Always Be Curious #154: AI can get it wrong, semicon subsidies, and global hunger for silicon

This week in ABC: Google's Bard vs. Microsoft's ChatGPT, expanding fab capacity vs. public money, and the amount of silicon that went into global fabs last year covers an area 3x Central Park.

Every tech company has that one moment in the spotlight when your technology just fails really miserably. 😵 Bill Gates got the blue screen of death during his Windows 98 demo. Steve Jobs couldn’t connect to the Internet at the iPhone 4 launch. And Elon shattered the supposedly bulletproof glass on his Cybertruck. ☠️ And this week, Alphabet (Google’s pa…