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What happens when AI starts generating content for everyone—and no one wants to watch it?
In this episode, MSNBC’s Chris Hayes and ad tech veteran Antonio García Martínez join a16z General Partner, Erik Torenberg to unpack the shifting economics of attention: from the rise of “AI slop” and spammy feeds to the difference between what we want to pay attention to and what platforms push on us.
They explore:
How AI changes what gets created and what gets seen
Why internet ads still mostly suck
The return of group chats—and the slow death of mass culture
Based on Chris’s new book The Sirens Call, this is a candid look at what AI might amplify or break in our online lives.
Timecodes:
0:00 Introduction
1:47 Meet the Guests: Chris Hayes & Antonio Garcia Martinez
3:01 The Economics of Attention & AI Slop
6:38 Acquisition vs. Retention: The Attention Challenge
10:01 Fame, Identity, and Social Media Fragmentation
13:21 The Group Chat Solution & Privacy
16:01 Business Models, Community, and Technology
19:01 Mass Culture, Fragmentation, and the Algorithm
23:01 Ad Tech, Personalization, and Advertising Effectiveness
29:01 The Future: AI, Growth, and Abundance
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This week: Federico interviewed Craig Federighi about the past, present, and future of the iPad. Myke started a blog, and Stephen is hoping for change.
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Jen Simmons stops by to talk about new CSS and Safari features like Form Control Styling, Declarative Web Push, Typography, contrast-color(), and more.
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Iman Mirzadeh from Apple, who recently published the GSM-Symbolic paper discusses the crucial distinction between intelligence and achievement in AI systems. He critiques current AI research methodologies, highlighting the limitations of Large Language Models (LLMs) in reasoning and knowledge representation.
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TOC:
1. Intelligence vs Achievement in AI Systems
[00:00:00] 1.1 Intelligence vs Achievement Metrics in AI Systems
[00:03:27] 1.2 AlphaZero and Abstract Understanding in Chess
[00:10:10] 1.3 Language Models and Distribution Learning Limitations
[00:14:47] 1.4 Research Methodology and Theoretical Frameworks
2. Intelligence Measurement and Learning
[00:24:24] 2.1 LLM Capabilities: Interpolation vs True Reasoning
[00:29:00] 2.2 Intelligence Definition and Measurement Approaches
[00:34:35] 2.3 Learning Capabilities and Agency in AI Systems
[00:39:26] 2.4 Abstract Reasoning and Symbol Understanding
3. LLM Performance and Evaluation
[00:47:15] 3.1 Scaling Laws and Fundamental Limitations
[00:54:33] 3.2 Connectionism vs Symbolism Debate in Neural Networks
[00:58:09] 3.3 GSM-Symbolic: Testing Mathematical Reasoning in LLMs
[01:08:38] 3.4 Benchmark Evaluation and Model Performance Assessment
REFS:
[00:01:00] AlphaZero chess AI system, Silver et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.01815
[00:07:10] Game Changer: AlphaZero's Groundbreaking Chess Strategies, Sadler & Regan
https://www.amazon.com/Game-Changer-AlphaZeros-Groundbreaking-Strategies/dp/9056918184
[00:11:35] Cross-entropy loss in language modeling, Voita
http://lena-voita.github.io/nlp_course/language_modeling.html
[00:17:20] GSM-Symbolic: Understanding the Limitations of Mathematical Reasoning in LLMs, Mirzadeh et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.05229
[00:21:25] Connectionism and Cognitive Architecture: A Critical Analysis, Fodor & Pylyshyn
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/001002779090014B
[00:28:55] Brain-to-body mass ratio scaling laws, Sutskever
https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/13/24320811/what-ilya-sutskever-sees-openai-model-data-training
[00:29:40] On the Measure of Intelligence, Chollet
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.01547
[00:33:30] On definition of intelligence, Gignac et al.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289624000266
[00:35:30] Defining intelligence, Wang
https://cis.temple.edu/~wangp/papers.html
[00:37:40] How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine... for Now, Dehaene
https://www.amazon.com/How-We-Learn-Brains-Machine/dp/0525559884
[00:39:35] Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking, Hofstadter and Sander
https://www.amazon.com/Surfaces-Essences-Analogy-Fuel-Thinking/dp/0465018475
[00:43:15] Chain-of-thought prompting, Wei et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.11903
[00:47:20] Test-time scaling laws in machine learning, Brown
https://podcasts.apple.com/mv/podcast/openais-noam-brown-ilge-akkaya-and-hunter-lightman-on/id1750736528?i=1000671532058
[00:47:50] Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models, Kaplan et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.08361
[00:55:15] Tensor product variable binding, Smolensky
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/000437029090007M
[01:08:45] GSM-8K dataset, OpenAI
https://huggingface.co/datasets/openai/gsm8k
Emma Grede is the co-founder of Good American and Safely, a founding partner of Skims, and chair of the 15 Percent Pledge. In this conversation, recorded live on stage at the Masters of Scale Summit in October of 2024, Grede shares entrepreneurial lessons with Angela Ahrendts (former SVP at Apple). Later in the episode, it’s Ahrendts’ 2024 Summit chat with Mellody Hobson, president of Ariel Investments and former chair of DreamWorks. Hobson explains why she believes DEI efforts are worth fighting for and the importance of financial literacy.
