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Podcast about the Topic: Part III, with Brian Greene

Boooooo! What spooooky times we now live in, with AI rapidly advancing in capabilities and solving more and more major open math problems!

So it seems like a perfect occasion to share yet another podcast. I know I’ve been dropping them like every day, but this is a special one, with Brian Greene for his World Science Festival, recorded in-person when I visited Columbia University a week ago. Note that we don’t talk about OpenAI’s refutation of the Exponential Time Hypothesis because the announcement of that was still two days in the future!

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