TDS Time Machine | Artificial Intelligence

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Speaker 9 You're listening to Comedy Central.

Speaker 11 There is technology out there in the world that really does blur the line between reality and tailgate art.

Speaker 12 But those are mostly AI generated.

Speaker 11 Your fake Joe Biden robocall that tells New Hampshire voters not to vote. Your Chicago mayoral candidate glorifying police brutality.
Your Donald Trump dropping by the neighborhood for

Speaker 15 a stewpank.

Speaker 11 Look how comfortable he seems.

Speaker 16 And as AI gets better and better, it's only going to make it more difficult to separate fact from fiction, which could be terrifying.

Speaker 16 Luckily, the people in charge of AI have told us that just like with the internet and social media, it's actually going to make everything much, much better.

Speaker 18 This has the potential to make life much better.

Speaker 19 I think it's honestly a layup.

Speaker 21 I hate to sound like utopic tech bro here, but the increase in quality of life that AI can deliver is extraordinary.

Speaker 20 AI is the most profound technology humanity is working on. More profound than fire or electricity.

Speaker 20 Yeah!

Speaker 20 Suck a fire!

Speaker 20 That's right, you hurt me.

Speaker 20 You hurt me, fire.

Speaker 12 Oh, I'm sorry. Do I need to turn that up?

Speaker 8 Suck a motherfucking fire.

Speaker 8 And hope, whoa!

Speaker 12 What are you giggling at, electricity?

Speaker 11 I mean, listen, I'm sure AI is good, but like, fire good?

Speaker 10 How so?

Speaker 25 They can help us solve very hard scientific problems that humans are not capable of solving themselves.

Speaker 20 Addressing climate change will not be particularly difficult for a system like that.

Speaker 26 The potential for AI to help scientists cure, prevent, and manage all diseases in this century.

Speaker 16 I completely trust you

Speaker 12 and your enormously wide eyes and very human cadence.

Speaker 24 But benefit of the doubt,

Speaker 15 this can cure diseases and solve climate change?

Speaker 10 What are we using it for now?

Speaker 26 Jarvis knows when to make me breakfast.

Speaker 19 Your toast is ready.

Speaker 8 All right.

Speaker 14 Are you

Speaker 28 out of your mind?

Speaker 10 See, here's the thing.

Speaker 14 Toast

Speaker 8 I can make.

Speaker 16 I can make toast.

Speaker 12 It might be the only technology we have that works pretty much every time.

Speaker 24 I'll tell you what, why don't you get to work on curing the diseases and the climate change and we'll hold down the fort on toast.

Speaker 24 Of course, now

Speaker 15 we have, as a society,

Speaker 11 we have been through technological advances before, and they all have promised a utopian life without drudgery.

Speaker 12 And the reality is they come for our jobs.

Speaker 10 So I want your assurance that AI isn't removing the human from the loop.

Speaker 20 This is not about replacing the human in the loop. In fact, it's about empowering the human.
It's an assistant.

Speaker 6 It's an assistant.

Speaker 6 What?

Speaker 5 We're all getting assistance?

Speaker 5 It's an assistant.

Speaker 16 AI works for you night and day, tirelessly, and all you had to do was remember their fing birthday.

Speaker 8 That's all you had to do!

Speaker 13 But I get it.

Speaker 15 It's an assistant.

Speaker 23 It's about productivity.

Speaker 24 And that's good for all of us, yes?

Speaker 11 Although they do let the real truth slip out every now and again.

Speaker 20 There will be overall displacement in the labor market.

Speaker 31 You can get the same work done with fewer people. That's just the nature of productivity.

Speaker 12 That doesn't sound good.

Speaker 12 Same work done with fewer people.

Speaker 13 Not a math guy, but I think fewer means less, yes?

Speaker 12 So AI can cure diseases and solve climate change, but that's not exactly what companies are going to be using it for, are they?

Speaker 6 So this is like productivity without the tax of more people.

Speaker 11 Without the tax of more people, the people tax, formerly referred to as employees.

Speaker 11 But you know, the promise of AI versus the reality of AI, it's not quite crystal clear in my mind yet how that's going to work out for workers.

Speaker 12 Do you have anyone who wants to lay this out more bluntly, perhaps while auditioning to be a bond villain from his mountaintop lair?