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In 2024, marking 10 years since its launch, Apple Pay now boasts hundreds of millions of consumers in 78 markets, at checkout on millions of websites and apps, in tens of millions of stores worldwide, and is supported by more than 11,000 bank and network partners.
In this episode, a16z General Partner Alex Rampell sits down with Jennifer Bailey, VP of Apple Pay and Apple Wallet, to explore how Apple has transformed digital payments.
Jennifer reveals how Apple Pay and Apple Wallet have grown beyond payments to include transit cards, car keys, and more. They also discuss the challenges of driving adoption, the future of digital wallets, and Jennifer’s insights for entrepreneurs.
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Scott and Wes talk with Topher Martini, a former Engineering Program Manager at Apple, about his extensive experience over two decades in the tech industry. Topher shares his journey at Apple, from starting as an intern in 2001 to working on groundbreaking products like iPhone, iPad, and Vision Pro.
Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
00:40 What it was like working on the first iPhone
04:47 How Topher landed at Apple early in his career
08:40 How Apple’s culture has changed over time
11:03 What makes a great employee?
16:37 Tips for better communication
17:54 Are meetings a good means of communication?
20:05 What makes a bad employee?
22:21 What does it take to get hired at a company like Apple?
26:16 Brought to you by Sentry.io
26:55 The relationship between passion and career
29:08 Topher’s advice for growing in your career
31:50 What is a sabbatical?
33:36 Teaching tech to kids
35:49 Topher’s work on self-driving cars Aurora
39:33 AI’s impact on tech and the future
41:22 What can developers do to stand out and be relevant in a world of AI?
43:30 Topher’s thoughts on career development One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way
Paul Copplestone
44:47 What is a light field camera?
46:47 Spatial media and Vision Pro
48:10 The nifty stuff in Topher’s background
49:53 Something wild that happened while Topher was at Apple
51:34 Sick Picks & Shameless Plugs
Sick Picks Topher: Bambu Lab P1S 3D Printer
Bento 3D
Shameless Plugs Topher: Topher’s YouTube Channel
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Ryan Worl, Co-founder and CTO at WarpStream, joins us to talk about the world of Kafka and data streaming and how WarpStream redesigned the idea of Kafka to run in modern cloud environments directly on top of object storage. Last year they posted a blog titled, “Kafka is dead, long live Kafka” that hit the top of Hacker News to put WarpStream on the map. We get the backstory on Kafka and why it’s so widely used, who created it and for what purpose, and the behind the scenes on all things WarpStream.
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Kafka is dead, long live Kafka
Apache Kafka - open-source distributed event streaming platform used by thousands of companies for high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration, and mission-critical applications.
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Recorded in front of a live (and lively) audience at The California Theatre in San Jose Tuesday evening, special guests John Giannandrea, Craig Federighi, and Greg Joswiak join me to discuss Apple’s announcements at WWDC 2024.
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Wes and Scott talk with Jen Simmons about the latest updates to Safari, reporting bugs to Apple, understanding color in CSS, new CSS switch controls, and testing your websites in Vision Pro hardware.
Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
00:03 Brought to you by Sentry.io
01:05 Meet Jen Simmons.
03:15 Safari has been killing it lately
Safari Release Notes
WebKit Features in Safari 17.0
WebKit Features in Safari 17.1
WebKit Features in Safari 17.2
10:25 Wes’ cOnSpirACy about Apple and APIs
18:18 Where is the best place to report bugs to Apple?
Bugs.Webkit.org
Jen on Mastodon
Web Compat
20:35 What’s happening with CSS Color gamuts and models?
33:57 Is contrast color ever going to to land?
36:25 Where is the CSS Grid and Masonry proposal at?
44:20 Will we be able to target a specific row in a grid?
46:17 What are CSS switch controls?
48:44 How can web devs view their websites in Vision Pro devices?
Apple Vision Pro
Running your app in Simulator or on a device
54:26 In what ways are HTML / CSS / JavaScript running where we don’t realize it?
58:43 Sick Picks
Sick Picks Jen: Walking.
