Mark Zuckerberg on the AI bubble and Meta's new display glasses | ACCESS
Hosts Alex Heath and Ellis Hamburger introduce their new tech podcast Access, explain the show's concept, and discuss Alex's early hands-on experience with Meta's new Ray-Ban display smart glasses and neural input band. Alex then interviews Mark Zuckerberg about why Meta is betting on smart glasses as the next computing platform, how the neural band works, and how AI will integrate into these devices. Zuckerberg details Meta's broader strategy for VR/AR, Horizon creation tools, and its aggressive push to build a frontier AI lab and massive compute infrastructure for superintelligence, including how he weighs the risk of an AI investment bubble versus underinvesting, and early signs of AI systems improving Meta's own products.
TECH004: Sam Altman & the Rise of OpenAI w/ Seb Bunney
Host Preston Pysh and guest Seb Bunney discuss Karen Howe's book "Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares of Sam Altman's OpenAI," using it as a springboard to explore Sam Altman's biography, the founding and evolution of OpenAI, and the opaque 2023 boardroom crisis that briefly ousted Altman. They examine OpenAI's unusual nonprofit/for‑profit hybrid structure, its partnership with Microsoft, tensions between AI safety and competitive speed, and the hidden labor and economic costs of training large AI models. The conversation also touches on AGI definitions, human-AI interaction, other labs like Anthropic and DeepMind, NVIDIA's role in AI, and briefly previews their next book on longevity.