Why Artificial Intelligence Is More “Big Bang Theory” Than Big Bang
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Pablo Torre
4.7 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2024
⏱️ 52 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.
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| 0:28.3 | welcome to Pablo Torre finds out I am Pablo Torre and today we're going to find out |
| 0:37.2 | what this sound is. |
| 0:38.8 | There's no kill switch on anything. I mean, I don't want to scare you, but like, there's no |
| 0:45.6 | single switch to shut off any of these things. Right after this ad. You're listening to Draft King's Network. |
| 0:54.3 | So the |
| 0:55.0 | So the reason today's episode is about artificial intelligence is because pretty much everything seems like it is on the table right now. |
| 1:17.3 | Up to and including the possibility that we're already floating around in like Matrix-style amniotic fluids and living in a simulation. |
| 1:25.4 | But even the more grounded takes, like the one that Microsoft's head of AI gave as a TED Talk last week, |
| 1:32.3 | sound like this. |
| 1:34.3 | It is clear that we are an inflection point in the history of humanity. |
| 1:39.3 | On our current trajectory, we're headed towards the emergence of something that we are all struggling to describe. |
| 1:47.3 | And yet, we cannot control what we don't understand. |
| 1:53.2 | And so I really wanted to understand where the fuck we are with artificial intelligence right now. |
| 1:58.8 | Not by talking to a tech CEO or one of these doomer profits, but to my friend Josh |
| 2:03.7 | Turingell, a journalist who is now at the Washington Post, who has an especially sharp |
| 2:08.0 | understanding of power and capitalism's winners and losers. |
| 2:12.9 | A sense that he'd honed as editor of Bloomberg Business Week, where he had interviewed |
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