The man, woman, group, or concept that had the most influence on the world, for better or worse, during the previous 12 months.
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00:00 [MUSIC]
00:11 She's been this light in the world this year.
00:14 She's brought so many people together.
00:16 Thank you for writing music that expresses feelings nobody else can express.
00:21 It's more of like a community too.
00:23 It's not even just her.
00:25 It just made me feel like I wasn't alone,
00:27 and I wasn't crazy for feeling the way that I was feeling.
00:30 We grew up together.
00:31 We all went through the same things together.
00:34 It's a massive stadium,
00:35 and it feels like you're with her one-on-one.
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00:42 Friendship bracelets are a huge part of the Ares Tour.
00:45 These bracelets are so important.
00:47 Exchanging special handmade friendship bracelets.
00:50 It all goes back to Taylor's song,
00:52 You're on Your Own Kick.
00:54 [MUSIC]
01:00 So my friends and I got tickets to the Ares Tour.
01:02 We had about 200 bracelets made.
01:05 We just couldn't stop.
01:07 We really just had a good time doing it.
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01:13 You realize 200 bracelet was way too many for us to all bring and trade.
01:17 Kim actually came up with the idea to put them on Etsy and sell them.
01:21 I went to bed, woke up the next morning,
01:23 and we had over 300 bracelets on order.
01:26 I was just refreshing the Etsy page,
01:28 and I could see the sales going up.
01:29 It was like five, six, seven.
01:31 I was like, "Oh my gosh, I'm going to have to make 200 bracelets tomorrow morning."
01:35 Then finally, like, "Okay, we shut it down. We shut it down.
01:37 We only have to make like 50."
01:39 We're like, "Okay, shh. Okay, we can do that."
01:40 Fifty back then was so many.
01:42 We weren't expecting to get much money,
01:44 a couple of hundred dollars at the most.
01:46 This morning, I ran the numbers and we're at $19,000 in sales.
01:51 The Aristore is my Roman Empire.
01:54 I think about it all the time, every day.
01:56 I hear a song. That's a great bracelet song.
01:59 That's a good thing to put on a bracelet.
02:00 This business definitely keeps us in touch.
02:03 Two of us live in Massachusetts,
02:04 the other two live in Connecticut.
02:06 Now, we have to meet up and trade bracelets,
02:08 drop off, talk almost every single day.
02:10 Keep making more songs, Taylor,
02:12 so we can keep making more bracelets.
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02:23 I went to the Reputation Tour.
02:25 I was right next to a security guard.
02:28 So we struck up a conversation,
02:30 and he told me about the gig that he has.
02:32 A couple years later, I found some free time,
02:34 so I picked up that job,
02:37 ultimately to try and work a Taylor Swift concert.
02:40 During a sold-out show,
02:42 security guard and self-proclaimed "Swifty"
02:44 Calvin Dinker was working on the floor.
02:46 I worked kind of right along the edge of her stage.
02:50 After night one, I made little pieces of paper
02:53 that asked the audience if they could take photos of me
02:56 with Taylor Swift in the background and text it to me.
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03:12 When she came right behind me, there were a ton of fans,
03:14 and I had to look at the fans.
03:16 I saw all of their faces light up when she gets near them,
03:20 and it was just a sight,
03:22 even if I wasn't looking at her on that stage.
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03:46 -Oh, my God!
03:48 Oh, my God!
03:51 -So I think the squeal is mom.
03:54 -They had me kneel up on the stage,
03:56 and I see Taylor Swift coming toward me.
03:59 -This has become a special moment
04:00 every night at the Aries Tour.
04:02 Each night, Swift picks a young fan
04:04 to give that hat to during the song "22."
04:07 -Everything I do is handmade,
04:09 and it's like a beautiful process
04:11 because it's more intimate, my connection with the hats.
04:16 I was already working with Taylor's wardrobe team,
04:20 and they approached me to do the classic fedora
04:23 for the video for "22."
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04:29 The connection that she has with her fan in that moment,
04:33 it was so emotional for me to see.
04:36 It was so beautiful.
04:38 Taylor has been empowering so many women with her music,
04:42 and to me, to be a part of that,
04:44 always I'm trying to empower women with my craftsman
04:47 and be together.
04:48 It's so beautiful to me.
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05:04 -I always knew from, like, the moment I wanted to propose,
05:07 I wanted to do it at a Taylor Swift concert.
05:09 I just never thought it would happen, you know?
05:12 I was like, "What are the logistics of that?
05:14 How long am I willing to wait?"
05:16 -It's a once-in-a-lifetime type of thing.
05:18 I was like, "Okay, I've got to figure out
05:21 how I'm going with the ring, one.
