<em>Radio Atlantic</em>: What AI Means for Search
With Google and Microsoft releasing new AI tools, it feels like the future is now with artificial intelligence. But how transformative are products like ChatGPT? Should we be worried about their impact? Are they a new Skynet or just a new Clippy?
Staff writers Charlie Warzel and Amanda Mull discuss.
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The following is a transcript of the episode:
Charlie Warzel: It feels like we’re moving toward this search paradigm where search is going to get a little more fun, a little more entertaining, and, possibly, not any more accurate.
And instead, the debates that we’re going to have about who gets to decide what are being entrusted to huge complicated machine-learning models that we have no idea how they’re trained or what they’re gonna do. It kind of sounds like a nightmare.
Amanda Mull: Welcome to Radio Atlantic. I’m staff writer Amanda Mull and I’m here with fellow staff writer Charlie Warzel, who writes about technology for us. Lately, Charlie’s been considering the nascent AI arms race between Google and Microsoft and why, as he put it in a recent piece, Clippy has touched the face of God. Charlie, it’s great to have you.
Warzel: Happy to be here. Happy to talk about Clippy.
Great. Great. So, Charlie, lately you’ve been writing about and reporting on AI now that Bing and Google have mutually decided to make all of us think about AI. But first I want to talk about finding a
