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Computerspeak by Alexandru Voica

Alexandru Voica

A weekly, AI-generated podcast that is a readout of Computerspeak.co, a newsletter about AI and emerging technologies

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00:06:57

Will AGI transform humanity into a multiplanetary...

Computerspeak by Alexandru Voica ·

2025/02/21

During a media tour to hype up Grok 3 ahead of its release, Elon Musk appeared at Welt’s Economic Forum in Germany where he put superintelligence among the top 10 most important milestones in the history of life on Earth.I explain the consequences of his statement in this week's newsletter: https://www.computerspeak.co/p/agi-making-humanity-multiplanetary

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00:06:50

RIP to the AI grift industrial complex

Computerspeak by Alexandru Voica ·

2025/02/14

The most meaningful achievement of the AI Action Summit in Paris is not what happened at the event, but in fact what we didn’t see. For the first time at a global AI event, the AI grift industrial complex, comprised of alarmists, doomers, skeptics, privacy and safety fanatics, and other conspiracy theorists, was relegated to where they’ve always belonged: at fringe events, preaching to their cleverly-named think tanks and foundations, without anyone who actually matters in the world of AI in

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00:07:32

Are reasoning models becoming sounding boards for...

Computerspeak by Alexandru Voica ·

2025/02/07

In recent months, a new breed of reasoning models has begun to emerge from the research labs of the tech world. An early adopter of these reasoning models has been the software engineering community. Instead of expecting the models to autonomously produce flawless code, engineers are leveraging them as interactive partners—similar to having a knowledgeable colleague or an advanced debugging tool. Learn more at https://www.computerspeak.co/p/reasoning-models-as-sounding-boards

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00:06:45

DeepSeek brings out the war hawks and Cold War rhetoric

Computerspeak by Alexandru Voica ·

2025/02/03

When Chinese AI research lab DeepSeek released R1, an open weights AI model that was on par with OpenAI’s o1 reasoning model, the response from many in the American media and industry circles was swift and alarmist. The achievement was quickly framed as a "Sputnik moment"—a term evoking the Soviet Union’s launch of the first artificial satellite in 1957 and the subsequent Cold War space race. This analogy is misleading: R1 is not a disruptive step change with military and geopolitical

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00:17:19

Doing the math on the Stargate Project

Computerspeak by Alexandru Voica ·

2025/01/24

During a press conference held on Tuesday at the White House, Donald Trump, together with Larry Ellison from Oracle, Masayoshi Son from SoftBank and Sam Altman from OpenAI, announced the Stargate Project, a new company set to invest $500 billion over the next four years to build AI infrastructure in the United States. So what exactly does that get you in terms of real-world infrastructure? We do the math in this week’s Computerspeak: https://www.computerspeak.co/p/the-math-on-stargate-project Also

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00:18:06

Dealing with precision in AI classifiers for content...

Computerspeak by Alexandru Voica ·

2025/01/21

Content moderation at scale remains one of the most complex challenges that technology companies have to deal with today. I’ve seen firsthand how different companies approach this challenge across different platforms, from content creation to distribution. Learn more at https://www.computerspeak.co/p/dealing-with-precision-in-content-moderation

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00:11:11

GET is a new model for understanding human biology

Computerspeak by Alexandru Voica ·

2025/01/10

An ambitious new AI model called GET (General Expression Transformer) promises to rewrite the rulebook for transcriptional regulation, a cornerstone of biological processes. Unveiled by researchers from MBZUAI, Columbia University and Carnegie Mellon, GET is not just another computational biology tool—it’s a leap forward in the form of a foundational model designed to predict gene expression across 213 human cell types. Learn more at

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00:12:57

How gen AI is moving from the Napster to the Spotify era

Computerspeak by Alexandru Voica ·

2024/11/29

A new report from MMC Ventures discusses the ethical challenges of training AI models, drawing parallels between the data gathering practices of today and the Napster-to-Spotify transition that occurred over two decades ago in the music industry. The report examines the perspectives of three stakeholders: content creators, data rights holders, and AI developers, highlighting the need for fair compensation and efficient rights management. Learn more at

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00:13:09

Two years on from ChatGPT, AI valuations are still a...

Computerspeak by Alexandru Voica ·

2024/11/22

Traditionally, we used to measure companies by their multiple, calculated as the company's valuation divided by its revenue. Multiples used to be a safe metric for investors to compare a company to other businesses. But with the AI companies of today, using multiples is no longer an option because, for many of them, they create a distorted picture of their true worth. Learn more at https://www.computerspeak.co/p/ai-valuations-two-years-from-chatgpt Also in the headlines this week: Index

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00:12:35

Researchers have a better definition for low resource...

