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CYBER

What’s Driving the AI Hype?

CYBER

VICE

Tech News, News & Politics, Technology, News

4645 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Love it or hate it, you can’t escape artificial intelligence. People are using Midjourney to make viral photos of Donald Trump’s arrest and the Pop’s puffy coat. Redditors are creating entire fake historical events and backing it up with AI-generated photos. Silicon Valley seems to think this tech is the next big thing, with Google and Microsoft betting big on it and some people begging everyone to pause development for six months.


Is AI changing the world? With us here today to try to answer that question is Motherboard reporter Chloe Xiang.


Stories discussed in this episode:


People Are Creating Records of Fake Historical Events Using AI


ChatGPT Can Replace the Underpaid Workers Who Train AI, Researchers Say


The Open Letter to Stop 'Dangerous' AI Race Is a Huge Mess


'He Would Still Be Here': Man Dies by Suicide After Talking with AI Chatbot, Widow Says


AI Theorist Says Nuclear War Preferable to Developing Advanced AI


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Tadden, it's got the code. It's going to launch.

0:10.5

It's a unit system. I know this.

0:15.0

It's how all the files of the whole park. It tells you everything.

0:19.0

Sir, he's uploading the virus.

0:20.8

Eagle One. The package is being delivered. It tells her everything. Sir, he's uploading the virus.

0:23.6

The Eagle One, the package is being delivered.

0:26.9

Hello out there on the internet.

0:28.8

I am Matthew Galt, and this is Cyber.

0:31.9

Love it or hate it, you can't escape artificial intelligence.

0:34.6

I have friends who are chit-chatting with Chad Chi-PT and using it to write emails and cover letters.

0:37.2

I know a defense analyst who is using Mid- to make pictures of Iron Rand crying on a couch

0:41.7

inside Ku-tib mowing his lawn.

0:44.2

Silicon Valley seems to think that this tech is the next big thing.

0:47.7

Google and Microsoft are betting big on it, and people, and even some people are begging

0:52.1

development to stop for as much as six months.

0:55.4

So is AI changing the world, or is this just a lot of hype?

0:59.5

With us here today to answer that question, or at least try to answer that question, is

1:02.9

motherboard reporter Chloe Zhang.

1:05.2

Chloe, thank you so much for joining us.

1:08.1

Yeah, thank you so much for having me.

1:10.1

So I want to start with, I think, the most upsetting story that you reported this week.

1:15.6

It's the one that really caught my attention.

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