The Miseducation of Google’s A.I.

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🗓️ 7 March 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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When Google released Gemini, a new chatbot powered by artificial intelligence, it quickly faced a backlash — and unleashed a fierce debate about whether A.I. should be guided by social values, and if so, whose values they should be. Kevin Roose, a technology columnist for The Times and co-host of the podcast “Hard Fork,” explains.

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0:00.0	From New York Times, I'm Michael Bolarro. This is the Daily.
0:05.0	Today.
0:11.0	When Google recently released Today.
0:13.0	When Google recently released a new chatbot powered by artificial intelligence,
0:18.0	it not only backfired, it also unleashed a fierce debate about whether AI should be guided by social values,
0:27.0	and if so, whose values they should be.
0:32.0	My colleague Kevin Roos, a technical... They Should Be.
0:32.6	My colleague, Kevin Roos, a tech columnist and co-host of the podcast Hard Fork, explains. It's Thursday, March 7th.
0:45.0	Are you ready to?
0:47.0	Are you ready to record another episode of ChatBots
0:56.7	Behaving Badly? Yes, yes I am. That's why we're here today. This is my function on this podcast is to tell you when the chatbots are not okay and Michael, they are not okay.
1:10.0	They keep behaving badly.
1:11.0	They do keep behaving badly, so there's plenty to talk about. Right well so let's start
1:15.8	there it's not exactly a secret that the rollout of many of the artificial
1:21.2	intelligence systems over the past year and a half has been
1:25.2	really bumpy. We know that because one of them told you to leave your wife.
1:28.8	That's true. And you didn't. still happily married. Yep.
1:33.0	To a human.
1:34.0	Not Sydney, the chatbot.
1:35.0	And so Kevin, tell us about the latest of these rollouts,
1:39.0	this time from one of the biggest companies
1:42.0	not just in artificial intelligence but in the world
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