Big Tech Wants You to Think AI Will Kill Us All
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🗓️ 16 June 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Did you know that AI is set to automate as many as a third of your tasks? In the future we’re all going to be saving a lot of time. That’s as long as no one invents artificial general intelligence that fires all the nukes or turns us all into paperclips. Which, some experts seem to think, will surely happen.
Today we’re gonna talk about hype. Not the exciting kind of hype, but Criti-Hype, a kind of techno doomerism we’re often fond of here at Motherboard. Social media, biogenetics, Artificial Intelligence. These things could ruin us all. At least … that’s what people tell you when they’re selling something.
Lee Vinsel is a professor of Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech and the host of the People & Things podcast. His Medium post that caught our eye is: You’re Doing it Wrong: Notes on Criticism and Technology Hype.
Stories discussed in this episode:
You’re Doing It Wrong: Notes on Criticism and Technology Hype
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| 0:00.0 | Tadden, it's got the code it's going to launch. |
| 0:10.5 | It's a unit system. |
| 0:13.0 | I know this. |
| 0:14.9 | It's all the files of the whole park. |
| 0:17.1 | It tells you everything. |
| 0:18.8 | Sir, he's uploading the virus. |
| 0:21.6 | Eagle One. The package is being delivered. |
| 0:25.1 | Hello out there on the internet. |
| 0:27.3 | I am Matthew Galt, and this is Cyber. |
| 0:29.9 | Hey, did you all know that AI is set to AutoWatimate? |
| 0:34.1 | This is why, see, I usually read it before... to me. |
| 0:43.2 | This is why, see, I usually read it before I do it. |
| 0:46.3 | Every time I don't, I stumble over it in some way. |
| 0:47.4 | I'm going to leave the same. Automate away is a tough one, I think. |
| 0:49.5 | It is. It is. |
| 0:50.6 | So, let me try this again. |
| 0:53.5 | Hey, did you all know that AI is set to automate away as many as a third of your tasks? |
| 0:58.6 | In the future, we're all going to be saving a lot of time. |
| 1:02.0 | That's as long as no one invents general AI that fires all the nukes or turns us into |
| 1:06.0 | paper clips, which some experts seem to think will surely happen. |
| 1:10.8 | Today, we're going to talk about hype, not the exciting kind of hype, but critter hype. A kind of... which some experts seem to think will surely happen. |
| 1:14.4 | Today, we're going to talk about hype, not the exciting kind of hype, but critter hype, |
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