Today’s show: Jason and Lon break down the biggest stories in tech and startups this week: OpenAI’s new models are powerful but glitchy, Meta’s internal docs hint that Zuck knows the Facebook friends graph is toast, and fintech startup TapCheck might actually be doing some good. Plus, robot lifeguards and humanoid races — the wildest videos of the week and what they mean. Then, Alex sits down with Jason Reminick, founder of Thalamus, the platform that helps match medical residents to hospitals (with 85% market share!). They talk about becoming a Public Benefit Corp and how Thalamus is tackling the doctor shortage in the U.S.
Timestamps:
(0:00) Jason kicks off the show
(1:43) OpenAI’s new models and issues with Wikipedia as AI knowledge bases
(8:27) FTC antitrust case around Meta; breaking up big tech
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(13:04) Tapcheck’s impact on employee retention and minimum wage variations
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(24:31) New company Revel’s safety software
(27:14) Humanoid robot marathon in Beijing
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(35:46) New color discovery “Olo”
(40:30) Blue Sky is Falling: Robots, delivery, surveillance, and privacy concerns
(55:20) Alex sits down with Jason Reminick of Thalamus
(56:01) Thalamus and the medical residency application process
(59:42) AI in residency applications and standardizing medical school grades
(1:03:30) Thalamus’ market share and collaboration with medical associations
(1:10:08) Impact of budget cuts on rural hospitals and business model expansion
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Would there have been this much hate on the Blue Origin trip if there were white men traveling, who knows🤷🏾♂️ I think William Shatner took the trip and I don’t remember the hate, just saying.
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Jason when you listed things Zuckerberg does to give the appearance he's now MAGA you did not mention he's become a beast in MMA and competing. And that before trump won the last election. You think that's an appearance too?
I highly doubt OpenAI need more research to understand why their models (and other LLMs) are unreliable.
Transformer-based LLMs are generative models. When it comes to hallucinations, it’s not a bug; it’s a feature. It is a predictable downstream effect of a design choice. Great for art. Less so when you need reliable information.
In addition, the chat is recorded in the context window to provide the LLM a working ‘memory’ of the conversation. This memory includes any previous hallucinations by the model. So if the model hallucinated it went for a walk, it will get registered in the chat’s context, and when asked, it will keep insisting it went for a walk. There is no big mystery here. The mystery is how to go about addressing this shortcoming.
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