Shameless Plugs Jen: webkit.org X
Feedback Assistant at Apple
Sessions - WWDC23 - Apple Developer
Webkit Standards Positions
Safari Technology Preview
Safari Technology Preview Release Notes
What’s new in CSS at WWDC23
Rediscover Safari developer features at WWDC23
What’s new in Web Apps at WWDC23
Meet Safari for spatial computing at WWDC23
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This week we’re talking about Swift with Ben Cohen, the Swift Team Manager at Apple. We caught up with Ben while at KubeCon last week. Ben takes us into the world of Swift, from Apple Native apps on iOS and macOS, to the Swift Server Workgroup for developing and deploying server side applications, to the Swift extension for VS Code, Swift as a safe C/C++ successor language, Swift on Linux and Windows, and of course what The Browser Company’s Arc browser is doing to bring Arc to Windows.
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Swift is available for macOS, Windows, and Linux
The Browser Company (who are bringing their Arc browser, written in Swift, to Windows) recently open sourced their bindings for WinRT
The Swift on Server Working Group
Swift extension for VS Code (if Xcode isn’t your thing)
NSA recently published a report urging people to move off of C and C++:
John McCall (who chairs the Language Steering Group) at CppNow recently
The goals for Swift 6
Miguel de Icaza proposing using Swift in the Godot game engine
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In this episode of Empire, we're joined by Antonio García Martínez, Founder of Spindle, New York Times best selling author, and tech leader with experience ranging from Facebook to Goldman Sachs. Today's episode delves into the intricate world of advertising, contrasting traditional Web2 paradigms with emerging Web3 possibilities. Learn about the the decentralization of advertising platforms, evolving monetization models, and the ethical implications surrounding data privacy.
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(06:35) The Facebook Ad Market
(10:41) Sourcing Off-Platform Data
(18:46) The State of the Ad Market
(24:14) Ad Space Landscape
(26:41) Are Web2 Platforms Listening to you?
(29:10) Hardware VS Software Layer
(32:02) The State of Crypto Ad Markets
(36:48) Vouch ad
(37:56) Permissionless Ad
(39:21) Web3 Impact on Ad Markets
(44:32) Ad Marketplaces
(51:25) Web3 Master of Ads
(55:35) How Does Spindl Work?
(01:00:25) Web3 User Tracking
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Resources:
Ghostery Pixel Tracking
https://www.ghostery.com/
LumaScape - A visual guide
https://lumapartners.com/lumascapes/
Facebook isn't Listening to you (Antonio Wired Piece)
https://www.wired.com/story/facebooks-listening-smartphone-microphone/
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Eric Schmidt, Angela Ahrendts, and Dara Khosrowshahi — three legendary culture-setters — sit down with host Bob Safian to discuss how they’ve built and rebuilt great cultures at Apple, Uber, Google and more. Recorded live at the Masters of Scale Summit in San Francisco, the conversation delivers surprising stories, and counterintuitive lessons on authenticity, making mistakes, and how to build a unique culture that’s right for your business.
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Our guests today are Christopher Thielen, product manager for languages and frameworks at Apple, and Josh Shaffer, a Senior Director of Software at Apple with a focus on Swift frameworks.
We discuss the introduction of Swift Macros, improving widgets with App Intents, and some of the new paradigms for crafting apps in visionOS.
If you want to get the full picture of all the updates Apple announced for software developers, you can watch this year’s State of the Union or dive into particulars with 175 different videos focused on key elements of the announcements.
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Back in San Jose’s historic California Theatre for the first time since 2019, special guests John Ternus, Mike Rockwell, Craig Federighi, and Greg Joswiak join me to discuss the news and announcements from WWDC 2023.
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WWDC 2023 highlights.
My first impressions of Vision Pro and VisionOS.
Audio engineering: Caleb Sexton.
Another bonus episode from the Internet History Podcast. As promised, Mike Slade is back to tell stories from the period 1998 through 2004, when he was Special Assistant to Steve Jobs. Background details on the iMac, the iPod and the iPhone and more!
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Another bonus episode from the Internet History Podcast. I originally wanted to talk to Mike Slade about Starwave, the innovative company that launched some major names onto the web, including ESPN.com, ABCNews.com, MrShowbiz.com, and after an eventual sale to Disney, put together the pieces that eventually became the Go.com portal play. But Mike is one of those guys who has had such a varied and interesting career, I couldn't help but go into other eras of his career. The dude worked at Microsoft in the early 1980s. He worked at NeXT in the early 90s. And from 1998 through 2004 he was Special Assistant to Steve Jobs as he saved Apple as a company, launched the iPod and kicked into motion the modern gadget era.