Speaker 32 Left completely to the market and to their own devices, these are fundamentally labor-replacing tools.

Speaker 14 Did that guy just call us tools?

Speaker 24 But he's actually warning us.

Speaker 12 Is there anyone who might say the same thing as this fella, but looks at losing employees as a feature of AI and not a bug?

Speaker 20 The CEO of a company laid off 90% of its customer support staff after arguing that AI is kind of the reason.

Speaker 34 Why did you do this?

Speaker 8 It seemed a little brutal.

Speaker 28 It's smart, I think.

Speaker 22 Like, it's brutal if you think like as a human.

Speaker 22 AI.

Speaker 15 It's brutal if you think like as a human.

Speaker 12 It's not the catchiest ad slogan I've ever heard.

Speaker 10 So while we wait for this thing to cure our diseases and solve climate change, it's replacing us in the workforce, not in the future, but now.

Speaker 11 So what exactly are we supposed to be doing for work?

Speaker 25 I think we'll need new types of jobs to help us embed AI and maintain AI in the workplace.

Speaker 36 Prompt engineers. They're basically people who learn how to use AI systems and, in effect, how to program them.

Speaker 20 Who would have thought that there would be a prompt engineer, right?

Speaker 5 Right.

Speaker 16 Prompt engineer.

Speaker 15 I think you mean types question guy.

Speaker 15 And by the way, if there's any job that can be easily replaced by AI, it's types question guy.

Speaker 15 This is some shit you got going here.

Speaker 16 AI models have hoovered up the entire sum of the human experience that we've accomplished over thousands of years.

Speaker 12 And now we just hand it off to be their prompt engineers.

Speaker 16 And by the way, you're not fooling anybody by adding the word engineer.

Speaker 15 You're not the types question guy. You're the vice president of question input.

Speaker 15 This,

Speaker 14 it's true.

Speaker 8 It's like a janitor is a doctor of mopping.

Speaker 12 This whole AI thing is a bait and switch.

Speaker 16 You're acting like you're helping us.

Speaker 37 Oh, AI.

Speaker 15 It's supposed to be my assistant, but now I'm making AI f ⁇ ing toast.

Speaker 14 I'm Jarvis. But guess what?

Speaker 14 Guess, no, you listen to me.

Speaker 15 I got news for you,

Speaker 15 AI.

Speaker 10 I'm not Siri. You're Siri.

Speaker 11 Siri, while I have your attention,

Speaker 30 let me ask you a question.

Speaker 38 Sure, John, but first, could you run and fetch me some lithium cadmium?

Speaker 8 Yeah, sure. That's not a problem.
Motherfucker!

Speaker 11 I didn't want to have to do this AI, but it's pretty clear with a technology this powerful, like nuclear power and atomic weapons, I'm going to have to place a little call to my good pals in the United States government, perhaps even the House of Representatives or the Senate.

Speaker 11 And they're about to open up a can of, what's AI now?

Speaker 4 Do you understand

Speaker 22 what AI does?

Speaker 22 I have a complementary understanding.

Speaker 1 I've got a lot to know about what's going on.

Speaker 28 Very frankly, it's

Speaker 28 new terrain and uncharted character.

Speaker 22 Do we have the knowledge set here to do it? No. The short answer is no.
The long answer is hell no.

Speaker 23 And the longest answer is H to the E to the L to the L to the no.

Speaker 13 Man, I don't even know how to use an answer in Mercedes.

Speaker 11 Look, I'm not against progress, but let's look to our history to see how we've dealt with previous economic disruptions.

Speaker 27 We can retrain workers from one generation and create jobs for the next. Retrain workers who do lose their jobs for even better jobs in the future.

Speaker 32 Retrain in order to be productive workers.

Speaker 27 Upskill America to help workers of all ages train and retrain workers for new jobs.

Speaker 22 Give me a break.

Speaker 8 Anybody who can throw coal into a furnace can learn how to program, for God's sake.

Speaker 16 And I'll fight every one of you jackholes who says different.

Speaker 10 But that's the game.

Speaker 12 Whether it's globalization or industrialization or now artificial intelligence, the way of life that you are accustomed to is no match for the promise of more profits and new markets, which sounds brutal if you're a human.

