Primer’s Sean Gourley: “AI is the biggest change to war since the internal combustion engine”

The Times Tech Podcast

• Episode: Primer’s Sean Gourley: “AI is the biggest change to war since the internal combustion engine”
• Website: The Times Tech Podcast
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• Duration: 00:51:59
• Published: 2023-03-17 05:29

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson things on Sean Gourley, founder of Primer AI, to talk about how he got into the industry (3:45), and then getting into counterintelligence (6:40), the image recognition revolution (9:00), raising money from the CIA (11:00), AI in war (16:30), how machines beat human Top Gun pilots (20:00), AI as the “third offset” (22:00), how the US is still living with a Cold War mentality (27:30), the AI arms race with China (30:00), the long ties between the Pentagon and Silicon Valley (34:15), how it has become easier to recruit (37:30), the Chat GPT effect (40:40), the next weapon of mass destruction (45:00), and Tiktok and the information war (48:00).

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