AI: The Origin Story

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Next Big Idea Club

Social Sciences, Society & Culture, Education, Science

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Imagine a world where AI is everywhere — where self-driving cars roam the streets and chatbots can do your homework. Oh, wait. That world already exists. This is exciting news for some. For others, it's slightly terrifying. Whichever camp you fall into, there are two questions we should all be asking: Where is this technology going? And what will happen if we let it develop unchecked? For answers, we turn to Cade Metz, a tech reporter at the New York Times and author of "Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World." --- • This episode first aired in June 2021. • To hear Cade summarize his book in only 15 minutes, download the Next Big Idea app. • We launched a new podcast! It's called The Next Big Idea Daily. Follow it now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen.

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0:00.0	LinkedIn presents.
0:01.0	I don't know about you, but for me, all the excitement about chat GPT recently, the
0:11.8	new AI language model everyone is talking about, has a deja vu quality.
0:17.6	If you haven't tuned into the chat GPT story you may want to, it's only been two months
0:22.1	since it launched and already 100 million users have signed up.
0:26.6	So there's a buzz in the air.
0:28.8	It reminds me of the first time a friend pulled me aside and showed me mosaic.
0:32.5	The first internet browser I ever saw, pre-cursor to Netscape, some of you may remember
0:37.0	from the early 1990s.
0:38.8	As the image is slowly loaded on the screen, there was between us a similar tone of astonishment,
0:44.8	a quiet sense that things were about to change.
0:47.9	I remember that feeling again when the iPhone launched in 2007.
0:51.5	I was standing alive the first day it was on sale.
0:54.0	It felt like we might be witnessing in real time a critical inflection point.
0:59.6	Of course I didn't really understand the magnitude of the change that was coming.
1:03.5	I just had a vague sense of wonder, a sense of all before something alluring that was deeply
1:09.2	new.
1:10.2	It did not occur to me how dramatically this would change things if it had maybe I'd
1:14.5	be in a different tax bracket.
1:16.8	So is this another such moment?
1:19.8	Will our lives in 10 years be transformed as dramatically as they were by the internet
1:23.6	and by smartphones?
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