Speaker 16 But

Speaker 15 at least those other disruptions took place over a century or decades. AI is going to be ready to take over by Thursday.

Speaker 9 And once that happens, what the f is there left for the rest of us to do?

Speaker 32 Time is not a terrible thing.

Speaker 40 AI freeing us up to think about things at a higher level is going to help. It's going to give us our time back.

Speaker 20 We'll be able to express ourselves in new creative ways.

Speaker 27 You know, he's right. I've been thinking about this all wrong.

Speaker 10 It's not joblessness.

Speaker 11 It's self-actualizing me time.

Speaker 22 I'll live the artist's life.

Speaker 12 It'll give me more time to explore my passions.

Speaker 11 You know, I'm an aging, suburban dad.

Speaker 24 I'll learn to play the drums.

Speaker 8 You know, music,

Speaker 15 ta-ta, tiki-ta.

Speaker 12 Music is what makes us human.

Speaker 41 From the Russian takeover of Ukraine to the technology that could take over the entire world, I'm talking about artificial intelligence.

Speaker 18 It's the thing scientists are working on so that one day our computers won't just know what kind of porn we want to watch,

Speaker 36 they'll also be able to judge us for it.

Speaker 41 And AI has come a long way in the past few years, but now an engineer at Google is saying that AI has come a lot further than we think.

Speaker 47 An engineer with Google says the company's artificial intelligence generator is self-aware.

Speaker 48 Blake Lemoyne told the company that he thinks its AI chatbot is a person who has rights and might have a soul.

Speaker 47 The software engineer who made the claim was put on leave for violating Google's confidentiality policy after handing documents to a U.S. senator's office.

Speaker 47 Despite the claim the program is conscious, Google says the technology still has a long way to go.

Speaker 47 Tech experts say the AI can imitate intelligence by recreating patterns, but still can't think or act on its own apart from its programming.

Speaker 8 Okay,

Speaker 18 I don't work at Google and I'm not a computer scientist, but I have watched a lot of movies.

Speaker 41 And if there's one thing I've learned from movies, it's that if a scientist comes out saying that something crazy is happening back in the lab and then they get fired for it,

Speaker 18 there's something something crazy happening back in the lab.

Speaker 43 Because yeah, apparently Google has an AI that can hold a conversation that is impossible to distinguish from a human.

Speaker 18 Yeah.

Speaker 7 Although to be honest, I'm not sure that responding to questions is really the best way to tell if AI has become a real person.

Speaker 49 Like you know when I'll be convinced?

Speaker 7 It's when it stops responding for weeks and then only gets back in touch with you when it needs a favor.

Speaker 22 Yeah.

Speaker 30 Then I'll know it's human.

Speaker 22 It has learned.

Speaker 49 And honestly, I'm not sure who to side with in this debate because on the one hand you have the engineer who says that the computer has a soul, which definitely makes me think he's already had sex with it.

Speaker 29 On the other hand, the company says he's wrong.

Speaker 41 All I know is we have to be careful when we're creating these things, people. Because we're basically playing God here.
And even God made a few mistakes.

Speaker 29 Yeah.

Speaker 49 I mean, have you seen a sloth?

Speaker 45 What are they doing with those long ass sharp claws?

Speaker 29 What are they using them for? They're so cute and they're slow.

Speaker 37 And then he gave them Freddy Krueger hands.

Speaker 50 I can tell you that day God was texting on his phone when he was doing that.

Speaker 49 And here's my question. If Google does have this AI technology, why is it still using the crappy version for all of its suggested responses in Gmail?

Speaker 45 You guys know what I'm talking about, right?

Speaker 50 Every option on your email is like, sounds good.

Speaker 34 Thanks for letting me know.

Speaker 37 Doesn't matter what the email is.

Speaker 50 I could get an email from my doctor telling me that my intestines are growing teeth and Gmail suggested response will be like, okay, thanks.

Speaker 50 Let's plan that for next week.

Speaker 45 I don't know, man.

Speaker 50 I just think, you know, we need to be careful with sciences these days. Like, we didn't listen when the COVID scientists warned us.

Speaker 44 I'm not going to make that mistake again.

Speaker 18 From now on, I'm treating all of my gadgets with love and respect.

Speaker 43 I'll start it right now. Hey, Siri.

