Everyone would probably hate A.I. less if we could just see some upside to it. But despite all the investment—into the companies, into infrastructure like data centers, so much into marketing—it’s widely known: artificial intelligence sucks.
Nilay Patel (@reckless1280 ), co-founder and editor in chief of @verge , joins Lizzie O'Leary on What Next: TBD to discuss why Software Brain is eating Silicon Valley and why so many Americans hate AI.
Watch now on YouTube via the link in our bio.
Journalist @joannastern on the need for AI regulation: "Just watching my kids around this technology made me the most terrified... what needs to happen for this next generation is incredibly important to get right." #ai #regulation #tech #policy
Journalist Joanna Stern on whether how we gauge the capabilities of AI: "I actually coined this term at the end of the book, AEI, or artificial enough intelligence... a lot of these tools we already have are good enough, they just need to be applied better." #ai #agi #tech #automation #labor
Nilay responds to @joannastern ’s question on whether AI products can be great: "Yes, people are using them, but the experience that are being forced upon people looks like slop." #ai #tech #chatgpt #software
Journalist @joannastern on whether AI-powered smart glasses present a surveillance nightmare: "It's the longtime question of cost versus convenience." #privacy #surveillance #tech #ai
Journalist @joannastern on whether humanoid robots will be in our homes any time soon: "This idea that robots and physical AI are coming in the next two years is just a lie." #ai #robots #automation #tech
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says his company is rethinking hiring now that it's spending so much on AI: "We have blown through our AI and infrastructure budget for the whole year in about three to four months." #ai #uber #tech #automation
@joannastern , author of I Am Not a Robot and founder of the digital media company New Things, says she's partnered with NBC because she wants to reach both the YouTube audience and mainstream broadcast ones. #news #journalism #youtube #ai
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says AI chatbot integrations for services like Uber are simply not popular compared to enterprise use cases: "The enterprise market is growing much faster than anyone thought that it was going to." #uber #ai #tech #business
When Nilay and @joannastern are on Decoder, all roads lead to Apple CarPlay: "The analytics tell us that you and I should only talk about CarPlay. That’s all the people want." #carplay #apple #cars #tech
