Popcorn Brains, AI-Generated Blockbusters & Political Fake News with Jag Sharma, Jason Kapadia & Felina Tan - E64
Are our brains being reshaped? 🧠 🤔
Uncover the effects of constant digital stimulation on attention spans and cognitive functions in the latest episode of the Disconnected podcast.
This episode offers a thought-provoking exploration of the intersection between technology and human experience.
Tune in now to join the conversation and expand your understanding of the evolving digital landscape! 🎧
This week, hosts Jag Sharma, Jason Kapadia, and Felina Tan uncover challenges and opportunities presented by the digital revolution including:
🧠 Popcorn Brains and AI Dreams: Shedding light on the constant stimulation and multitasking reshaping our cognitive processes.
🤖 The Rise of Deepfakes: Exploring the capabilities of OpenAI's groundbreaking AI video generation tool, Sora, and its implications for media trust and the future of special effects.
🗞️ Can Tech Giants Stop The Spread Of Fake News? Delve into efforts to combat deep fakes in elections.
🎥 The Future is AI: The potential of AI generated content from Hollywood Blockbusters and beyond and its impact on media production.
Episode Highlights:
“Popcorn brain basically describes a phenomenon wherein the brain becomes so accustomed to the constant stimulation and multitasking of the digital age. So think about new tabs and less scrolling constant notifications, that thoughts then start to resemble frenzy, popcorn kernels popping around, essentially. So research by levy has suggested that social media isn't just altering our attention spans, because we all know that already. But it's also reshaping how our brains process information.” 1:59 - Felina Tan - 1:59
“I'm doing that Doom scrolling that you mentioned Felina. X, Twitter has got me down completely. Lately, it's just been mental because it knows what it needs to show me just to get me to watch videos where something unexpected or not quite good happens. That's probably the last hurdle I need to overcome.” - 10:42 - Jag Sharma
“Open AI just dropped an absolute game changer. Sora is their new AI tool and it creates realistic videos up to a minute long, just from text prompts. It just took things to an absolute different level, and really shocked all of us.. ” - 15:08 - Jason Kapadia
“Whenever there's a new bit of tech that comes out, technology moves faster than the way that we can police or manage it. So things are often used for bad before good can catch up..” - 21:47 - Jag Sharma
“20 firms have come together, including Amazon, Google and Microsoft, they've agreed to tackle what they are calling deceptive AI, in these upcoming elections. So they're committing to fight voter deceiving content.” - 27:52 - Jag Sharma
“One thing's for sure we're in for an interesting ride this year, because technology is just moving faster and faster. Just in the last episode, we were talking about the Apple Vision Pro then with the release of Sora, the way that the tech is developing now is faster than ever, as much as a cliche as that sounds, it just is faster than even we can keep up with it episode to episode.” - 30:47 - Jag Sharma
Links & references:
Jen Campbell:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-m-campbell/
Jason Kapadia:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonkapadia/
https://www.instagram.com/jasonkapadia/
Jag Sharma: