-theory-of-value/

- https://tomkwhite.com

- https://elliotcsmith.com