Should AI scare us?
James O'Brien - The Whole Show
Global
4.3 • 915 Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2025
⏱️ 156 minutes
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This is a catch-up version of James O'Brien's live, daily show on LBC Radio. To join the conversation call: 0345 60 60 973
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| 0:00.0 | Guys, it's about it's last day, so can everyone chuck in a couple of quid towards her cake? |
| 0:06.0 | Oh, do you not think she deserves better than a kid's cake from the corner shop? |
| 0:09.0 | She's worked at your office for 49 years. Give her a proper send-off. Just use PayPal to pool money together. |
| 0:16.0 | Right. I know. Then we'll get a five-tier cake. A karaoke machine and a giant pinata. |
| 0:24.4 | Don't just pay. |
| 0:25.8 | PayPal. |
| 0:26.7 | A PayPal account is required to create a pool. |
| 0:28.2 | Pools are free to create terms and limitations apply. |
| 0:30.3 | It is three minutes after 10 and you're listening to James O'Brien on LBC. |
| 0:35.2 | A very good morning to you. |
| 0:36.0 | I hope you had a lovely weekend. |
| 0:38.4 | That's quite an amusing story about young people not be able to do any DIY. |
| 0:43.9 | I don't know if you've seen this. |
| 0:45.5 | I'll pay someone to come in and change a light bulb. I unblocked to drain this weekend. |
| 0:49.3 | In the garden with a manhole cover on top of it, with big long, bendy rods, they're called rods. |
| 0:56.7 | You screw them together, about 30 foot long in the end, by the time I'd screwed them all together. |
| 1:00.7 | I was absolutely bossing, bossing adulthood at this stage, finally, better late than never. |
| 1:08.5 | I don't know why that sprang to mind, partly because of this story about so-called Generation |
| 1:12.5 | Z being too scared to do anything that they'll call in the experts to change a light bulb, |
| 1:16.3 | and partly because the kind of intellectual equivalent of that could be AI, couldn't it? |
| 1:23.3 | You almost abnegate your responsibility to think. |
| 1:26.7 | I've got three questions. Well, I've got three things written down in front of me. |
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