PJ Vogt on AI, VR, and Tech Cycles

Once a technology is released into the wild, it doesn’t go back in the bottle. Except in one instance.

PJ Vogt is the host of Crypto Island and an eponymous show, Weekly. You may have also heard him on Reply All or This American Life. Ricky Mulvey caught up with him to discuss:
- The wild present and future for artificial intelligence
- How virtual reality parallels early internet chat rooms
- Incentives and tradeoffs in the decarbonization movement
- Elon Musk, and the symptoms of being very online
- The downfall of Flappy Bird
 
Companies mentioned: META, GOOG, GOOGL, MSFT, TSLA, NTOIY

Host: Ricky Mulvey
Guest: PJ Vogt
Engineer: Tim Sparks