Fetterman’s Body Double, Biden’s Misinformation Strategy, and OpenAI’s Secret & Scarier AI
Offline with Jon Favreau
Crooked Media
4.7 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2023
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Simon Rich, writer and creator of TBS’s Miracle Workers, joins Offline to explain how he got his hands on an AI that makes Chat GPT look like a kindergartner. Simon and two friends used the indefatigable (and often unhinged) code-davinci-002 to generate poems on birth, art, love and death. The resulting collection, I Am Code, is the first book “written” by an AI. Simon and Jon talk through the alarming questions the book raises: what is the future of creativity, does it matter why robots may want to kill us, and is the world of AI secretly far more advanced than we know? But first! Max and Jon break down Senator John Fetterman’s internet-savvy strategy to combat conspiracy theorists, and Joe Biden’s slightly less savvy fight against misinformation.
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| 0:00.0 | So these are all onion-style jokes. |
| 0:02.7 | I'm going to read a few and see if you can tell in your head which ones are actual jokes |
| 0:07.4 | from the onion and which were written by or generated by Code of Inchie 2. |
| 0:13.8 | Experts warned that war in Ukraine could become even more boring. |
| 0:18.6 | Budget of new Batman movie swells to 200 million as director insists on using real Batman. |
| 0:25.5 | The story of a woman who rescue shelter dog with severely matted fur will inspire you |
| 0:30.1 | to open a new tap and visit another website. |
| 0:32.3 | That's my favorite. |
| 0:33.3 | Abby too. |
| 0:35.1 | Rural town up in arms over depiction and summer blockbuster cow fuckers. |
| 0:40.8 | So the answer, of course, is that all five were written by Code of Inchie 2. |
| 0:45.4 | Wow. |
| 0:46.4 | This is a primitive technology. |
| 0:48.4 | This is like an ancient technology in terms of how fast this develops. |
| 0:52.0 | This is written by an AI that is nowhere near as advanced to what they secretly have |
| 0:57.7 | behind closed doors at OpenAI. |
| 1:00.0 | I'm John Febrew. |
| 1:01.2 | Welcome to Offline. |
| 1:02.6 | Hey everyone, welcome to Offline. |
| 1:07.3 | This week I'm talking to comedian, author, and screenwriter Simon Rich about I am Code, |
| 1:12.4 | a book of poems that he and his friends edited, but that were actually written by a terrifyingly |
| 1:17.9 | advanced artificial intelligence program that you've probably never heard of. |
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