Short Fuse

Technology and socio-economic big bets Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Short Fuse is a business podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 46 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Unknown Host hosts Short Fuse, a business show with 46 episodes published.

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  Are your AI Glasses Recording Me?

  Sep 24, 202622 min

  Meta wants smart glasses to become normal. We’re less convinced. Duncan and Ollie look at the appeal, the genuinely useful bits, and what happens when nobody can tell whether the person looking at them is also filming them? Accessibility, AI assistants, privacy, public embarrassment, hacked recording lights and why Ollie may soon have to conduct all organised crime completely naked. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  AI is going to kill us all. Details TBC

  Sep 15, 202625 min

  AI might kill us all. That is increasingly the warning coming from the people building the most powerful models. The awkward bit is that they are much less specific about how. This week, we get into the latest wave of AI doom, why Anthropic and OpenAI keep talking about existential risk, whether self improving AI changes the equation, and why regulation may be doing more than keeping us safe. We also ask a fairly basic question: if the danger is as serious as they say, why are they still racing to build it? Plus bioweapons, regulatory capture, recursive self improvement, dictatorships, Snowpiercer and the possibility that AI eventually lies to itself. Cheerful stuff. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  What Happens If Nvidia Buys Hugging Face?

  Aug 27, 202614 min

  Nvidia reportedly wants to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion. On paper, it is another enormous AI deal. In practice, it could give the world’s dominant AI chipmaker control of the platform at the centre of open source AI. We get into why Nvidia might want Hugging Face, why the deal could be a very clever hedge against OpenAI and Anthropic building their own chips, the possibility of a GeForce Now for AI, and the bigger question hanging over the whole thing: what happens to open source when one of the richest companies on Earth owns the place where much of it lives? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  The Sloppening

  Aug 14, 202623 min

  Anthropic is putting invisible watermarks into text generated by Claude. Which sounds like bad news for AI slop. Until you start asking what counts as AI generated in the first place. What happens if Claude edits one sentence? If AI reorganises your own ideas? If your company actively expects you to use AI at work? And if AI touches almost everything we write, does an AI watermark eventually tell us anything useful at all? Duncan and Ollie get into Claude’s new AI watermarking plans, the EU AI Act, AI slop, authorship, false attribution, workplace AI and the increasingly difficult question of who wrote what. Also: graffiti, The Hungry Caterpillar, authentically human crime and the beginning of The Sloppening . #AI #Claude #Anthropic Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  The Good, The Bad, and The Baddies of AI

  Jul 31, 202617 min

  Who are the good guys in AI? Bad news: there probably aren’t any. We look at Anthropic, OpenAI, open weights, corporate backstabbing and the curious business strategy of telling everyone your product might destroy civilisation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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