What’s a Hard Fork?
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Imagine a race car. It's fast.
The team spared no expense. Driver, engine, fuel, all are exceptional.
But the pit crew is slow. They have access to high-quality components but can't bring it all together on race day.
That's what it's like to lead a company into the AI era with poor data management.
You have everything you need to win, but a bottleneck has you sitting in the pit lane.
Ensure your company is ready with a data storage platform that provides both speed and efficiency. Pure storage.
Casey, how would you describe our podcast, Hard Fork, to someone who's never heard of it before? I'd say the premise of our show is, what if an esteemed technology columnist for the New York Times was constantly interrupted by his gay friend. And then we just kind of did that for
an hour.
No, it's a lot more than that.
It's a show where we talk about the news.
So Sam Bankman Freed is having
one of the worst weeks because this week
he went to jail. We'll go to a robot lab.
Hello, Kevin and Casey. Ride around
in self-driving cars. We're getting picked up
in a car called Banana Slug.
And get creative with AI. Here's the prompt we gave ChatGPT.
Give me a recipe for a cocktail that features all three of the following ingredients. Kiwi hot sauce, lavender, and lime.
Oh my God. Cheers.
Woo! I've had worse cocktails. I'll be honest.
We talked to the biggest players in tech, like the CEO of Google. I do think it's a bit ironic that Microsoft can call someone else an 800-pound gorilla, you know, given the scale and size of their company.
We're talking to school teachers, college professors, and listeners with real tech problems in their lives that need to be solved. Kate, should this person create a synthetic version of their beloved's voice and have it tell them that they love them? No, they should not.
It's a conversation about tech and the future.
We're two friends, both reporters.
We get together once a week
to talk about the biggest stories in tech.
And gossip a little.
Let's be real.
Oh, yeah.
You can find Hard Fork
wherever you get your podcasts.