Another Podcast
Benedict Evans, Toni Cowan-Brown
If you're looking for another over-scripted and edited podcast, this is not it. But if you want to listen to honest and unfiltered discussions about the latest in tech and its impact on society, welcome, you have come to the right place.
This is Another Podcast where two friends and colleagues discuss their overlapping experiences and perspectives on what happens in technology. We might know some of the same things, yet we also have different backgrounds and expertise, or at least, we ask different questions.
Benedict Evans has worked in equity research, strategy and venture capital and owns lots of old phones; Toni Cowan-Brown works at the intersection of tech, policy and politics.
This is Another Podcast where two friends and colleagues discuss their overlapping experiences and perspectives on what happens in technology. We might know some of the same things, yet we also have different backgrounds and expertise, or at least, we ask different questions.
Benedict Evans has worked in equity research, strategy and venture capital and owns lots of old phones; Toni Cowan-Brown works at the intersection of tech, policy and politics.
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37 snips
Aug 17, 2023 • 25min
Unbundling ChatGPT
The podcast explores the usefulness of ChatGPT and its potential for unbundling. They discuss integrating ChatGPT into workflows, creativity and AI-generated templates, the unpredictability of AGI, bundling and unbundling in software, and the evolution of ChatGPT and visual applications.
4 snips
Jul 21, 2023 • 43min
Threads
What is Threads? A Twitter that doesn't suck? Something else? Could it work?
7 snips
Jun 18, 2023 • 45min
Vision Pro, two weeks on
Two weeks after Apple showed us the Vision Pro - what have they built, what is it for, what does it mean for Meta, and why does it cost $3,500? Check back in 2025.Apple's product pages (watch some of this if you haven't already).
4 snips
Jun 5, 2023 • 28min
Apple Vision
Apple does VR. We watched. We took pictures. We talk about it.
21 snips
May 1, 2023 • 38min
Working out AI questions
We don't know what generative AI will be (or what will happen next week), but we're starting to work out what questions to ask
16 snips
Apr 24, 2023 • 34min
Buzzfeed News, Reddit and OpenAI
Buzzfeed News dies just as Reddit and Stack Overflow say they'll charge LLMs to train on their data. Who owns content and how does distribution work in an LLM age? Are those the right questions? What should we be asking?
6 snips
Apr 16, 2023 • 39min
Metaverse and crypto - beyond the BS
Crypto crashed, metaverse was silly, and now we know that generative AI is the future of everything. Right? Well, sort of. But though the hype has moved on, the reasons web3 and VR were interesting haven't really changed.
9 snips
Apr 2, 2023 • 30min
AI, copyright and collective knowledge
If you spend an hour typing prompts into MidJourney, who owns the result? There are easy answers to this, but they're probably wrong - these are new questions with new puzzles, much like radio, photography or music before.
20 snips
Mar 27, 2023 • 40min
GPT-4 is here, now what?
Generative machine learning is moving so fast it's impossible to keep up. What questions can we ask about GPT4, before everything changes again next week?
14 snips
Mar 20, 2023 • 41min
The right questions to ask about TikTok
The 'ban it' snowball is getting bigger and bigger, but what problem are we solving - privacy, or propaganda? How does this scale to all the other Chinese apps? And meanwhile, how well do we pay attention to the product itself?
