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Speaker 1: Now here's a highlight from coast to coast am on

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Speaker 1: iHeartRadio writer, podcaster, researcher, and the creative force and co

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Speaker 1: founder of The Debrief, a new site that explores the

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Speaker 1: latest in science and disruptive technology and UAPs. Micah Hanks

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Speaker 1: is with us and Mica just sticking with AI for

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Speaker 1: a moment, because talk about chilling. These bing search engines

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Speaker 1: that are AI driven, These bing chat bots we're hearing

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Speaker 1: stories of, well, they seem to be developing self awareness

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Speaker 1: or consciousness. There was a New York Times technology columnist

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Speaker 1: who reported a couple of weeks ago being deeply unsettled

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Speaker 1: after a chat bot that's part of Microsoft's upgraded BING

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Speaker 1: search engine repeatedly urged him in a conversation to leave

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Speaker 1: his wife's as if this chatbot had fallen in love

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Speaker 1: with him. And there was another instance the bing chat

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Speaker 1: bought reportedly threatened to steal nuclear codes and unleasha virus.

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Speaker 1: I mean this to me sounds like the beginning of

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Speaker 1: the AI singularity. What do you think, Well, lots to

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Speaker 1: unpact there. And of course we have, of course, primarily

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Speaker 1: science fiction to inform us when it comes to these

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Speaker 1: kinds of questions. By that, I mean this, Yeah, a

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Speaker 1: lot of us have gone out there and we've experimented

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Speaker 1: with chat GPT. I have to and I'll give you

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Speaker 1: a quick report on that here at a moment. But

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Speaker 1: when we think about what could happen, right, the kinds

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Speaker 1: of things that might occur on down the road in

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Speaker 1: the years I had most of us, of course, have

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Speaker 1: seen films, and this is one of the problems as

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Speaker 1: we move into a future where technology is beginning to

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Speaker 1: mirror the kinds of things that for decades we've all

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Speaker 1: been familiar with from science fiction. Yeah, we expect to

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Speaker 1: see the kinds of things that we've only had experience

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Speaker 1: with on the silver screen, and so that can be

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Speaker 1: problematic because I think it instills a lot of fear

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Speaker 1: on the more hopeful side of things. I saw a

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Speaker 1: recent demonstration of chat GPT. Actually it was my brother

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Speaker 1: over the holidays a few months back who was showing

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Speaker 1: me this. It had just come out and he was Caleb,

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Speaker 1: my brother was really excited and said, look at all

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Speaker 1: the stuff that chat GPT can do. It could write songs,

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Speaker 1: I mean on the fly, It could pull up information,

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Speaker 1: historical information by the way, about for instance, UFO incidents,

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Speaker 1: and so I thought, well, this could be interesting, this

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Speaker 1: could perhaps be a research tool. What else could it

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Speaker 1: So after going home and experimenting a little bit myself,

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Speaker 1: you know, I was, and I don't want to say

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Speaker 1: I was entirely underwhelmed. I recognized the potential, I recognized

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Speaker 1: the capabilities, but I also started asking some questions of

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Speaker 1: not just that particular program, but actually a lot of

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Speaker 1: the different AI programs. I thought, I'm going to kind

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Speaker 1: of compare and contrast between a few of them, and

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Speaker 1: I started asking questions like, tell me about Aria, if

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Speaker 1: you won, tell me about you, all kinds of different

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Speaker 1: things related to topics that I guess Coast to coast

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Speaker 1: listeners would be very familiar with. And what I found,

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Speaker 1: Richard initially was that, first of all, there was a

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Speaker 1: lot of non factual information, I mean, incorrect, frankly, just

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Speaker 1: completely fabricated information that these chatbots will give you back.

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Speaker 1: And there are articles you'll read online that have talked

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Speaker 1: about this. We've covered it a bit over there at

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Speaker 1: the debrief as well. That a lot of the time

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Speaker 1: these AI are designed to provide seemingly authoritative information even

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Speaker 1: if it's wrong, And so we aren't to a point

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Speaker 1: yet where really, first of all, these computers can be

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Speaker 1: the absolute worst extreme. I mean, that's not exactly settling.

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Speaker 1: And again, unfortunately we're informed mostly by what we've seen

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Speaker 1: more reason why right now, and again, of course, leading

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Speaker 1: occurs in our biological brains. Right. But I asked doctor Gertzel,

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Speaker 1: And I asked doctor Gertzel, and he said, I mean,

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Speaker 1: But again, maybe that option isn't off or shouldn't be

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Speaker 1: Weapon Systems Application Program, which was a da program that

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Speaker 1: looked at UFOs and the Capella database, which was a

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Speaker 1: well may be more likely that what we are looking

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