What Does ChatGPT Think?
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation Podcast
06/22/23
•38m
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Although inflection points are better judged in retrospect, OpenAI's release of ChatGPT late last year may have touched off a new era in how mankind relates to machines—perhaps in how civilization works. From medicine and legal briefs and sonnets in the style of Shakespeare to John Lennon’s long-dead voice, the combination of generative artificial intelligence and massive computing power is producing endless wonders across wide ranges of human activity, some trivial but some incredibly sophisticated.
"What can't AI do?" is the question. The answer seems to be, "Anything a human can do, AI can do better."
Because of that perception, right or wrong, the only thing growing seeming to grow faster than AI's capability is hysteria about AI's capability. Suddenly industry leaders are warning about the risk of humanity’s extinction by an ever more powerful AI and pleading for regulation to save us from their creation and its future iterations.
But once Pandora’s box has been opened, can it be closed? Can artificial intelligence actually be regulated? Can what happens in thousands of labs worldwide, who have access to unlimited computing power and open-source code, be controlled? If so, how and by whom? Who decides what’s good and what’s bad?
Rebecca Finlay, CEO of the Partnership on AI whose stakeholders include many of the biggest players in North America and Europe, is thinking deeply about these issues and is optimistic that there are positive answers. She recently joined host Alan Stoga for a New Thinking for a New World podcast.
We didn’t ask ChatGPT what it thinks, because we care more about what you think. Can AI be regulated?
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Georgia on My Mind
June 15, 2023
•35m
Russia's invasion of Ukraine seems likely to be one of those seminal events that will divide our future histories: BI and AI. That's obviously true for the combatants, but for many others as well.
Consider the small country of Georgia, with less than 4 million people, located at the eastern end of the Black Sea, and sharing an almost 900-kilometer border with Russia. Like Ukraine, it is another part of the former Soviet Union as well as a country that Russia wants to control again. But, liberated by the collapse of the Soviet Union, a significant majority of the Georgian people have demonstrated a strong desire to escape their history and geography and to pursue a future integrated into Europe. Unfortunately for them, neither Putin's Russia—which several years ago seized and still holds 20% of Georgian territory—nor the governing political party, Georgian Dream, share that aspiration.
What happens next? Another hotspot that could lead to another war? Or a country that has the chance to lever Western support for Ukraine to secure its own future as a Western democracy?
Nino Evgenidze, executive director of the Economic Policy Research Center in Tbilisi, Georgia has strong views on what should happen and what the West should do. Listen to her discussion with New Thinking for a New World host Alan Stoga and tell us whether you agree that Europe and the United States ought to use sanctions and other tools to make Georgia safe for democracy on our website https://tallbergfoundation.org/podcasts/georgia-on-my-mind/
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“When you strike at a king, you must kill him”
June 27, 2023
•38m
A few days ago the world watched in amazement as Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the infamous paramilitary Wagner Group, turned his ambition from defeating Ukraine to challenging the Russian army and—although he continues to deny it—Vladimir Putin himself. Wagner’s fighters seized some Russian territory and rapidly advanced towards Moscow, before abruptly halting, accepting a deal negotiated by Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko, and standing down.
Details are still in short supply, but it’s hard to imagine that this brief insurrection won’t have consequences for the war on Ukraine, for Russia’s relations with its few allies, and—most importantly—on Putin’s future.
Yevgenia Albats, Distinguished Journalist in Residence at NYU’s Jordan Center in forced exile from Russia, thinks that Prigozhin is a “dead man walking.” Maybe Putin, too?
Do you think this is the beginning of the end for the Russian dictator?
"When you strike at a king, you must kill him” ― is a quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson
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