Artificial Intelligence: Insights & Oddities

8th Layer Insights

On this episode, Perry celebrates the one year birthday of ChatGPT by taking a look at AI from technological, philosophical, and folkloric perspectives. We see how AI was formed based on human words and works, and how it can now shape the future of human legend and belief.

Guests:

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• Brandon Karpf, Vice President at N2K Networks (LinkedIn) (Website)
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• Dr. Lynne S. McNeill, Associate Professor at Utah State University (LinkedIn) (Twitter)
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• Dr. John Laudun, Professor at University of Louisiana at Lafayette (LinkedIn) (Twitter) (Website)
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• Lev Gorelov, Research Director at Handshake Consulting (LinkedIn) (Twitter) (Website)
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Resources

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• Interview with the AI, part one, by the Brandon Karpf / the CyberWire
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• 'Hard Fork': An Interview With Sam Altman, by The New York Times
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• The Exciting, Perilous Journey Toward AGI, Ilya Sutskever TED Talk
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• Ilya: the AI scientist shaping the world, by The Guardian
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• Meet Loab, the AI Art Woman Haunting the Internet: Is she a demon? A Cryptid? Or nothing at all..., the Guardian
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• In 2016, Microsoft’s Racist Chatbot Revealed the Dangers of Online Conversation The bot learned language from people on Twitter—but it also learned values, IEEE Spectrum
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• Perry's Digital Folklore episode about AI
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• Handshake's Generative AI Masterclass on Maven
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Perry's Books (Amazon Associate links)

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• Transformational Security Awareness: What Neuroscientists, Storytellers, and Marketers Can Teach Us About Driving Secure Behaviors, by Perry Carpenter
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• The Security Culture Playbook: An Executive Guide To Reducing Risk and Developing Your Human Defense Layer by Perry Carpenter & Kai Roer
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Production Credits:

Music and Sound Effects by Blue Dot Sessions, Envato Elements, Storyblocks, & EpidemicSound.

8Li cover art by Chris Machowski @ https://www.RansomWear.net/.

8th Layer Insights theme music composed and performed by Marcos Moscat @ https://www.GameMusicTown.com/

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