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The John Batchelor Show

#AI: DEMYTHOLOGIZING: BRANDON WEICHERT.

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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#AI: DEMYTHOLOGIZING: BRANDON WEICHERT.
MAY 1932

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0:00.0

This is CBS Eye on the World.

0:08.4

Here's John Batchelor.

0:11.8

This is CBS, I on the world.

0:14.1

I'm John Batchel.

0:15.2

I welcome my colleague, Brandon Wyckhardt.

0:17.6

He is at the National Interest,

0:19.4

a national security correspondent, as well as a fellow of the

0:22.5

National Interest Institute.

0:25.3

However, I need him for artificial intelligence and quantum computing, because that is the future.

0:33.0

And Brandon will live in the future I can only guess at.

0:36.2

It's wonderful to have this dialogue with somebody who will see the year 2016 and 2017.

0:42.2

We begin, however, in the year 2025.

0:45.7

A new book, Brandon and I hardly recommend, just out.

0:50.0

AI Valley, Microsoft, Google, and the trillion-dollar race to cash in on artificial intelligence,

0:57.0

written by the distinguished correspondent and Pulitzer Prize winner Gary Rivlin,

1:01.2

whom I hope to talk to soon enough.

1:03.8

However, I'm interested in Brandon's opinion of the book, and what we learn from it is,

1:10.6

well, it used to be called demothologizing.

1:13.0

Brandon, a very good day to you.

1:15.5

Demothologizing, the magic of artificial intelligence, to my reading, turns into the same old

1:21.3

personalities who give us social media, who were in position to buy up the startups of artificial intelligence. The only

1:30.8

detail I can find that makes a difference between then and now is that the approach

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