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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→ https://www.amazon.com/stores/Emmanuel-Maggiori/author/B08Q468YQ4
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→ https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting)
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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
