Do Ads Ruin AI Search Results?
Advertising in ChatGPT was the last straw for Zoë Hitzig. She quit her job as a researcher at OpenAI, saying that ads inject a troubling incentive structure into AI. We talk to her about her work and her perspective.
And, another round of Curiosity Questions from listeners! Edgar and senior producer Aidan Connelly answer queries about blue whales, Harvard’s “whispering arch,” and why weather apps sometimes gives different users different temperatures for the same locations.
Plus a regular does of trivia from Erin McCarthy, former editor-in-chief at Mental Floss. Today, fun stories about…
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