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“As a writer, I don't feel like AI has gotten much better at writing in the past two years. I think it's basically stayed about the same. Sometimes it even gets worse. And I know that's because my use case is not being prioritized at the companies.” — Jasmine Sun, The AI Policy Podcast “One of the biggest surprises I had when I was talking to people about data centers was how rarely AI ever came up. Until the very end of my interviews when I would almost always ask people, by the way, do you use AI? Are you worried about AI? Do you like ChatGPT? People basically never brought it up.” — Jasmine Sun, The AI Policy Podcast “One quote that someone gave to me when I was writing the book about Dario, who knows him well, was something to the effect of, this guy cannot tell a lie to save his life. And this person said, that's an asset for us on even numbered days and a liability on odd numbered days.” — Kevin Roose, ChinaTalk “A world in which AI becomes smarter than humans is not one where Congress is a particularly powerful body. It kind of doesn't matter if you're on the appropriations committee when we create the machine god.” — Kevin Roose, ChinaTalk “The thing that actually differentiates the AI labs and the companies that are winning versus the ones that aren't is not a matter of who has the most money or GPUs or even research talent. It's: do you believe or not? Because only by believing and then only by selling that belief to others can you amass the resources and the focus to get to AGI.” — Kevin Roose, ChinaTalk “I awarded four direct to phase two to companies to generate synthetic data. And then the first thing that the company said, hey, do you have representative data? And I'm like, oh, crap.” — Bharat Patel, ChinaTalk “Aileen's story is so sad because she is right about her suspicions. But people don't believe her because she's got these mental health problems and people attribute her suspicions to her mental health problems. And then the fact that her husband is treating her shabbily and no one believes her makes her mental health problems worse.” — Gordon Corera, The Rest Is Classified “It is a kind of masterclass in deception and therefore in acting. … It's so good that the husband of Judi Dench, who's an actor himself, … actually tells young actors to watch this video of Philby because he's like, that is how you do it. That is a performance.” — Gordon Corera, The Rest Is Classified “Decay is an easier political choice for China's leaders, accepting the slowdown in growth and the inefficiency of policy tools rather than risk crisis. Because the path to crisis is not an external shock in China, where everyone assumes the government is going to provide support. The path to crisis is reform.” — Logan Wright, ChinaTalk “…even though this attack will be associated so closely with Osama bin Laden, 9-11 wasn't actually his idea.” — Gordon Corera, The Rest Is Classified

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