
“Hard Fork” is a show about the future that’s already here. Each week, journalists Kevin Roose and Casey Newton explore and make sense of the latest in the rapidly changing world of tech. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher. For more podcas... more
| Publishes | Weekly | Episodes | 195 | Founded | 5 years ago |
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This week, we talk about Google’s new plan to build data centers in space. Then, we’re joined by Dean Ball, a former adviser at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Ball worked on the Trump administration’s A.I. Action Plan, and h... more
This week, we’re joined by Bernt Bornich, chief executive of 1X. We talked with him about NEO, his company’s new humanoid robot, which has the internet buzzing. Then we meet NEO itself, and compare notes on the experience. Finally, we close the week ... more
This week, Character.AI announced that it would soon be taking its A.I. companions away from teens. We explain why this is a major development in the world of chatbots and child safety and how we expect other companies to respond. Then, Elon Musk has... more
Backlash to OpenAI’s video generation app Sora has reached a new tipping point. We discuss two big changes the company is making, after Bryan Cranston and the family of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. complained about deepfakes. Then, New York Ti... more
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This podcast finally hit the last straw for me. Kevin’s always been too much of a fan girl to qualify as a journalist anymore. But Casey sane washing Grokipedia because he has a nice long article on it is flat-out disgusting. Apparently he’s okay with Musk and other billionaires continuing to wreck the internet by drowning it in disinformation.
Please, please, please cut out the chummy back and forth, the chortling responses and the oversized laughter . It’s unbearable. No one on this show is actually funny nor is that the point. Please stop trying to make this entertaining.
I’ve listened to every episode of Hard Fork for the best part of two years now. At first it was a great way to get up to speed with the latest developments in AI and the tech world more generally. This was especially true back in 2023 when mainstream journalism did not offer good insights into the way the AI world was changing at such a fast pace.
But increasingly the tone and content of episodes feels so captivated with AI hype that I have lost interest in the show.
A few weeks back there ... more
The hosts don’t go deep enough, have no technical/business backgrounds, and don’t represent the general populace. I know because who really thought people would stop googling to find info or website? So no insight besides what is in the SF tech bubble. Maybe that’s the point so tech junkies should look elsewhere.
Great content presented with a fun spin. Smart and engaging conversations about AI, chips to train AI, the dangers of AI, the benefits of AI… ok it’s mostly all about AI, but I guess that’s the world we live in now.
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