Did Artificial Intelligence Just Get Too Smart?

The Daily

The New York Times

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4.5 • 97.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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This episode contains strong language.In the past few weeks, a major breakthrough in the world of artificial intelligence — ChatGPT — has put extraordinary powers in the hands of anyone with access to the internet. Released by OpenAI, a San Francisco-based company, ChatGPT can write essays, come up with scripts for TV shows, answer math questions and even write code. Guest: Kevin Roose, a technology columnist for The New York Times and host of the Times podcast “Hard Fork.”

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0:00.0	From New York Times, I'm Michael Bavaro. This is The Daily.
0:07.0	Okay. I am going to create an account on chat GPT.
0:19.0	Over the past few weeks, there's been a major breakthrough in the world of artificial intelligence.
0:25.0	First thing that comes up is a, I am not a robot test. I have to have a robot.
0:33.0	Tell me, I'm not a robot in order to engage a bot.
0:39.0	Okay.
0:40.0	That has put extraordinary new powers into the hands of anyone with access to the internet.
0:47.0	I need a password, including me.
0:50.0	Send code. Oh my god.
0:53.0	It's better be worth it.
0:55.0	Today, my colleague, Kevin Rus, on how the technology actually works and why it's arrival marks a new era in computing.
1:06.0	Here we are. Welcome to chat GPT. The revolution begins here.
1:14.0	It's Friday, December 16th.
1:21.0	Kevin, welcome back to The Daily.
1:27.0	Today, we are going to turn your unique powers of explanation to the inscrutable sounding chat GPT.
1:38.0	Tell us about this newfangled technology. What is it? What does that acronym stand for? Why does it matter?
1:48.0	Well, Michael, I'm grateful to be here and always happy to be your personal tech support guru, member of the Michael Barbaro, genius squad.
2:00.0	We can do this two ways. I could explain chat GPT to you as you asked or I could have chat GPT explain itself to you.
2:08.0	Which would you prefer?
2:10.0	I kind of want to ask you to do it. I'm scared of this technology.
2:13.0	Let's give it the old human try, shall we?
2:16.0	Yes.
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