What is the Probability of Doom? | The CS50 Show with David J. Malan | Season 1, Episode 1



This is the CS50 Show, wherein we not only talk about current events in technology but also explain them.

In today’s episode, a look at the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident, the impact of AI on math and programming productivity, Super Mario Bros. meets Halo, and a new-and-improved JPEG file format.

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CHAPTERS

0:00 hello, world
0:37 P(Doom)
1:26 OpenAI-Hugging Face Incident
8:05 Mathematics
11:19 Productivity
14:25 Reverse Engineering
18:17 JPEG XL
19:48 Conclusion

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35 Comments

  1. Dear David Malan, I study Java and I see that AI may simply replace me as a programmer. Please, show me the way. I cannot understand the future of programming. Ten years ago, fifteen years ago we lived a happy life because the situation was clear: you write code, you study CS and you are needed, you have you place in industry. Now it is an alive futuroshock.

  2. Also something that would have stopped the agents is the minimum. If the tokens had short-lived TTL on top of different tokens for read and write

  3. FEEDBACK:
    Great show for learning news about tech. (Don't degrade the quality just to make more videos, always assign priority to quality over publicity. Currently I like top notch quality of the video).
    Thanks for starting this initiative. BTW who's idea is this!

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