Bill Gates wants to see a robot tax and ‘Human Reserved’ jobs, Z.ai is the AI lab behind the mysterious Ox Alpha, and US seizes domains of Chinese botnet episode artwork

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Bill Gates wants to see a robot tax and ‘Human Reserved’ jobs, Z.ai is the AI lab behind the mysterious Ox Alpha, and US seizes domains of Chinese botnet

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Gates is mostly in the Responsible AI camp, but there are a few ideas in here we hadn't heard before. Also, Z.ai confirms it is behind Ox Alpha, the mysterious open AI model topping benchmarks and leaderboards, and its weights are set to be released soon. And the FBI has seized domains associated with a botnet that allowed Chinese-backed hackers to breach several U.S. government departments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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