What’s a Hard Fork?

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Speaker 2 Casey, how would you describe our podcast, Hard Fork, to someone who's never heard of it before?

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 2 No, it's a lot more than that. It's a show where we talk about the news.
So Sam Bankman-Fried is having one of the worst weeks because this week he went to jail. We'll go to a robot lab.

Speaker 3 Hello, Kevin and Casey.

Speaker 2 Ride around in self-driving cars. We're getting picked picked up in a car called Banana Slug.
And get creative with AI. Here's the prompt we gave ChatGPT.

Speaker 2 Give me a recipe for a cocktail that features all three of the following ingredients. Kiwi hot sauce, lavender, and lime.

Speaker 4 Oh my God. Cheers.

Speaker 2 Woo! I've had worse cocktails. I'll be honest.
We talk to the biggest players in tech, like the CEO of Google.

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 2 We're talking to school teachers, college professors, and listeners with real tech problems in their lives that need to be solved.

Speaker 2 Kate, should this person create a synthetic version of their beloved's voice and have it tell them that they love them? No,

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 2 Let's be real. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 2 You can find hard fork wherever you get your podcasts.

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