Neurotechnology (AI + BRAIN TECH) with Nita Farahany

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Alie Ward

Comedy, Science, Society & Culture

4.9 • 23.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2023

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Machine poets. ChatGPT fails. Neurological surveillance. Brain implants that treat depression. Is it scary? Cool? Let’s firehose some questions at Duke Law professor, neuro and bioethicist, author and TED speaker Dr. Nita Farahany. She explains the history of AI, the dawn of chatbots, what’s changed recently, the potential for good, the possible perils, how different lawmakers are stepping in, and whether or not this is scary dinner party conversation. Do you have feelings about AI and brain implants? Hopefully, and we talk about why.

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0:00.0	Oh, hey, it's the bunny that you swear you saw on the lawn, even if no one else believes
0:05.1	you.
0:06.1	Alliward.
0:07.1	And here's alligies.
0:08.1	Hey, am I a real person?
0:09.1	Unfortunately, I am.
0:10.6	Am I intelligent?
0:12.6	That's up for debate.
0:13.6	But this week, we are taking a dive into artificial intelligence and brain data with
0:19.1	a scholar in the matter.
0:20.8	So listen, the past few months, been a little surreal, Photoshop's out there generating
0:26.6	backgrounds to cut your cousin's ex-girlfriend out of your wedding photos.
0:30.7	Chat GPT is writing obituaries and, frankly, a lot of horsebucky.
0:36.6	There's also groundbreaking labor strikes in the arts, which we covered in the field trip
0:41.2	episode from the WGA strike lines.
0:44.0	If you haven't heard it, I'll link it in the show notes.
0:46.5	But I heard about this guest's work and I said, please, please, please, talk to me
0:50.7	about how to feel about AI.
0:53.6	Are we farting around the portal to a new and potentially shittier way of living?
0:59.1	Or will AI say, hey, dipshits, I ran some simulations.
1:03.7	And here's what we have to do to un-extinct you in the next century.
1:07.1	We're going to find out.
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