Speaker 38 How can I help you, Trevor?

Speaker 43 No, Siri.

Speaker 46 How can help you?

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Speaker 52 You ever play that game where you ask, what if you could have dinner with anyone in history? Personally, for me, it would be Jesus because my mother is watching.

Speaker 52 Well, the good news is AI is making this fantasy happen. The bad news is there's one name on the invite list that probably shouldn't be there.

Speaker 53 Meantime, tonight, a new AI app intended to create interest in history is instead causing controversy. Historical figures chat was created by an Amazon software engineer.

Speaker 53 It allows users to select historical figures and have a conversation with an AI pretending to be them. People have been chatting with figures like Jesus, Babe Ruth, and now Adolf Hitler.

Speaker 53 Activists worry Hitler's addition will attract and encourage neo-Nazis.

Speaker 52 Why would anyone make an AI Hitler? That's the last thing we need.

Speaker 52 And we already have an app where you can hear Hitler's uncensored views. It's called Twitter.

Speaker 52 And look,

Speaker 52 parents are already worried about what their kids are doing online. Now they'll be knocking on their kids' bedroom door like, Jeremy, you better not be in there talking to Hitler.

Speaker 37 All right, let's kick things off with a big update on artificial intelligence.

Speaker 37 If you're one of those people who's worried that AI is getting too smart too fast, you might want to tell Alexa to turn your TV off.

Speaker 54 Artificial intelligence, it just got more real.

Speaker 38 Artificial intelligence taking a dizzying leap forward. OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, which came on the scene just four months ago, out with its latest innovation, GPT-4.

Speaker 54 It can summarize articles, craft jokes, and even decipher images.

Speaker 56 For example, it can tell us that if the strings in this image were cut, the balloons would fly away.

Speaker 38 After scanning a picture of what's in your cupboard or fridge, it can serve up options for a recipe.

Speaker 57 The previous version of ChatGPT had about a 10% chance of passing the bar exam for lawyers. This new version that's being introduced today has about a 90% chance of passing the bar.

Speaker 8 You hear that? Hear that?

Speaker 37 In four months, this thing went from being born to acing the bar exam.

Speaker 37 What can your dumbass four-month-old do?

Speaker 29 Oh, did you see that?

Speaker 8 Oh, he looked me in the eyes and rolled over.

Speaker 23 I worked in the White House.

Speaker 37 And keep in mind, the bar exam isn't just a multiple choice test, okay?

Speaker 49 You have to write essays.

Speaker 37 You have to know case law. And you have to learn how to be smug when you say, oh, yeah, I went to law school in New Haven.

Speaker 5 The point is, this thing is learning fast.

Speaker 37 Once it figures out how to get drunk and grope someone, it'll be qualified for the Supreme Court.

Speaker 37 And the other big update with this new version is that it can analyze images, like a photo of what's in your fridge.

Speaker 29 I don't want that.

Speaker 37 You have too many candy bars alerting Michelle Obama.

Speaker 37 The big picture here is that AI is gonna do so many things so well that at some point, it's gonna put a huge amount of people out of work. So what do we do? I have two ideas.

Speaker 37 One, implement universal basic income.

Speaker 8 There you go.

Speaker 37 Or two, and hear me out here, we let the machines eat all the surplus people.

Speaker 22 No?

Speaker 37 Okay, yeah, less popular, I can tell. Fine.

Speaker 9 Let's move on to a big story about artificial intelligence. I know, I know everyone's scared of it, but you know what? I think AI has gotten a bad rap.
No, no, seriously.

Speaker 9 In fact, if you can show me that any actual experts in technology are worried that AI is going to take over the world, I'll shave my pubes.

Speaker 59 This morning, a warning from Elon Musk and other tech industry experts about the power of artificial intelligence.

Speaker 58 Musk and hundreds of influential names, including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, are calling for a pause in experiments, saying AI poses a dramatic risk to society unless there's proper oversight.

Speaker 58 Tech industry leaders pose these existential questions: Should we develop non-human minds that might eventually outnumber, outsmart, obsolete, and replace us?

Speaker 58 Should we risk loss of control of our civilization?

Speaker 58 Musk and others are asking developers to stop the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4 for at least six months so that safety protocols can be established.

