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Emmanuel Maggiori: False Promises of AI and Silicon Valley

Episode 152 of The Watchman Privacy Podcast – Emmanuel Maggiori: False Promises of AI and Silicon Valley

Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Emmanuel Maggiori, author of several books on artificial intelligence and Silicon Valley. Specifically, Maggiori speaks on the disappointments of these over-hyped industries, the crazy over-funding, and the simultaneous culture of workers who have nothing to do. The discussion also veers toward AI and the reasons why AI in its current form has limited benefits, many unsolvable flaws, and will not match the hype attached to it: not even close.

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Timeline

  • 00:00 – Introduction

  • 1:30 – Guest background

  • 3:25 – SiliCONned: the waste of capital in tech investment

  • 18:25 – The failures of VC funding

  • 21:00 – Culture of no work at tech companies

  • 29:00 – Reckoning coming to Big Tech

  • 30:30 – Smart Until It’s Dumb: the inherent limitations of machine learning

  • 38:30 – Data sets make AI much more inefficient than most people realise

  • 41:45 – How to trick AI

  • 45:10 – How can locally hosted LLMs store so much in so little space?

  • 49:35 – Explaining Nvidia's DLSS

  • 55:00 – How marketing exaggerates AI

  • 1:01:00 – Rapid fire questions

  • 1:03:06 – Can digital things act like human brains?

  • 1:08:00 – Final thoughts

Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio