What's Your Problem?
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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 bet...
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Episodes (196)
Using AI to Build Better Robots
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Teaching Computers to See
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Using Oil-Industry Tech to Create Clean Energy
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Understanding Obesity and Alzheimer’s via Epigenomics
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Reinventing the Restaurant
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The Giant Torch That May Help Save the World
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Fixing Uber’s Broken Culture
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Murder Brokers from Hot Money: The New Narcos
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Using AI for Creative Work
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The Little-Known Office With $400 Billion to Fight Climate Change
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How AI Solved a Biological Mystery
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Making Oxygen on Mars
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The sold-out chips at the heart of AI
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Special Episode: The Trial of Sam Bankman-Fried
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Getting Yeast to Make Medicine
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Could a Robot Make Your Salad?
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What the Industrial Revolution Teaches Us About the AI Revolution
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Can AI Tutors Help Kids Learn? Khan Academy Thinks So
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Smallpox: Gone but Not Forgotten from Incubation
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Going to the Doctor Sucks. Can AI Make it Better?
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Spotting Wildfires with AI
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Is the Era of Free Returns Over?
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Creative Technology at Pixar
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How To Make AI Safer & More Reliable
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Quantum Computers Could Change Everything
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The 2023 Unhedged Stock Draft
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Predicting Human Health with AI
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Breastfeeding, Black Market Baby Formula, and Bobbie
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Making Immigration Cheaper & Easier
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The Wind Power Pioneer Still Pushing the Frontier
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The Mystery at the Heart of ChatGPT
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Scrubbing Carbon from the Air
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Building a Plane to Help Save the World
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The AI that Might Take My Job (And Yours)
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The Hottest Thing In Energy Storage
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Using Bacteria to Dye Jeans
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The Quest for the Factory-Built House
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Building Houses Like Tesla Builds Cars
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Human Bones, Made In the Lab
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Tiny Chips, Giant Stakes
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Problems Solved: Drones, Bananas and Real Estate*
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Faster, Cheaper Drugs with AI
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Creating the Uncrashable Car
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The Electric Truck that Went Viral on TikTok
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Introducing Other People’s Pockets: Mistress Marley, Financial Dominatrix
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Running in Recycled Shoes
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Turning Garbage Into Food
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The Fake-Meat Frontier
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From Impossible Burgers to Fake Steak
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Small Pizza Shops Want a Bigger Slice
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