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Artificial Intelligence’s Promises and Perils with Gary Rivlin

Artificial Intelligence’s Promises and Perils with Gary Rivlin

We'll talk about the figures and breakthroughs of generative AI’s recent history – in order to better predict and understand its future.

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April 17, 202555m 43s

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Show Notes

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Rivlin spent more than a year in the Bay Area shadowing the founders and venture capitalists vying to make big money off of generative AI. And in his new book “AI Valley,” Rivlin takes readers inside both the AI startups and the tech giants like Microsoft, Meta and Google trying to keep up. He chronicles the figures and breakthroughs of generative AI’s recent history – in order to better predict and understand its future. Rivlin’s new book is “AI Valley: Microsoft, Google, and the Trillion-Dollar Race to Cash In on Artificial Intelligence.”


Guests:

Gary Rivlin, Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and author, “AI Valley: Microsoft, Google, and the Trillion-Dollar Race to Cash In on Artificial Intelligence"

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