A.I.'s Inner Conflict + Nvidia Joins the Trillion-Dollar Club + Hard Questions

Hard Fork

The New York Times

Technology

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🗓️ 2 June 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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A few days after a lawyer used ChatGPT to write a brief filled with made-up cases, a group of A.I. experts released a letter warning of the “risk of extinction” from the technology. But will A.I. ever be good enough to pose such a threat? Then, FAANG is now MAAAN, with the addition of Nvidia. Here’s how the GPU company became a trillion-dollar behemoth. Plus: Kevin, Casey and the New York Times tech reporter Kate Conger answer Hard Questions from listeners.

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0:00.0	Hallucination is like a term is, I guess, getting some blowback.
0:05.0	Everybody hates every word in AI.
0:06.9	Yeah.
0:07.9	They don't like, understand, they don't like, think, you know, like, people need jobs and hobbies.
0:13.4	See, I mean, look, words matter and language does evolve and we do get to points where we
0:18.2	decide we're not going to use words anymore and I respect that process.
0:21.6	I don't know if I'm there yet with hallucination.
0:23.6	I did hear someone suggest that we should replace that with the word confabulation, which
0:27.5	I love because it sounds so British.
0:29.8	Like, did you just hear like a little British man saying like, oh, my AI mold elites, it's
0:35.5	confabulated.
0:36.5	I don't know myself in a rotten or a rotten trouble with all these confabulations.
0:41.0	It's just very fun to say.
0:42.2	It's incredibly fun to say.
0:45.2	I'm Kevin Ruse, tech honest in the New York Times.
0:50.2	I'm Casey Newton from Platformer and you're listening to Hard Fork.
0:53.8	This week, an urgent new warning about AI's potential risk to humanity and the lawyer
0:59.0	who clowned himself using chat GPT.
1:01.7	Plus, how the rise of Nvidia explains this moment in AI history and the New York Times
1:07.3	Kate Conger joins us to answer hard questions about your technology to us.
1:24.7	So Casey, last week on the show, we talked with Ajay Akotra, who is an AI safety researcher.
1:30.6	We talked about some of the existential risks posed by AI technology.
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