I think that's one of the failings of the social media age is that they haven't allowed transparency of how their platforms are being used. It should be possible to share with trusted third party academics, researchers and government regulators why a particular piece of content has been shown to a certain person. None of that has happened though at all. There's no privacy legislation. You would welcome that kind of things regulated transparency. Absolutely. Transparency is the path to trust. But the same companies that did this before are doing it now. Do you see them changing that attitude? Well, that's sort of true. I mean, we're still fundamentally working in big tech. And there's a different flavor
After Kara and Nayeema debate the pros and cons of AI personal assistants vs. human personal assistants vs. fake personal assistants, we turn to Mustafa Suleyman, the man who co-founded DeepMind. Now, he and his co-founders Reid Hoffman and Karén Simonyan have started Inflection AI, a startup that creates “personal AIs,” and they're launching with a chatbot called Pi.
Kara talks to Mustafa about whether or not Pi is "woke," the conversion of Suleyman’s former colleague, Geoffrey Hinton, and — oh yes — AI’s potential to destroy humanity.
BTW, in lieu of personal AI, you can reach out to Kara and Nayeema for advice on your burning questions regarding your career, love, life or anything else. Call 1-888-KARA-PLZ and leave us a voicemail.
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