2025-12-22
20 分钟The Economist Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.
I'm your host, Rosie Bloor.
Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.
Can men and women truly be friends?
It's an age-old debate and now the data bots have weighed in.
not with the answer,
but what it says about societies where those relationships are common or discouraged.
And after something of a hiatus, apparently what the young want these days is five gold rings,
a note is not just the season.
After a boom in silver and other glycery things, the metals are turning once again.
First up though.
AI is the defining technology of our time and how we empower people to use it will shape our country's future.
Real sustainable improvements in quality of life come from scientific and technological progress and I think we're going to have a lot more of that.
Advances in technology have freed much of humanity to focus less on subsistence and more on the pursuits that we choose.
AI is seen by a lot of people as this miracle technology,
but its latest feat seems to be to bring forth videos of things like skateboarding kittens,
wrestling grannies, and a cage fighting Albert Einstein.
OpenAI recently launched this video creation app called Sora,
and since then everybody's social media feeds have been flooded with these surreal,
weird AI-generated videos.