05:23 I need to see where exactly in the lyrics
05:25 I have to nail down to, you know, nail it."
05:28 -All I could think of is, "What is the line
05:30 I need to go down on one knee on?"
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05:34 [ Cheers and applause ]
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05:47 -Two to three weeks before the actual date of the tour --
05:50 yeah, I never told you this --
05:52 I would play the song whenever I would go to work
05:55 and whenever I would come back just to make sure,
05:58 "Okay, this is the part that I have to nail down."
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06:08 [ Cheers and applause ]
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06:20 -We got so many different angles of the proposal.
06:23 I have some of them saved as, like, Swiftie section 326.
06:27 -I mean, I've never seen so much brightness
06:30 and glitter around all in one spot.
06:33 I've never been a part of such a supportive community like that.
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06:40 -I just knew that when I proposed to Nick,
06:43 I needed Taylor to be a part of it
06:45 because she's been such a momentous,
06:48 impactful person for Nick his whole life.
06:51 And as much as I love her, too,
06:53 it just felt like this is something
06:55 I want Nick to remember forever.
06:57 I want everything he loves to be a part of the experience for him.
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07:06 -She's been there on the hardest days of my life,
07:10 and she's been there for the best days of my life.
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07:22 For her to be able to successfully relate
07:24 to so many people in the way that she has, it's amazing.
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07:40 Definitely one of the confusing parts of this technology
07:43 is just the overall power.
07:47 -If it seems like everyone is suddenly talking about AI,
07:51 that is because they are.
07:53 -At this point, I'm sure you've heard of ChatGPT.
07:55 -ChatGPT.
07:56 -You're gonna say, "Yeah, man, ChatGPT."
07:58 -Well, it was developed by the American company OpenAI.
08:01 -OpenAI founder and CEO Sam Altman
08:03 testifying on Capitol Hill later today.
08:05 He's gonna face questions about artificial intelligence
08:08 and the rapid growth of ChatGPT.
08:10 -As this technology advances,
08:12 we understand that people are anxious
08:14 about how it could change the way we live.
08:16 -At the most consequential technology of our time,
08:18 artificial intelligence.
08:20 -Their attempts to instill AI as a normal operating procedure
08:25 is literally dehumanizing the workforce.
08:28 -The CEO of OpenAI was ousted, and now he's back in.
08:32 -The company's board of directors
08:34 said it had lost confidence in Altman.
08:36 Well, now all but one of those board members is being replaced.
08:40 -In a deep sense, AI is the technology that the world,
08:49 the society, people have always wanted.
08:51 Sci-fi has been talking about this for a very long time.
08:53 -Hello, I'm here.
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08:58 -Wake up, daddy's home.
09:00 -Welcome home, sir.
09:01 -A chat interface is very powerful.
09:03 We all know how to use that.
09:05 You can represent a lot of simple or complex concepts in language,
09:09 and the new abilities that you give someone
09:12 with an interface like this, I think, clearly resonated.
09:15 -So you can kind of date the beginning of 2023
09:19 really to November 2022,
09:22 which is when OpenAI released ChatGPT.
09:25 They weren't necessarily the first to have developed this technology in-house,
09:29 but they were the first to release it into the world.
09:32 ChatGPT was followed by GPT-4,
09:36 which is significantly more powerful and capable than ChatGPT.
09:40 -It understands images and can express logical ideas about them.
09:45 For example, it can tell us that if the strings in this image were cut,
09:49 the balloons would fly away.
09:51 -People extrapolated from the capabilities of ChatGPT
09:54 to the capabilities of GPT-4 and began thinking,
09:57 "Okay, what's the technology that's going to come out in five years
10:01 going to look like?
10:02 What's the technology that's going to come out in 10 years going to look like?"
10:05 -We think it's very important to our mission to deploy things like ChatGPT
10:09 so that people gain some experience and feeling
10:13 of the capabilities and limitations of these systems.
10:16 -Now, there are some criticisms of this.
10:20 One is that it creates so-called race dynamics,
10:23 companies all fighting to be first to market,
10:26 to release these tools potentially dangerously,
10:28 cut back on safety research in order to move faster.
10:31 -I don't think it's helpful to just sort of pretend like,
10:34 "Oh, it's all certain to be fine."
10:35 We can manage this. I am confident about that.
10:37 But we won't successfully manage it if we're not extremely vigilant
10:41 about the risks and if we don't talk very frankly
10:43 about how badly it could go wrong.
10:46 -Sam Altman is a very capable public speaker and public operator.
10:51 Over the course of 2023, he's really been on what you could call
10:54 a victory tour and you could call a listening tour as well.