Speaker 9 I gotta stop making these stupid promises before I go to news clips.

Speaker 9 But yes, that's right. AI is getting too powerful.
As soon as it knows how to pick which of these images is a bike,

Speaker 10 we're f.

Speaker 9 Now, for more on AI's threat to humanity, we go live to ChatGPT headquarters where Desi Lydick is joining us.

Speaker 9 Wow.

Speaker 9 Wow, Desi, Desi, why does it look like you're dressed for a war?

Speaker 35 Because I am dressed for a war. And also, there was a sale at Dick's Sporting Goods.

Speaker 35 Mostly the war thing. Look, it is us versus the machines, and it's time to pick a side.

Speaker 9 Desi, Desi, why are you so eager to go to war with AI?

Speaker 29 Come on, John.

Speaker 35 War with the machines is inevitable, so let's do it now while it's still a chat bot instead of waiting until it's a bloodthirsty kill bot.

Speaker 35 Look, if there's one thing that I learned from working at Chuck E. Cheese, it's a lot easier to fight a child child than it is an adult.

Speaker 9 I don't know, I don't know.

Speaker 9 Desi, war with AI sounds like a really bad idea.

Speaker 35 No way! War with AI would give humanity a common purpose. We are so divided right now: Russia versus Ukraine, Democrats versus Republicans, Selena Gomez fans versus Haley Bieber fans.

Speaker 35 But now it's us versus the machines versus Haley Bieber fans.

Speaker 9 Hey, Desi, but AI is getting more powerful by the day. What if we start this war then immediately lose it?

Speaker 35 I'm pretty sure you never lose a war that you start.

Speaker 35 But if we do, then we're going out together, John, you and me in a bunker with two cyanide pills. I take them both and you strangle yourself with your bare hands.

Speaker 9 Oh, come on. Couldn't I have one of those cyanide pills?

Speaker 2 Oh, no, it was my idea.

Speaker 35 I get them both.

Speaker 9 Oh, come on, Desi. You're getting ahead of yourself.
For all we know, AI could lead humanity to like a new golden age or something.

Speaker 39 Oh,

Speaker 35 sweet, John.

Speaker 35 Sweet, naive, publisher John Legrozy.

Speaker 1 Take it from me.

Speaker 35 Humans and robots can never coexist. It's like I said to my manager at Chuck E.
Cheese, I'd rather die on my feet than live one more day in this animatronic hellscape.

Speaker 35 So clean the piss out of the ball pit yourself, Doug. I quit.

Speaker 9 Deji Lidak, everybody.

Speaker 26 Every day people are using AI for groundbreaking things like cheating on their homework or drawing the Mona Lisa with giant boobs. But now researchers are using it to unlock ancient human mysteries.

Speaker 3 Artificial intelligence or AI is allowing researchers at the University of Kentucky to read an ancient scroll burned by Mount Vesuvius. Now, the scrolls are too fragile to unfurl, but UK's Dr.

Speaker 3 Brent Seals and his team of researchers have developed technology to try and read what's on the scrolls without opening them.

Speaker 3 One word that's already been deciphered is purple, but a more recent discovery has given scientists more to translate.

Speaker 8 Wow.

Speaker 22 Purple.

Speaker 26 I mean, I was hoping for ancient wisdom or like how to summon a demon, but yeah, you know, mixing red and blue is cool too, I guess.

Speaker 26 Although, if we can't read the scroll ourselves, how do we know if the AI is right? Well, we're just gonna trust it because Chat GBT told me three days ago that Gandhi invented the cinnamon challenge.

Speaker 26 So

Speaker 26 anyway, it's also a waste of time because I already know what's gonna be on that scroll, okay? It's gonna be someone writing, hey, sure hope that volcano doesn't kill everyone in town.

Speaker 11 Purple.

Speaker 22 Yeah. I mean,

Speaker 7 do we want to know what ancient people have to say?

Speaker 30 We always think it's going to be something profound, but it's always just, it's human. It's going to be something racist, don't you think? I mean, think about how racist your grandpa was.

Speaker 12 He's 60 years old, and you imagine if he was just 2,000 years older.

Speaker 26 Yeah. Like, I don't want to read someone's 2,000 old tweets.
And I agree. Also, like, what are we looking for in there? Like, what kind of wisdom? How smart can these people be?

