The Ezra Klein Show
The Ezra Klein Show
New York Times Opinion
How Should I Be Using A.I. Right Now?
There’s something of a paradox that has defined my experience with artificial intelligence in this particular moment. It’s clear we’re witnessing the advent of a wildly powerful technology, one that could transform the economy and the way we think about art and creativity and the value of human work itself. At the same time, I can’t for the life of me figure out how to use it in my own day-to-day job. So I wanted to understand what I’m missing and get some tips for how I could incorporate A.I. better into my life right now. And Ethan Mollick is the perfect guide: He’s a professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania who’s spent countless hours experimenting with different chatbots, noting his insights in his newsletter One Useful Thing and in a new book, “Co-Intelligence: Living and Working With A.I.” This conversation covers the basics, including which chatbot to choose and techniques for how to get the most useful results. But the conversation goes far beyond that, too — to some of the strange, delightful and slightly unnerving ways that A.I. responds to us, and how you’ll get more out of any chatbot if you think of it as a relationship rather than a tool. Mollick says it’s helpful to understand this moment as one of co-creation, in which we all should be trying to make sense of what this technology is going to mean for us. Because it’s not as if you can call up the big A.I. companies and get the answers. “When I talk to OpenAI or Anthropic, they don’t have a hidden instruction manual,” he told me. “There is no list of how you should use this as a writer or as a marketer or as an educator. They don’t even know what the capabilities of these systems are.” Book Recommendations: The Rise and Fall of American Growth by Robert J. Gordon The Knowledge by Lewis Dartnell Blindsight by Peter Watts Thoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at ezrakleinshow@nytimes.com. You can find transcripts (posted midday) and more episodes of “The Ezra Klein Show” at nytimes.com/ezra-klein-podcast. Book recommendations from all our guests are listed at https://www.nytimes.com/article/ezra-klein-show-book-recs. This episode of “The Ezra Klein Show” was produced by Kristin Lin. Fact-checking by Michelle Harris, with Mary Marge Locker and Kate Sinclair. Our senior engineer is Jeff Geld, with additional mixing from Efim Shapiro. Our senior editor is Claire Gordon. The show’s production team also includes Annie Galvin and Rollin Hu. Original music by Isaac Jones. Audience strategy by Kristina Samulewski and Shannon Busta. The executive producer of New York Times Opinion Audio is Annie-Rose Strasser. Special thanks to Sonia Herrero.
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Morbid
Morbid
Morbid Network | Wondery
Episode 551: Happy Land Social Club Arson
On the evening of March 24, 1990, nearly one hundred patrons gathered to celebrate Carnivale at the Happy Land Social Club, a small informal night club in the Bronx that catered to a mostly Honduran clientele. The evening took a deadly turn when, around 3:30 am, an explosion of fire roared up the stairway leading to the second-floor club, blocking the only exit from the building and trapping the patrons in a room rapidly filling with toxic smoke and fire. It’s unknown how many patrons managed to escape the fire, but by the time the fire department had extinguished the blaze, eighty-seven people were dead. Thank you to the amazing Dave White of Bring Me the Axe Podcast for research! References Barbanel, Josh. 1990. "Bronx social club's sublease: How a firetrap skirted the line." New York Times, March 28: B1. —. 1990. "Tracing the club's owners." New York Times, March 27: B2. Barron, James. 1990. "The living search the faces of the dead." New York Times, March 26. Blumenthal, Ralph. 1990. "Fire in the Bronx; 87 die in blaze at illegal club." New York Times, March 26. Gelman, Mitch, Alexis Jetter, and Beth Holland. 1990. "87 die in arson called act of spurned lover." Newsday, March 26: 3. Gilbert, Allison. 