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Ryan Bridge: Are we taking it too far with AI? · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: The future is here, ladies and gentlemen. AI is taking over.
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  Speaker 1: There's a team of robots kept alive in some giant
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  Speaker 1: warehouse with tons of electricity right now, whirring away, beavering
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  Speaker 1: away on the world's big problems. AI will soon be
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  Speaker 1: marking our students' exams, according to Erica Stanford, the Swedish
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  Speaker 1: Prime Minister overnight, admitting he uses AI for a second
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  Speaker 1: opinion on running the country on a daily basis. AI
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  Speaker 1: architects are in high demand. They've been snapped up like hotcakes. Yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: Meta apparently offered an AI researcher two hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 1: million US dollars over four years. AI engineers are apparently
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  Speaker 1: paid upwards of two and a half million bucks a year.
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  Speaker 1: The big tech companies are investing billions. The efficiencies are real.
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  Speaker 1: AI is changing the world, one data center at a time.
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  Speaker 1: So the question for us what do we do about it.
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  Speaker 1: Some of the teachers are upset because they don't trust
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  Speaker 1: AI to mark exams, but really we shouldn't trust the teachers.
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  Speaker 1: According to the Ministry of Education, and I've got no
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  Speaker 1: reason to disbelieve this AI is at least as good as,
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  Speaker 1: if not better than teachers at getting stuff right awkward.
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  Speaker 1: There's some stuff so nuanced you will probably need humanized
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  Speaker 1: to be across it. But that would be the exception,
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  Speaker 1: surely in marking NCAA exams, not the rule. As for
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  Speaker 1: the Swedish Prime minister, he's copying flak for not being
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  Speaker 1: able to do his job without the help of a robot.
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  Speaker 1: But you still need to use judgment, don't you. You
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  Speaker 1: can't just punch into AI. Should I go to war
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow and then blindly follow The answer? Is AI not
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  Speaker 1: the mental equivalent of a forklift at AOL, a machine
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  Speaker 1: doing the heavy lifting for our brains. We don't have
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  Speaker 1: problems with forklifts, do we. They're helpful, they're useful. The
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  Speaker 1: reality is it doesn't actually matter how we feel about
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  Speaker 1: AI and the moraled one thousand moral dilemmas that throws
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  Speaker 1: up like mobile phones, like the internet, smartphones and then
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  Speaker 1: social media. It's one of these phenomenon that takes over
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  Speaker 1: our lives, whether we like it or not. The best
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  Speaker 1: we can probably do is just get used to it
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  Speaker 1: and get over it. For more from early edition with
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