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American Innovations

Wondery

Steven Johnson, History, Kids & Family, Education For Kids, Science

4.6 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

A leap in the power of machine learning and artificial intelligence causes concern about the dangers ahead.

Note: This episode originally aired in September 2018.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime Members, you can listen to American Innovations,
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0:07.0	It's late November 2014, just a few days before Thanksgiving.
0:23.0	Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of Facebook,
0:27.0	is sitting down to dinner in his Palo Alto home.
0:30.0	It's a modest house for a billionaire, a family home, and a residential neighborhood.
0:35.0	But, Zuckerberg has also bought the four neighboring houses to ensure his privacy.
0:41.0	At the table are four executives from Facebook, including Jan Lekun,
0:46.0	the head of Facebook's Artificial Intelligence Lab.
0:50.0	They share a single mission to convince tonight's dinner guest
0:54.0	that the development of AI is good for the world.
0:58.0	The guest, glad you could join us Elon, is Elon Musk,
1:03.0	billionaire technologist and CEO of Tesla and SpaceX.
1:07.0	He's always open to forward-thinking ideas,
1:10.0	but he has his own thoughts about AI, and they are very different from Zuckerberg's.
1:15.0	You're not going to convince me, Mark, so don't even try.
1:18.0	You're the one who's supposed to be the big thinker about the future,
1:21.0	so at least keep an open mind.
1:23.0	Zuckerberg and Musk are like chalk and cheese.
1:26.0	Zuckerberg tries to stay under the radar, avoiding publicity.
1:30.0	When he's forced to attend a public event, he's low-key, almost boring.
1:34.0	Musk, on the other hand, is theatrical.
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