Much Ado About Data Centers, What Tech Gets Wrong About Its Critics, Q&A on SpaceX, Chinese AI, Elon Musk
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Hello, and welcome back to another episode of Sharp Tech. I'm Andrew Sharp, and on the other line, Ben Thompson. Ben, how you doing?
Sorry. We're a little bit late. I was, trying to get, you know, do a little bit of an argument in the group chat. Tried to, you know Grock generated the image that I wanted. Okay? Okay. Like, it just kinda does what you want. Image wasn't quite right. It was a little odd.
Creating you and I as NBA Jam characters against unnamed opponents in this graphic.
Yes. So Very important work. Yes. So I wanted to get the Chat GPT version. And, chat GPT, it everyone in this discussion is something of a public character. So it would he said, I'll do the other three, but I won't do you. I'm like, I am also a public character. It's like, doesn't matter. You're the one asking. And so I'd be able to do, like, three permutations of the chat.
Which is a pretty mystifying policy. I don't really understand how they landed there, but you worked through it. I I saw the end result. You did successfully work through it.
The end result was fairly horrifying, not in terms of appearance, just the random things that it drew. But, yes. Yeah. Yeah. We are AI makes you more productive. We are ten minutes late because I fight you with chat TV. Well, love to hear image for a group chat.
You're making it sound like the podcast is late. The podcast is right on time. We'll publish Friday morning at 5AM just like always. You're apologizing to me directly for being ten minutes late to recording this because you had to fight with ChatGPT, but you ultimately prevailed, and that's what's most important. And we got a nightmare fuel graphic where I'm working somewhere else. You're working somewhere else. It's all all part of the fun, but ChatGPT has a mind of its own. We will be talking about AI, though, at the start here. And you wrote about data centers on Monday. I'm glad you finall
Well, don't give me the overview. What was the cigar night discussion? I'm I'm curious.
Well, it's almost unanimous to data centers. So I had to play the role of, like, big tech shill talking about tax revenues
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