What Next TBD: A Moral War for A.I.

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🗓️ 1 December 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Artificial intelligence seems predestined to become a bigger part of our lives. To what extent is the A.I. push being led by Sam Altman and the OpenAI team a cause for concern? Guest: Karen Hao, journalist, data scientist and contributing writer for the Atlantic. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next TBD. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I made you think you was real.
0:02.0	My name is Caden Sinclair.
0:04.0	Some people call us American royalty.
0:06.0	We were Liars.
0:08.0	A new series on Prime Video.
0:10.0	We were happy. We wanted for nothing.
0:12.0	Based on the best-selling novel.
0:15.0	Something terrible happened last summer,
0:17.0	and I have no memory of what or who hurt me.
0:20.0	No one in my family will tell me.
0:22.7	When you're left for dead, you want answers. We Will Liars. New series, watch now, only on
0:28.9	Prime Video.
0:36.9	I want you to think back to almost exactly a year ago.
0:40.7	All of a sudden, one name, one product, really, was everywhere.
0:45.4	It's called chat GPT, which stands for generative pre-trained transformer.
0:50.5	And it's fully powered through artificial intelligence.
0:53.2	This project from the OpenAI Research Lab can write essays and carry on convincing written conversation.
0:59.0	It took Netflix more than three years to reach one million users, but it took ChatGPT just five days.
1:06.0	Techies everywhere short-circuiting with excitement.
1:09.0	Chat GPT is a disruptor and a game changer for business communication.
1:13.6	Computers have achieved a sort of creativity.
1:15.6	Conversational AI is a tool to help us learn faster.
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