Nate Silver: Do risk-takers run the world?

Have a million new species just been discovered?That’s the claim made by Dr Oliver Vince, co-founder of a company called Basecamp Research, who are collecting genetic data to train AI systems. The hope is that they’ll be able to use this to discover new medicines.But is this numb ...  Show more

AI can make mistakes – and AI chatbots like ChatGPT warn you about that whenever you ask them anything.These mistakes sometimes involve making up entirely fictitious, factually false statements known as “hallucinations”.Whether these hallucinations matter depends on what you’re u ...  Show more

Nate Silver, the founder of FiveThirtyEight and Substack writer of “Silver Bulletin,” joins Scott to discuss his latest book, “ON THE EDGE: The Art of Risking Everything.” We hear about the role of risk in shaping modern life, his background in election forecasting, and his thoug ...  Show more

You may know Nate Silver as an election forecaster. But he’s a poker player as well. And his experiences operating in a world of competition and risk led him to explore what his fellow gamblers, as well as hedge fund managers, venture capitalists, and many other kinds of maver ...

Campaign contributions are just table stakes for companies trying to make legislation in their favor. Charles Duhigg is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, and the author of Supercommunicators and The Power of Habit. Mary Long caught up with Duhigg to talk about his latest art ...  Show more

What would you do if you had $10 million in cryptocurrency? Nathaniel Eliason is the author of Crypto Confidential: Winning and Losing Millions in the New Frontier of Finance. The Motley Fool’s Scott Kassing caught up with Eliason for a conversation about: - How Eliason’s journ ...  Show more