Patton Oswalt & Conan Discuss The Future Of A.I. | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

Patton Oswalt and Conan discuss ChatGPT, deepfakes, and how the inherent imperfection of humanity makes for great art.


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[aarondadvlogs]

If this were a Black Mirror episode, there'd be a twist at the end where this whole conversation was pre-written by an AI.

[APrettyGoodChannel]

It's funny, 10 years ago Patton was in a sci fi show (Caprica) playing a celebrity on TV where a society just discovered AI, and these same conversations were being had but were all fictional then.

[lNoWayAroundItl]

1:53 That is well put. Being a jaded millenial, my first thought in my mind for any new invention is 'how will someone weaponize this?'.

I do love hearing Patton geek out. He honestly would be a lot of fun in an A.I. apocalypse.

[FlowStateNewOrleans]

The Y2K "bug" was very real. Stuff didn't go haywire because a lot of programmers were hired (often out of retirement) to fix it. I knew older guys who hadn't even worked in tech for 15 or 20 years who took a hiatus from their careers because contracting companies were paying big bucks for people with those specific skills.

[pricerowland]

I like Matt playing the long game and trying to appease the AI overlords just in case they end up cutting him a check

[DanFloresII]

I like that Roku's Basilisk was mentioned but surprised it wasn't discussed more. This was 15 fantastic minutes. I should look up the entire episode.

[roadbeef]

"An axe doesn't get smarter" is a profound point, very well said

[tmattoneill]

I've never seen Conan less funny and I love it. This is possibly the best thing I've ever seen from him. No interruptions. No corny bits. Just great chat and banter.

[michaelrafales]

I could absolutely listen to this conversation go on for 35 hours and enjoy every minute of it.

[michaelelliott]

Patton is hilarious! Not underrated, not overrated, just rated A+

[Josephryker]

This had to be my favorite episode to date. The intro, the interview, and the outro! Comedy, erudite conversations, bits, everything Conan is and embodies. Has anyone else seen Class of ‘09? Great show and explores AI in the real world. Crazy stuff!

[ImpsDelight]

Patton is honestly such a great guest.

[Riptide]

8:42 I’ve waited for so long for Conan to acknowledge that video!

[pop_ulation]

Shout out to Sona and Matt for being Conan's forever guests weather they like it or not.

[artpro]

Conan says of Y2K, "now we all find that quaint." The reason things ended up working is because the problem was recognized and remediation was done on a massive scale. Many people worked tireslessly to fix those systems so that Conan could say, 23 years later, the problem was "quaint."

One of my families close friends began working on remediation of systems years ahead of 2000. He was part of large consortiums working to correct the problems. As Wikipedia notes:

"The total cost of the work done in preparation for Y2K likely surpassed US$300 billion ($510 billion as of January 2018, once inflation is taken into account).[131][132] IDC calculated that the US spent an estimated $134 billion ($228 billion) preparing for Y2K, and another $13 billion ($22 billion) fixing problems in 2000 and 2001. Worldwide, $308 billion ($523 billion) was estimated to have been spent on Y2K remediation.[133]"

It's that work that helped smooth over the transition, not that it was a "quaint" problem.

[katiequick]

I feel this way every time Spotify tries to complete a playlist for me. It's always terrible songs I would never pick and now I pre-hate the songs because I didn't pick them.

[LandoCalani]

Conan is a comedic genius, and he makes it seem so effortless.

[troygaspard]

Yes, no film shoot goes off perfectly, the crew and actors adapt quickly. Some of the best albums come from trouble in the studios while recording as well. Imperfection is very human.

[TheBhup]

A machine can’t get human nuance. Jordan enters the chat

[disky]

I'm glad there are people that I respect who have reasonable fears about this. So many people seem to be brushing it off as nothing, but it can and will do real harm.