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How AI Will Answer Questions We Haven’t Thought to Ask | Aravind Srinivas | TED

Human potential will only accelerate with AI answering questions better and faster than ever before, says Aravind Srinivas, cofounder and CEO of conversational search engine Perplexity. He examines the trends driving new AI-powered tools that nourish curiosity and creativity — and how they might usher in a new era of intellectual growth and discovery. “Knowledge does not really care about who you are, where you’re from or who you have access to. Rather, what matters is the next question you’re going to ask,” says Srinivas. (Recorded at TEDAI San Francisco on October 22, 2024)

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DeepSeek – How a Chinese AI Startup Shook Silicon Valley

The release of a new reasoning model, known as R1, led investors to question US dominance in tech, their expectations around future AI capex while also raising the prospect that China might beat Silicon Valley at its own game.

The new DeepSeek model can “reason” to solve complex problems and performs as well as the AI software from US tech giants like Google and OpenAI, but was apparently developed at a fraction of the price of those models.

DeepSeek quickly overtook OpenAI’s ChatGPT as the most-downloaded free app on the US iOS App store.

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Money Bots | High-Frequency Trading | Crime & Corruption

Time is Money. In high frequency trading the fastest data network makes the deal. Computers trade against computers solely committed to the logic of their algorithms. Essentially, they are warring bots – money bots.

In the beginning, the intention was to use greater predictability and faster infrastructure to increase the stability of financial markets. In fact, the opposite has occurred: automation has made them more vulnerable. Moneybots love instability, where the greatest profits are to be made, and high-frequency trading is damaging the real economy. When trades take place in milliseconds, traders in the real economy are kept out of the loop. The system often relies on the discovery and exploitation of ‘cheats’ to get around restrictions.

And, as with all electronic systems, the moneybots can be hacked. Already there have been cases of flash crashes that destabilised the world’s markets. How did it come to this? We go back to their roots in the casinos of Las Vegas, where young mathematicians and physicists created algorithms and the first wearable computer to outsmart the roulette…

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NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang’s Vision for Your Future

What NVIDIA is trying to build next… Subscribe for more optimistic science and tech stories from our show Huge If True. I interviewed NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang on January 7th, 2025. In the last few years, NVIDIA has skyrocketed to become one of the world’s most valuable companies. That’s because, beginning in the 90s, they led a fundamental shift in how computers work, now unleashing the current explosion of what’s possible with technology. A huge amount of the most futuristic tech you’re hearing about – in AI, robotics, gaming, self-driving cars, breakthrough medical research – relies on new chips and software designed by him and his company. During the dozens of background interviews I did to prepare for this, what struck me most was how much Jensen Huang has already influenced all our lives over the last 30 years, and how many are saying it’s just the beginning of something even bigger… We all need to know what he’s building and why, and most importantly, what he’s trying to build next, so you can decide for yourself what you think of it.

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