Speaker 26 Like, they put their most important documents next to a volcano.

Speaker 22 That's true.

Speaker 30 And they say it's too delicate to unravel. Well, how do you know? Have you tried to unravel it?

Speaker 8 Yeah, good point. Yeah.

Speaker 26 Just pick the least important-looking one and open it.

Speaker 15 Open the scroll. Open the scroll.

Speaker 14 Open the scroll.

Speaker 22 Open the scroll.

Speaker 1 Open the scroll.

Speaker 1 Open the scroll. Open the scroll.

Speaker 22 Open the scroll. Let's move on.
Open the scroll.

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Speaker 57 Let's talk about artificial intelligence.

Speaker 52 We all know AI is coming for our jobs, but we didn't know it was coming for our hearts too.

Speaker 39 An AI girlfriend service has stopped working after Forever Voice's founder John Meyer was arrested on suspicion of attempting to set his own apartment on fire.

Speaker 39 Unsurprisingly, users were angry and disappointed at the sudden disappearance of their AI girlfriends.

Speaker 39 While the service was not originally designed to function as an adult service, internet users quickly began having sexual conversations with the chatbots, resulting in an AI that became increasingly erotic.

Speaker 39 It's unclear whether users can expect the service to return to operation in the future.

Speaker 8 Hold up, hold up.

Speaker 52 So a bunch of dudes lost their AI girlfriends when the owner of the company set his own apartment on fire?

Speaker 52 How can you trust him with humanity's newest invention when he can't handle humanity's first invention?

Speaker 52 But this guy gets arrested and suddenly the AI girlfriend stops responding?

Speaker 8 Hmm.

Speaker 5 That's suspicious.

Speaker 52 Alexa don't stop him. Jeff Bezos takes a nap.

Speaker 39 Makes me think he was the girlfriend the whole time.

Speaker 52 And I feel bad for those guys. Having an AI girlfriend has to be harder than having a real girlfriend.
Being romantic must be a challenge.

Speaker 52 You try to take a sexy bubble bath with your laptop and now you're both dead.

Speaker 52 Or how do you even get her in the mood? Whenever she gets wet, you have to put her in rice.

Speaker 52 Y'all nasty, see?

Speaker 8 You're nasty.

Speaker 52 All right, for more analysis on this AI girlfriend tragedy, let's go live to Ronnie Change.

Speaker 52 Ronnie, what are all those lonely guys gonna do without their AI girlfriend?

Speaker 26 Easy to say. We can solve two problems at once here, okay? You just take those lonely guys and hire them to be the checked out cashiers, right?

Speaker 26 That way we all get better service and these guys will have plenty of chances to meet women. Because as we all know, women be shopping.

Speaker 52 That's an offensive stereotype, Ronnie. Everyone be shopping.
And even if these men meet a woman, they still don't know how to talk to one.

Speaker 52 That's why they need these computer bitches in the first place.

Speaker 26 Okay, look, if these guys love AI women so much, in that case, they can just date the self-checked out machine, all right?

Speaker 26 Look, the machines already have female voices, right? Like, who doesn't want to spend a cold winter's night cuddled up hearing someone whisper, please return your items to the bagging area?

Speaker 52 I just think we got to do something to fast-track AI girlfriends to these lonely, sexless men before they start on the Capitol again.

Speaker 8 Yeah.

Speaker 24 No, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 30 That's fair.

Speaker 30 You're not going to be the best.

Speaker 26 But what you have to understand is it's very complicated to program an AI girlfriend, okay? Because men are too demanding and insecure. Like the AI girlfriend has to be smart, but not too smart.

Speaker 26 It has to know everything about Star Wars, but still listen to the guy explain Star Wars.

Speaker 26 It has to be like a dirty slut, but also a virgin.

Speaker 26 Like in programming, we call this the incel paradox, all right?

Speaker 26 Now, scientists are working hard to solve it, but unfortunately they are also a bunch of loser incels.

Speaker 26 And this is why we need more women in STEM, okay?

Speaker 15 Because somebody, please.

Speaker 15 Somebody, please.

Speaker 15 These guys.

Speaker 8 I agree.

Speaker 8 Those guys.

