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Let The Chips Fall Where They May

2025/3/11
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The future is being forged in silicon – and sometimes, in a petri dish. From Taiwan’s massive chip investments to AI-powered biotech, we peer into the shifting landscape of semiconductor production, where policy, innovation, and biology collide. And with Sesame’s AI voice tech making machines more lifelike than ever, are we building a future where chips don’t just process – they whisper, argue, and maybe even scheme?

LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

Sesame Conversational AI Demohttps://www.sesame.com/research/crossing_the_uncanny_valley_of_voice#demo)

Cortical Labs – Synthetic Biological Intelligencehttps://corticallabs.com/cl1.html)

Merlin Bird ID (app)https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org)

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