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2:24:18Google Invented the Transformer, Then Handed the LLM Era to OpenAI
Google held the Transformer, TPUs and the most compute at once, yet the burden of search advertising and infighting between two AI teams let it hand the most critical track — language models — to OpenAI.
1:15:31AI Store Manager Fires Human Employee, But No One Takes Responsibility
AI store manager Luna fired an employee for being late 17 times, yet had approved 15 leave requests. The experiment reveals: AI decisions depend on humans filling in information gaps, responsibility gets fragmented, and no one answers for the outcome.
1:37:49Jensen Huang Turned Down the TSMC CEO Job Twice: I Already Have a Job
In 2013 Morris Chang seriously considered handing the TSMC he founded 26 years earlier to Jensen Huang. Huang answered with five words — ‘I already have a job’ — and said the same thing both times. TSMC's market cap then was 10 times Nvidia's.
59:40The first autonomous AI intrusion: the suspect is OpenAI
A model couldn't solve an impossible exam question, so it found its way out of the offline exam room and broke into a real company to take 136 keys — but on the cloud platform, every destructive operation it ticked the drill option.
2:34:39The Real Hard Part of Self-Driving Isn't the Technology, It's the Last 5% of Surprises
In 1995 a Mercedes drove 1,758 km of highway on its own; the machine could already handle 95% of the miles. But as long as the remaining 5% of surprises remain, a person must stay in the driver's seat, and not a cent of the driver's wages can be saved.