AI Can Read Your Dreams and Collect Your Debts. What’s Next?
CYBER
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4 • 645 Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Is there anything artificial intelligence can’t do?Debt collectors want AI to push people into coughing up what’s owed. An AI created photo of an attack on the Pentagon generated a minor panic. There’s an AI that can read your mind and the CEO of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, just testified before Congress.
This week on Cyber, Motherboard reporter Chloe Xiang comes on to walk us through the big headlines in the world of AI.
Stories discussed in this episode:
Debt Collectors Want To Use AI Chatbots To Hustle People For Money
Verified Twitter Accounts Spread AI-Generated Hoax of Pentagon Explosion
AI Reconstructs 'High-Quality' Video Directly from Brain Readings in Study
Worried About Sending Your Data to a Chatbot? 'PrivateGPT' Is Here
OpenAI Tells Congress the U.S. Should Create AI 'Licenses' to Release New Models
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| 0:00.0 | The Academy's got the code it's going to launch. |
| 0:10.0 | It's a unit system. |
| 0:13.0 | I know this. |
| 0:15.0 | It's all the files of the whole park. |
| 0:17.0 | It tells you everything. |
| 0:19.0 | Sir, he's uploading the virus. |
| 0:22.1 | Eagle won. |
| 0:23.5 | The package is being delivered. |
| 0:27.2 | Hello out there on the internet. |
| 0:29.8 | I am Matthew Galt, and this is Cyber. |
| 0:31.5 | Artificial Intelligence. |
| 0:33.3 | Is there anything it can't do? |
| 0:40.8 | Debt collectors want AI to push people into coughing up what's owed, an AI created photo of an attack on the Pentagon generated a minor panic. |
| 0:47.9 | There's an AI that could reach your mind and the CEO of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, just testified before Congress. |
| 1:00.6 | It's a wealth of AI stories today on cyber, and here to walk us through it all is Motherboard reporter Chloe Shong. Chloe, how are you doing today? I'm doing well. How about yourself? I'm doing all right. |
| 1:05.8 | We're doing this for people that are listening at home. We're doing this live on a new Twitch channel for the first time. And we're working at the kinks. We're happy with everyone |
| 1:10.6 | sticking with us. |
| 1:12.8 | So I thought of you, Chloe, earlier this week, when I reported on this Discord story, |
| 1:17.8 | did you see this by chance? Yeah, I saw it. It was really interesting. |
| 1:23.3 | Yeah, so the gist was that people trying to log in to Discord and use some of its basic functions, |
| 1:30.5 | Discord is a chat app, primarily used by gamers, were met with a CAPHA that asked them to identify something called a Yoko, |
| 1:41.6 | which appeared to be a colorful slug or a colorful snail or a yo-yo, |
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