The Zoom Election + Google DeepMind's Math Olympiad + HatGPT! Olympics Edition

This week, with hundreds of thousands of people joining online political rallies for Kamala Harris, we discuss whether 2024 is suddenly becoming the Zoom election, and what that means for both parties’ political organizing. Then, Pushmeet Kohli, a computer scientist at Google DeepMind, joins us for a conversation about how his team’s new A.I. models just hit a silver medal score on the International Mathematical Olympiad exam. And finally, it’s time for a new round of HatGPT! This time, it’s a special Olympics tech edition.
 

Guest:

• Pushmeet Kohli, vice president of research at Google DeepMind
   

Additional Reading:

• Liberal “White Dudes” Rally for Harris: “It’s Like a Rainbow of Beige”
• Move Over, Mathematicians, Here Comes AlphaProof
• Now Narrating the Olympics: A.I.-Al Michaels

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