¶ Intro / Opening
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¶ Introducing the Hard Fork Podcast
Casey, how would you describe our podcast Hard Fork to uh someone who's never heard of it before? I'd say the premise of our show is What if an esteemed technology columnist for the New York Times was constantly interrupted by his gay friend? And then we just kind of did that for an hour. A lot more than that, it's a show.
¶ Exploring Diverse Tech Topics
So Sam Bankman Fried is having one of the worst weeks because this week he went to jail. Hello, Kevin and Casey. Ride around in self-driving cars? We're getting picked up in a car called Banana Slug. And get creative with AI. Here's the prompt we gave ChatGPT. Give me a recipe for a cocktail. Features all three of the following ingredients: kiwi hot sauce, lavender, and lime. Oh my god, cheers. I've had worse cocktails.
It's a bit ironic that Microsoft can call someone else a eight hundred pound uh gorilla, you know, given the scale and size of their company. We're talking to school teachers, college professors, and listeners with real tech problems in their lives that need to be solved. Should this person create a synthetic version of their beloved's voice and have it tell them that they love them? No, they should not. It's a conversation about tech and the future. We're two friends, both reporters.
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