122 | Cade Metz: How Google, Facebook, Elon Musk’s OpenAI, and the U.S. and Chinese Governments Will Shape AI’s Future

The Realignment

Technology, News Commentary, National Security, Marshall Kosloff, International Relations, News, Public Policy, Economics, Politics, Saager Enjeti, U.s. Politics, Policy

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🗓️ 4 May 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Cade Metz, technology correspondent with The New York Times and author of Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World, joins The Realignment to discuss the past, present, and future of AI and the actors and players that will shape the technology’s future.

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0:00.0	Marshall here welcome back to the realignment.
0:02.8	All right, we need to think about China in this way.
0:12.0	They're not just a follower here.
0:15.4	They're a serious player who might have some advantages here.
0:19.8	They have a very large population.
0:22.5	Very large population is going to produce more of the data needed to train these systems.
0:28.0	In the long run it might produce the talent needed to drive this technology.
0:34.6	That's at a premium right now.
0:37.3	They're also extremely interested.
0:39.3	They've put their stake in the ground and you see this in certain moments in the book
0:43.8	when the Chinese government wakes up to the fact that this is happening and they say we're
0:51.3	really going to go after it.
0:52.5	They have huge ambitions here.
0:55.1	So you do have a lot of concern here in the US about the possible impact.
1:09.8	As we mentioned last week we are taking it easy with a vacation for the entire team this
1:15.2	week.
1:16.2	So for today's episode I will be interviewing Cade Nets of the New York Times about his
1:21.2	new book Genius Makers, the Mavericks who brought AI to Google, Facebook and the world.
1:27.0	It's a great follow up to our conversation with Kevin Ruse a few months ago.
1:31.2	So lots of good stuff.
1:32.4	We hit the usual themes that we at the realignment are deep we interested in everything from the
1:37.0	future of work to how artificial intelligence will shift everything in our lives and societies
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