LeCun's Advice: Ignore Doom Narratives

This week Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis unpack a surprising policy reversal from the White House, which is now weighing a plan to vet frontier AI models before release after revoking Biden's safety order on day one. They also dig into the Musk versus OpenAI trial testimony, where $80 billion Mars requests and near-physical confrontations made it feel more like a soap opera than a courtroom.
Also in this episode: OpenAI traced a goblin obsession back to a rogue reward signal, Yann LeCun told students to ignore AI doom narratives, Gary Marcus called out Richard Dawkins for declaring Claude is conscious, a researcher invented a fake disease that every AI treated as real, and in the speed round, Nvidia's China market share hit zero, Anthropic launched a $1.5 billion enterprise joint venture, Google split its TPU into two chips, and China made it illegal to fire workers over AI. New episodes every Wednesday at aiinside.show.

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CHAPTERS: 

• 0:00 - Start
• 0:04:00 - White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released
• Behind the White House’s Potential Rethink on A.I.
• 0:13:51 - Canadian fiddler sues Google after AI Overview wrongly claimed he was a sex offender
• What Was Discussed at Google’s White House Meeting About A.I.
• 0:22:32 - Top AI companies agree to work with Pentagon on secret data
• 0:24:09 - OpenAI’s president does ‘all the things,’ except answer a question
• 0:31:32 - Where the goblins came from (OpenAI)
• 0:36:29 - Video explaining JEPA with LeCun
• 0:42:50 - AI godfather Yann LeCun's blunt advice for the AI age
• 0:44:47 - Will A.I. Make College Obsolete?
• 0:48:51 - Marcus: Richard Dawkins and The Claude Delusion
• 0:55:29 - Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real
• 1:02:37 - Jensen says Nvidia now has 'zero percent' market share in China — says US export policy 'has already largely backfired'
• 1:04:40 - Anthropic Unveils AI Agents to Field Financial Services Tasks
• 1:06:12 - New: Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX
• 1:08:33 - Google's eighth generation TPUs: two chips for the agentic era
• 1:10:25 - China makes it illegal to fire humans if AI takes their jobs

Hosts: Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis 

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