Tyler Cowen on AI and China
Jan 09, 2023•1 hr 20 min
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Episode description
Tyler Cowen of Marginal Revolution makes his ChinaTalk debut!
We get into:
- How AI is going to change art, education, politics and human relationships
- Why Tyler tried to write a book to explain America to the PRC
- How babies born in 2023 will see their educations changed by AI;
- Playing chess against the computer and creativity in the AI era;
- Religion, American antisemitism, and the movie Her;
- Writing a book about America for Chinese people;
- Why China is one of the hardest countries to predict.
Outtro Music: Beethoven X, an AI-assisted version of Beethoven's unfinished 10th symphony https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rvj3Oblscqw
For more context: smithsonianmag.com/innovation/how-artificial-intelligence-completed-beethovens-unfinished-10th-symphony-180978753/
Image by midjourney seeded with a photo of Tyler.
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