This week on Futuristic we’re talking about the new ChatGPT-4o model, GPT officially passes the Turing Test, the OAI founder who thinks AGI is only 2-3 years away, Ilya has left OAI, Sam Altman doesn’t think we are worried enough about how AI will impact the economy, Google’s medical AI destroys GPT’s benchmark and outperforms doctors and ChatGPT-4 beat 100% of all psychologists in a study of Social Intelligence.

00:00 Kicking Off with Technical Glitches and AI Intrigues
00:31 Parenting in the Age of AI: A GPT-3 Experiment
01:45 Exploring Global Hypocrisy with GPT Conversations
03:55 Innovative Uses of GPT in Analyzing Budgets and Historical Figures
09:59 The Evolution of AI and Personal Computing: A 50-Year Journey
13:27 Tackling the Turing Test with GPT-4: Human or AI?
20:47 The Departure of OpenAI’s Chief Scientist: A Turning Point
23:12 The AI Timeline: Predictions and Implications
24:30 Exploring AGI Supremacy and Its Societal Impact
39:54 The Future of AI in Healthcare: A New Hope
43:31 AI’s Role in Psychology and Personal Well-being
54:17 Envisioning a Future with Personal Services AI

Futuristic 25

[00:00:00 ] Cameron: Welcome to the Futuristic Episode 25. We’re back. It’s the

[00:00:09 ] Cameron: 17th of May. Steve Sammartino got some technical issues this morning.

[00:00:13 ] Cameron: Sorry about that. Don’t know what’s going on. I think the AI is trying

[00:00:17 ] Cameron: to stop us from having this conversation. This is the conversation that doesn’t want you to hear.

[00:00:23 ] Steve: Sentient.

[00:00:24 ] Steve: Sentient.

[00:00:25 ] Cameron: Steve, um, tell me what’s been

[00:00:26 ] Cameron: going on in your corner of the world

[00:00:29 ] Cameron: since we last spoke.

[00:00:30 ] Steve: Yeah. Well, I, uh, I’ve been

[00:00:33 ] Steve: using GPT

[00:00:36 ] Steve: to influence my son. He won’t

[00:00:38 ] Steve: listen to me. So what I did the other day, we’re lying in bed and I

[00:00:41 ] Steve: was trying to tell him how social media isn’t as, Good as he

[00:00:45 ] Steve: thinks it is, certainly the wormholes that he is down, wasn’t interested in what I had to say. he

[00:00:51 ] Steve: said, what would you know?

[00:00:51 ] Steve: I said, well, why don’t we ask someone who knows

[00:00:53 ] Steve: everything, has a PhD in every single subject. And although he’s

[00:00:56 ] Steve: across ChatGPT and everything, he’s never really had a live conversation with

[00:01:00 ] Steve: the voice activated version. So I did that and I gave it to him. And, you know, I said, oh, my son really likes TikTok, but he goes down some terrible wormholes with his algorithms, and it’s, I’m not sure it’s making him smarter, and I asked him to ask a question back and forth, and he actually

[00:01:17 ] Steve: stopped and listened.

[00:01:18 ] Steve: It was almost like it had this

[00:01:20 ] Steve: Separation or a sense of authority, and he paid more

[00:01:23 ] Steve: attention to it. A little bit like, you know, when you, your clever uncle

[00:01:27 ] Steve: or someone that is not your dad, because who wants to listen to their dad? And it was a really

[00:01:32 ] Steve: interesting way to get some information across to him that he just wasn’t prepared to hear from me.

[00:01:39 ] Steve: And it was a really cool little

[00:01:41 ] Steve: thing, you know.

[00:01:42 ] Cameron: That is really cool. I like that. Well, the only thing that I’ve been doing any

[00:01:47 ] Cameron: different from what I normally do, which is coding and all that kind of crap, is You know, I go into GPT often, and I have conversations with

[00:01:53 ] Cameron: it about subjects that. I’m trying to unpick. What I’ve started doing is blogging those.

[00:01:59 ] Cameron: So if you go over to CameronReilly. com And have a look at some of my recent conversations, I just did one on American hypocrisy over

[00:02:06 ] Cameron: tariffs. How they’re always pushing

[00:02:08 ] Cameron: for free trade and they’re using the IMF and the World Bank to enforce free trade

[00:02:12 ] Cameron: and uh, no tariffs, no duties on other countries to open up their markets, but then they will apply tariffs

[00:02:19 ] Cameron: As and when they see fit to protect their domestic industries to punish, uh, China as they’ve been doing again recently under the Biden administration. I did a

[00:02:29 ] Cameron: post, uh, before that on, um, the conversation with

[00:02:34 ] Cameron: it about, uh, American hypocrisy over China, um, again, looking at world trade

[00:02:41 ] Cameron: disputes and, uh, complaining about China producing too much stuff! producing too much stuff! Like the U. S.

[00:02:48 ] Cameron: hasn’t been flooding the world with stuff for decades. Now China’s flooding the world with stuff. They’re like, you gotta stop it!

[00:02:54 ] Cameron: You’re producing too much

[00:02:55 ] Cameron: stuff! Too much clean energy! Stop, stop producing so many solar panels! You might make, you might clean up the world! Might do something about climate change! But anyway, the point is just, I’m just blogging these conversations because I think, okay, well I’m having

[00:03:09 ] Cameron: these conversations and uh, I should blog

[00:03:12 ] Cameron: them and share them.

[00:03:13 ] Cameron: I don’t know if anyone cares, probably not, but,

[00:03:15 ] Steve: know if anyone’s even done that. I mean, I’m just reading it now, and I agree with GPT, had some very

[00:03:21 ] Steve: good insights on why they do uh, have trade, uh, tariffs, um, embargoes, all those kind of things.

[00:03:31 ] Steve: It’s always been that way. And every economy

[00:03:33 ] Steve: is filled with contradictions, right? Uh, vested

[00:03:36 ] Steve: interests. And, and, and that’s the whole idea that, You know, pure capitalism has never existed, pure socialism, pure anything

[00:03:41 ] Steve: has never really existed. Um, but I like that idea that

[00:03:45 ] Steve: instead of having the conversation with yourself or talking about an interview, you’re just taking the screenshot And throwing it down there.

[00:03:54 ] Steve: It’s interesting. One interesting thing that I saw this week, a good friend of mine, I think you might know him now, Josh Rowe

[00:03:59 ] Steve: from Melbourne,

[00:04:00 ] Cameron: hmm,

[00:04:01 ] Steve: part of the early Twitter cohort back in

[00:04:04 ] Steve: And he, this week for the budget, he took all of the

[00:04:07 ] Steve: papers and the PDFs, and it might have been, you know, 3, 000 words of PDF documents that have been prepared

[00:04:13 ] Steve: for, for a time, and he put it on his,

[00:04:16 ] Steve: um, he’s got a a substack called AI at Every

[00:04:19 ] Steve: Scale, and

[00:04:21 ] Steve: what he did was upload all of the documents, give some parameters for GPT on what it was, what the documents are about, Um, uploaded to the brain, the

[00:04:30 ] Steve: documents that wouldn’t be in GPT

[00:04:32 ] Steve: given uh, you know, cut off

[00:04:35 ] Steve: time and said, okay,