WTH is Going On with Artificial Intelligence? Tyler Cowen Explains the Next Technological Revolution
What the Hell Is Going On
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🗓️ 29 March 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
The wheel, the printing press, the steam engine, and… ChatGPT? A Luddite you may be, but there is no escaping the world’s newest technological revolution: personal artificial intelligence. It is easy to list the net-negatives of another tech medium designed to further decrease the already dwindling human-to-human interactions in our life – the atomization of society is bad, children growing up on screens is bad, the erosion of individual judgment and critical thinking is bad. Not to mention the evanescence of jobs and the mechanization of learning. But is it all bad? Like any technological advance, there are both beneficial and dangerous applications. And as our guest notes, the danger of misuse does not reside in 1’s and 0’s, but in the user, the human. Are the forces of good more productive and innovative than evil? Or will we fall prey to our own innovation?
These questions and more with Tyler Cowen. Dr. Cowen is a professor at George Mason University, where he holds the Holbert L. Harris chair in the economics department. He hosts the economics blog Marginal Revolution, and maintains the website Marginal Revolution University, a venture in online education. He is the co-author of Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Winners, and Creatives Around the World.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by the American Enterprise Institute. |
| 0:03.0 | If you like what you hear, please subscribe, rate, review, and share. Thanks for listening. Here's our show. What the hell's going on? What the hell is going on? What the hell is going on? I don't know what the hell he's talking about. You don't have to know what the hell is on it. What hell's the matter with these guys? We don't know what's going on. What hell's going on? |
| 0:01.1 | Who in God's name |
| 0:21.7 | knows what it's all about. Hi, I'm Daniel Pletka. And I'm Artin. Welcome to our podcast. What the hell is going on? Mark, what actually in the hell is actually going on? |
| 0:45.2 | Chat GPT now with GPT4. How is it going to transform the world? How is it going to transform our lives? |
| 0:50.7 | This new AI technology that is at everyone's beck and call right now, we have |
| 0:57.3 | created as humans artificial intelligence that is as smart as us. It's not sentient, but it's as |
| 1:04.8 | smart as us, and for getting smarter by the day, teaching itself new things and new information. This is literally a development |
| 1:14.3 | that is as revolutionary as the printing press, and probably more so. It's going to transform |
| 1:19.7 | the economy. It's going to transform the way we interact with each other. It's going to transform |
| 1:24.9 | the way we do our jobs. It's going to transform which |
| 1:27.7 | jobs we do and which jobs we don't do anymore. And it's happening at a speed that I think many |
| 1:35.3 | of us haven't anticipated. So all of those things that you just outlined are things that are |
| 1:40.6 | thrilling, things that are transformative, scary, but thrilling, right? |
| 1:44.5 | The printing press and electricity and the automobile and all of these things that are |
| 1:49.8 | absolutely revolutions in their way, industrial revolutions for sure, but revolutions in their way. |
| 1:56.8 | I worry a lot about a society that is wholly dependent upon technology that no longer interacts with other |
| 2:10.1 | people. |
| 2:11.0 | You know, now if you need to go and find something out about quantum physics, you're going to |
| 2:15.0 | sit down, you're going to go look at Harvard and MIT. You're going to |
| 2:18.1 | see who speaks coherently and who's good, who may have won a Nobel Prize, who's really |
| 2:23.7 | awesome and interesting and innovative. You're going to talk to a human being. You know, |
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