What Could Go Wrong?

De: Scott Z. Burns

Narrado por: Scott Z. Burns

Predicting a global pandemic in a hit movie was impressive. Writing a sequel that will work for today’s world might take a whole different kind of intelligence.

Join Scott Z. Burns, the acclaimed screenwriter of Contagion, as he embarks on a mind-bending quest to create a worthy follow-up to his eerily prophetic film. Reuniting with director Steven Soderbergh, members of the cast and crew, and the scientific experts who advised him on the first film, Burns also turns to an unexpected collaborator: artificial intelligence. But can AI predict the source of the next global pandemic—or at least help convince a Hollywood studio to buy your movie pitch? Down the rabbit hole we go, slipping deeper and deeper into the surreal and unknown to explore if human creativity and AI could join forces.

In this deeply thoughtful, occasionally frightening, and often hilarious behind-the-scenes series, Burns assembles an extraordinary collection of minds (both skeptics and optimists) across the world of academia, the sciences, journalism, and the entertainment industry to weigh in. But Burns' most intriguing collaborators? His ever-expanding cast of AI-generated partners led by the incomparable Lexter, Scott’s extraordinarily gifted, sharp-tongued writing partner and, well ... friend. As the adventure spirals into uncharted territory, one question looms large: In this brave new world of human-AI collaboration, what could possibly go wrong? Listen to find out.

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Babs. I need more angry Babs in my life! 🤣

An insider’s look at the battle lines between/amongst/emerging from the intersection of creative processes and AI. Thought provoking in ways I didn’t expect, funny in ways I never saw coming…and ultimately inevitable in ways we simply can’t prevent.

Well done Scott.

(No…I didn’t use an LLM to write this!)

An interesting and insightful listen

Good level headed exploration of the topic without the usual hysteria or aggrandizement. Nice work, Scott!

Fascinating & thought provoking

The format worked really well to weave two distinct entities together. Using the movie theme to introduce and dissect numerous elements of how AI can be used as a tool for good was very clever. It doesn’t dismiss the potential problems inherent in the burgeoning technology rather it highlights them while shedding light on how to use the technology with an open mind and introspection

This was Really Good

I like his (AI) ending, I do agree it could bring in one of the main Characters possibly 2 of them, for the ending. I would watch that movie.

Documentary

Interesting… However, I can’t believe how much deference they gave to AI machines… It has occurred to me that we really need to love one another as humans in the face of this disruptive technology.