M.G. Siegler is the author of Spyglass. He joins Big Technology to discuss Apple’s subdued WWDC and whether it signals deeper trouble with AI's capabilities. Tune in to hear us discuss Apple’s “UI over AI” approach, whether the company can pull off the Apple Intelligence vision at all, and if Liquid Glass is a redesign destined to fail. We also cover the vibes at the conference. Hit play for clear-eyed, no-nonsense analysis of the tech world’s biggest stories. --- Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rat ...

But maybe the reason why he's left the government is because he aimed to cut trillions of dollars. He ended up cutting, you know, I think a couple hundred billion maybe. And he went to Wisconsin to try to sway an election.He failed after spending a lot of money and his poll numbers were bad. So it's just simple politics. Yeah.Worse than that. So Model S comes out. Do you know who Elon Musk is. 70% of the Americans say they know who Elon Musk is.Do you have a favorable opinion of Elon Musk. 70% of the Americ ...

Apple just held its WWDC developer event, little AI light, big operating system changes, and plenty more to discuss. We're here in Apple Park in Certino with the Steve Jobs Theater right behind me. As you can see, I'm on the broadcast riser, so I'm just going to get off this stage for a moment, find some quiet, and talk to you about what we saw today. Welcome to Big Technology Podcast special edition coming to you from the parking lot now outside of Apple's WWDC conference. We're going to do a short solo po ...

Washington is not like tech and it's not like Wall Street. See, you're in tech and you're on Wall Street. You're on the green team.Okay. And I'm just for the demonstration purposes, I'm showing Alex the green, right. Well, that's Swiss money, but you know, you get the point.Okay. This is green, right. This is green.See it. There's a there's a red party, there's a blue party, and there's a green party. I'm not talking about the environment.This is the party. And so, Silicon Valley, they know how to play on t ...

This is green. See it? There's a There's a red party, there's a blue party, and there's a green party. I'm not talking about the environment. This is the party. And so Silicon Valley, they know how to play on the green team. They can get along when necessary if this is involved. Same on Wall Street. In Washington, you don't know what's going on. There's a blue team, a red team, a yellow team. One guy wants to be closer to the president. that the other guy's jealous that Elon's traveling with Trump back and ...

Everybody watching Elon Musk's partnership with Donald Trump thought the long-term risk was maybe at some point Democratic administration comes in and starts to look at Elon's companies the way Elon has been looking at parts of the United States government and maybe doing, you know, SpaceX or or Tesla causing problems there. This is the unexpected part here. When Elon Musk left the White House, the general commentary was he's gone, but he and Donald Trump need each other so much that it was notable that it ...

We are trying to build AGI which is a full general intelligence. Clearly that would have to understand the physical environment, physical world around you and two of the massive use cases for that in my opinion are a truly useful assistant that can come around with you in your daily life not just stuck on your computer or one device. It needs to we want it to be useful in your everyday life for everything.And so it needs to come around you and understand your physical context. Um, and then the other big thi ...

These two friends were talking and this woman was talking about her conversation with Chad GPT about the type of man that she should have in her life and I was like wait a second you have your friend right there like why are you speaking with Chad GPT and not your friend about this very kind of very important decision uh and I I don't think she's the only one I think this is very common now first thing I I think there really is a place for Chad GPT and friends when I say friends I mean Chad GP's friends I d ...

your whole brain is looking for homeostasis. It doesn't really care about you always being happy or fulfilled or like overjoyed. If you're overjoyed, your brain's going to think, "Oh, there's a lot of these joy chemicals. Let's tune it down a little. We're going we don't need that many receptors because there's so much stuff flooding right now." And so, it's just like going to downregulate those receptors so that you get back to your baseline and your new overjoy state is now your baseline. So it means like ...

Are we in a simulation. Um not in the way that you know um Nick Boston and people talk about. So I don't think this is some kind of game even though I wrote a lot of games.I do think that ultimately underlying physics is information theory. So I do think we're in a computational universe but it's not just a straightforward simulation. I can't answer you it in one minute.But I think I think the fact that these systems are able to model real uh structures in nature is quite interesting and telling. And I've b ...