Chat GPT is famous now in its early days for making things up. But it's the next step that we would call creative synthesizing applications, which are both exhilarating and potentially scary. They've given GPT for various tests of curiosity, and sometimes the results come back Oh, GPT for is actually more creative than the average human. So smart's complicated and I feel like in the. last few weeks I've thought to myself well this is the last episode we'll do on on AI for a while and I've been wrong. We find them. And you think they're coming. Yes, they're already here.
The future of AI keeps Zvi Mowshowitz up at night. He also wonders why so many smart people seem to think that AI is more likely to save humanity than destroy it. Listen as Mowshowitz talks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about the current state of AI, the pace of AI's development, and where--unless we take serious action--the technology is likely to end up (and that end is not pretty). They also discuss Mowshowitz's theory that the shallowness of the AI extinction-risk discourse results from the assumption that you have to be either pro-technological progress or against it.