china says that contraption over the united states is just researching weather. yeah, okay, sure. the lead starts right now. china is calling it a civilian airship. the u.s. calls it a spy balloon. whatever you call it, it s causing a huge diplomatic riff between two global superpowers as the pentagon contemplates shooting it down. and hate in home schooling. the discovery of disturbing pro-nazi and disturbing teachings to kids in ohio sparking a debate over what parents can teach their children at home under the auspices of education. chatgpt growing faster than tiktok or instagram, bound to revolutionize how we operate, maybe even about to take your day job. welcome to the lead. secretary of state blinken is talking about his canceled trip to china. let s listen in. in our skies is a clear violation of our sovereignty, a clear violation of international law, and clearly unacceptable. and we ve made that clear to china. any country that has its air space violated
reporter: with an estimated 100 million unique visitors already this year, the two-month old gbt is growing faster than tiktok or instagram initially did analysts say and generating endless headlines about an artificial intelligence revolution. if we had a day i could fill every hour in that day with some of the perils of this technology and why we ought to be fascinated and concerned. reporter: they use a database and a.i. to solve math problems, generate computer codes, write sentences, paragraphs, whole pages that seem very human. at the u.s. capitol. this is a critical step forward in an era where a.i. and implications are taking center stage in public discourse. reporter: a congressman gave a speech he says entirely written by chat gpt. i wanted to spotlight this for congress so that we have a debate now about purposeful
a new artificial intelligence chat bot, chat gpt has fascinated and terrified the internet with its incredible writing ability, from essays to news articles, even complex computer codes. this thing is scary good. so as a test, the show asked it to write a poem about this show and see what it would come up with. an instant later, this is what it came up with. in the cnn newsroom with pamela brown, a steady voice that carries through the town. she brings us news from near and far, informing us with her journalistic charm. i don t know about how true that is, but that s pretty impressive that it just shot that out so quickly. so the question is, are we ready for this brave new world? let s discuss with author and futurist ian kahn. let s dive right in. both the promises and perils of this technology. i want to start with the good
fails to abide by the commitments that they have made time and time again. facebook lies about what they are doing. yesterday, facebook had a platform outage. but for years, it has had a principles outage. it s only real principle is profit. facebook s platforms are not safe for young people. as you said, facebook is like big tobacco, enticing young kids with that first cigarette, that first social media account designed to hook kids as users for life. m it shows that facebook uses harmful features that push manipulative influencer marketing, amplify harmful content to teens. and last week, in this committee, facebook wouldn t even commit to not using these features on 10-year-olds. facebook is built on computer codes of misconduct. senator blumenthal and i have
difference. a former new york coal plant, its owners greenwich generation have decided to bring it back to life, converting it into a gas fired power station with a twist. what is happening here is part of a modern day gold rush. but they are not mining minerals here, they are not mining minerals here, they are not mining minerals here, they are mining bitcoin. bitcoin is a type of virtual money or cryptocurrency made up of computer codes you can mostly buy and sell online. these thousands of computers are competing to verify the millions of bitcoin transactions happening around the world. and if they succeed, they are rewarded with a new bitcoin. there are essentially creating money online. 0ne bitcoin is currently worth over £28,000. these computers need a lot of energy. the unique thing about this plant is it generates electricity and mines bitcoin. these are the turbines that create the energy. and then literally, right next to it, you have computers that are using that electricit