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🗓️ 17 May 2023
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0:00.0 | Imagine winning 15 million pounds on Christmas Day. |
0:05.5 | The 15 million pound Lotto jackpot must be won on Christmas Day. |
0:10.7 | There's still time to get in the draw. |
0:13.1 | Lotto, will you be the next millionaire? |
0:16.1 | The National Lottery, rules and procedures apply. |
0:18.5 | Players must be 18 or over. |
0:22.9 | Hi, FeverDreams is no longer producing new episodes, so I wanted to share another political |
0:27.4 | podcast from The Daily Beast. It's called The New Abnormal. |
0:31.5 | Enjoy this episode and subscribe at thedailybeast.com slash podcast or on your favorite major podcast player. |
0:37.4 | Folks, I am very excited to welcome to the new abnormal. |
0:41.9 | Gary Marcus, who is a scientist, bestselling author, serial entrepreneur, and host of |
0:48.4 | the new podcast, Humans versus Machines and author of the Substack, The Road to AI, We Can Trust. |
0:55.5 | I'm really excited to talk to you, Gary, because I got to tell you, as a politico, as somebody |
1:00.9 | who deeply believes in democracy, who deeply believes in information that can educate |
1:07.5 | the citizenry to make important decisions about their day-to-day lives and about their |
1:11.8 | representatives. AI scares the shit out of me. Just looking at what happened in 2016, what continues |
1:19.3 | to happen in our body politic, what we have blamed on Russian troll farms in terms of their |
1:25.1 | misinformation, the ways in which Facebook and Twitter were utilized |
1:29.0 | for wrongdoing. I look at AI and I think to myself, oh my God, the future is here and it's a |
1:36.3 | disaster for democracy, which is already hanging on by a thread. Tell me, am I blowing things out |
1:41.6 | of proportion? I was just about to say the one thing I can say positive here is I can tell we're going to be friends |
1:46.5 | because I think you're looking at it the right way. |
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