Ep 50 - Marc Andreessen is BACK! He Reveals How AI Will Save The World
06/21/23 • 109 min
In this episode, we dive deep into his latest piece on 'Why AI Will Save the World'. We get into the piece and some of the critiques and really go all out.
0:00 Intro
1:31 Discussing “Why AI Will Save the World”
2:40 The Baptists and the Bootleggers of AI Doomerism in Washington D.C
5:49 Private Truths and Public Lies
8:54 The Parallels between Prohibition and AI
11:27 Why AI is a Positive Force for Society
13:22 AI: Artificial Intelligence or Augmented Intelligence?
15:50 Definining intelligence
20:46 Marc’s Definition of Superintelligence
25:11 How Marc and his 8 Year Old Son use ChatGPT
28:43 What would it mean if you had an AI that was as smart as Einstein?
30:06 Marc's counter response to Why AI won’t kill us all
31:07 Marc's response to AI as a runaway process/orthogonality thesis
38:07 On Hostile Powers Using AI
38:38 The Precautionary Principle and Fire
40:37 Parallels between AI and Nuclear Weapons?
46:29 The Two AI Counterfactuals that worry Marc
48:52 China's intentions with AI
52:07 Intelligent Design’s Impact on Humanity
55:31 Why is open source important to AI?
58:31 Marc’s Advice to Founders in AI
1:01:00 What Marc would say to World Leaders about AI
1:04:22 Cultural Portrayals of AI
1:13:15 What is the next step for ChatGPT?
1:18:50 Data’s Role in AI Advancement
1:22:18 Synthetic Data and AI
1:26:44 How ChatGPT Impacts Education
1:33:58 Does AI take the place of human relationships?
1:37:35 Defining “Immanentize the Eschaton”
1:46:26 Marc’s Favorite ChatGPT Prompts
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In this episode, we dive deep into his latest piece on 'Why AI Will Save the World'. We get into the piece and some of the critiques and really go all out.
0:00 Intro
1:31 Discussing “Why AI Will Save the World”
2:40 The Baptists and the Bootleggers of AI Doomerism in Washington D.C
5:49 Private Truths and Public Lies
8:54 The Parallels between Prohibition and AI
11:27 Why AI is a Positive Force for Society
13:22 AI: Artificial Intelligence or Augmented Intelligence?
15:50 Definining intelligence
20:46 Marc’s Definition of Superintelligence
25:11 How Marc and his 8 Year Old Son use ChatGPT
28:43 What would it mean if you had an AI that was as smart as Einstein?
30:06 Marc's counter response to Why AI won’t kill us all
31:07 Marc's response to AI as a runaway process/orthogonality thesis
38:07 On Hostile Powers Using AI
38:38 The Precautionary Principle and Fire
40:37 Parallels between AI and Nuclear Weapons?
46:29 The Two AI Counterfactuals that worry Marc
48:52 China's intentions with AI
52:07 Intelligent Design’s Impact on Humanity
55:31 Why is open source important to AI?
58:31 Marc’s Advice to Founders in AI
1:01:00 What Marc would say to World Leaders about AI
1:04:22 Cultural Portrayals of AI
1:13:15 What is the next step for ChatGPT?
1:18:50 Data’s Role in AI Advancement
1:22:18 Synthetic Data and AI
1:26:44 How ChatGPT Impacts Education
1:33:58 Does AI take the place of human relationships?
1:37:35 Defining “Immanentize the Eschaton”
1:46:26 Marc’s Favorite ChatGPT Prompts
🎙️ The Aarthi and Sriram Show: Aarthi Ramamurthy and Sriram Krishnan host conversations with leading builders, and CEOs and reveal what it takes to make it to the inside.
🔊 Listen On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2CuAlPdZGhV1yxShmdcYh6?si=1f1ef00601ce46d0
🔊 Listen on Apple Podcasts:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/aarthi-and-srirams-good-time-show/id1624345213
📕 Subscribe on Substack: https://substack.com/profile/113921987-aarthi-and-srirams-podcast
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The Aarthi and Sriram Show - Ep 50 - Marc Andreessen is BACK! He Reveals How AI Will Save The World
Transcript
Imagine you had a megaphon into every world leader and you're going to give them one message about how to think about AI because they're obviously getting flooded with testimony, with papers and opeds, a lot of opits. What would that message that you would want to broadcast to them. Yeah, look, this is the This is highly like it would be one of the central technologies of our time. This has the potential to make life much better. Um, And you know
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