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Paris Pittman is a Senior Program Manager at the Open Source Program office at Apple. A Prominent Kubernetes and CNCF member who served many roles with a focus on community and governance. Paris was on some key milestones for this show. First appearance was on Episode 1 and later on Episode 100. So we could not be happier to have Paris back in Episode 200. We discussed how Paris got started with community work and how the experience has been. Paris shared with us some words of wisdom on the power of working with others and the importance of moving on.
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News of the week KCD Amsterdam Retro
AWS announced Data on EKS
Kubecon EU 2023 "Security Village"
Podman desktop released version 0.14
Keycloak joined CNCF as an incubating project
Kubernetes v1.27 code name Chill Vibes was released
The CNCF "Cloud Native Explorers" - Amsterdam Edition
CNCF white paper on Platforms for Cloud Native Computing
GKE Autopilot is now the default mode of operations for new clusters
Links from the interview Paris Pittman:
Linkedin
Twitter
Mastodon (@paris@hachyderm.io)
OSCON 2016
Sarah Novotny
Kaslin is a new chair of SIG contribX
The Apple logo. The iconic Burberry check. These images inspire loyalty of customers and employees alike. But it takes more than a beloved brand to power a company and motivate a team. No one knows this better than Angela Ahrendts, former SVP of retail at Apple, and the former CEO of Burberry. Angela has spent most of her career learning how to imbue those logos with meaning — and support them with down-to-earth, everyday, human connection. Why? Because to unite a team — especially one that’s large, global and dispersed — you need to turn them into mission-driven families.
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Emily Fox is a security engineer @Apple Cloud Services, a CNCF Technical Oversight Committee member and co-chair for a bunch of CNCF events including recently the Cloud Native Security Conference in Seattle.
We had a chance to talk to Emily about the first edition of the CNSC 2023, her involvement with the CNCF community. Her role as a security engineer and some career discussions.
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News of the week KubeEdge v1.13.0 released on January 18, 2023, achieves SLSA 3 compliance
SLSA 3 compliance
KubeVela brings software delivery control plane capabilities to CNCF Incubator
GKE Updates:
Balanced compute classes are now offered in GKE Autopilot
GKE Autopilot now supports exposing randomly assigned host ports for pods
GKE has started offering ephemeral storage with local SSDs
Added support for Windows Server 2022 nodes
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Twitter
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Cloud Native Security Con Youtube Playlist
How to Secure Your Supply Chain at Scale - Hemil Kadakia & Yonghe Zhao, Yahoo
eBPF
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Waterfall development
Cloudcareers.dev podcast
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Software Supply Chain Security
Emily Fox on SBOM
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Shift Left Security: Best Practices for Getting Started
Episode 196 with Benjamin Elder
CNSC 2023 seattle guests
David Wolf
Eric Knauer
Liz Rice
Mitch Connors
Josh Knarr
Nick Young
Taylor Dolezal
Frederick Kautz on SPIFFE/SPIRE
Chris Aniszczyk's Blog
The Falco Project
Cilium Tetragon
Pixie
Aviatrix
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Beyond Cluster-Admin: Getting Started with Kubernetes Users and Permissions - Tiffany Jernigan
Standardization & Security - A Perfect Match - Ravi Devineni & Vinny Carpenter, Northwestern Mutual
CSI Container: Can You DFIR It? - Alberto Pellitteri & Stefano Chierici, Sysdig
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(3:10) Flo’s take on the AI moment and AGI
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(11:25) The inflection point is a jump in generality
(13:14) AI's effect on coding
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30:34 - The challenge of space policy and governance
38:27 - Orbital highways and carrying capacities
41:05 - Dependence on space infrastructure and its fragility
45:14 - Privateer’s role in the evolving ecosystem
46:52 - Democratizing space through data sharing
49:45 - Can we undo the damage that’s been done?
52:01 - Determining intent in space
58:17 - Talent needed in the space industry
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(7:45) – Ad tech
(10:04) – Why AGM wrote Chaos Monkey
(14:50) – His character in Chaos Monkey
(17:19) – Bringing your whole self to work
(19:14) – Politics in social media
(26:17) – Converting to Judaism
(30:58) – Visiting Ukraine
(35:19) – Current thing theory
(43:25) – Chamath example
(46:45) – What’s something everyone incorrectly believes is true?
(51:16) – Facebook isn’t listening to your phone
(56:09) – IG vs Twitter ad targeting
(57:56) – AGM announces his Web3 company
(1:04:28) – Zach agrees in a Web3 debate
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(1:15:44) – Acquisitions in Web2 vs Web3
(1:22:53) – Web3 macro analysis
(1:25:00) – Farcaster
(1:31:54) – Will Zach invest?
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