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The Brian Lehrer Show

AI and Your Daily Life

The Brian Lehrer Show

WNYC

News, News Commentary, New, Wnyc, Radio, Daily News, Bryan, Public, Politics, York, Lerer, Arts, Media, Nyc, Npr

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

A new artificial intelligence feature recently rolled out by Google is under fire for giving out inaccurate information. Listeners call in to share how they use AI in their daily lives, and how they navigate some of its pitfalls.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Brian Ler on WNYC, and we're going to end the show today with a call in, as we often do.

0:09.9

Today on the question, how have you been using artificial intelligence in your life?

0:15.7

Do you use it in your workplace?

0:17.4

Do you use it in your personal life?

0:19.2

Has using AI expanded your capacity to tackle

0:23.2

life's daily tasks or to do something really big and audacious? And have you encountered any

0:31.2

downsides? 212-433. WNYC, 212-433, 9692. As we're segueing from your experiences with MDMA to your experiences with artificial intelligence,

0:46.2

212, 433, 9692, call or text. It's been about a year and a half since Open AI made artificial intelligence

0:56.5

accessible to the general public, and since then, some of the largest tech companies, among

1:02.3

them Microsoft X, Google, have entered the race to build the best AI products for businesses,

1:08.9

consumers, and governments. And as a result, it seems like AI is getting embedded into every aspect of our lives.

1:16.1

And while AI tools come with flaws, you can't rely on AI for accuracy, originality, or ethics,

1:24.7

just little problems.

1:25.9

And you know that you use the word hallucination?

1:28.3

It didn't come up in our MDMA segment on psychedelics,

1:32.5

but hallucinations is an AI thing too when AI gets it wrong.

1:38.1

But this technology can at least take on some of the everyday tasks

1:42.0

that used to take up so much of our time as individuals

1:46.1

or business's time as businesses, as, you know, organizations that serve clients. Obviously,

1:54.4

there are a lot of downsides in the employment sector. AI is replacing people at an alarming rate in some sectors of the economy,

2:06.9

and maybe that's your experience with AI. You got laid off and you got replaced by a robot.

2:13.2

So 212-433 W-NYC, 212-433 WNYC,

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