Is AI Really Inevitable? with Glen Weyl
Factually! with Adam Conover
Headgum
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Headgun Podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | Hello everyone, welcome to Factually, I'm |
| 0:29.8 | Adam Connovers. |
| 0:30.8 | So happy to have you join me on the show once again as I talk to an amazing expert and |
| 0:36.2 | learn all the crazy shit that they know that I don't know. |
| 0:40.1 | Let's jump right into today's show. |
| 0:42.2 | You know, there's this narrative that we're all hearing now that soon super powerful, |
| 0:47.7 | human replacing God-like artificial intelligence is inevitably going to come. |
| 0:54.3 | And so we need to get ready. |
| 0:56.0 | We got to prepare ourselves for the advent of the AI super being on planet earth. |
| 1:02.8 | You hear it all the time? |
| 1:04.0 | You know, Andrew Yang ran an entire presidential campaign on the idea that AI is coming soon. |
| 1:10.0 | So we need to start just giving people money because there aren't going to be any jobs |
| 1:13.6 | for humans left to do once the AI's are driving all our forklifts and whatnot. |
| 1:18.7 | Elon Musk is constantly making headlines by saying AI is coming soon and we're unleashing |
| 1:24.2 | the demon and we must beware. |
| 1:27.3 | And more and more, we see big promises about AI and almost every consumer product under |
| 1:33.2 | the sun from self-driving cars to our cell phones to, I don't know, like Photoshop has |
| 1:39.1 | AI crap all over it now. |
| 1:41.6 | But is it really a guarantee that this version of AI, a super intelligence that is going |
| 1:47.0 | to replace humanity at every human activity? |
| 1:51.0 | Is that really inevitable? |
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