Artificial intelligence: Bright new future or the end of humanity?
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The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
We have entered what many experts are now describing as a golden age of AI. If machines could be our surgeons, our judges and our artists, what would it then mean to be human? Meet the philosophers trying to save humanity from the matrix.
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Guest: Josh Glancy, Special Correspondent, The Sunday Times.
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Producer: Olivia Case.
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| 0:00.0 | You won't believe your ears. |
| 0:14.0 | Hello, I'm your host David Aronovich. |
| 0:20.3 | I'm thrilled to have with me today Josh Glancy, special correspondent at the Sunday Times. |
| 0:28.6 | A topic we'll be discussing today is the impact of artificial intelligence on our society. |
| 0:35.5 | Will AI bring about unprecedented advancements that improve our lives? |
| 0:39.6 | Or will it be the downfall of humanity, leaving us either extinct or in a dehumanized world? |
| 0:46.0 | Let's get started on the ethics of AI. |
| 0:53.7 | Let's stop there. |
| 0:56.2 | The voice you just heard wasn't me. |
| 0:59.2 | The words you just heard weren't mine. |
| 1:03.0 | The truth is it was written and read by artificial intelligence. |
| 1:08.3 | Let me explain. |
| 1:09.3 | First, one of our producers had a conversation with chat GPT, a chatbot created by the company |
| 1:16.4 | OpenAI. |
| 1:17.4 | We told chat GPT what this episode was about, asked it to write an introduction and |
| 1:23.4 | stated so in seconds. |
| 1:27.7 | The voice, a synthesized clone of me, was created in our editing app Descript. |
| 1:34.6 | We trained it on over a dozen recordings of my voice from past episodes. |
| 1:40.0 | So this is David recording the Lord Frost script for Jeff. |
| 1:44.5 | David recording the Ejision Pays Bible script for Sam. |
| 1:48.4 | The policy economics can interpret a two. |
| 1:52.7 | What are our design projects? |
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