Real Humans Chat About Chatbots
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🗓️ 16 February 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
The unstoppable march of artificial intelligence carries on. In mere weeks, AI has oozed into nearly everything we interact with on the internet, from conversations, to journalism, to how we look stuff up online. It's even got Google scrambling to reclaim its spot on the search throne after Microsoft implemented its own AI tools to miraculously make Bing feel relevant again.
This week, we talk with WIRED senior writer Will Knight about how generative AI is changing how we search for information and create content online, and whether we should actually be freaking out about our new robot overlords.
Show Notes
Read more from Will about the very weird and occasionally horrifying world of generative AI. Follow all of WIRED’s ChatGPT and AI coverage.
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Will recommends The Amazing Acro-Cats, which is a cat circus that is about to go on tour. Lauren recommends the CBC documentary Big Dating. Mike recommends the World Bollard Association Twitter account.
Will Knight can be found on Twitter @willknight. Lauren Goode is @LaurenGoode. Michael Calore is @snackfight. Bling the main hotline at @GadgetLab. The show is produced by Boone Ashworth (@booneashworth). Our theme music is by Solar Keys.
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| 0:00.0 | Mike. |
| 0:00.8 | Lauren. |
| 0:22.5 | Mike, I wrote you a poem for Valentine's Day, the day that we're taping this. Would you like to hear it? Of course I would. Okay. Oh, chat, GPT, my virtual love. You shine like stars and skies above. Your knowledge vast. Your wit so bright. You guide me through both day and night. That's it? No, I mean, it goes on, |
| 0:28.9 | but it's quite long. So you say you wrote me a poem, but that sounds a lot like a love poem for chat GPT. It is. Yeah, it's by chat GPT for chat GPT. It's not only the president, it's also a client. |
| 0:37.6 | So it's like self-love for the chat bot. Yes. |
| 0:41.1 | How many people do you think use chat GPT to write love poems for their loved ones this week? |
| 0:46.1 | A lot. Like a lot. |
| 0:48.3 | How many people do you think use the new Microsoft Bing or Google Bard to write love poems for their loved ones this week? |
| 0:55.8 | That is a question we're going to try to answer today as we stare down our very, very weird chatbot future. |
| 1:02.4 | Awesome. |
| 1:10.1 | Hi, everyone. Welcome to Gadget Lab. |
| 1:11.9 | I'm Lauren Good. |
| 1:12.9 | I'm a senior writer at Wired. |
| 1:15.2 | And I'm Michael Collori. |
| 1:16.1 | I'm a senior editor at Wired. |
| 1:17.6 | We are also joined in studio this week by Wired senior writer Will Knight, who's normally |
| 1:22.9 | in Cambridge. |
| 1:23.9 | Will, it's great to have you here. |
| 1:25.5 | Thanks for having me. |
| 1:26.5 | So earlier today, Will and I went to a generative AI event here in San Francisco. |
| 1:32.3 | Generative AI is being talked about as one of the most transformative technologies we've seen in years. Not because it's brand new necessarily, but because it's changing the way we think about search, and it's accelerating so darn fast. |
| 1:45.7 | The event that we went to was hosted by Jasper AI, a company that sells generative AI tools to other businesses. |
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