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🗓️ 19 January 2023
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0:00.0 | I think at the other end of it, it's kind of the same issues we have with social media companies. |
0:05.0 | The spreading of disinformation, trying to centralize power, moderation and exploiting people, like a labor force that's sort of second-class citizens around the world. |
0:14.7 | So I think that's kind of the path we are on. |
0:33.9 | Thank you. we are on. Hello and welcome to Tech Won't Save Us. I'm your host, Paris Marks. Just a quick reminder that we are running a listener survey this month. So if you have about five minutes, you can find the link to that in the show notes if you want to fill it out for us. Definitely appreciate if you can do that. Now this week, my guest is Tim Neat Gebrou. Timneet is the founder and executive director of the Distributed AI Research Institute, or Dare, |
0:55.3 | and she's also the former co-lead of the ethical AI research team at Google before being fired in 2020, |
1:01.5 | and that might be a story that you will remember quite vividly. |
1:05.0 | It won't be news to you that we are in the middle of a hype cycle. |
1:08.6 | You know, there's a lot of excitement right now around particular |
1:11.6 | AI tools like chat GPT or stable diffusion, churning out writing and images based on things |
1:18.9 | that they have scraped from the internet. As a result of that, there are a lot of big promises |
1:24.0 | being made right now around what potential future these AI tools might bring, |
1:30.1 | what our society might look like because of all of these things that these tools can |
1:34.7 | churn out based on all the data that they have taken from the web. But are these things exaggerated? |
1:40.8 | Are we likely to actually realize a lot of these things that people at OpenAI and other |
1:46.2 | boosters are saying we might? |
1:48.5 | I think that there's reason for us to be skeptical of these things. |
1:51.7 | First of all, because a lot of these promises have been made in the past and not followed |
1:55.5 | through on, but second of all, because it's very beneficial to a lot of these people for us to |
2:00.1 | buy into it and for us to |
2:01.3 | believe that these AI tools are the next big thing after the failure of cryptocurrencies, after the |
2:07.5 | failure of the metaverse. Tim Neat is also throwing some cold water on these visions of the future |
2:12.9 | being put forward by these AI hype masters. And I think it's a perspective that we should listen to. |
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