226. Question Time: Google vs OpenAI, the new Portuguese populist, and why do dictators hold elections?

The Rest Is Politics

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News, Politics, Government

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🗓️ 7 March 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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What happened with Google's AI chatbot 'Gemini' this week? Should incarcerated people have the right to vote? What is the point of dictators like Vladimir Putin or Ayatollah Ali Khamenei holding elections? Rory and Alastair answer all these questions and more in this week's Question Time. TRIP Plus: Become a member of The Rest Is Politics Plus to support the podcast, receive our exclusive newsletter, enjoy ad-free listening to both TRIP and Leading, benefit from discount book prices on titles mentioned on the pod, join our Discord chatroom, and receive early access to live show tickets and Question Time episodes. Just head to therestispolitics.com to sign up, or start a free trial today on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/therestispolitics. Instagram: @restispolitics Twitter: @RestIsPolitics Email: restispolitics@gmail.com Producers: Dom Johnson + Nicole Maslen Exec Producers: Tony Pastor + Jack Davenport Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:13.0	Welcome to the rest is politics. Welcome to the rest is politics question time with me,
0:21.0	Alisto Campbell. Welcome to the rest of politics question time with me,
0:24.0	Alisto Campbell and me Rory Stewart.
0:26.0	Now Roy, you're interested in this and you understand more about it than I do,
0:29.0	so let me kick off with one for you.
0:31.0	Jason Palmar, Google's AI, Gemini, has proven very divisive with its altered history.
0:36.4	Do you think these AI large language models from Google, Open I, and X will have a positive,
0:41.6	neutral or negative impact on the 2024 elections here and around the world.
0:46.0	Well let me first do Google Gemini and then I'll hand to you on elections.
0:50.0	Story basically is that Open AI released in November 22 and now has a very close
0:55.4	relationship with Microsoft and all the time while Open AI was bringing together
0:59.9	this amazing thing, chat GBT that everybody's been using.
1:03.7	Google was developing its own model and it was slow to get it out and there was huge
1:08.3	recrimination because basically open AI launched, got a hundred million
1:11.8	users very, very quickly and and Google felt slow and behind the curve.
1:16.0	Finally, it released a product called Bard, which was pretty underwhelming, and when it was released,
1:22.0	there was a Gemini, which was its new improved version which was supposed to challenge ChatGBT.
1:37.0	And the scandal that immediately broke out is that the guardrails put around it, the way in which it had been protected,
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