I think I can pretty easily imagine a world where everything people do online that kind of sucks, whether it's scamming people or trolling people. You know, the ability to create text that looks like it was generated by a person, I can imagine the downsides to that. But I don't know, it's at a certain point, you're sort of like, well, the thing about technologies for the most part, once it's invented, it exists. And so I just kind of, I'm like, oh, this is going to happen.
Once a technology is released into the wild, it doesn’t go back in the bottle. Except in one instance. PJ Vogt is the host of Crypto Island and an eponymous show, Weekly. You may have also heard him on Reply All or This American Life. Ricky Mulvey caught up with him to discuss: - The wild present and future for artificial intelligence - How virtual reality parallels early internet chat rooms - Incentives and tradeoffs in the decarbonization movement - The downfall of Flappy Bird Companies mentioned: META, GOOG, GOOGL, MSFT, TSLA, NTOIY Host: Ricky Mulvey Guest: PJ Vogt Engineer: Tim Sparks
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