GPT-4o, AI Companions, and the Metaverse (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)
Robert Wright's Nonzero
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4.7 • 618 Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
1:23 Bob’s sage status rises 4:18 GPT-4o: harbinger of the Metaverse? 13:53 Does sentience matter for AI companionship? 25:48 The promise and perils of social AI 33:46 How LLMs flip the script on computing 39:05 Heading to Overtime—and a special announcement!
Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True) and Paul Bloom (https://smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net, University of Toronto, The Sweet Spot, Against Empathy). Recorded May 20, 2024.
Overtime titles:
43:10 AI and porn (through an evo-psych lens) 55:08 Is sex passé? 1:03:21 Google’s new AI-boosted search; Bob’s and Paul’s SEO prowess 1:10:30 Are the OpenAI resignations really a bad sign for AI safety? 1:14:31 Bob and Paul compare their p(doom)s 1:26:34 Sci-fi TV to see (and skip)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero podcast. You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcasts. |
| 0:27.6 | Hi, Paul. |
| 0:30.9 | Hi, Bob. |
| 0:31.9 | How you doing? |
| 0:32.2 | You doing? |
| 0:33.1 | Oh, me too. |
| 0:35.6 | Bad beginning. |
| 0:38.2 | Yeah, but we don't do redos. |
| 0:39.4 | That's the spontaneity that people love. |
| 0:41.6 | It's like whatever happens, happens. |
| 0:42.9 | We're working without a net. |
| 0:45.0 | That much is obvious. |
| 0:47.5 | So what do you call this podcast that we're on? |
| 0:51.8 | Oh, it's funny. |
| 0:52.3 | You should ask, Paul. |
| 0:53.3 | It's a non-zero podcast, and as it |
| 0:55.1 | happens, I published a non-zero newsletter as well, and you publish a small potato's newsletter. |
| 1:01.2 | Small potatoes is still going strong. And you're famous psychologist and a writer and intellectual |
| 1:07.0 | and that's why I brought you here today,ul now listen i'm here i'm here every |
| 1:13.0 | second week you are you are it's like nothing special it's like clockwork it's getting to the |
| 1:18.5 | point where you need no introduction but i think you demanded one in your contract and i'll stick |
| 1:23.1 | with that now paul far be it for me to suggest that I am, your guiding light, the person you turn |
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