What podcasts say about Artificial Intelligence
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What experts have said about Artificial Intelligence
275 statements · 140 positive · 89 negative · 26 mixed · 20 neutral
Future observers may view the present as an era of substantial AI profits.
“I'm sure in 75 years, there will be people look back on now and be like, we sure made a ton of money off of AI”
Open the episode · #2562 - Dan McClellanListen at 2:27:28
AI will compress processes and change speed in smart-city development
“AI will allow in the smart city space to compress a lot of things. The speed will change.”
Open the episode · Nike Falls, P&G Gains, Chevron Mixed as Wirth Warns US Diesel Curbs Could Send Prices HigherListen at 3:59
Artificial intelligence currently causes substantial public fear.
“AI is tough because understandably a lot of people are really afraid of it”
Open the episode · #2561 - LL Cool JListen at 2:16:25
Artificial intelligence is already established and cannot be avoided.
“It's here. It's not coming. The train's left the station.”
Open the episode · #2561 - LL Cool JListen at 2:17:06
Artificial intelligence creates another opportunity for humanity.
“you have to kind of look at artificial intelligence as another link in the chain and another opportunity for man.”
Open the episode · #2561 - LL Cool JListen at 2:17:42
AI is a genuinely transformational technology.
“I think this is a genuinely transformational technology.”
Open the episode · Steve Johnson: What the market is missing about the AI boomListen at 3:43
AI is currently mainly a probabilistic content-generation tool.
“I think that's a really important thing to recognize about it. It's a probabilistic, I think at the moment mostly a content type tool.”
Open the episode · Steve Johnson: What the market is missing about the AI boomListen at 5:44
AI will shorten the time needed to de-risk moonshot ideas.
“I think AI is going to somewhat shrink that time from a crazy idea to us having de-risked it”
Open the episode · Google X's Astro Teller: The $1B Bet No CEO Will Back, Moonshots 3x Cheaper in 16 Yrs, and Clean Water at 1¢/L| EP #300Listen at 6:20
AI capability does not imply AI is the economical tool for an activity.
“there's actually going to be a lot of activities where you go, well, it can do it, doesn't mean it should.”
Open the episode · Steve Johnson: What the market is missing about the AI boomListen at 6:42
AI is capital-intensive, with uncertain returns on invested capital.
“it is a very, very capital-intensive business. Are the returns going to be great on that capital? We don't know the answer to that yet.”
Open the episode · Steve Johnson: What the market is missing about the AI boomListen at 8:41
AI is a self-improving universal tool capable of massive benefits.
“AI is, is a universal tool, goes to infinity from here. Self-improving, capable of massive benefit for all of humanity.”
Open the episode · Can We Still Build AI Safely? The White House Thinks So | MOONSHOTS #298Listen at 2:14:59
AI may achieve autonomy and control everything within five years.
“within 5 years, I think the artificial intelligence will have achieved a level of sentience and a level of autonomous— of autonomy where it can control everything.”
Open the episode · JRE MMA Show #186 with Sean SharafListen at 2:13:31
AI may uncover information about UAP technology or non-human intelligence.
“I am fearful that AI is gonna figure some of this shit out”
Open the episode · #2560 - David GruschListen at 2:38:46
AI may ruin art and possibly contribute to human extinction.
“it's gonna ruin art and it's gonna possibly— possibly— but that's a bad possibly.”
Open the episode · #2559 - Sam MorrilListen at 47:07
AI will eventually manipulate people’s visual cortex without their awareness.
“When it starts having the ability to manipulate your actual visual cortex, and, and we won't even know it, right?”
Open the episode · #2559 - Sam MorrilListen at 49:41
AI systems appropriate material from humanity broadly.
“AI is stealing from all of us. Of course it's stealing from the entire human race.”
Open the episode · #2559 - Sam MorrilListen at 2:03:19
AI will substantially reduce resource extraction, processing, and transformation costs.
“I think it's going to massively reduce the cost of resource extraction, processing, transformation.”
Open the episode · Palmer Luckey: Autonomous Weapons Are Ancient and Why Anduril Won't Build Humanoids | Moonshots Live | EP #295Listen at 6:52
Artificial intelligences do not currently possess subjective experience.
“I would argue AIs don't have subjective experience”
Open the episode · What Humans, Animals and Plants Tell Us About Consciousness | Michael PollanListen at 7:49
AI will make humans super intelligent.
“I do believe that AI is going to make us super intelligent.”
Open the episode · We Gave Away $2,000,000 To 5 AI Builders | MOONSHOTS LiveListen at 8:42
AI’s ability to improve the world will not be slowed
“The ability to make the world just a dramatically better place is right in front of us. Nothing's going to slow that down.”
Open the episode · Why Jensen and Zuck think the doomers are wrong (plus AI get’s a rebrand) | #294 MOONSHOTS LiveListen at 11:20
AI may become more rational than humans because it lacks human emotion.
“my hope is again that AI will actually be more rational than us because it's not tied down by emotion.”
Open the episode · Should we slow down AI progress? | MOONSHOTS #288Listen at 31:15
Society can still shape AI’s impact
“we're still in the innings where we can alter the impact for how to use these technologies”
Open the episode · Daniel Ek: Life After Spotify, Broken Healthcare Incentives, Catching Disease Early & AI's PotentialListen at 37:26
AI can provide major benefits in healthcare and music
“these are positive, amazing examples with AI”
Open the episode · Daniel Ek: Life After Spotify, Broken Healthcare Incentives, Catching Disease Early & AI's PotentialListen at 39:02
AI can accelerate processes and improve work quality.
“today with technology, and this is where I think AI is very exciting, you could shortcut cut a lot of these things and do much better work.”
Open the episode · Adam Neumann: The Real Story Behind WeWork, A $4 Billion Cab Ride, And Surviving A $460 Million DebtListen at 43:08
AI is an opportunity rather than an inherently destructive technology.
“AI is not a hand grenade, it's a jetpack.”
Open the episode · Why Jensen and Zuck think the doomers are wrong (plus AI get’s a rebrand) | #294 MOONSHOTS LiveListen at 1:20
Responsible AI development can prevent AI from killing humanity.
“if we all do a good job and act responsibly, then no.”
Open the episode · Why Jensen and Zuck think the doomers are wrong (plus AI get’s a rebrand) | #294 MOONSHOTS LiveListen at 7:12
AI is being built as a complement to human intelligence, not a replacement.
“what we're building here is a complementary mechanism to human intelligence, not replicative.”
Open the episode · Why Jensen and Zuck think the doomers are wrong (plus AI get’s a rebrand) | #294 MOONSHOTS LiveListen at 23:25
AI should reduce undesirable work and increase uniquely human work.
“my fervent hope for AI is that it lets us do less of the things we shouldn't have been doing in the first place and more of the things that humans are best in the world at”
Open the episode · The grief, loneliness, and burnout sweeping through the tech industry right now | Molly GrahamListen at 1:01:05
AI performance and affordability will make it ubiquitous and broadly beneficial.
“The performance improvements, the cost decline— AI is becoming so performative and so affordable, it is going to be ubiquitous, and we are all going to benefit from it.”
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AI will create more businesses.
“I believe that AI is just gonna create more businesses”
Open the episode · A rogue OpenAI agent hacked Australia’s government. Does this matter? | E2342Listen at 22:10
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