2020. "A faded tragedy's long shadow." New York Times, March 29. Golden, Tim. 1990. "In the saddest way, New York learns about Hondurans." New York Times, April 1. Hernandez, Raymond. 1995. "Survivors call settlement 'unjust'." New York Times, July 7. Hevesi, Dennis. 1992. "Guilty plea by landlord in fire case." New York Times, May 9. Hirsch, James. 1988. "Most social clubs run the gamut of illegality." New York Times, August 22. Kerr, Peter. 1986. "Social Clubs: Modern Mob still uses a few as offices." New York Times, April 15. Lambert, Bruce. 1991. "Confession tape on Bronx blaze is heard by jury." New York Times, August 1. Lorch, Donatella. 1991. "Ex-girlfriend recalls threat before flames." New York Times, July 31. —. 1991. "Witness tells of visit by Happy Land fire suspect." New York Times, July 31. Maykuth, Andrew. 1990. "N.Y. fire suspect described as 'down to his last hope'." Philadelphia Inquirer, 03 27: 1. McFadden, Robert. 1990. "The Knights of the Padlock Sweep Forth." New York Times, March 31. New York Times. 1990. "7 victims: their stories, struggles and dreams of better lives." New York Times, March 29. Nieves, Evelyn. 1991. "Refugee found guilty of killing 87 in Bronx Happy Land fire." New York Times, August 20. People of the State of New York v. Julio Gonzalez. 1995. 163 Misc. 2d 950 (New York Supreme Court, Bronx County, February 10). Purdy, Matthew. 1995. "More than five years after the arson fire at the Happy Land Social Club..." New York Times, July 7. Roberts, Sam. 2016. "Julio Gonzalez, arsonist who killed 87 at a nightclub in the Bronx, dies at 61." New York Times, September 15. Schanberg, Sydney. 1990. "Please, some respect for 87 who died." Newsday, April 13: 62. Stanley, Alessandra. 1991. "At Happy Land mass-murder trial, days of tears, humor and boredom." New York Times, July 28. Stanley, Allessandra. 1990. "25 years to life for the arsonist at Happy Land." New York Times, September 20. Strom, Stephanie. 1990. "Hispanic residents rally against closing of social clubs." New York Times, April 6. Terry, Don. 1990. "Social club crackdown is the latest in a series." New York Times, March 26: A1. Wichers, Christine. 1990. "Male violence the real cause of Bronx fire." New York Times, April 10. THE BUTCHER GAME will be released on September 17th, 2024! To Pre-order go to (https://zandoprojects.com/books/the-butcher-game/) PLUS! If you preorder the book, get an autographed poster  while supplies last by visiting (http://thebutchergame.com/) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
1 hr 20 min
Radiolab
Radiolab
WNYC Studios
Short Cuts: Drawn Onward
As a treat for the first palindrome date of the calendar year 2024, 4/2/24, (for those who use U.S. formatting of dates anyway), we are releasing a special audio palindrome. A piece that plays the same forward and backward. It’s called “Drawn Onward” and it comes from the producers Alan Goffinski and Sarita Bhatt. It originally aired on the wonderful BBC show Short Cuts which curates fresh, experimental, adventurous audio journeys. _Special thanks to Alan Goffinski, Sarita Bhatt, Josie Long, Eleanor McDowall, BBC Short Cuts_ EPISODE CREDITS: Reported by - Alan Goffinski, Sarita Bhatt, with help from - Alan Goffinski, Sarita Bhatt Original music and sound design contributed by - Alan Goffinski EPISODE CITATIONS: Articles - BBC Short Cuts full episode: _Meeting Myself Coming Back_ _Our newsletter comes out every Wednesday. It includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. __Sign up__ (https://radiolab.org/newsletter)!_ _Radiolab is supported by listeners like you. Support Radiolab by becoming a member of __The Lab__ (https://members.radiolab.org/) today._ _Follow our show on __Instagram__, __Twitter__ and __Facebook__ @radiolab, and share your thoughts with us by emailing __radiolab@wnyc.org__._ _Leadership support for Radiolab’s science programming is provided by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Science Sandbox, a Simons Foundation Initiative, and the John Templeton Foundation. Foundational support for Radiolab was provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation._
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