{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Stewart Squared","title":"Episode #99: Can Money Buy Meta a Comeback in AI?","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2245,"description":"In this episode of the Stewart Squared podcast, host Stewart Alsop and guest Stewart Alsop II dive into Meta's latest AI model releases and their broader issues with user addiction, touching on the European Commission's warnings about addictive features and massive fines totaling $1.4 trillion from US state attorney generals. The conversation ranges from Meta's Meta Super Intelligence Lab and their attempts to catch up to OpenAI and Anthropic, to the impossibility of governments controlling AI development as countries rush to build sovereign models. They discuss NVIDIA's open source robotics models, debate the future of humanoid versus non-humanoid robots, and compare the business approaches of Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk. The episode also covers Trump's floating ideas about restricting state-of-the-art AI models to US citizens, China's similar restrictions, SpaceX's recent IPO performance, and the concept of shareholder capitalism as applied to government investments in tech companies like Intel and potentially OpenAI.\nTimestamps\n00:00 Meta releases new AI model and thought-reading technology while facing trillion-dollar fines from state attorneys general for social media harm, particularly to young people\n05:00 Discussion of Meta's superintelligence lab attempting to catch up with OpenAI and Anthropic, while their cash-harvesting social media business funds AI development despite past VR failures\n10:00 Government inability to regulate fast-moving AI technology, with Trump and China floating ideas about restricting state-of-the-art models to citizens only\n15:00 Examining how AI's addictive nature combined with existential fears creates political volatility, plus NVIDIA's open-source robotics models becoming viable alternatives\n20:00 Debate over humanoid versus non-humanoid robots, discussing industrial applications and questioning whether humanoid design makes practical sense for factories or homes\n25:00 Comparing Elon Musk's technical accomplishments at Tesla...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/QlC48R1fevmul8S_Y7L1P2WUMnEKqwNUR7TBsNqFHaE/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS84NDMx/NWQ0MWQ1Y2NkNjhk/ZDI1NWE0MTUyN2Q5/Zjg0NS53ZWJw.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}