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🗓️ 13 January 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Schools across the country are considering whether to ban the new AI chatbot, ChatGPT. On this week’s On the Media, a look at the ever-present hype around AI and claims that machines can think. Plus, the potential implications of handing over decision-making to computers.

1. Tina Tallon [@ttallon], assistant professor of A.I. and the Arts at the University of Florida, on the love-hate relationship with AI technology over the past 70 years, and Nitasha Tiku [@nitashatiku], tech culture reporter for The Washington Post, on history of the tech itself. Listen.

2. Geoffrey Hinton [@geoffreyhinton], a cognitive psychologist and computer scientist, on holograms, memories, and the origins of neural networks. Listen.3. Matt Devost [@MattDevost], international cybersecurity expert and CEO and co-founder of the global strategic advisory firm OODA llc., on the rise of AI-powered weapons and what it means for the future of warfare. Listen.

Music:Original music by Tina TallonHorizon 12.2 by Thomas NewmanBubble Wrap by Thomas NewmanSeventy-two Degrees and Sunny by Thomas NewmanEye Surgery by Thomas NewmanFinal Retribution by John ZornLachrymose Fairy by Thomas Newman

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0:00.0	Artificial intelligence is back in the headlines because it seems to be getting so much smarter.
0:07.3	I found myself forgetting that it was a cha-pa generator.
0:11.4	You know, it referenced this feeling it gets in the pit of its stomach, it referenced its mother.
0:16.2	A digital game designer won first place at the Colorado State Fair Fine Arts Competition
0:21.2	after submitting a painting created by an AI computer program.
0:25.6	I realized that I was having the most sophisticated conversation about the nature of sentience that I'd ever had.
0:31.4	And I was having it with a computer program.
0:33.4	All of these very malevolent depictions of robotics and artificial intelligence
0:38.4	influenced how people felt about AI.
0:40.8	What if the AI makes better decisions, safer decisions, than human beings?
0:45.0	Do we abdicate that responsibility? Do we lose that agency?
0:48.6	From chat, GPT and AI art to neural nets and information war, Artificial Intelligence in 2023.
0:57.0	It's all coming up after this.
1:01.4	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Brooke Gladstone.
1:06.4	Hear that music?
1:08.2	It was created by Tina Talon, an assistant professor of AI in the arts at the University of Florida.
1:15.0	She generated it for us using artificial intelligence, prompting its creation with the words
1:21.8	pensive and wonder with a touch of robot.
1:25.2	I said, if you were a religious efficient in Israel, what religion would you be?
1:30.6	And this is former Google engineer Blake Lemoine, whose task was to probe Google's advanced AI chat box lambda
1:38.4	for signs of bias or hate.
1:40.6	And now, pretty much no matter what answer you give, you're going to be biased to one way or another.
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