CNN's John Defterios has been playing around with machine learning. He says it appears to be one thing, but it actually isn't necessarily that thing. It is by turns really impressive and kind of like, you know, sophomoric, circular, high school student pros. But if we could just start on a very basic level, so Shall I give the like, what's machine learning? What is this kind of? Yes.
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on analyst Benedict Evans to talk about Chat GPT and machine learning (5:00), how it gets things wrong (10:00), the “fluent bullshit” problem (12:00), whether this is a genuine breakthrough moment (15:20), what this means for humans (18:25), “prompt engineering” (23:00), humans as curators rather than creators (26:40), tech’s mid-life crisis (27:45), the future of “search” (32:10), using AI do make “no-code” software (35:00), where we go from here (39:00), and the illusion of creativity (42:45).
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