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Today's show is sponsored by ExpressVPN. Do you like your web history being seen and sold to advertisers? No? Me neither. Get ExpressVPN right now at ExpressVPN.com slash Ben. There's been a lot of talk about artificial intelligence. Some people think it's overblown. Some people think that it's not. The simple fact is, it's not overblown. The artificial intelligence revolution is here. It is only going to grow more and more in both scope and

breadth. Things like chat GPT are actually the very basic versions of what the techno bros have in

store for the rest of the world. And there are some people who are very hot on it, some people

who are very scared of it. I'm somewhere in the in between, meaning I think that the upsides

economically are going to be extraordinary. I think in terms of labor saving and productivity, we could see an explosion of productivity that essentially

brings inflation down to zero that makes an enormous number of products, goods, and services

significantly easier to access for a wide variety of people that allows pretty much anybody to

engage in a variety of industries they never would have had access to before. It's the democratization of intelligence is what some are calling it, because instead of you having to go to medical school, for example, to be able to diagnose a particular condition, now all you have to do is go to a nurse practitioner. She's going to perform particular tests on you, and then the AI is going to diagnose you because it's better at it than any doctor would be.

Instead of you having to know a ton of things in order to get an answer, you're going to be able to go to the AI, and the AI is going to be able to peruse all of human knowledge momentarily and simply get back to you. There are just tons of ways in which AI is going to make us more productive, going to make it easier for us to be creative in many ways. There are some problems, I think, when it comes to the sort of human brain development aspect of AI that we're going to have to discuss. Because one of the things that we've really never thought about with regard to technology, we've always thought about technology as something apart from us. Technology is a machine that you use. But the truth is, the machine shapes you. I see this with my seven-year-old son. So my seven-year-old son, really bright kid, he realized very quickly how my iPhone worked. And he could work it better than I could. And you know this. If you're a parent, you see your kids using the technology better than you do. And you can see how it shapes them. So for my son, he recognized how the voice to text feature on my iPhone worked very quickly. And so instead of him learning to read and then being able to type in all of the commands, he would simply grab the phone, say his command into the phone, and this allowed him to avoid reading for longer. This is very often what kids do. They use the technology in order to avoid doing the thing. So, for example, people of my generation, we were completely conversant with calculators.

Those calculators were not available for my parents' generation. So my parents are really good at mental math. My generation happens to be not very good at mental math. You'll see people pulling out their phones to do basic and simple calculations on their phone. Now, does that mean that people are getting stupider? Not necessarily. It means that they're using the tools at their disposal. But the question is whether there are emergent properties to knowing things like how to

calculate in your head that have an impact on overall brain function. So, for example,

let's say that you are the world's best chess player and you use AI in order to enhance your game.

This has been shown to be the best form of chess playing is somebody who's great a chess and somebody who also has access to AI technology in terms of chess.

Combine those two and you have magic.

Well, what happens when you have an entire generation of people who have been trained on chess AI,

but they've not actually developed independent skills with regard to chess?

Well, at a certain point, the AI could actually become self-referential.

The humans are not actually creating inputs for the AI to actually act off of.

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