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  • Friday · 22 min

    AI can’t afford to slow down | Ed Zitron

    “They’re talking about super intelligence and AI that trains itself so you take your eye off of what’s happening today.” Writers of Where’s Your Ed At and host of the Better Offline podcast Ed Zitron joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about if the AI industry can afford to slow down and why industry leaders are calling for a pacing of development in the first place. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • Thursday · 26 min

    AI Bubble: ‘This could humiliate the largest companies in the world’ | Ed Zitron

    “Half of Nvidia’s revenue could literally be sitting in warehouses.” Writers of Where’s Your Ed At and host of the Better Offline podcast Ed Zitron joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about why the AI industry is continuing to buy AI chips despite reports that significant amounts of GPUs are going uninstalled. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • September 14 · 34 min

    AI Safety: ‘Sam Altman should face a grand jury’ | Eli the Computer Guy

    “If you drag Dario Amodei and Sam Altman in front of a grand jury I think we’ll solve a lot of these problems incredibly quickly.” Eli the Computer Guy talks to The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound about the AI safety, regulation and the possible explanation for why OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI are really calling for the pace of AI development to be slowed down. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • September 11 · 44 min

    AI is about to his a cashflow wall | Ed Zitron

    “The vast majority, including the richest of investors do not know what they’re investing in. They have no idea.” Writer of Where’s Your Ed At and the host of the Better Offline podcast Ed Zitron talks to The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound about the exaggerated claims AI will eradicate the human race and the next stage in the commoditisation of AI, compute futures. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • September 10 · 56 min

    We must pop the AI bubble sooner rather than later | Cory Doctorow

    “If enshitificaiton is what you do when you’ve grown your market all you can and then you squeeze it, then AI is what happens when you run out of squeezing.” Author of The Reverse Centaur’s Guide To Life After AI Cory Doctorow join The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the the narrative and economics of Artificial Intelligence and why the AI bubble needs to end sooner rather than later. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • September 8 · 31 min

    Poisoning AI is trivially easy | Deana Burke

    “There is this sort of laundering that’s happening around recommendations that ChatGPT and the chatbots are doing.” Author of Regular Benchmarks and Co-Founder of Boys Club Deana Burke joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about how chatbots can be easily influenced by marketing information and incorrect data. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • September 7 · 28 min

    The hype around AI is dying | Eli the Computer Guy

    “The excitement around AI is dying at the same time they need more investment.” Eli the Computer Guy join The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the value proposition of ChatGPT 6 ‘Astra’ as industry leader declare we have entered the era of AGI. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • September 7 · 32 min

    Only 1% of customers are holding up the AI bubble | Ed Zitron

    “1% of customers hold up everything else.” Author of Where’s Your Ed At and host of the Better Offline podcast Ed Zitron joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the instability of the AI industry as new Ramp statistics reveal that the 80% of OpenAI and Anthropic’s revenue come from 1% of their customers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • September 3 · 31 min

    Nobody wants to buy something AI generated | David Gerard

    “The use case for AI is work that should not have been done.” Author and host of Pivot to AI David Gerard joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about why people don’t want to buy or use AI generated products and content as companies like Spotify and LinkedIn take steps to limit and remove AI slop. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • September 2 · 31 min

    Data center opposition is only going to grow | Jowi Morales

    “The opposition to AI data centers is only going to grow.” Tech journalist Jowi Morales joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the state of the AI build out after Sam Altman admitted people ‘clearly hate’ the developments as the total cost of blocked and delayed data centres reaches $150bn. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • August 31 · 27 min

    Sam Altman was wrong about AI | Eli the Computer Guy

    “Sam Altman has backed himself into a corner.” Eli the Computer Guy joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about how specialised AI is looking to replace generalist models as OpenAI looks to slow down model development and Thomson Reuters released a model trained on 175 years of proprietary data for $40m. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • August 28 · 46 min

    AI Bubble: Nvidia can’t rely on other companies debt forever | Ed Zitron

    “Each quarters success is content on whether Nvidia’s various fin-dom victims will be able to raise debt.” Writer of Where’s Your Ed At and host of the Better Offline podcast Ed Zitron joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the instability of Nvidia’s sky rocketing revenue growth and Anthropic’s lofty IPO target as they claim the addressable AI market is $30trn. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • August 27 · 42 min

    AI has failed to boost productivity says 90% of execs | Edward Ongweso Jr

    “Until it’s clear how AI development can be centred on what workers and the consumers want, there’s no reason to expect the public not to hate AI.” Co-host of This Machine Kills and author of The Tech Bubble newsletter Edward Ongweso Jr joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the lack of identifiable return on investment from AI as 90% of executives admit they still have not seen any boost to productivity from adopting the technology. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • August 25 · 29 min

    Data center developers have ‘dug their own graves’ | Brian Merchant

    “There is no issue that unites the public like hatred of data centers, Big Tech, and the AI companies.” Author of the book and newsletter Blood in The Machine Brian Merchant joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about AI data center and local opposition after the governor of Texas says developers have “dug their own graves.” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • August 24 · 25 min

    Nobody wants to buy frontier AI anymore | Eli the Computer Guy

    “It may not be feasible of them to say that they’re wrong.” Eli the Computer Guy joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the uncertain future of frontier AI model development as usage numbers for Anthropic’s Fable 5 have stagnated and OpenAI says they plan to slow down the development of their next model. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • August 16 · 40 min

    AI Bubble: ‘The moment they stop spending, they crash’ | Ed Zitron

    “Nothing is where it needs to be. Absolutely nothing. Nvidia’s $200bn in revenue, that’s chump change compared to where they need to be in a year.” Writer of Where’s Your Ed At and host of the Better Offline podcast Ed Zitron joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about Nvidia exacerbating the AI bubble circular financing problem with a newly announced $500bn financing proposal as the SEC exempts some data center backed securities from regulations put in place after the 2008 financial crisis. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • August 12 · 32 min

    AI has started killing itself | David Gerard

    “Why should people read something you couldn’t be bothered to write?” Author and host of Pivot to AI David Gerard joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about dead internet theory and how AI is eating itself as the CFO of Cloudflare predicts bots will outnumber humans 1000:1 in five years. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • August 10 · 26 min

    AI is now answering 911 calls | Eli the Computer Guy

    “This is a great example of what AI should be used for… as long as the systems are designed properly.” Eli the Computer Guy joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the pros and cons of using AI in emergency call dispatching as New Orleans, Seattle and Atlanta incorporate AI emergency call answering agents into their 911 systems. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • August 7 · 47 min

    The AI boom is an illusion built on two companies | Ed Zitron

    “If 70% of AI revenues are these two companies, there is no AI industry.” Writer of Where’s Your Ed At and the host of the Better Offline podcast Ed Zitron joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the state of the AI industry as it’s revealed that over two thirds of hyperscaler AI revenue is coming from two companies. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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