The Future of Programming with Richard Eisenberg
Richard Eisenberg is one of the core maintainers of Haskell. He recently joined Jane Street’s Tools and Compilers team, where he hacks on the OCaml compiler. He and Ron discuss the powerful language feature that got him into PL design in the first place—dependent types—and its role in a world where AIs can (somewhat) competently write your code for you. They also discuss the differences between Haskell and OCaml; the perils of trying to make a language that works for everybody; and how best a company like Jane Street can collaborate with the open source community.
Ethereum's Founder on What Crypto Can - and Can't - Do (30.09.2022)
Vitalik Buterin explains digital currency's potential to transform our world.
The Bing Who Loved Me, and Elon Rewrites the Algorithm
NYT / Kevin Roose: Bing’s A.I. Chat: ‘I Want to Be Alive. 😈’
A Restaurant Critic (Ours) On the Year That Changed Him Forever
During his time as a restaurant critic for The Times, Pete Wells has become both feared and revered in the world of dining — crowning those at the top and dethroning those whose time has passed.
But when the pandemic arrived, handing out stars to fancy restaurants made no sense anymore. A fundamental change was needed.
Did Artificial Intelligence Just Get Too Smart?
In the past few weeks, a major breakthrough in the world of artificial intelligence — ChatGPT — has put extraordinary powers in the hands of anyone with access to the internet.
Vor einem knappen Jahr habe ich mit dem Chefredakteur des Wiener Falter geredet und mir erklären lassen, was denn eigentlich in Österreich politisch so los ist. Damals hatte ich gedacht, dass es abenteuerlicher ja kaum werden kann – und ich habe mich geirrt. Dieser Tage sieht es aus, als könnte der ehemalige österreichische Bundeskanzler Kurz im Gefängnis landen. Also rede ich nochmal mit Florian Klenk.
Forsetzung des Gesprächs aus #40.
Putin, der KGB und der Weg zum Krieg
Die britische Aufdeckerjournalistin, Buchatorin und ehemalige Moskau-Korrespondentin Cathrine Belton seziert die geheimen Machtstrukturen des Kreml und die KGB-Seilschaften in der Moskauer Führung. Eine Wiener Vorlesung mit Tessa Szyszkowitz.
Eine gute Ergänzung der Gespräche mit Julia Ioffe (#256, #261).