02/06/2024: AI Revolution: Innovations & Ethical Dilemmas
The Wright Report
Bryan Dean Wright
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🗓️ 6 February 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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In today's episode of The Wright Report, Bryan Dean Wright revisits the AI Revolution, highlighting the journey from conceptual AI to tangible innovations that rival human intellect. He delves into recent advancements and stumbling blocks in AI development, showcasing how global communities are leveraging or confronting these technologies. From practical applications to ethical considerations, this episode uncovers the nuanced landscape of artificial intelligence, emphasizing its potential to reshape our world for better or worse. Join us for an insightful exploration of AI's current state and its future trajectory.
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| 0:00.0 | It's February 6th. I'm Brian Dean Wright, former CIA Operations Officer, gentlemen welcome to the right report your daily news |
| 0:20.4 | podcast today's episode is an update to our special series on the AI Revolution, |
| 0:26.7 | with news this morning that is still shaping America and the world. |
| 0:31.0 | Back on July 11th and again on July 19th we kicked off the series on the AI |
| 0:35.1 | revolution which as listeners know is our focus on artificial intelligence but to |
| 0:40.7 | refresh our memories the goal of AI is to create computers or programming that are just as smart, if not smarter, |
| 0:48.0 | than the human mind. |
| 0:49.0 | And the hope is that this technology can eventually start to think and reason at speeds that are both |
| 0:54.8 | unimaginable and without human help. This is often called AGI or strong AI, but there is a long journey before we ever get to that point of, well, stuff that sounds |
| 1:05.8 | like a Hollywood movie. Instead, the journey to that distant place, boy, it is going to be full of lots of smaller innovations that we might call baby steps. |
| 1:15.5 | And that is what we're going to talk about today. |
| 1:17.2 | Some baby steps of innovation, along with some stumbling blocks to progress. |
| 1:21.6 | Plus how people around the world are starting to use these |
| 1:24.4 | smaller innovations in AI for both the good and the bad. So let's get to it. |
| 1:30.3 | We start with news about a baby step that involves an actual human baby who is helping AI to learn. |
| 1:37.0 | And here's how, with a little background. |
| 1:39.0 | By the age of two, most human babies can understand about 300 words. By age |
| 1:44.6 | four that vocabulary and the comprehension of it pops to about a thousand words. |
| 1:49.0 | But how exactly does that process work in the brain that allows little kiddos to learn? |
| 1:55.0 | Well, cognitive scientists and linguists have some ideas, but not a perfect understanding. |
| 2:00.0 | That takes us to a little baby named Sam. |
| 2:03.1 | Back in 2013, a six-month-old Sam |
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