Who should be in charge of AI?
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PJ Vogt
4.8 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
This week, the story of a very brief, very absurd revolution at the world’s leading artificial intelligence company, OpenAI. And we try to answer the quite real question that might be animating all of the drama.
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| 0:00.0 | Kasey Newton, welcome to Surgeon. |
| 0:01.8 | Hi. |
| 0:02.7 | Also, is this another week for you to just be on vacation? |
| 0:06.1 | Not really. |
| 0:06.9 | I mean, like today is a work day for me. |
| 0:08.5 | I am supposed to be off starting tomorrow, |
| 0:11.1 | but I fully expect I'll be making |
| 0:12.8 | between three and seven emergency podcasts |
| 0:15.2 | in the next week. |
| 0:16.4 | Who invented the emergency podcast? |
| 0:18.8 | You know what? |
| 0:20.5 | Like an emergency podcast is like a stupid |
| 0:23.2 | like self-aggrandizing name, |
| 0:24.8 | but the point of a podcast is it's like people |
| 0:27.6 | that you hang out with, like during these moments |
| 0:29.6 | in your life. |
| 0:30.4 | So when something happens in a world that you care about, |
| 0:32.8 | you actually want to hang out with your friends |
| 0:34.1 | so you talk about that stuff. |
| 0:35.1 | Yeah, and I actually, I get a real throw |
| 0:36.9 | when I see an emergency podcast. |
| 0:37.9 | The idea of this joke, which is like, |
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