Nightly News Films: AI Revolution
NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas
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🗓️ 23 March 2023
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Recent advances in artificial intelligence now available to the masses have both fascinated |
| 0:06.1 | and enthralled many Americans, but amid all the wows we're hearing over AI, some are |
| 0:12.5 | simply saying, wait, we're slow down. |
| 0:15.1 | That includes a pair of former Silicon Valley insiders who are now warning tech companies |
| 0:20.2 | there may be no returning the AI genie to the model. |
| 0:24.3 | I sat down with Azaraskin and Tristan Harris from the Center for Humane Technology for |
| 0:30.2 | our series AI Revolution. |
| 0:33.0 | Here's part of our conversation. |
| 0:35.6 | When I think of AI, most of my knowledge is from sci-fi movies or these robots that begin |
| 0:41.7 | to think and grow and have thoughts like humans, what are we talking about here? |
| 0:48.2 | So there's a new technology called large language models. |
| 0:52.2 | They were really invented in 2017. |
| 0:55.1 | What these large language models do is they learn to predict the next word of text on |
| 1:01.7 | the entirety of the internet. |
| 1:03.1 | You're like, well, how bad could that be? |
| 1:05.6 | But what's surprising and what nobody foresaw is that just by learning to predict the |
| 1:10.4 | next piece of text on the internet, these models are developing new capabilities that no |
| 1:17.7 | one expected. |
| 1:19.4 | So just by learning to predict the next character on the internet, it's learned how to play |
| 1:24.9 | chess. |
| 1:25.9 | It's learned how to do research, great chemistry. |
| 1:28.7 | It's learned how to do theory of mind. |
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