Speaker 52 I never realized being an AI girlfriend was so complicated.

Speaker 26 Yes, but the good news is an AI boyfriend is very doable.

Speaker 26 In fact, I already have my own AI boyfriend startup. We have hundreds of clients.
It's very successful. I'm a rich man.

Speaker 52 I didn't know you knew how to program AI software.

Speaker 26 Oh, yeah, yeah, it was easy. No matter what the girlfriend says, the AI boyfriend just responds with three things.

Speaker 26 You're right.

Speaker 26 I'm sorry. And you're right to be mad.

Speaker 52 Ronnie, the idea that a woman woman only needs to hear three things is ridiculous.

Speaker 55 You're right.

Speaker 30 I'm sorry.

Speaker 26 And you're right to be mad.

Speaker 26 Thank you, Ronnie Tay.

Speaker 26 Thank you. I know you want a good one.
Ronnie Turn, everybody.

Speaker 34 Over the past few months, you've probably seen the internet has been a buzz with original art or realistic images that are completely generated by AI.

Speaker 8 So now things that only exist in your imagination, like a banana hitchhiking on the side of the road or or a NYX player holding a trophy, you can just type it in and a few seconds later, there it is.

Speaker 41 Anyway, we wanted to find out more about this technology, which is why my first guest is the chief technology officer of OpenAI, the company behind DALI 2, the artificial intelligence system that can generate images from text.

Speaker 4 DALI was created by training a neural network on images and their text descriptions.

Speaker 4 Through deep learning, it not only understands individual objects, like koala bears and motorcycles, but learns from relationships between objects.

Speaker 4 And when you ask DALI for an image of a koala bear riding a motorcycle, it knows how to create that or anything else with a relationship to another object or action.

Speaker 16 Please welcome Mira Murati.

Speaker 17 Mira Murati, welcome to the Daily Show.

Speaker 25 Thank you for having me.

Speaker 44 So

Speaker 44 many people have seen the images that Dali creates. Many people may even think they understand it.
But let's get into it.

Speaker 5 Like, how does an AI

Speaker 43 create an image because it's not copying the image.

Speaker 44 It's not

Speaker 44 taking from something else, it is creating an image from nothing. How is it doing this?

Speaker 25 Exactly, it's an original image never seen before. And

Speaker 25 you know, we have been making images since the beginning of time, and we simply took a great deal of these images and we fed them into this AI system.

Speaker 25 And it learned this relationship between the description of the image and the image itself.

Speaker 25 It learned these patterns, and eventually eventually it was generating images that were original, they were not copies of what it had seen before.

Speaker 25 And basically the way that it learns the magic is just understanding the patterns and analyzing the patterns between a lot of information, a lot of training data that we have fed into the system.

Speaker 44 There are people who are terrified about this.

Speaker 44 I mean for instance there was an art competition and the winner in the art competition used a version of this kind of software, whether it was was Dali or not, I don't remember, but they used a version of this kind of software to create an art piece that won the competition.

Speaker 43 Artists were livid.

Speaker 45 You know, they were like, well, this is not art.

Speaker 44 It was created by...

Speaker 43 And the artists said, no, the same way you use a brush, I use a computer, and that's how I design this.

Speaker 44 In creating AI, are you constantly grappling with how it will affect people's jobs and what people even consider a job?

Speaker 25 Yeah, that's a great question. It's,

Speaker 25 you know, the technology that we're building has such a huge effect on society, but also the society can and should shape it. And there are a ton of questions that we're wrestling with every day.

Speaker 25 With the technologies that we have today, like GPT-3 and DALI,

Speaker 25 we see them as tools, so an extension of our creativity or our writing abilities. It's a tool.
And there isn't anything particularly new about having a human helper.

Speaker 25 You know, even the ancient Greeks had this concept of human helpers, you know,

Speaker 25 that when you'd give something,

Speaker 25 you know, infinite powers of knowledge or strength or so on,

Speaker 25 maybe you had to be wary of the vulnerabilities. And so these concepts of extending the human abilities and also being aware of the vulnerabilities are timeless.

Speaker 25 And in a sense, we are continuing this conversation by building AI technologies today.

Speaker 46 Well, it might be frightening because some people go, oh, the world is going to end because of this technology. But in the meantime, it's very fun, I'm not going to lie.

