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Lost Debate

Will AI Save The World?

Lost Debate

The Branch

News, Society & Culture, Politics

4.6 • 607 Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

The hosts break down Marc Andreessen’s op-ed “Why AI Will Save the World” and the tech billionaire’s optimistic, but potentially controversial, takes. They then parse through Sarah Silverman’s copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI and Meta and discuss the government’s role in regulating AI before turning to the ways artificial intelligence could revolutionize healthcare and potentially save lives. Finally, Ravi and Rikki explore Google’s new generative AI search tool and discuss whether it will change how we seek information. [3:00] Andreessen’s op-ed [21:45] Open AI lawsuit [39:10] AI and healthcare [42:28] Google's new AI search tool Show notes:  Subscribe to our feed on Spotify: http://bitly.ws/zC9K Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/3Gs5YTF Subscribe to our Substack: https://thelostdebate.substack.com/ Follow The Branch on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebranchmedia/ Follow The Branch on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thebranchmedia Follow The Branch on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thebranchmedia The Branch website: http://thebranchmedia.org/ Lost Debate is also available on the following platforms:  Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-lost-debate/id1591300785 Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vTERJNTc1ODE3Mzk3Nw  Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-lost-debate iHeart: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-the-lost-debate-88330217/ Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/752ca262-2801-466d-9654-2024de72bd1f/the-lost-debate

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0:00.0

In today's episode, we're going to cover all topics related to artificial intelligence, AI.

0:06.2

We're going to start with a high-level debate that's playing out amongst two of America's

0:10.6

biggest billionaires, Mark Andresen and Bill Gates, who have both competing theories in a way

0:15.7

on whether AI is good for us or bad for us. Then we're going to talk about AI copyright.

0:21.2

Congress right now is just looking at the whole industry to say whether they want to regulate it or not.

0:25.9

There's also high profile litigation going through our court system about the use of AI and copyrighted works.

0:32.9

We're going to just parse through all that and say like, hey, where are we today?

0:37.1

And is this technology infringing

0:39.5

on people's rights to their materials? And then we're going to go to the healthcare system and say,

0:43.7

well, is AI actually going to help us live longer? And then we'll close out by talking about AI's

0:49.1

relationship with search and how rapidly developing technologies from companies like Google are actually going to

0:55.3

change the way that we get information.

0:57.3

So this is a big episode.

0:58.8

We got a lot of topics to cover all of this on today's episode of The Lost Debate Show,

1:03.9

a show for political eclectics.

1:13.2

Hello, everybody. I'm Robbie Gupta.

1:14.2

And I'm Ricky Schlapp.

1:18.0

Well, Ricky, how is it out there in your garage in Nantucket?

1:22.6

It is good. How is it in Rome? A bunch of relatable content from us.

1:44.5

Yes. Well, you know, Rome, it's like, I think there's like a historic heat wave going on right now, which I have not experienced enough yet because I just got here. But yeah, this is the final leg of my trip. I head back to the States on Sunday. But I'm looking forward to. I've not really explored Rome enough. So if your listeners out there, if you catch me, you know, send me a message on my DM somewhere,

1:48.9

whatever you use at Ravi M. Gupta, if you got good recommendations for restaurants and whatnot in Rome, because I got a couple of days here to explore. I did the forum. I was there a couple

1:54.1

weeks ago, or a couple months ago, I guess now. And that was the only time that I've ever used my

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