Is AI underrated?
The Indicator from Planet Money
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🗓️ 24 July 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
This week, The Indicator hosts a two-part debate on the hype around generative AI. Today, the first episode: Despite all the news coverage and money, is AI underrated?
Guest Tyler Cowen's book that he published as an AI chatbot is GOAT: Who is the Greatest Economist of all Time and Why Does it Matter? and his interview with an AI Jonathan Swift is on his podcast, Conversations With Tyler.
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| 0:00.0 | NPR. Greg Rizzalski. |
| 0:13.4 | Darien Woods. |
| 0:14.6 | You write the Planet Money newsletter. |
| 0:16.5 | You've been writing a lot recently about artificial intelligence and |
| 0:20.1 | whether or not it's too overhiked. Yes I have but you know publishing this kind of stuff can be a little |
| 0:26.3 | bit risky like you know if AI does end up transforming the economy like I don't want to be the |
| 0:31.5 | guy who like once said like predictions like that or overblown. |
| 0:35.8 | Yes you do not. So on the indicator we're going to do this two-part. We're going to have one episode making the case for why AI won't have a massive effect on the economy |
| 0:46.1 | and another for why it will. |
| 0:48.0 | And just so nobody confuses each episode with our own, you know, personal prognostications, we are going to decide who reports on which side with a coin flip. |
| 0:58.8 | A digital coin flip. Let's get ChagvD to decide. |
| 1:02.4 | What? |
| 1:03.0 | I don't even know we were going to do this. |
| 1:05.0 | This is freaky. |
| 1:07.0 | So Greg, heads, you take AI is overrated. |
| 1:10.0 | Tails, AI is underrated. |
| 1:12.0 | ChatGPT, can you please... Tails, AI is underrated. |
| 1:12.8 | Chat GPT, can you please flip a heads or a tails randomly? |
| 1:18.0 | Sure, it's heads. |
| 1:20.0 | It's heads. |
| 1:21.0 | Greg, you're going to look at whether AI is overhived. |
| 1:25.0 | This is the indicator from Bladit Money, I'm Darin Woods. |
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