#1638 AI: From Killer Apps to Killer Robots, the Present and Future of Artificial Intelligence Spans the Spectrum
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 28 June 2024
⏱️ 141 minutes
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Summary
Air Date 6/28/2024
AI, like all new technologies, won't be all good or all bad. In fact, my favorite understanding of emerging technologies is that they often bring simultaneous utopia and dystopia, though many tend to focus on the benefits while only discovering the drawbacks later.
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KEY POINTS
1: We’re already using AI more than we realize - Vox - Air Date 2-28-24
2: AI is a Lie. - Linus Tech Tips - Air Date 6-13-24
3: What Is an AI Anyway? | Mustafa Suleyman - TED - Air Date 4-22-24
5: How Much AI Regulation Is The Right Amount? - FiveThirtyEight Politics Podcast - Air Date 6-13-24
8: Big Tech AI Is A Lie - Tina Huang - Air Date 4-30-24
(1:07:12) NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
On the nature of misalignment between AI and human wellbeing
Article: This article is OpenAI training data
DEEPER DIVES
(1:16:18) SECTION A: MORE CURRENT USES OF AI
(1:44:54) SECTION B: POTENTIAL USES OF AI AND THE ETHICS WE NEED TO CONSIDER
(2:08:00) SECTION C: REGULATING AI
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award winning Best of Left Podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | AI, like all technologies, won't be all good or all bad. |
| 0:12.0 | In fact, my favorite understanding of emerging technologies is that they |
| 0:15.5 | often bring simultaneous utopia and dystopia, though many tend to focus on the benefits while only discovering the drawbacks later. |
| 0:25.2 | Sources providing our top takes today include Vox, Linus Tech Tips, TED Talks, |
| 0:31.5 | Global Dispatches, the 538 Politics Podcast, |
| 0:35.0 | D.W. News, Your Undivided Attention, and Tina Huron. |
| 0:40.0 | Then in the additional deeper dive half of the show, |
| 0:42.0 | we'll explore more current uses of AI, |
| 0:45.9 | potential uses of AI, and the ethics we need to consider, and regulating AI. |
| 0:51.7 | Interesting note before we begin, the first clip you'll hear today is from |
| 0:55.4 | Vox in which they explain the hidden ubiquity of AI and as it happens the video |
| 1:00.9 | itself is an example of that as it was sponsored by Microsoft's AI |
| 1:06.1 | co-pilot program and also Vox just signed a deal with open AI to repurpose their |
| 1:12.0 | human-written journalism to train open AI I to repurpose their human written journalism to train open |
| 1:14.8 | AI's models and part of that deal is for Vox to gain access to open AI's tech |
| 1:20.4 | to develop their own strategies of how they want to incorporate AI into Vox. |
| 1:27.0 | Classic. |
| 1:31.0 | Imagine a day like this. You do some exercise with a smart watch to put on a |
| 1:38.4 | suggested playlist. Go to a friend's house and ring their camera doorbell |
| 1:41.2 | browse recommended shows on Netflix, |
| 1:43.0 | check your spam folder for an email you've been waiting for. |
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