Artificial Intelligence: Insights & Oddities [8th Layer Insights]

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🗓️ 26 December 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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On this episode, Perry celebrates the one year birthday of ChatGPT by taking a look at AI from technological, philosophical, and folkloric perspectives. We see how AI was formed based on human words and works, and how it can now shape the future of human legend and belief. Guests: Brandon Karpf, Vice President at N2K Networks (LinkedIn) (Website) Dr. Lynne S. McNeill, Associate Professor at Utah State University (LinkedIn) (Twitter) Dr. John Laudun, Professor at University of Louisiana at Lafayette (LinkedIn) (Twitter) (Website) Lev Gorelov, Research Director at Handshake Consulting (LinkedIn) (Twitter) (Website) Resources Interview with the AI, part one, by the Brandon Karpf / the CyberWire 'Hard Fork': An Interview With Sam Altman, by The New York Times The Exciting, Perilous Journey Toward AGI, Ilya Sutskever TED Talk Ilya: the AI scientist shaping the world, by The Guardian Meet Loab, the AI Art Woman Haunting the Internet: Is she a demon? A Cryptid? Or nothing at all..., the Guardian In 2016, Microsoft’s Racist Chatbot Revealed the Dangers of Online Conversation The bot learned language from people on Twitter—but it also learned values, IEEE Spectrum Perry's Digital Folklore episode about AI Handshake's Generative AI Masterclass on Maven Perry's Books (Amazon Associate links) Transformational Security Awareness: What Neuroscientists, Storytellers, and Marketers Can Teach Us About Driving Secure Behaviors, by Perry Carpenter The Security Culture Playbook: An Executive Guide To Reducing Risk and Developing Your Human Defense Layer by Perry Carpenter & Kai Roer Be sure to check out Perry's other show, Digital Folklore. It's all about the oddities and importance of online culture. Head over to the show's website (https://digitalfolklore.fm/) to see our custom artwork, subscribe to the newsletter, shop for merch, support the show on Patreon, and more. Want to check out what others are saying? Here's some recent press about the show: https://digitalfolklore.fm/in-the-news. Production Credits: Music and Sound Effects by Blue Dot Sessions, Envato Elements, Storyblocks, & EpidemicSound. 8Li cover art by Chris Machowski @ https://www.RansomWear.net/. 8th Layer Insights theme music composed and performed by Marcos Moscat @ https://www.GameMusicTown.com/ Want to get in touch with Perry? Here's how: LinkedIn Twitter Instagram Email: perry [at] 8thLayerMedia [dot] com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to the CyberWire Network, powered by N2K.
0:09.0	Hi, I'm Perry Carpenter, and you listening to 8th Layer Insights.
0:14.0	People around the world are talking a lot about AI these days
0:20.1	and there are a wide range of opinions.
0:23.2	Everything from AI is no big deal, it's just fancy auto complete, all the way to people saying
0:29.2	things like continued advances in AI represent an imminent threat to humanity.
0:35.0	Conversations about the impact of AI aren't anything new,
0:40.0	but this is now a conversation that is hitting mainstream public consciousness
0:45.8	due to what is known in the creative writing world as an inciting
0:50.7	incident. That incident happened just one year ago on November 30th, 2022 when Open AI introduced the world to Chat
1:01.0	GPT.
1:02.0	To be fair, AI has been with us for quite a while now,
1:07.0	so nothing new there.
1:08.0	And large language models, the fundamental flavor of AI behind chat gPT those have been in development
1:15.8	and have also been available to technologists for years now. But here's the thing
1:22.0	the methods for testing, implementing, or even playing around with the technologies
1:28.0	were just cumbersome enough to essentially be a barrier to use.
1:35.0	So that inflection point that I referred to,
1:38.0	the one that happened on November 30th, 2022,
1:41.0	that was when open AI released ChatGPT. A fairly powerful
1:47.1	LLC generative pretrained transformer or GPT wrapped in an easy to use, easy to understand, and most importantly, familiar interface, the chat interface. And so now that brought the interface that we all use for texting, instant messaging, and more.
2:08.0	That became the front end for Open AI's GPT 3.5 model and overnight the world was confronted with just how far AI technology
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