554. Can A.I. Take a Joke?

554.人工智能可以开玩笑?

Freakonomics Radio

社会与文化

2023-08-24

48 分钟
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Artificial intelligence, we’ve been told, will destroy humankind. No, wait — it will usher in a new age of human flourishing! Guest host Adam Davidson (co-founder of "Planet Money") sorts through the big claims about A.I.'s future by exploring its past and present — and whether it has a sense of humor. (Part 1 of "How to Think About A.I.")

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  • Hey, there.

  • It's Stephen Dubner.

  • Today on the show, a rare occurrence and a welcome occurrence.

  • We have got a bona fide guest host.

  • This is a person whose name will be familiar to many of you, Adam Davidson.

  • Adam, welcome.

  • Thank you so much, Steven.

  • So, Adam, for freakonomics radio listeners, you are almost certainly best known for having.

  • Is it co created and then hosted the NPR show and podcast Planet Money.

  • Is that correct?

  • Yeah.

  • I sort of had two careers.

  • I had a career doing more human interest, more narrative stories for this american life, and a career doing very straight business stories.

  • And with my buddy Alex Blumberg, who was at this american life at the time, we thought, well, what if we put them together?

  • What if we made peanut butter and chocolate?

  • Peanut butter and chocolate, yeah.

  • You may be the one other person on the planet who can fully identify with that thought.

  • And so we first did this big hour about the housing crisis called the giant pool of money.

  • So that led to planet money, which Alex and I ran together for about five years and then eventually left for the New York Times and then later left for the New Yorker.

  • Planet money, we should say, is still alive and very, very well.