554. Can A.I. Take a Joke?

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🗓️ 24 August 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Artificial intelligence, we’ve been told, will destroy humankind. No, wait — it will usher in a new age of human flourishing! Guest host Adam Davidson (co-founder of "Planet Money") sorts through the big claims about A.I.'s future by exploring its past and present — and whether it has a sense of humor. (Part 1 of "How to Think About A.I.")

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0:00.0	Hey there, it's Stephen Dubner.
0:03.6	Today, I'm the show Arrayer Occurrence
0:06.1	and a Welcome Occurrence.
0:08.1	We have got a bonafide guest host.
0:10.6	This is a person whose name will be familiar to many of you.
0:13.8	Adam Davidson, Adam, welcome.
0:17.2	Thank you so much, Stephen.
0:19.1	So, Adam, for Freakonomics Radio listeners,
0:21.6	you are almost certainly best known
0:24.6	for having is it co-created and then hosted
0:27.5	the NPR show and podcast planet money?
0:30.3	Is that correct?
0:31.1	Yeah, I sort of had two careers.
0:32.9	I had a career doing more human interests,
0:35.8	more narrative stories for this American life
0:38.2	and a career doing very straight business stories
0:41.7	and with my buddy Alex Bloomberg,
0:43.7	who was at this American life at the time,
0:46.4	we thought, well, what if we put them together?
0:49.1	What if we made peanut butter and chocolate?
0:52.2	Peanut butter and chocolate, yeah.
0:54.2	You may be the one other person on the planet
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