Techno-Utopia or The Billionaires’ Wet Dream 🗓️ 1/22/25 • 🕑 55:06 • 📁 53 MB Podcast: Ideas Author: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Web player: https://podcastaddict.com/ideas/episode/190704591 Episode: https://mgln.ai/e/12/cbc.mc.tritondigital.com/CBC_IDEAS_P/media/ideas/ideas-efPFWYdz-20250122.mp3 Tech billionaires are on a mission to make the stories of science fiction a reality: space colonization, human/machine bio organisms, and living forever in a state of unhindered bliss. To most of us, this version of a far future utopia comes off as “billionaire boys and their toys” but critics say such a dismissive attitude is naïve.
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The ‘Godfather of AI’ says we can’t afford to get it wrong 🗓️ 1/10/25 • 🕑 48:02 • 📁 46 MB Podcast: On Point | Podcast Author: WBUR Web player: https://podcastaddict.com/on-point-podcast/episode/189889089 Episode: https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/prfx.byspotify.com/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/BUR1845427249.mp3 Computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton, who studies neural networks used in artificial intelligence applications, poses at Google’s Mountain View, Calif, headquarters on Wednesday, March 25, 2015. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
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How AI is polluting our culture
How AI is polluting our culture 🗓️ 12/19/24 • 🕑 48:01 • 📁 46 MB Podcast: On Point | Podcast Author: WBUR Web player: https://podcastaddict.com/on-point-podcast/episode/189220675 Episode: https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/prfx.byspotify.com/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/BUR2363272611.mp3 Rebroadcast: Our online feeds are already full of artificially generated sludge. It’s tainting our discourse, our culture and the quality of information. One neuroscientist argues all of this AI junk threatens our very humanity.