The AI arms race is on
Post Reports
The Washington Post
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🗓️ 13 February 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Big Tech was moving cautiously on AI. Then came ChatGPT. As tech reporter Nitasha Tiku explains, the surge of attention around ChatGPT is pressuring tech giants to move faster, potentially sweeping safety concerns aside.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, so I'm gonna try out chat GPT for the first time. |
| 0:10.4 | This is one of our producers, Eliza Dennis. |
| 0:13.0 | And last night, she decided to try out chat GPT. |
| 0:18.4 | So I'm navigating to my web browser. |
| 0:22.5 | Okay. |
| 0:23.5 | Going to the open AI website. |
| 0:28.1 | Yes, I am a human. |
| 0:33.1 | Thanks for asking. |
| 0:37.1 | Chat GPT is a chatbot developed by a company called OpenAI. |
| 0:41.5 | It uses generative artificial intelligence. |
| 0:44.6 | The chatbot scrapes the internet to learn how to come up with an answer for pretty much |
| 0:49.3 | whatever you ask it for. |
| 0:51.4 | And it gets better the more it's used. |
| 0:54.1 | When you talk to chat GPT, it can almost seem like you're talking to a human. |
| 0:59.8 | Okay, chat GPT. |
| 1:02.0 | Let's see if you can make my job obsolete. |
| 1:07.8 | Let's have you write an introduction with music for post reports podcast about chat GPT. |
| 1:24.4 | Chat GPT has us starting with music. |
| 1:28.9 | So hit it. |
| 1:32.9 | Some music plays a slow, building electronic track with a pulsing beat. |
| 1:38.0 | Welcome to the post reports. |
| 1:40.3 | Music builds to a climax. |
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