Getting deep about deepfakes
Make Me Smart
Marketplace
4.6 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2024
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Today, we’re talking about the different efforts to invest in artificial intelligence. First up, guest host Lily Jamali breaks down Argentina’s endeavor to turn the country into an AI hub. Then, we’ll discuss the use of AI and deepfakes in India’s election in an attempt to reach voters. Later, we’ll smile about America’s first Black astronaut candidate finally taking a trip to space.
Here’s everything we talked about today:
- “Argentina’s Milei Plans to Meet With Zuckerberg at End of May” from Bloomberg
- “Indian Voters Are Being Bombarded With Millions of Deepfakes. Political Candidates Approve” from Wired
- Marketplace’s Decoding Democracy election series
- “Dirty Dancing, Back to the Future and E.T. Voted Best 80s Films: Poll Reveals Top 40 Movies From Big-Hair Days” from Good News Network
- “Ed Dwight Goes to Space 63 Years After Training as 1st Black Astronaut” from The New York Times
- “Can life exist on Europa, Jupiter’s moon?” from Marketplace
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| 0:00.0 | All right, I think we can actually do the show now. |
| 0:04.0 | Hello everyone, I'm Kimberly Adams. |
| 0:10.0 | Hello everyone, I'm Kimberly Adams. |
| 0:12.0 | Welcome back to Make Me Smart where we make today |
| 0:14.0 | today makes sense. Kai is out today and making her Make Me Smart debut is |
| 0:19.8 | Marketplace's Lily Jamali. You might also recognize her voice from Marketplace Tech and our |
| 0:25.8 | Decoding Democracy Series. |
| 0:28.3 | Ah, don't talk me up too much there, Kimberly, hey everyone. |
| 0:32.3 | I have to, I have to do here |
| 0:34.0 | the check is in the mail |
| 0:37.0 | thanks |
| 0:38.0 | Lily and I were actually recording just a little bit earlier today our latest episode of decoding democracy which I hope |
| 0:44.9 | you all will check out it is about miss and disinformation and how it is affecting |
| 0:50.9 | elections and many other things in our society. |
| 0:55.0 | But today we are going to do some news and some smiles. |
| 0:58.2 | Let's start with the news. |
| 0:59.4 | What caught your attention, Lily? |
| 1:01.1 | Yeah, on this Monday, this one is from Bloomberg, which reports that Argentina's president, |
| 1:06.4 | Javier Milay, plans to meet with Mark Zuckerberg and other executives in Silicon Valley in the coming days. |
| 1:13.0 | Some quick background on Mille, a very interesting guy. |
| 1:16.0 | He was elected as president of Argentina last year. |
| 1:19.0 | He is a Libertarian who, Kimberly, if you recall, |
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