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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(07:51) – OpenAI board saga
(25:17) – Ilya Sutskever
(31:26) – Elon Musk lawsuit
(41:18) – Sora
(51:09) – GPT-4
(1:02:18) – Memory & privacy
(1:09:22) – Q*
(1:12:58) – GPT-5
(1:16:13) – $7 trillion of compute
(1:24:22) – Google and Gemini
(1:35:26) – Leap to GPT-5
(1:39:10) – AGI
(1:57:44) – Aliens
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#244 – Robert Crews: Afghanistan, Taliban, Bin Laden, and War in the Middle East
#243 – Kevin Systrom: Instagram
#242 – Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA
#241 – Boris Sofman: Waymo, Cozmo, Self-Driving Cars, and the Future of Robotics
#240 – Neal Stephenson: Sci-Fi, Space, Aliens, AI, VR & the Future of Humanity
#239 – Niall Ferguson: History of Money, Power, War, and Truth
#238 – Francis Collins: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
#237 – Steve Viscelli: Trucking and the Decline of the American Dream
#236 – Jimmy Pedro: Judo and the Forging of Champions
#235 – Michael Mina: Rapid COVID Testing
#234 – Stephen Wolfram: Complexity and the Fabric of Reality
#233 – Carl Hart: Heroin, Cocaine, MDMA, Alcohol & the Role of Drugs in Society
#232 – Brian Greene: Quantum Gravity, Big Bang, Aliens, Life, Death, and Meaning
#231 – Alex Gladstein: Bitcoin, Authoritarianism, and Human Rights
#230 – Kelsi Sheren: War, Artillery, PTSD, and Love
#229 – Richard Wrangham: Role of Violence, Sex, and Fire in Human Evolution
#228 – RZA: Wu-Tang Clan, Kung Fu, Chess, God, Life, and Death
#227 – Sean Kelly: Existentialism, Nihilism, and the Search for Meaning
#226 – Jo Boaler: How to Learn Math
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