Hosts: James Okafor & Maya Chen
In this episode:
• Today we're covering South Africa's AI policy disaster, Demis Hassabis' billion-dollar reinforcement learning bet, and Kimi's surprise coding victory.
• Starting with what might be the most embarrassing AI story of the year. South Africa just had to withdraw their entire national AI policy framework be...
• This is actually wild. The Department of Communications discovered that multiple academic citations in their 200-page policy document were completely ...
• The data tells a different story than just incompetence though. My analysis shows this is happening across at least twelve other countries' policy doc...
• Here's why this changes everything: governments are now realizing they can't trust their own AI-assisted research pipelines. South Africa spent eighte...
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