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IM 854: Welcome to the Pitt - AI: A Brand or a Breakthrough?

Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 02:17:49
Publish Date: 2026-01-22 02:52:57
Description:

Think you know the story of AI's rise and fall? This episode upends conventional wisdom with guest historian Thomas Haigh, who reveals why the infamous "AI winter" might just be a myth and why the field's biggest failures fueled today's breakthroughs.

  • Two Thinking Machines Lab Cofounders Are Leaving to Rejoin OpenAI
  • NVDA, GOOGL, META: AI Spending Forecast to Hit $2.53 Trillion This Year
  • Nvidia, Eli Lilly just say yes to making drugs together, using Vera Rubin GPUs
  • Claude Cowork Exfiltrates Files
  • We put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon
  • How Generative AI is destroying society - by Gary Marcus
  • Anthropic rewrites Claude's guiding principles—and entertains the idea that its AI might have 'some kind of consciousness or moral status'
  • Claude's new constitution

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Thomas Haigh

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