AI: Is It Out Of Control?

Science Vs

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🗓️ 8 June 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Artificial Intelligence seems more human-like and capable than ever before — but how did it get so good so quickly? Today, we’re pulling back the curtain to find out exactly how AI works. And we'll dig into one of the biggest problems that scientists are worried about here: The ability of AI to trick us. We talk to Dr. Sasha Luccioni and Professor Seth Lazar about the science. This episode contains explicit language. There’s also a brief mention of suicide, so please take care when listening. Here are some crisis hotlines: United States: US National Suicide Prevention Lifeline 1-800-273-TALK (2755) (Online chat available); US Crisis Text Line Text “GO” to 741741 Australia: Lifeline 13 11 14 (Online chat available) Canada: Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention (See link for phone numbers listed by province) United Kingdom: Samaritans 116 123 (UK and ROI) Full list of international hotlines here Find our transcript here: https://bit.ly/ScienceVsAI In this episode, we cover: (00:00) 64,000 willies (05:13) A swag pope (06:36) Why is AI so good right now? (09:06) How does AI work? (17:43) Opening up AI to everyone (20:42) A rogue chatbot (27:50) Charming chatbots (29:42) A misinformation apocalypse? (33:16) Can you tell me something good?! (36:08) Citations, credits, and a special surprise… This episode was produced by Joel Werner, with help from Wendy Zukerman, Meryl Horn, R.E. Natowicz, Rose Rimler, and Michelle Dang. We’re edited by Blythe Terrell. Fact checking by Erica Akiko Howard. Mix and sound design by Jonathon Roberts. Music written by Bobby Lord, Peter Leonard, Emma Munger So Wylie and Bumi Hidaka. Thanks to all the researchers we spoke to including Dr Patrick Mineault, Professor Melanie Mitchell, Professor Arvind Narayanan, Professor Philip Torr, Stella Biderman, and Arman Chaudhry. Special thanks to Katie Vines, Allison, Jorge Just, the Zukerman Family and Joseph Lavelle Wilson. Science Vs is a Spotify Original Podcast. Follow Science Vs on Spotify, and if you wanna receive notifications every time we put out a new episode, tap the bell icon! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, Wendy here.
0:01.8	Today's episode has a brief mention of suicide in the second half.
0:05.9	So please take care while you're listening.
0:07.9	And there are some resources in our show notes.
0:10.2	And we're also going to talk a little bit about porn and penises.
0:14.5	So if there's small humans in the house and you are not ready to have that conversation,
0:19.8	you might want to let them watch Magic School Bus for a little bit.
0:23.6	OK, let's dive in.
0:26.0	100,000 willies.
0:28.4	Let me see how many willies are in here.
0:32.7	64,000 willies.
0:35.0	Give it to me.
0:36.0	So many willies.
0:38.0	I'm just imagining them, like, oh, a live dog, like Adam Potty on your computer.
0:48.6	I'm never looking at a dick pick again.
0:50.2	We've all had that one before, right?
0:52.0	Perhaps you are wondering why I'm chatting to a guy with 64,000 willies on his computer.
1:04.2	Well, this willy Wrangler is called Frodo, not his real name.
1:08.3	And he's using all those willies to create AI porn.
1:12.2	What he's doing is basically teaching an AI model to take these written prompts
1:18.3	and then make a totally new porn image based on them.
1:22.7	So Frodo or any of us could type in a description of our deepest fantasies.
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