Intelligent Machines 845: Pregnant With 83 Digital Assistants

Can radical optimism about AI truly shape our future, or are we stuck in a cycle of doom-and-hype? This episode features an unfiltered debate with Wired co-founder Kevin Kelly on why most fears about artificial intelligence might be missing the bigger picture.

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LLM-Based Multi-Agent System for Simulating and Analyzing Marketing and Consumer Behavior
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Tim Wu and Cory Doctorow's NPCs: Non-Player Consumers
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'A frightening development': How AI-Articles are flooding the internet with fake news
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Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Kevin Kelly

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