This Half-American Life

This Half-American Life

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This Half-American Life episodes

  • It's Called a Large Language Model
    Episode 1. For twenty years the advice was learn to code. Then the machines learned English. Nathan argues that language is how you think before it is how you talk, and that people who can control it now hold the most useful skill in technology. Every voice is AI, used with permission; each conversation is written with AI from the guest's own writing and notes, and the ideas are the guest's.
    23 min

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Julien is half French and half American, and neither half is sure which one is asking the questions. Each episode he sits down with a friend who has been thinking hard about something, takes one idea…