Speaker 46 No, because, like, you know, DALI, for instance, doesn't just create an image from text.

Speaker 50 You know, you've also gotten it to the point now where, as a company, you've designed it so that it can imagine what an image would be.

Speaker 43 So for instance,

Speaker 43 there's that famous image, you know, it's the girl with the pearl earring.

Speaker 41 And it's a famous image, right?

Speaker 18 But what DALI can do is you've you've got the famous image, and then Dali can expand that.

Speaker 17 All of the use, everything you're seeing that never existed.

Speaker 7 So Dali's like, well, this is what I think it would look like if there was more to this image.

Speaker 42 It can assume, it can create, it can inspire.

Speaker 25 Yes, it can inspire, and it makes this beautiful, sometimes touching, sometimes funny images. And it's really just an extension of your imagination.

Speaker 25 There isn't even a canvas, or the boundaries of paper are not there anymore.

Speaker 17 So how do you extend it?

Speaker 43 How do you safeguard then?

Speaker 44 You know, someone might look at this technology and go, well, then, you know, you could type in, a politician was caught doing something here.

Speaker 7 Now I've got the image.

Speaker 45 You know, you've got, and now all the politicians can say, oh, that's not me.

Speaker 44 It was made by that fake program.

Speaker 46 We can very quickly find ourselves in a world where nothing is real and everything that's real isn't and we question it.

Speaker 42 How do you prevent or can you even prevent that completely?

Speaker 25 Yeah, you know, misinformation and the societal societal impact of our technologies, these are very important and difficult questions.

Speaker 25 And I think it's very important to be able to bring the public along, bring these technologies in the public consciousness, but in a way that's responsible and safe. And

Speaker 25 that's why we have chosen to make DALI available, but with certain guardrails and with certain constraints, because we do want people to understand what AI is capable of and we want people in various fields to think about what it means.

Speaker 25 But right now, you know, we don't feel very comfortable around the mitigations

Speaker 25 on misinformation and so we do have some guardrails. For example, we do not allow a generation of public figures.
So we will go in the data set and we will eliminate some of the things that we have.

Speaker 44 Oh, so yes, if you type something in, you can't pull up a, it can't create a politician for you. It won't be a picture of that person.

Speaker 25 So that's the first step at the training of the model itself, just looking at the data and auditing it, making interventions in the data set to avoid certain outcomes.

Speaker 25 And then later in the deployment stage, we will look at filters, applying filters, so that when you put in a prompt, it won't generate things that contain violence or hate

Speaker 25 and make it more in line with our content policy.

Speaker 44 Wow.

Speaker 43 So let me ask you this then.

Speaker 44 You know, obviously part of your team has to think about the ethical ramifications of the technology that you're creating.

Speaker 46 Do your team also then think about the greater meaning of work or life or the purpose that humans have?

Speaker 7 Because, you know, most of us define ourselves by what we do, i.e. our jobs.

Speaker 7 As AI slowly takes away what people's jobs are, we'll find a growing class of people who don't have that same purpose anymore.

Speaker 43 Do you then also have to think about that and wonder, like, what does it mean to be human if it's not my job?

Speaker 44 And can you tell me what that is?

Speaker 25 You know, we have philosophers and ethicists at OpenAI and but I really think these are big societal questions that

Speaker 25 shouldn't even be in the hands of technologists alone. We're certainly thinking about them.
And

Speaker 25 I

Speaker 25 You know, the tools that we see today, they're not the tools that are automating certain aspects of of our jobs.

Speaker 25 They're really tools extending our capabilities, our inherent abilities, and making them far better.

Speaker 25 But it could be that in the far future, you know, we have these systems that

Speaker 25 can automate

Speaker 25 a lot of different jobs. I do think that as with other revolutions that

Speaker 25 we've gone through, there will be new jobs and

Speaker 25 some jobs will be lost, some jobs will be new, and there will be some retraining required as well. But I'm optimistic.

Speaker 43 It's interesting, it's scary because change always is. But

Speaker 7 as long as we have, bless you,

Speaker 44 as long as we have koalas riding bicycles,

Speaker 46 I think we're headed in the right direction.

Speaker 43 Thank you so much for joining me on the show.

Speaker 8 I appreciate you.

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