Seriously, What Is ‘Superintelligence’?

Michael Calore: Yeah.

Katie Drummond: We need to do more reporting on this. I think that the compensation of people in Silicon Valley is fascinating.

Lauren Goode: Well, if anyone would like to weigh in, if you’re a recruiter, if you’re a person who’s been made one of these offers from the Meta superintelligence lab, we want to hear from you.

Michael Calore: Big money.

Katie Drummond: We sure do.

Lauren Goode: Our signals are out there.

Michael Calore: Big money, no whammies.

Lauren Goode: Now we know what Katie would leave us for: to go work for Mark Zuckerberg.

Katie Drummond: A hundred million dollars is a lot of money. It’s a lot of money.

Lauren Goode: It’s a lot of money.

Katie Drummond: That would be tough for me. I don’t think I could do it.

Lauren Goode: Yep. If you invest it, well, it’d be a lot of money for your kids’ kids’ kids.

Katie Drummond: I know, but then I’d have to tell my kid what I do, and I don’t know that I could do that. I’m being totally honest. I don’t think I could do it. Let me be clear, there are a lot of fantastic people who work at Meta. I mean, this is not a repudiation of anyone’s decisions or career choices or where they have chosen to work, given my background and what I do for a living, yeah, I don’t know. I don’t think I could do that.

Michael Calore: You get to be part of the superintelligence revolution.

Katie Drummond: I don’t want to.

Michael Calore: Maybe just use the chatbot and then you can feel like you’re a part of it.

Katie Drummond: Yeah, there you go. I have some pressing and highly personal questions for Meta’s chatbot, and as soon as we get off this recording, I’m going to go ask all of them in private.

Michael Calore: I look forward to reading them on the [inaudible 00:30:11].

Lauren Goode: Katie’s like, how do I extract myself from a work project that has me locked in a room for two hours every week?

Katie Drummond: Oh dear.

Michael Calore: OK, let’s take another break, and we’ll come right back with recommendations.

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Michael Calore: All right, thank you both for a great conversation about superintelligence. So I think it’s time to give our listeners something from our own superintelligent human brains, our recommendations for the week. Lauren, would you like to go first?

Lauren Goode: Sure. I recently learned that by using generative AI tools like ChatGPT, you can get your color analysis done. Have either of you ever done this?

Michael Calore: No.

Katie Drummond: No.

Lauren Goode: So this is a thing that is part of the beauty influencer world online where typically you would pay someone, sometimes a human, sometimes an app that has human input, to analyze the color of your hair, skin, eyes, skin tone, all that, and tell you what season you are and then tell you what clothing you should wear in a way that accentuates your whole situation.