OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever discusses the current state of generative AI, and talks about his new company SSI and what he plans to do with the three billion dollars he’s raised: develop learning AI systems. (Dwarkesh Podcast)
AI & Journalism Links
This started out as a spreadsheet. Now it's a blog. And a Newsletter.
JournalismAI Festival 2025: No more FOMO – 23 recorded sessions are now available. Jane Barrett on what’s coming next? Chris Moran on Newsroom Singularity? Sorry, can’t right now, gonna be watching for a while.
The Thinking Game: This documentary from 2024 takes us behind the scenes with Google DeepMind chief Demis Hassabis, showing how they taught their algorithms to play video games, chess, and Go, before moving on to protein folding. It’s compellingly told, though it sidesteps what was happening simultaneously at OpenAI and elsewhere. For free on YouTube.
FOOM! This YouTube channel from Runway streams 24/7 AI-generated videos and it’s bad, but like, not all of is terrible garbage?! (via Sofie Hvitved)
OpenAI is launching its own podcast where Sam Altman claims that coding with o3 gives people their next big “wow moment.” He suggests that while his AI won’t exactly cure cancer, it will make researchers more productive. Of course, critical questions are missing.
Google’s Veo 3 can spit out videos that are seconds long and look deceptively real like US television, at least at first glance. (Ethan Mollick, LinkedIn)
Podcast: Using ChatGPT, especially for therapy, may prove difficult to disengage from, as chatbots employ “personalization loops.” (Ryan Broderick, Panic World)
Video: AI prompt engineering deep dive (Anthropic)
How Spotify Will Handle — And Harness — Generative AI (Alex Kantrowitz, Big Technology Podcast)
I Made an iOS App in MINUTES with This AI Tool! (Creator Magic, YouTube)
Anthropic’s Mike Krieger wants to build AI products that are worth the hype (Episode) (Nilay Patel, The Verge)
Beyond the Hype: A Realistic Look at Large Language Models (Jodie Burchell, GOTO 2024)
Shell Game. A podcast about things that are not what they seem (Evan Ratliff, Substack)
What Do LLMs Tell Us About the Nature of Language—And Ourselves? with Robin Sloan (Dan Shipper, AI and I)
What Do LLMs Tell Us About the Nature of Language—And Ourselves? with Robin Sloan (Dan Shipper, AI and I)
