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What"s Your Problem?

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Every week on What"s Your Problem?, former Planet Money host Jacob Goldstein talks withentrepreneurs and engineerstackling the biggest challenges at the forefront of technology. How do you make a trip to space as routine as a plane flight? How do you turn solar energy into clean fuel? How do you use AI to stop deadly infections before they spread? We hear a lot these days about how the world is getting worse. What"s Your Problem? learns from the thinkers and doers trying to make our future

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24:14

Spotting Wildfires with AI

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2023/08/31

Sonia Kastner is the founder and CEO of Pano. Sonia’s problem is this: How do you use data and machine learning to mitigate the damage caused by climate change? Pano mounts cameras on remote mountaintop towers, then sends images from the cameras to an AI model trained to spot wildfire smoke. The goal is to alert fire crews early, before the fire spreads.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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24:14

Is the Era of Free Returns Over?

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2023/08/24

Amit Sharma is the founder and CEO of Narvar. Narvar works with companies such as Sephora, Lululemon and Home Depot to manage the post-purchase phase of online shopping — tracking, alerts and returns. Around 10 percent of online purchases are returned and every return cuts into retailers’ profits. Amit’s problem is this: consumers have learned to love free returns, but can retailers afford them?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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36:09

Creative Technology at Pixar

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2023/08/17

Danielle Feinberg is a Visual Effects Supervisor at Pixar Animation Studios. Danielle’s problem is this: How do you optimize technology so that you can spend more time being creative? Danielle Feinberg has worked at Pixar for 26 years. Earlier in her career, she was the director of photography on movies like Coco and Wall-E. She talks about how new software shapes creative work.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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29:01

How To Make AI Safer & More Reliable

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2023/08/10

Yaron Singer is the founder and CEO of Robust Intelligence. Yaron’s problem is this: How do you reduce AI’s security and reliability risks? Yaron was a computer science professor at Harvard and worked at Google before starting Robust Intelligence. The company’s software tests AI models and datasets for problems with performance and security.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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23:55

Quantum Computers Could Change Everything

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2023/08/03

Chris Monroe is the co-founder and chief scientist of IonQ. Chris’s problem is this: How do you build a quantum computer that will actually work? Quantum computing has the potential to transform fields from drug development to clean energy to cybersecurity, but so far no one has been able to build a quantum computer that can reliably outperform existing computers. Monroe is also a physics professor at Duke University, and he talks Jacob through the principles that make quantum computing possible.See

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20:54

The 2023 Unhedged Stock Draft

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2023/07/27

Seven stocks are powering the market: Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla. How will they do in the second half of this year? Ethan Wu hosts as Rob ‘Value This’ Armstrong takes on Elaine ‘The Lex Flex’ Moore. In three rounds they pick their winners for the second half of 2023, and tell us why they chose them. If you enjoyed this preview of the new podcast Unhedged, subscribe to the show now: https://apple.co/478A3VSSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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32:38

Predicting Human Health with AI

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2023/07/06

Charles Fisher is the co-founder and CEO of Unlearn AI. Charles’ problem is this: How do you build an AI model that can predict human health? Charles and his colleagues have built a predictive model of health that is already being used in clinical trials, and might one day be deployed to predict individuals’ health outcomes.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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30:09

Breastfeeding, Black Market Baby Formula, and Bobbie

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2023/06/29

Laura Modi is the founder and CEO of Bobbie, a company that makes baby formula and sells it directly to parents. Laura’s problem is this: how do you launch a startup in a highly regulated industry that has pretty much been a duopoly for decades? Part of Laura’s answer is marketing, which raises another question: how do you get people to consider formula despite so much messaging that breastfeeding is better?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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29:36

Making Immigration Cheaper & Easier

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2023/06/22

Xiao Wang is the founder of a company called Boundless. Xiao’s problem is this: How do you make it cheaper and easier for people to navigate the U.S. immigration system? Xiao moved to the U.S. from China when he was three years-old. For many years, he took for granted that immigration was slow, complicated, and expensive to navigate. With Boundless, he’s built a platform to help people who try to figure out that system every year.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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22:45

