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The Intelligence from The Economist
The Economist
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🗓️ 9 January 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
As with many technologies that preceded it, generative artificial intelligence is increasingly viewed as a means to geopolitical advantage: welcome to the era of AI nationalism. Creole language and culture were long suppressed in Louisiana; we meet the young folk trying to revive it (10:21). And the scientific results that prove Taylor Swift can cause earthquakes (19:45).
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| 0:00.0 | At Bayes Business School, we have the courage to think differently. |
| 0:05.5 | Our academics bring positive change to the world through their research. |
| 0:09.8 | We encourage our students to ask important questions and challenge convention. |
| 0:15.6 | We teach them how to think, not want to think. |
| 0:19.3 | And we've been doing it for over 50 years. |
| 0:22.2 | Bays Business School. |
| 0:24.0 | Always learning. |
| 0:25.6 | Bays Business School was formerly cast business school. The Economist. Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist. |
| 0:45.0 | I'm your host Jason Palmer. |
| 0:48.0 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:57.0 | The story of Louisiana's culture, |
| 0:59.0 | the intertwining of Creole and Cajun history is complicated and some of it has been societally and even legally |
| 1:06.4 | suppressed. We examine a growing push to reclaim and celebrate the Louisiana that preceded America. and it's getting to |
| 1:14.2 | it's getting to the point that you got to ask is there anything Taylor Swift |
| 1:20.0 | can't do next on the list of her powers we've got the seismological evidence |
| 1:25.3 | that her music or her fans response to it can cause earthquakes. |
| 1:30.8 | But first. |
| 1:47.0 | Just over a year ago a then little known American company called Open AI released a platform that would set the bar for what's called generative artificial |
| 1:51.4 | intelligence. |
| 1:52.4 | A new AI. called generative artificial intelligence. |
| 1:53.5 | A new AI tool is taking the tech world by storm. |
| 1:58.0 | It blows my mind. |
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