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In a sign stealing scandal, Michigan Coach Jim Harbaugh is banned for the rest of the season. In Gaza, Israel is to begin a daily 4-hour pause in fighting.
When best-selling thriller writer Douglas Preston began playing around with OpenAI's new chatbot, ChatGPT, he was, at first, impressed. But then he realized how much in-depth knowledge GPT had of the books he had written. When prompted, it supplied detailed plot summaries and descriptions of even minor characters. He was convinced it could only pull that off if it had read his books.
Large language models, the kind of artificial intelligence underlying programs like ChatGPT, do not come into the world fully formed. They first have to be trained on incredibly large amounts of text. Douglas Preston, and 16 other authors, including George R.R. Martin, Jodi Piccoult, and Jonathan Franzen, were convinced that their novels had been used to train GPT without their permission. So, in September, they sued OpenAI for copyright infringement.
This sort of thing seems to be happening a lot lately–one giant tech company or another "moves fast and breaks things," exploring the edges of what might or might not be allowed without first asking permission. On today's show, we try to make sense of what OpenAI allegedly did by training its AI on massive amounts of copyrighted material. Was that good? Was it bad? Was it legal?
History is the product of remembering our past, so it involves the mind, though we have underused neuroscience in understanding how we know what we think we know. Abby Smith Rumsey chairs the board of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, and she is out with a new book Memory, Edited: Taking Liberties with History, in which she looks to science to help her understand the past. And a false narrative about children dying in Gaza is amplified by the media echo chamber.
Studios struck a deal with actors and now the content engine can start back up again, but will Hollywood be tighter with its spend?.
(00:11) Emily Flippen and Andy Cross discuss:
SAG-AFTRA’s deal with the film and tv industry, Disney’s deal to buy the rest of Hulu, and Warner Brothers Discovery’s “generational disruption.”
The Trade Desk’s warning about ad markets, and DataDog showing healthy signs in cloud spend.
How Adyen is learning how to better play the expectations game.
(19:02) Motley Fool Contributor Lou Whiteman spoke with Brad Jacobs, former CEO of XPO Logistics, about embracing a problem, how a short-seller targeting his company led to a great capital allocation decision, and other lessons from his book How to Make a Few Billion Dollars.
(31:14) Emily and Andy break down two stocks on their radar: Axon and Gartner.
In this episode, Jeremy Tate joins Mark Bauerlein to discuss the history of the Classical Learning Test and why it is important for American higher education.
Music by Frederic Chopin licensed via Creative Commons. Tracks reorganized, duplicated, and edited.
Our planet is quickly approaching 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit). Scientists say we might cross this milestone in just six years. Listener Julian wants to know what life will look like on the other side of that threshold.
With the help of climate scientists, the BBC’s Anand Jagatia dives into the worlds of virtual climate models. From heatwaves to higher humidity indices to extreme precipitation and drought, he gets a picture of what's to come.
We also venture to places that are warming both faster and more slowly than the global average.
In a remote village in Alaska residents are already dealing with life-changing permafrost thaw and ground that's melting beneath their feet. Permafrost expert Sue Natali tells us what this unexpected thawing ground means for the planet as it releases carbon and methane we weren't necessarily counting on.
In Indian cities, temperatures were already high, but they're not rising as quickly as climate scientists had initially predicted. We hear why this is and why it might be a big problem in the not- too-distant future.
Anand also speaks to television series writer Dorothy Fortenberry about how science informed plotlines in her new show Extrapolations.
This episode is not just about what climate change will bring -- but what it will feel like.
Presenter: Anand Jagatia
Producer: Sam Baker
Reporters: Sunni Bean & Chhavi Sachdev
Editor: Richard Collings
Production Co-ordinator: Jonathan Harris
Studio Manager: Tim Heffer
Featuring:
Dorothy Fortenberry, Extrapolations, Apple TV
Tom Matthews, Department of Geography, King's College London
Sue Natali, Woodwell Climate Research Center
Morris Alexie, Tribal Liaison, Alaska Native village of Nunapicuaq (Nunapitchuk)
Rakesh Kumar, India’s Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
(Photo: Two children look out at floating sea ice. Credit: StutterStockX / Getty Images)
