Beyond the Hype
By Piyush Sarwal
Categories: Society & Culture, Philosophy
Confident claims are everywhere: the age of darkness is about to end, a trading bot will make you rich, human-level AI is five years away. Beyond the Hype follows those claims back to their sources and asks what the evidence actually says. Host Piyush Sarwal, a technologist, former IBM Distinguished Engineer, and graduate instructor in neural networks and NLP, brings an engineer’s curiosity to wide-ranging topics: cosmology and ancient traditions, investing and financial planning, and large language models and the future of AI. Each episode separates what’s known from what’s guessed, and trea
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