Growing the Perfect Diamond

As all our listeners know, technology makes all things better, and as it turns out, diamonds are no exception.  Modern diamond-growing technology has made diamonds SO GOOD, that you need a machine to tell them apart from diamonds dug out of the dirt.  The way said machine detects a classic “dirt diamond” is by looking for the impurities that are not present in lab-grown diamonds.  You may want to read that again; the diamonds that we’ve been harvesting with slave labor for centuries are a WORSE product than what we can produce in the lab, for less cost, and without slave labor.  In this episode, we’ll scratch the surface (get it?!) of the world of diamonds.

But first, we’ve got a new AI from Google (and it’s really good!), something about Goldilocks, how silk is made (spoiler alert: it’s terrible), OpenAI & Keurig.  So much to discuss, and such little time every episode!

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