Ep. 3: Robotic Eyes, Big Bang Mysteries, US AI Strategy, Nvidia's AI Platform, and Weight Loss Drugs
Episode description
In this wide-ranging episode, host Gus covers the latest developments in fields from pharmacology to neuroscience to astrophysics to artificial intelligence. Highlights include new research on weight loss drugs, efforts to build robotic eyes, cosmic mysteries of the Big Bang, the US government's AI strategy, and Nvidia's blockbuster new AI platform. This tour through the frontiers of science and technology reveals the incredible progress and lingering questions at the cutting edge of human knowledge.
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Episodes reviewed in this episode include the following:
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https://deepcast.fm/episode/7472/ozempic-is-it-scarier-than-we-thought
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Episode title: Cosmic Queries - Infinite Quarks
https://deepcast.fm/episode/7949/cosmic-queries-infinite-quarks
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https://deepcast.fm/episode/8027/nvidias-blackwell-is-radically-more-powerful-ai-compute
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