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

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4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

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 want you to think back to almost exactly a year ago. All of a sudden, one name, one product really, was everywhere.

0:15.0

It's called Chat GPT, which stands for Generative Pre-Train Transformer, and it's

0:20.9

fully powered through artificial intelligence.

0:23.4

This project from the open AI research lab can write essays and carry on convincing written conversation.

0:29.5

It took Netflix more than three years to reach one million users but it took

0:33.4

chat gp t just five days techies everywhere short-circuiting with excitement.

0:39.6

Chat gp t is a disruptor and a game changer for business communication.

0:43.7

Computers have achieved a sort of creativity.

0:46.2

Conversational AI is a tool to help us learn faster.

0:49.8

Apply it in the right way and there are billions to be made.

0:55.0

We were talking about Chatch E.T.

0:57.2

You were talking about Chatch E.

0:59.4

You're not very online relatives

1:01.6

were talking about Chatch T. And according to

1:04.7

Karen Howe, that moment was an inflection point. When chat gee B.

1:09.4

came out, it was the first consumer facing demonstration of really powerful AI capabilities that suddenly

1:16.0

made everyone in the public all policy makers, everyone's mom, grandma, like, you know, uncle suddenly come online to the idea that this

1:26.7

technology is a really big deal and it's going to have massive cascading effects all around

1:31.2

society.

1:32.2

The reason I wanted to talk to Karen is that skating effects all around society.

1:32.5

The reason I wanted to talk to Karen is that she knows more about AI than probably any other

1:38.2

reporter in the country.

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