Andrew Mason is the founder and CEO of Descript. Descript's software has made editing audio and video much simpler. 

The company recently received a large investment from OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. It's a sign that Descript is moving toward using generative AI to generate words and pictures. What will that mean for the people who currently do that work?

Andrew Mason is the founder and CEO of Descript. Descript's software has made editing audio and video much simpler. 
The company recently received a large investment from OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. It's a sign that Descript is moving toward using generative AI to generate words and pictures. What will that mean for the people who currently do that work?

Every week on What's Your Problem?, former Planet Money host Jacob Goldstein talks with entrepreneurs and engineers tackling the biggest challenges at the forefront of technology. How do you make a trip to space as routine as a plane flight? How do you turn solar energy into clean fuel? How do you use AI to stop deadly infections before they spread? We hear a lot these days about how the world is getting worse. What's Your Problem? learns from the thinkers and doers trying to make our future better.

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Every week on What's Your Problem?, former Planet Money host Jacob Goldstein talks with&nbsp;entrepreneurs and engineers&nbsp;tackling the biggest challenges at the forefront of technology. How do you make a trip to space as routine as a plane flight? How do you turn solar energy into clean fuel? How do you use AI to stop deadly infections before they spread? We hear a lot these days about how the world is getting worse. What's Your Problem? learns from the thinkers and doers trying to make our future better.
iHeartMedia is the exclusive podcast partner of Pushkin Industries.

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Every week on What’s Your Problem, entrepreneurs and engineers talk about the future they’re trying to build – and the problems they have to solve to get there.

How do you take a drone delivery service you’ve built in Rwanda and make it work in North Carolina? How do you convince people to buy a house on the Internet? How do you sell thousands of dog ramps to weiner dogs all across America when a pandemic breaks the global supply chain? 

Hosted by former Planet Money host Jacob Goldstein, What’s Your Problem helps listeners understand the problems really smart people are trying to solve right now.

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The AI that Might Take My Job (And Yours)

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Kartik Hosanagar is a professor at the Wharton School. The problems he studies include: What will it take for people to trust AI agents to buy stuff for them? And how should businesses prepare for a world where their customers include AI agents?

In this episode, Kartik explains:
Why trust in agentic shopping will arrive category by category, not all at once
How a single old Reddit post erased a thriving brand from ChatGPT’s recommendations
Why someone needs to take on the liability risk when purchases go wrong
How treating AI as just another sales channel is the mistake the movie studios made with Netflix
How to get a language model to pay attention to your brand

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Note: Today&rsquo;s show is sponsored by PayPal.
Kartik Hosanagar is a professor at the Wharton School. The problems he studies include: What will it take for people to trust AI agents to buy stuff for them? And how should businesses prepare for a world where their customers include AI agents?
In this episode, Kartik explains:
<ul>
<li>Why trust in agentic shopping will arrive category by category, not all at once</li>
<li>How a single old Reddit post erased a thriving brand from ChatGPT&rsquo;s recommendations</li>
<li>Why someone needs to take on the liability risk when purchases go wrong</li>
<li>How treating AI as just another sales channel is the mistake the movie studios made with Netflix</li>
<li>How to get a language model to pay attention to your brand</li>
</ul>
Connect with us:
<ul>
<li>Follow Jacob Goldstein on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacob-goldstein-888a2441/" data-airgap-id="11">LinkedIn</a>, <a href="https://x.com/jacobgoldstein?lang=en" data-airgap-id="12">X</a> and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/jacobjgoldstein/" data-airgap-id="13">Instagram&nbsp;</a></li>
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Solving the Trust Problem in AI Shopping

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Jason Ballard is the co-founder and CEO of ICON. Jason's problem is this: Can you use 3-D printing to build houses that are cheaper, better and more interesting than the houses we build now?

In this episode, Jason explains: 
Why construction methods are so slow to change 
How 3D printing opens up new designs for houses
How building on the Moon shaped the way Icon builds on Earth
The challenge of scaling to printing thousands of houses 

Connect with us:
Follow Jacob Goldstein on LinkedIn, X and Instagram 
Email us at problem@pushkin.fm 
Follow Pushkin on Instagram, LinkedIn or X 
Listen to Jacob’s other show, Business History 
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Jason Ballard is the co-founder and CEO of ICON. Jason's problem is this: Can you use 3-D printing to build houses that are cheaper, better and more interesting than the houses we build now?
In this episode, Jason explains:&nbsp;
<ul>
<li>Why construction methods are so slow to change&nbsp;</li>
<li>How 3D printing opens up new designs for houses</li>
<li>How building on the Moon shaped the way Icon builds on Earth</li>
<li>The challenge of scaling to printing thousands of houses&nbsp;</li>
</ul>
Connect with us:
<ul>
<li>Follow Jacob Goldstein on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacob-goldstein-888a2441/" data-airgap-id="13">LinkedIn</a>, <a href="https://x.com/jacobgoldstein?lang=en" data-airgap-id="14">X</a> and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/jacobjgoldstein/" data-airgap-id="15">Instagram&nbsp;</a></li>
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<li>Listen to Jacob&rsquo;s other show, <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/business-history/id1844409167" data-airgap-id="20">Business History&nbsp;</a></li>
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Can a Robot Build Better, Cheaper Houses?

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Celebrated novelists, countless students and at least one billionaire have recently been accused of using AI in their writing. The most commonly cited AI detector in these cases is called Pangram. 

Max Spero is the co-founder and CEO of Pangram. His problem is this: Can you build tools that reliably detect AI-generated text and images? And a few years from now, will anybody care?

In this episode, Max explains: 
Why AI prose so often sounds the same
How often Pangram makes mistakes
How detectors like Pangram compete with humanizer tools 
Why the big AI companies may not be interested in detection
The shifting norms around AI-generated writing

Celebrated novelists, countless students and at least one billionaire have recently been accused of using AI in their writing. The most commonly cited AI detector in these cases is called Pangram.&nbsp;
Max Spero is the co-founder and CEO of Pangram. His problem is this: Can you build tools that reliably detect AI-generated text and images? And a few years from now, will anybody care?
In this episode, Max explains:&nbsp;
<ul>
<li>Why AI prose so often sounds the same</li>
<li>How often Pangram makes mistakes</li>
<li>How detectors like Pangram compete with humanizer tools&nbsp;</li>
<li>Why the big AI companies may not be interested in detection</li>
<li>The shifting norms around AI-generated writing</li>
</ul>

Did AI Write This?

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