Black Box: episode 6 – Shut it down?
Today in Focus
The Guardian
4.6 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. |
| 0:02.0 | Hey, it's Mike. You might be wondering why I'm in your ears on a Saturday, a rare rare occurrence it's because today in focus has |
| 0:14.4 | been off this week instead we're bringing you black box a series we made earlier |
| 0:18.5 | this year about how AI is reshaping our world today's's episode, The Last in the Series is about a profit. |
| 0:26.2 | Someone who warned people about the dangers that AI would bring, but he wasn't |
| 0:31.1 | listened to. |
| 0:32.2 | Every episode of Black Box is on the today in focus feed for you to listen to right now, |
| 0:37.0 | and we'll be back with our normal programming on Monday. |
| 0:40.0 | Looking forward to speaking to you then. |
| 0:51.0 | This summer, see the European Box Office Smash that critics are raving about. The count of Monte Cristo is timeless and thrillingly new. |
| 0:55.1 | Five-star says total film. Rotten tomatoes rates it at 100%. |
| 0:59.6 | It's a big exciting swashbuckling adventure stunning a genuine triumph based on Alexander |
| 1:05.8 | Dumas classic tale. |
| 1:08.8 | A Cute of Monte Cristo. |
| 1:10.6 | The Count of Monte Cristo in Cinemas Now, Certificate 12A. |
| 1:15.0 | This is a story about the end of the world and it starts with a joke. |
| 1:28.0 | About two years ago, the scientist Jeffrey Hinton, one of the godfathers of AI was working at Google, tinkering with a program most people haven't heard of. |
| 1:40.0 | There was a modeling Google called Palm, P. A.L. |
| 1:44.0 | It was basically a Google version of chat GPT, |
| 1:48.0 | never released to the public. It was just research. |
| 1:51.0 | And Hinton was checking it out when it did something that terrified him. |
| 1:55.0 | Palm could explain why jokes were funny. Not all jokes but quite a few of them. |
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