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

The future's here. AI is taking over. 

A team of robots kept alive in some giant warehouse with tonnes of electricity are right now whirring away, beavering away on the world's problems. 

AI will soon be marking our students' exams. The Swedish Prime Minister overnight admitted he uses AI for a second opinion on running the country. 

AI architects are in high demand - they're being snapped up like hotcakes. 

Meta recently offered AI researcher Matt Deitke $250 million over four years - AI engineers are apparently paid upwards of $2.5 million a year. 

The big tech companies are investing billions. The efficiencies are real. AI is changing the world, one data centre at a time. 

So the question is: what do we do about it? 

Some of the teachers are upset because they don't trust AI to mark exams.

But really, we shouldn't trust the teachers. According to the Minister of Education, AI is at least as good as if not better than teachers at getting it right. 

There's some stuff so nuanced you need human eyes across it, but that would be the exception, not the rule. 

As for the Swedish Prime Minister, he's copping flak for not being able to do his job without the help of a robot. But you still need to use judgement, don't you?

You can't just punch in "should I go to war tomorrow" and the blindly follow the answer. 

Is AI not the mental equivalent of a forklift? A tool, a machine, doing the heavy lifting for our brains?

The reality is, it doesn't actually matter how we feel about AI and the moral dilemmas it raises. 

Like mobile phones, the internet, smart phones and social media, it's one of those phenomenon that's taking over our lives, whether we like it or not. 

The best we can probably do is just get used to it.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The future is here, ladies and gentlemen. AI is taking over.
There's a team of robots kept alive in some giant
warehouse with tons of electricity right now, whirring away, beavering
away on the world's big problems. AI will soon be
marking our students' exams, according to Erica Stanford, the Swedish
Prime Minister overnight, admitting he uses AI for a second

(00:22):
opinion on running the country on a daily basis. AI
architects are in high demand. They've been snapped up like hotcakes. Yesterday,
Meta apparently offered an AI researcher two hundred and fifty
million US dollars over four years. AI engineers are apparently
paid upwards of two and a half million bucks a year.
The big tech companies are investing billions. The efficiencies are real.

(00:46):
AI is changing the world, one data center at a time.
So the question for us what do we do about it.
Some of the teachers are upset because they don't trust
AI to mark exams, but really we shouldn't trust the teachers.
According to the Ministry of Education, and I've got no
reason to disbelieve this AI is at least as good as,
if not better than teachers at getting stuff right awkward.

(01:08):
There's some stuff so nuanced you will probably need humanized
to be across it. But that would be the exception,
surely in marking NCAA exams, not the rule. As for
the Swedish Prime minister, he's copying flak for not being
able to do his job without the help of a robot.
But you still need to use judgment, don't you. You
can't just punch into AI. Should I go to war

(01:30):
tomorrow and then blindly follow The answer? Is AI not
the mental equivalent of a forklift at AOL, a machine
doing the heavy lifting for our brains. We don't have
problems with forklifts, do we. They're helpful, they're useful. The
reality is it doesn't actually matter how we feel about
AI and the moraled one thousand moral dilemmas that throws

(01:53):
up like mobile phones, like the internet, smartphones and then
social media. It's one of these phenomenon that takes over
our lives, whether we like it or not. The best
we can probably do is just get used to it
and get over it. For more from early edition with
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