Bing vs. Bard, US-China STEM Competition, and Embryo Screening — Manifold Episode #30

 

Steve discusses the AI competition between Microsoft and Google, the competition between the U.S. and China in STEM, China’s new IVF policy, and a Science Magazine survey on polygenic screening of embryos. 

00:00 Introduction 

02:37 Bing vs Bard: LLMs and hallucination 

20:52 China demographics & STEM 

34:29 China IVF now covered by national health insurance

40:28 Survey on embryo screening in Science: ~50% of those under 35 would use it to enhance congnitivie ability 

References: 

Bing vs Bard and Hallucination 

https://twitter.com/hsu_steve/status/1625222378383876119 

China demographics and STEM

https://twitter.com/hsu_steve/status/1620765589752119297 https://twitter.com/hsu_steve/status/1623279827640848385

 

China IVF 

https://twitter.com/hsu_steve/status/1623475304432820224 https://twitter.com/hsu_steve/status/1623478413758500864 

Science survey on embryo screening 

https://twitter.com/hsu_steve/status/1623783244947722241 https://twitter.com/hsu_steve/status/1623664372202500097