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Plain English with Derek Thompson

How ChatGPT Can Change the Future of Jobs—Starting With Your Own

Plain English with Derek Thompson

The Ringer

News Commentary, News

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Today’s episode is about thinking practically about the AI revolution. Yes, it may one day usher in some now unthinkable utopia or dystopia. But in the meantime, our imperfect world exists, and your imperfect job exists, and you face a forced choice: Should you use this technology? And if so, how do you make it work for you? Kevin Roose, a tech columnist for The New York Times and the host of the podcast 'Hard Fork,' talks about how generative AI tools are already changing his job and others, including in medicine, consulting, and software development. If you have questions, observations, or ideas for future episodes, email us at [email protected]. Host: Derek Thompson Guest: Kevin Roose Producer: Devon Manze Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

What would you do if you got scammed? Would you suffer in silence or would you do something about it?

0:07.1

Well I got scammed once and this is the story of what I did. I'm Justin Sales, the host of the wedding scammer, a true crime

0:14.2

podcast from the Ringer. And for seven episodes, we're hunting a common man. A guy

0:18.8

with a lot of aliases, a guy who's ruined a lot of weddings and with the help with some friends

0:24.0

I just might be able to catch him listen to the wedding scammer on Spotify or

0:28.2

wherever you get your podcasts

0:32.4

today's episode is about the AI Revolution and how to make it work for us.

0:38.0

It's now been several months since we covered this subject, which by the way I think I once called potentially the most important story of the decade.

0:44.4

I think I still stand by that even though at the moment it feels like everything else

0:48.9

in the world is breaking apart and screaming with significance. So many of our past episodes on AI

0:55.0

have been predominantly focused on the big picture,

0:59.0

on philosophy, on disentangling potential and peril discussing regulatory concerns,

1:05.0

waiting through the arguments that this tech will unlock

1:08.0

unthinkable human progress or open Pandora's box and somehow destroy the world.

1:13.5

And at the top of this show, I want to emphasize something very, very strongly.

1:18.3

This is, for the most part, not a discussion of law or ethics or philosophy or utopia or

1:23.7

dystopia as worthy as those angles may be.

1:27.0

It's about how to wrangle chat, Chippee, and it's ilk,

1:31.5

to actually be of use in your life right now, this week, this very day.

1:37.0

Let me get ahead of an objection I can

1:45.0

you offer an endorsement of this technology,

1:48.5

God forbid, an advertisement for this technology,

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