The World Bank's Two-Gigabyte Time Machine
The World Bank wants poor countries to build tiny AI that runs on a phone with one bar, and reckons it could compress centuries of development into decades. Weird Al walks away from a payday a week before filming, an app takes fifty seconds to set a timer, and a virtual pop star goes on maternity leave. None of it becomes true just because we said it.
In this edition
Small AI, Big Claim
Meanwhile
Weird Al Reads the Fine Print
Slop, or Not?
Something Useful
Something Weird
Tomorrow
Chapters
0:07 — Cold Open
0:34 — Small AI, Big Claim
2:43 — Meanwhile
3:32 — Weird Al…
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