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Novara FM: What’s Next for AI Now It’s Ingested the Entire Internet? w/ Marek Poliks

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Philosophy, News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2024

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

The rise of artificial intelligence will bring about a planetary-scale shift in human life and politics – and, it seems, a lot of weird social media spam. But for all the grand pronouncements from techno-utopians and pessimists alike, the reality is that there’s still much to be decided about the future that AI portends. At the […]

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0:00.0

AII is going to be like climate change.

0:19.0

AI is going to be like climate change.

0:22.6

A planet scale shift that will change the conditions of how we humans go to work, do politics,

0:29.6

and exist, or not, as the most complex and powerful beings in the world.

0:35.6

Most grandly of all, it names the moment at which we move from being the users of tools to

0:41.3

being secondary to those tools themselves.

0:45.3

There are many reasons for skepticism, of course.

0:48.8

Current iterations are often, frankly, a bit crap, but are rapidly improving.

0:54.1

There is a seemingly relentless cycle of unfulfilled promises.

0:58.5

And there are many other ways that AI is already tied up in climate change.

1:03.5

It takes an absolutely enormous amount of water and energy to train and run.

1:10.2

Enough that we might even summarize the current trajectory of AI development as a plan to

1:16.0

boil the earth so that capitalism can finally replace all its pesky workers with perfectly

1:21.7

reliable machines.

1:24.3

This is something my guest this week might call an example of Lyft.

1:29.3

That guest is Marik Pollux.

1:32.3

He's an artist, composer, theorist and host of the Disintegrator podcast,

1:38.3

where you can listen to the most sophisticated conversations about AI going.

1:43.3

I'm Richard Hames, and on this week's Navarra FM, I spoke to to the most sophisticated conversations about AI going.

1:47.0

I'm Richard Hames, and on this week's Navarra FM,

1:51.9

I spoke to Maric about the brave new futures AI is bring about.

1:57.1

From the catastrophic to the utopic, to the head-slappingly moronic.

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