How Tech Journalists Are Fueling the AI Hype Machine

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🗓️ 29 May 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Every new tech innovation gets the same breathless coverage. Why?

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Micah, this is the on the media midweek podcast. Happy Memorial Day.
0:05.0	Hope you did something fun or relaxing. Hope you got to be outside a little bit.
0:10.0	We've found sometimes that over holiday weekends our listens dip a little bit.
0:15.7	And so you might have missed a piece I did on the most recent show about kind of lazy tech journalism and how reporters just time and time again fall for
0:26.6	whatever Silicon Valley is hawking. They did it with the gig economy and now
0:31.6	they're doing it with artificial intelligence.
0:34.5	We were pretty proud of the piece and so we're going to rerun it for the pod extra.
0:38.7	Enjoy.
0:40.5	Last week open AI released a demo of its latest technology
0:44.4	its text-based software chat gp t4 oh
0:48.3	Which responds to prompts and now has a new voice a A few actually, but this one called Skye got the most attention.
0:56.4	You've got me on the edge of my, well I don't really have a seat,
0:59.7	but you get the idea.
1:01.1	What's the big news?
1:02.8	People online said the demo reminded them of a 2013 film
1:06.7	about a man who falls in love with his AI voice assistant,
1:10.4	performed by Scarlet Johanson. Good morning, Theodore.
1:14.0	Good morning.
1:15.0	You have a meeting in five minutes.
1:16.0	You want to try getting out of bed?
1:18.0	Get up.
1:20.0	You're too funny.
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