The Rise of AI | Battle Bots | 3

Business Wars

Wondery

History, Business, David Brown, Management

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

With the popularity of ChatBots exploding, Microsoft invests billions of dollars into AI-assisted internet search,trying to strike at Google’s core business. Google answers back with its own ChatBot “Bard”. And Facebook makes a surprising move to stay in the race. But more people start to have questions about whether the disruptions to society are worth the benefits. Politicians push for more regulation and leading researchers warn about the dangers of advanced AI. Some even call for a moratorium on research, leaving the future of AI uncertain.

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0:00.0	It's late 2022 in Mountain View, California.
0:14.5	Jen Jenai walks into a conference room in Google headquarters.
0:18.6	Jenai is the director of the responsible innovation team.
0:22.1	It's her job to ensure that Google's artificial intelligence technology is fair and ethical
0:27.8	and will have a positive impact.
0:30.2	The room is filled with almost all the leaders of Google's ethical review board, a calendar
0:35.2	invite for this meeting popped up marked Urgent so they've all assembled.
0:39.5	Jenai slides into one of the few remaining seats.
0:42.1	Uh, excuse me?
0:43.3	Sorry?
0:44.8	Jenai looks at an executive sitting next to her.
0:47.6	You ready for another Urgent meeting?
0:50.0	You know it.
0:51.8	Recently, the start-up open AI released Chat GPT, an advanced chatbot that has taken
0:57.6	the world by storm.
0:59.7	Users are blown away by its capabilities.
1:02.1	It can write code, tell bedtime stories, explain scientific concepts, all while sounding
1:09.2	almost human.
1:11.8	Jenai knows that the Google higher-ups are spooked.
1:15.7	Advanced chatbots are poised to disrupt search, the core of Google's business.
1:19.7	Meanwhile, Google has already developed a chatbot of its own with similar capabilities
1:24.5	to Chat GPT.
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