AI Will Make Marionettes Of Us All Before It Destroys The World

This is the title of a Post Rock album, not a podcast

And here we are a month later and ChatGPT is a level above again.

I never thought I would live to witness humanity's last invention...

I think Myke's point that most people won't want to listen to a podcast with fake Steve Jobs is accurate, but I wouldn't be so sure that his job is safe. I think the actual danger is when we have an AI that has its own personality and can talk intelligently about almost any topic. The AI isn't trying to be someone else, it is being its own character, and that character is interesting. To begin with the AI might have its own podcast series, or it might have shows where it talks with other AIs, or where it converses in real time with a panel of humans. But here's the kicker: since the AI is just software, every human listening can go and have a conversation with this AI character themselves whenever they want to. Imagine Myke if Grey was an AI and all the listeners could download him onto their phones and have conversations with him on any topic for as long as they wanted. While there is something interesting about listening to two guys talking about a topic, I don't think it's as appealing as taking part in the conversation yourself. I could easily see an AI in the near future that is the perfect Twitch Streamer. They stream 24 hours a day, and they can hold full separate conversations with every viewer while streaming, and they can react to what's happening in chat, bring up snippets from individual conversations on the main stream if they think it would be interesting to all the viewers, and can do things like constantly monitor the news so that they can talk to their audience in real time about whatever is happening in the world.

Humans Need Not Apply is one of my favorite youtube videos. Super applicable and quite interesting. I'd love to see you revisit that video, even though the points are unchanged the technology/AI progression has added even more material and perspective.

Humans need not apply was the video that motivated me to write my master's thesis about displacing humnas on the labor market.

The biggest danger I see with AI is that it's utterly incredible tool for those with wealth and power to gain even more, and crush anyone they dislike. All the worse is they have a particular ideological bent.

And now the video generation is fully functional!

14:30 it's like John Henry the Steel-Driving Man: According to legend, John Henry's prowess as a steel driver was measured in a race against a steam-powered rock drilling machine, a race that he won only to die in victory with a hammer in hand as his heart gave out from stress.

6 months later... yeah we’re all gonna die for sure. It’s like they invented a car that can go 9000mph and still haven’t made any advancements on brakes or airbags, then started handing them out to everyone for free.

i liked that thought that i've seen sputtering around the internet "A CPU is literally a rock that we tricked into thinking but first you have to flatten it and put lightning inside it."

I'm worried people will forget that challenge and gaining skill are inherent needs, and people will just become depressed on the couch as they watch endless AI generated OVAs.

And here we are with sora... I must say CGP grey your predictions are very accurate, I want more!

31:30 japan has a "living national treasure" program to support traditional artists in preserving skills

This could be the last time you can buy a subtle tee before the AI enslaved us

We have no idea what we are on the cusp of. Even as much as we talk and theorize, we are no different the people in the 80s who had truly no idea what computing and the internet really meant for the human experience. Everything is about to change. Literally everything will be touched in some way. And there's always the possibility that this is the last big thing. That human experience hits critical mass and somehow implodes. There's no telling if this is just another tool to make life easier or if our great filter approaches...

AI art, the development of AI voice recognition and recreation, and the creation of chat AIs that are plenty malleable is extremely concerning

Haha, I like how you articulated the "Importance of Saying No" as an artist and I immediately thought... well what if the AI is the artist and what if we are its audience and it will give us what we want... EXACTLY WHAT WE WANT. God, I need to learn how to make a fire with a stick.

GREY PLEASE MAKE A FULL GROWN VIDEO ABOUT AI ART IN YOUR CHANNEL

The traveling salesman problem is harder than just pathfinding. But it is still really impressive that GPT3 can do pathfinding at all.