Business Wars: Living in an Artificial World
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4.1 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Artificial intelligence abounds, and it’s only making its way deeper and deeper into every scrap of technology we use. Generative AI in particular is an invention that seems destined to follow us far into the future, so it’s best to try to make sense of where it’s headed.
This week on Gadget Lab, we're sharing an episode of Wondery's Business Wars podcast where we talk about the rise of AI over the past few years, where the future of artificial intelligence is going, and whether the many movies about AI actually predicted what’s to come.
Show Notes:
Listen to the Business Wars podcast at Wondery, or wherever you get your podcasts. Check out their whole series, the Rise of AI. Follow all of our own AI coverage on WIRED.
Recommendations:
Lauren recommends the Classy podcast. Mike recommends the new movie Past Lives.
Business Wars can be found on social media @businesswars. Lauren Goode is @LaurenGoode. Michael Calore is @snackfight. Bling the main hotline at @GadgetLab. The show is produced by Boone Ashworth (@booneashworth). Our theme music is by Solar Keys.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Gadget Lab listeners. |
| 0:08.0 | We've got something a little different for you this week. |
| 0:10.8 | We're bringing you an episode of Business Wars, a podcast from Wondery. |
| 0:15.1 | Don't worry, this isn't a total bait and switch because the guests on the episode that we're about to play are in fact |
| 0:22.1 | me and mike you know so business wars invited us on their show to talk about what else |
| 0:28.8 | artificial intelligence this is actually our second appearance on business wars we were guests |
| 0:33.6 | on the show back in february we about Microsoft and Apple back then. But now, |
| 0:39.4 | with AI taking over our feeds, we thought this was a good opportunity for us to step back |
| 0:44.8 | and really explain what the heck generative AI is. Yeah, exactly. We have been covering |
| 0:53.2 | artificial intelligence exhaustively here at Wired, |
| 0:56.0 | and over the past few gadget lab episodes, which were about Apple and Amazon and Google, |
| 1:00.9 | we've been really zeroing in on how AI is changing consumer tech. Now, of course, |
| 1:05.4 | business wars has been covering it too. Their new series is called The Rise of AI, and it's all |
| 1:10.7 | about the companies now scrambling to become the top dog in the AI industry. |
| 1:15.5 | We went on the show to talk about what it is like to live in a world alongside so many chatbots and voice assistance and autonomous vehicles and where all the stuff might go in the future. |
| 1:26.1 | We also did a fun little segment at the end |
| 1:27.7 | where we discussed some of our favorite television shows and movies |
| 1:31.3 | that are centered on AI. |
| 1:34.0 | That's the best part. |
| 1:34.8 | AI taking over the world |
| 1:36.1 | and whether or not that's going to come true. |
| 1:39.3 | So enjoy this episode of Business Wars |
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