The Wind Power Pioneer Still Pushing the Frontier

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2023/06/15

Henrik Stiesdal got his start in wind power back in the 70s. The price of oil had gone way up, and he wanted to help his parents figure out a cheaper source of electricity for their farm. He went on to help create the modern wind industry. Five decades later, he’s still pushing the frontier.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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32:23

The Mystery at the Heart of ChatGPT

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2023/06/08

One of the most amazing things about ChatGPT and other, similar AI models: Nobody really understands what they can do. Not even the people who build them. On today’s show, we talk with Sam Bowman about some of the mysteries at the heart of so-called large language models. Sam is on the faculty at NYU, he runs a research group at the AI company Anthropic and he is the author of the illuminating paper Eight Things to Know About Large Language Models.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy

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25:49

Scrubbing Carbon from the Air

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2023/06/01

Dan Friedmann is the CEO of Carbon Engineering. The company is at the frontier of a new industry, direct air capture. They just broke ground on a big plant in Texas that will pull carbon dioxide out of the air. Dan’s problem is this: how do you bring the price of direct air capture way down? And how do you convince companies and governments to pay for scrubbing carbon out of the air?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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28:21

Building a Plane to Help Save the World

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2023/05/25

Does flying have to be bad for the environment? Val Miftakhov, the founder and CEO of ZeroAvia, doesn’t think so. His company built a plane that’s powered by hydrogen fuel, which produces zero carbon emissions. It had a successful test flight earlier this year and Miftakhov hopes it will be ready for commercial use by 2025. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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31:49

The AI that Might Take My Job (And Yours)

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2023/05/18

Andrew Mason is the founder and CEO of Descript. Descript's software has made editing audio and video much simpler. The company recently received a large investment from OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. It's a sign that Descript is moving toward using generative AI to generate words and pictures. What will that mean for the people who currently do that work?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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25:19

The Hottest Thing In Energy Storage

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2023/05/11

Andrew Ponec is co-founder and CEO of the energy storage company Antora Energy. Andrew's problem is this: How can you store renewable energy in a way that is cheap enough and reliable enough for industrial use? He thinks the solution may be storing that energy as heat, in big blocks of graphite.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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24:41

Using Bacteria to Dye Jeans

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2023/05/04

Tammy Hsu and Michelle Zhu are the cofounders of Huue. Their problem is this: how do you get bacteria to produce indigo dye? And how do you do it cheaply and reliably enough to replace the toxic petrochemical process that's currently used to dye billions of pairs of jeans a year? They're working with denim brands to commercialize their bacteria-produced dye. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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27:36

The Quest for the Factory-Built House

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2023/04/27

Today's show is about a problem people have been trying to solve for a hundred years: how can we mass produce houses, like we do cars? Listen for a house that looks like a UFO, a giant mobile home boom, and a visit to a 21st-century construction site where workers are putting up a factory-built house. This episode's a co-production with our friends at Planet Money, and a follow-up to last week's interview with the founder of Cover.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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31:12

Building Houses Like Tesla Builds Cars

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2023/04/20

Alexis Rivas is the co-founder and CEO of Cover. His problem is: How do you build houses in a factory, the way you build cars? And how do you do it so they're cheaper and better than a traditionally built house? Cover is following the Tesla model: starting with a high-end product but aiming for the mass market. "Nail it and scale it," he says.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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23:36

Human Bones, Made In the Lab

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2023/03/30

Nina Tandon is the co-founder and CEO of a tissue engineering company called EpiBone. Her problem is this: How do you grow custom bone from patients' stem cells, at a price that makes sense?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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27:02

Tiny Chips, Giant Stakes

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2023/03/23

Microchips are the most important driver of technological progress in the modern world, and governments are fighting over who gets to make them. Right now, most cutting-edge chips are made in Taiwan, a country that China claims as part of its territory. The U.S. government is fighting to keep semiconductor technology out of China, and spending tens of billions of dollars to get companies to build more chip factories in the US. Chris Miller is a professor at Tufts University and the author of a book

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