Computerspeak by Alexandru Voica ·

2024/11/15

A new paper presented this week by researchers from MBZUAI and UC Berkeley at the EMNLP conference in Miami explains why Romanian or Cherokee (a language spoken by 2,000 people in the United States) can both be considered low resource, albeit for different reasons. Learn more at https://www.computerspeak.co/p/better-definition-low-resource-languages Also in the news this week: Wired: Inside the Billion-Dollar Startup Bringing AI Into the Physical World Business Insider: 5 interesting takeaways

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00:07:57

ByteDance's new AI turns photos into movie sequences

Computerspeak by Alexandru Voica ·

2024/11/08

TikTok’s parent company ByteDance has just previewed X-Portrait 2, a new portrait animation model built in cooperation with researchers from Tsinghua University, China’s best-ranked university in science and technology. The model is an evolution of the first-generation X-Portrait technology (which was presented earlier this year at SIGGRAPH) and provides similar functionality to Runway’s Act-One tool Learn more at https://www.computerspeak.co/p/bytedances-new-ai-turns-photos-into Also in the news

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00:01:34

Welcome to Computerspeak, a newsletter and podcast...

Computerspeak by Alexandru Voica ·

2024/11/04

Welcome to Computerspeak! I’m starting this newsletter and podcast to keep track of new breakthroughs in AI and other emerging technologies, and share them with you every week. Computerspeak will be published on Friday on a weekly basis, providing a selection of the most interesting media articles about AI. Learn more at https://www.computerspeak.co/© 2024 Black Knight Entertainment Ltd

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00:03:10

There's a surge of AI investments in Malaysia and...

Computerspeak by Alexandru Voica ·

2024/11/04

Countries in Asia are adopting AI at an accelerated rate and, if that trend continues, we’re likely to see AI-related investments in the region surpass $100 billion by 2028, according to IDC. Learn more at https://www.computerspeak.co/ © 2024 Black Knight Entertainment Ltd

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00:02:37

"AI-adjusted" earnings are now a thing

Computerspeak by Alexandru Voica ·

2024/11/04

Several reporters have been telling me that there's mounting skepticism of AI startups and their revenue potential among investors in the Valley. Here are the are two contributing factors to this cooling off. Learn more at https://www.computerspeak.co/ © 2024 Black Knight Entertainment Ltd

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00:03:13

At TED AI in Vienna, Europe fights for its place at...

Computerspeak by Alexandru Voica ·

2024/11/04

My thoughts after attending TED AI Vienna, the first AI-focused TED conference held in Europe. Learn more at https://www.computerspeak.co/ © 2024 Black Knight Entertainment Ltd

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00:02:09

An AI-powered metaverse starts to take shape

Computerspeak by Alexandru Voica ·

2024/11/04

Remember nine months ago when the world collectively was rolling its eyes every time Mark Zuckerberg mentioned the metaverse on an earnings call? Well, maybe it’s time to roll them back, put on a pair of Ray-Ban Meta glasses, and take a closer look at what Meta is doing because the metaverse could be finally revealing itself to us in its hype-less, tangible future glory. Learn more at https://www.computerspeak.co/ © 2024 Black Knight Entertainment Ltd

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00:02:21

A radical approach could turn the Middle East into an...

Computerspeak by Alexandru Voica ·

2024/11/04

In the race for AI supremacy, a new innovation hub is emerging according to a story from Reed Albergotti in Semafor: the Middle East. As the UAE and Saudi Arabia build data centers capable of training foundational models, more startup founders and investors are relocating to the region, taking advantage of recently established free zones where entrepreneurs can experiment freely with emerging technologies. Learn more at https://www.computerspeak.co/ © 2024 Black Knight Entertainment Ltd

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00:04:05

Achieving supremacy in AI

Computerspeak by Alexandru Voica ·

2024/11/04

In her new book Supremacy, Parmy Olson goes behind the scenes of the AI industry’s two-year rollercoaster ride which began in November 2022 with the launch of ChatGPT. She focuses on the evolution of two founders: Sam Altman of OpenAI and Demis Hassabis of Google DeepMind, and chronicles their journeys from the early startup days where both had lofty goals of solving science and providing economic abundance to their more corporate-focused, present day predicaments, where their fortunes are closely

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00:02:47

Compute Deserts yield winners at the world's first AI...

Computerspeak by Alexandru Voica ·

2024/11/04

The Oxford Internet Institute has published a paper highlighting the uneven distribution of computing around the world, identifying three categories of countries when it comes to access to cloud AI infrastructure. Learn more at https://www.computerspeak.co/ © 2024 Black Knight Entertainment Ltd

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00:04:07

The people onscreen are fake, but the business value...

Computerspeak by Alexandru Voica ·

2024/11/04

According to some commentators, we’ve reached peak AI and the industry is in a huge bubble because generative AI provides no real benefits to early adopters. Here is their argument: over the last year, Big Tech has made sizable infrastructure investments in AI and VCs have signed large checks hundreds of startups (some with eye-watering valuations) but, so far, we have nothing to show for it. Learn more at https://www.computerspeak.co/ © 2024 Black Knight Entertainment Ltd

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