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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
✍️SHOW NOTES
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.
TIMESTAMPS
✍️SHOW NOTES
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
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