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Pablo Torre Finds Out

Why Artificial Intelligence Is More “Big Bang Theory” Than Big Bang

Pablo Torre Finds Out

Pablo Torre, Le Batard & Friends

Sports

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

We find ourselves at a rare moment in human history, facing an undefinable industry worth trillions, which happens to be concentrated in the hands of a few billionaire stewards like the doomsayer Elon Musk, the evangelist Sam Altman and MMA enthusiast Mark Zuckerberg. Are they just super-villains plotting our own destruction? Washington Post columnist Josh Tyrangiel’s entire beat is artificial intelligence. So we ask him to contemplate the odds of extinction — and why A.I. might just cure James Harden's addiction to strip clubs. Further reading: How A.I. Could Transform Baseball Forever Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Pablo Torrey finds out. I am Pablo Torrey and today we're going to find out what this sound is.

0:06.0

There's no kill switch on anything.

0:08.0

I mean, I don't want to scare you, but like,

0:12.0

there's no single switch to shut off any of these. scare you're

0:15.0

there's no single switch to shut off any of these things right after this ad.

0:19.0

You're listening to Draft Kings Network. So the reason today's episode is about artificial intelligence is because pretty much everything seems like it is on the table right now.

0:44.9

Up to and including the possibility that we're already floating around in like matrix style

0:50.3

amniotic fluids and living in a simulation.

0:53.0

But even the more grounded takes,

0:55.0

like the one that Microsoft's head of AI gave

0:58.0

as a TED Talk last week, sound like this.

1:02.0

It is clear that we are an inflection point

1:04.7

in the history of humanity.

1:07.7

On our current trajectory,

1:09.6

we're headed towards the emergence of something

1:11.6

that we are all struggling to describe and yet we cannot

1:16.4

control what we don't understand. And so I really wanted to understand where the

1:23.2

we are with artificial intelligence right now.

1:26.1

Not by talking to a tech CEO or one of these doomer profits, but to my friend Josh

1:31.2

Teringale, a journalist who is now at the Washington Post who has an especially

1:35.2

sharp understanding of power and capitalism's winners and losers. A sense that he'd honed as editor of Bloomberg

1:42.3

Business Week where he had interviewed

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