Summary
What the hell is ChatGPT, and why are these pasty nerds telling us it's going to save the world? Hannah and Maia bring you a special, pre-season episode with a discussion of this new AI technology and what it means for the future of our world. The democratization of this smooth-talking chatbot means even YOU can bully a robot into doing your homework. But does democracy really mean that everyone has a grubby finger in the proverbial tech pie, or has humanity begun to miss the point a bit? What is the point anyways? Well Hannah and Maia are here to tell you, so put on your tin hats, sound the Luddite alarm, and get in your bunkers for a very spicy episode.
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SOURCES:
Ted Chiang, “ChatGPT is a Blurry JPEG of the Web” The New Yorker (2023).
--- “Will A.I Become the New McKinsey?” The New Yorker (2023).
Amitai and Oren Etzioni, “Should Artificial Intelligence Be Regulated?” Issues in Science and Technology, Vol. 33, No. 4 (2017).
Mehmet Firat, “How Chat GPT Can Transform Autodidactic Experiences and Open Education?” University of Anadolou (2023).
Erin Griffith, “Reid Hoffman Is on a Mission: To Show A.I. Can Improve Humanity” The New York Times (2023).
David McCabe, “White House Pushes Tech C.E.O.s to Limit Risks of A.I.” The New York Times (2023).
Cade Metz, “OpenAI Plans to Up the Ante in Tech’s A.I. Race” The New York Times (2023).
--- “‘The Godfather of A.I.’ Leaves Google and Warns of Danger Ahead” The New York Times (2023).
--- “With $1 Billion From Microsoft, an A.I. Lab Wants to Mimic the Brain” The New York Times (2019).
Tobias Res, “Non-Human Words” Daedalus (2022).
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| 0:00.0 | Hello again. It's been a while, Hannah. I know. It's crazy to see you in this context again. |
| 0:06.9 | I see your dumbass every day. I see your dumbass every second of every day. Yeah, today we went to pick up our |
| 0:12.8 | equipment and we were like, let's go on an excursion. And we were like, we never do this with each |
| 0:17.4 | other ever. Like, this is so crazy crazy it's like we haven't gotten coffee together |
| 0:21.1 | in like a week and a half we just spent like two full weeks together in Portugal just with each |
| 0:26.1 | other we were like really clamoring for some friends because we're like get me that hell away |
| 0:30.0 | from this bitch yeah I saw something on Twitter that was from this I think it was in New York |
| 0:35.2 | Times like advice column And it was about, |
| 0:43.5 | they're like, do I have to pay for my kid's platonic partner to come on a trip? And it was like, |
| 0:49.2 | my college-age daughter's best friend and roommate wants to come on vacation. I was like, |
| 0:59.1 | oh no, that's us coded. I know. And, and what about it? Everything is us coded. We're the center of the universe. |
| 1:04.4 | So this is Rehash, a podcast about the social media phenomenons that strike a nerve in our culture only to be quickly forgotten, but we think are due for revisiting. This is a very, very special episode. It's a pre-season, |
| 1:15.4 | not really rehashing, current hashing. Yeah, it's a current hash is what we'll call it. |
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| 1:41.9 | Please help us. This episode is a bit of a packed one because we wanted to give this topic the time and attention it deserves. |
| 2:20.0 | So it's a special pre-season two-parter episode. The first part will be discussing the unleashing of chat GPT into the public arena. |
| 2:29.6 | And the second part will be talking about the WGA strike and the implications of generative |
| 2:34.6 | AI on Hollywood, and the dangerous precedent that this may set. |
| 2:39.2 | This is an issue that we're both really passionate about, and we wanted to release it now |
| 2:44.3 | because it's unfolding as we speak, and it's a bit time-sensitive. |
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