Episode 1680 • • 1:59:40 - 2:03:42
1680: Seismic Sundae
Meta's Llama 3 and Autonomous Racing Failures
Meta's release of the Llama 3 open-source model raises concerns about data scientist Siddharth Gupta's warnings on user consent and data anonymization. In a practical failure of AI, the Abu Dhabi Autonomous Racing League saw driverless cars spinning out, crashing, and stopping randomly on the track. Commentators' attempts to frame the failures as "pushing the edges of science" are mocked.