1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:01,960 Speaker 1: The Time magazine is just named its person of the 2 00:00:02,040 --> 00:00:04,000 Speaker 1: Year for twenty twenty five this morning, and it's not 3 00:00:04,040 --> 00:00:06,920 Speaker 1: a single person. It is the architects of AI. The 4 00:00:06,960 --> 00:00:10,080 Speaker 1: magazine says, no one has had as great an impact 5 00:00:10,080 --> 00:00:13,080 Speaker 1: this year than the people who designed, imagined, and built AI. 6 00:00:13,560 --> 00:00:15,520 Speaker 1: This was the year, the mag says, that we stopped 7 00:00:15,520 --> 00:00:18,320 Speaker 1: talking about how clunky AI is and instead started sprinting 8 00:00:18,320 --> 00:00:21,360 Speaker 1: to deploy it as fast as possible. And now quote 9 00:00:21,440 --> 00:00:24,160 Speaker 1: the risk averse are no longer in the driver's seat, 10 00:00:24,239 --> 00:00:26,480 Speaker 1: which is probably true, but I'll tell you what. The 11 00:00:26,560 --> 00:00:28,520 Speaker 1: risk averse is still a really big proportion of us, 12 00:00:28,560 --> 00:00:30,560 Speaker 1: aren't they. I mean, I think there are broadly three 13 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:32,680 Speaker 1: categories of people when it comes to AI. You got 14 00:00:32,680 --> 00:00:35,280 Speaker 1: the ones using it. You've got the ones apathetic about 15 00:00:35,280 --> 00:00:37,479 Speaker 1: it and waiting to be convinced that they actually need it. 16 00:00:37,720 --> 00:00:39,839 Speaker 1: And then you've got the ones who are terrified of it. 17 00:00:40,120 --> 00:00:42,360 Speaker 1: And the terrified ones are the ones who fascinate me. 18 00:00:42,680 --> 00:00:44,760 Speaker 1: They're the unions convinced that AI are going to take 19 00:00:44,760 --> 00:00:46,760 Speaker 1: the jobs. They are the forty seven percent of kiwis 20 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:49,519 Speaker 1: who don't trust companies to use AI ethically. They're the 21 00:00:49,640 --> 00:00:52,000 Speaker 1: rule lovers who want the government to set up more 22 00:00:52,080 --> 00:00:54,160 Speaker 1: rules to protect us from AI. They're the artists and 23 00:00:54,200 --> 00:00:57,240 Speaker 1: the musicians who are pretending that AI can be stopped 24 00:00:57,520 --> 00:01:00,360 Speaker 1: from learning or what they call stealing their eye ideas. 25 00:01:00,400 --> 00:01:03,160 Speaker 1: The other people complaining that AI photos and AI videos 26 00:01:03,160 --> 00:01:06,440 Speaker 1: and AI songs are somehow evil and misleading. Resisting AI 27 00:01:06,640 --> 00:01:09,800 Speaker 1: is not a strategy. AI is happening and it's not 28 00:01:09,880 --> 00:01:12,000 Speaker 1: going to go away. Resisting it feels a little bit 29 00:01:12,160 --> 00:01:15,000 Speaker 1: like a repeat of the resistance towards the computer thirty 30 00:01:15,440 --> 00:01:18,600 Speaker 1: forty years ago, which even Time magazine called a fad 31 00:01:18,640 --> 00:01:20,880 Speaker 1: back then, and then look where the computers are now. 32 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:23,679 Speaker 1: The way to deal with AI is to accept that 33 00:01:23,720 --> 00:01:26,240 Speaker 1: it is going to fundamentally change everything and then figure 34 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:27,600 Speaker 1: out how to make it work for you. And the 35 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:31,080 Speaker 1: case in point today is Disney giving Open Ai permission 36 00:01:31,080 --> 00:01:33,959 Speaker 1: to use its characters like the Star Wars characters to 37 00:01:33,959 --> 00:01:36,920 Speaker 1: make videos. Like Mark Cuban said on the show yesterday, 38 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:40,000 Speaker 1: AI is going to be big, and we actually have 39 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:43,800 Speaker 1: no idea how big yet. For more from the Mic 40 00:01:43,800 --> 00:01:46,920 Speaker 1: Asking Breakfast, listen live to news talks that'd be from 41 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:50,440 Speaker 1: six am weekdays, or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.