Steve discusses the competition between Microsoft and Google, the competition between the U.S. and China in STEM, China’s new IVF policy, and a Science Magazine survey on polygenic screening of embryos.

00:00 Introduction

02:37 Bing vs Bard: LLMs and hallucination

20:52 China demographics & STEM

34:29 China IVF

40:28 Survey on embryo screening in Science

References:

Bing vs Bard and Hallucination

https://twitter.com/hsu_steve/status/1625222378383876119

China demographics and STEM

https://twitter.com/hsu_steve/status/1620765589752119297

https://twitter.com/hsu_steve/status/1623279827640848385

China IVF

https://twitter.com/hsu_steve/status/1623475304432820224
https://twitter.com/hsu_steve/status/1623478413758500864

Survey on embryo screening

https://twitter.com/hsu_steve/status/1623783244947722241

https://twitter.com/hsu_steve/status/1623664372202500097

Music used with permission from Blade Runner Blues Livestream improvisation by State Azure.

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Steve Hsu is Professor of Theoretical Physics and of Computational Mathematics, Science, and Engineering at Michigan State University. Previously, he was Senior Vice President for Research and Innovation at MSU and Director of the Institute of Theoretical Science at the University of Oregon. Hsu is a startup founder (Superfocus.ai, SafeWeb, Genomic Prediction, Othram) and advisor to venture capital and other investment firms. He was educated at Caltech and Berkeley, was a Harvard Junior Fellow, and has held faculty positions at Yale, the University of Oregon, and MSU.

Please send any questions or suggestions to manifold1podcast@gmail.com or Steve on Twitter @hsu_steve.

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