Season 6, Episode 11 - Rolling back dementia, building Skynet, and trusting insurance. Or not.

Promise

In this episode, we cover AI big boys teaming up with defense big boys, open-sourcing AI compute, semiconductors dissolved in goo, electro-conductive tattoos, curing dementia, and even tapeworm-based machinery.

It’d also be hard to avoid news from the insurance industry right now so we do question: does the model still work if we don’t trust our insurance suppliers?

In this episode, the dystopias we cover are probably much closer than many might want to admit. The important question is, as always: what is the future that you would like to build?

Sean’s links:

* Gooey semiconductors

* Rolling back dementia by focusing on the brain microbiome

* Prime Intellect building a system to train AI using spare compute power around the world

* Shield AI 🤝 Palantir Technologies

* OpenAI 🤝 Anduril

Ben’s links:

* Time-limited insurance coverage

* Man’s best friend sniffing out cancer

* Electro-conductive tattoos… replacing EEGs?

* Machining tapeworm mouthparts 😬

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