The Bots Have Won The Web!
Summary
This episode covers bots surpassing human web traffic, the S&P 500 rejecting fast-track IPOs for firms like SpaceX, and Anthropic’s engineers working with the NSA. It also details Meta’s hidden face recognition code, an AI-designed universal coronavirus vaccine, and Ted Chiang’s critique of AI consciousness debates.
Topics discussed
Intro, Accenture and Doppel sponsorships
Bots surpass human web traffic for the first time
S&P 500 rejects fast entry for mega-cap IPOs like SpaceX
Anthropic engineers embedded at NSA; government relations thaw
Sponsors: The Intelligence Shift, Plaud Note, Duracell
Meta secretly added face recognition code to AI app
Cambridge develops first AI-designed vaccine component
Weekend reads: WWDC preview and AI consciousness debate
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