Our Impending Extinction, Photoshop’s Artificial Reality and Elon vs Misinformation with Jag Sharma, Jen Campbell and Jason Kapadia - Episode 47
When AI grows smarter than the human race, could we stop it wiping us out?
AI chatbots are nothing new now, but a clone of influencer Caryn Marjorie is paving the way for a future where you can converse with anyone, anytime - but is that more of a thrill or a threat to society?
Elsewhere in this week’s Disconnected, face-altering filters are put under the microscope, TfL using TikTok to crack down on fare-dodging, and some marvellous new accessibility features in Apple’s pipeline.
This episode of Disconnected covers:
Signs of AI’s capability to cause our extinction in the wrong hands
Adobe and Windows’ new game-changing AI tools
Twitter pulling out of the EU’s Code of Practice Against Disinformation
An Android app tracking users, and why you should perform a software update immediately
Episode Highlights:
“We’re seeing AI-generated misinformation on quirky levels at the moment, but that could be harnessed to undermine democracy and enforce narrow values & oppression.” - 4:45 - Jag Sharma
“Dare I say, we've been talking for the last six months about how AI has got its issues, and it needs to be looked at from both sides of the coin. So the only way some people will realise the power it’ll have is to have these sensational headlines.” - 7:30 - Jen Campbell
“Adobe has been smart. They won’t get sued like other tools because they’ve used their own stock image service to train their AI models.” - 15:25 - Jason Kapadia
“I see real big use cases for AI. This comes back to whether we’re all going to lose our jobs - of course we're not. You're going to have to have a creative mind to be able to tell this thing what to make.” - 17:05 - Jen Campbell
“Twitter's pulling out of this voluntary EU disinformation code. Sure, that's one story, but they're gonna have to comply with this Digital Services Act, with legal ramifications coming from August.” - 23:25 - Jen Campbell
“I was actually looking into some of the figures, and over 40% of Android users’ current active devices have the OS that is almost five years old now. A lot of them, if you instal apps, you are giving blanket permissions.” - 30:00 - Jason Kapadia
Links & references:
Jen Campbell:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-m-campbell/
Jag Sharma:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jagsharma
https://www.instagram.com/jagsharma/
Jason Kapadia: