{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"AI Neanderthal by Malcolm Werchota","title":"#29 - Gates Puts $1 Billion Into AI Access. Gartner Warns About AI While Its Own Stock Fell 20%. And Without Guardrails, an AI Kills the Animal 85% of the Time.","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/02e3e224\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1038,"description":"A construction company in Tel Aviv raised $130 million to point cameras at building sites, because the report says green and the wall says otherwise. The Gates Foundation is putting $1 billion into AI access — not malaria, not water, AI. And in a simulation, one of the best models in the world drives over the animal 85% of the time when nobody tells it not to.\n\nToday from Zurich: Tel Aviv, Bournemouth, Rwanda, the Gold Coast, and a cornfield that only exists inside a computer. A shorter episode than usual — my wife came back to the hotel room and wanted to sleep. Wenn ihr Deutsch sprecht: die deutsche Folge ist deutlich länger.\n\nIn this episode:\n🌑 The building site can't talk its way out of it (01:48) — Buildots, out of Tel Aviv, announced a $130 million round, taking total funding to nearly $300 million, with more than 100 large firms on the platform. The software watches site progress against the plan: are we late, where's the deviation, is that partition wall actually in? For the British listeners, an older Buildots study covers the Royal Bournemouth Hospital extension, roughly £200 million, delivered by IHP — the joint venture between Vinci Buildings and Sir Robert McAlpine. I once spent a day filming an oil rig to make this exact point. If the crane arrives three hours early and bills you for it, nobody on site can prove otherwise. Cameras can.\n🌑 Rwanda, and what AI is actually for (06:42) — Bill Gates went to Rwanda and met a woman called Gaudence. She works in community health care, in villages where there may be no doctor, no test, no medicine. You and I use AI to write a better deck. She could use it to save a life — new models are now sometimes better than dermatologists at spotting the onset of melanoma from a photo. So the Gates Foundation committed $1 billion to broadening access, roughly $400 million for education and health. And critically, not by buying everyone ChatGPT: ask a question in Hindi and you get measurably worse answers. A farmer in...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/0Up7tcMuVZ4o57Iv4ifZS1RwZ9v586rtihtmL6xMbcU/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9hMjM5/YzFjODNkNmY4NDNk/MDllMDE5NGQ3MjE4/NTM3ZS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}