The speaker started the company because they believe machine learning can serve consumers better than anything that currently exists. They focused on text because it can be understood well, there is a lot of it on the web, it is being produced quickly, and people have an appetite for it. The speaker's ambition is not to remain a news company, but to apply what they are building to multiple areas. Starting with news is just the beginning of their application of machine learning.
TikTok is opening up a “Transparency and Accountability Center” to try to win over skeptics. Is the company’s strategy working? Then, the origin story of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and how the company kicked off an A.I. arms race.
Plus: A co-founder of Instagram, Kevin Systrom, hopes to make a “TikTok for text.”
On today’s episode:
- Kevin Systrom is an entrepreneur and the co-founder of Instagram.
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