10:57 He has been around the world.
10:59 He has testified in front of the Senate committee.
11:02 He has this kind of unique ability to be many things to many people.
11:06 And that requires a combination of skills.
11:09 It requires understanding the core scientific problems, sure,
11:11 but it also requires being effectively a businessman
11:16 and also a politician.
11:18 -When we first started, we thought we could just be a nonprofit,
11:21 but the costs of compute for these systems is quite intense.
11:26 And so we thought really hard and designed a structure
11:28 where our nonprofit has full control and governance
11:32 over a capped for-profit subsidiary that can make a certain amount of money
11:37 for its investors and employees to let us do what we need to do
11:40 because these models are extraordinarily expensive.
11:44 -Sam Altman, who has drawn comparisons to tech giants like Steve Jobs,
11:49 was dismissed by the Open AI Board Friday.
11:52 -The board didn't come through with further information
11:56 about why it had chosen to make such a substantial decision.
11:59 Satya Nadella, the Microsoft CEO, said that Altman and Brockman
12:03 could start up a new AI lab within Microsoft.
12:06 And many of Open AI's employees signed an open letter
12:10 saying that they would go and join Microsoft.
12:13 And what this did was it backed the board into a very difficult position.
12:16 Altman's ability to basically engineer himself back onto the CEO's chair
12:21 of Open AI is testament to the incredible power that he wields.
12:25 One of the questions is now, is Open AI trending towards a future
12:30 where it's a traditional tech company, where it sells its AI services
12:34 to customers and where the incentives are largely to stay ahead of competitors?
12:40 And to what extent is it going back to its original roots as a research lab,
12:44 one that is willing to take decisions that might hurt its financial incentives
12:49 if it means developing AI slightly more safely?
12:52 -Lino Messi is Times Athlete of the Year over several excellent candidates.
13:12 The reason Messi stands out is because of the football fever that he brought
13:18 to the United States and really to the world throughout the year.
13:23 Messi's had better statistical years than 2023,
13:26 but starting late last year, he won his first ever World Cup.
13:30 -That's true. We cannot stop talking about the World Cup final.
13:33 It lived up to the hype and then some.
13:36 -It was a crowning achievement of Lino Messi's singular career.
13:40 And since that time, everything he's done has just been incrementally
13:45 more important and more relevant to sports fans around the world.
13:49 -It's over! The first ever League's Cup champions are Lino Messi and the Dividers!
13:56 -So let's just talk about his on-field ability.
14:01 He's like 5'6", 5'7". He's not a huge guy, but that hasn't stopped him at all.
14:06 His left foot is magical. He'll see passing angles that nobody else sees.
14:09 He'll know where the ball is going before anybody else does.
14:12 He kind of approaches the game like a game of chess, always moving and thinking.
14:16 And he's an unselfish player. He's always threading the needle with beautiful passes.
14:20 Throughout his career, he set the standard of excellence on the field,
14:24 and that's pretty influential. There's a lot of kids around the world that play soccer.
14:28 Many, if not most of them, are trying to play like Messi. Messi is the standard.
14:33 -Breaking news. Lionel Messi set to leave PSG at the end of the current season.
14:39 After his contract ran out in Paris Saint-Germain, there was all this talk about where Lionel Messi would play.
14:46 Would he stay in Paris? Would he go to Barcelona, the club that signed him when he was just a 13-year-old boy?
14:53 Would he take more than a billion dollars, reportedly, from a team in Saudi Arabia?
14:58 He kind of defied a lot of expectations by signing with Inter Miami,
15:03 which at the time was a last place club in Major League Soccer, but more relevantly,
15:09 isn't thought of by world soccer fans as one of the top leagues in the world.
15:14 -It's a new era for American soccer.
15:17 The impact was he's changed forever the trajectory of soccer in America,
15:24 which is just one country in the world, but also happens to be the biggest commercial sports market on the planet.
15:30 -Tickets for Tuesday night's game sold out in minutes.
15:33 -The most expensive Major League Soccer game ever.
15:36 -When Messi came here and the way he came here, he just captivated soccer fans and non-soccer fans alike.
15:43 -Messi!
15:45 -He scored 10 goals in his first seven games in Inter Miami, scoring in the final of the League's Cup,
15:51 which helped put the game into penalty kicks and give Inter Miami that championship.
15:55 -It is Messi's moment. It is Messi's night.
15:58 -He was so big that the media partner of MLS, Apple, decided we're going to give him a cut of every additional subscription
16:08 we get to our service because he's here.
16:11 -Messi is here!
16:12 -The day before Messi played his first game in Miami, Apple signed about 6,000 new subscribers.
16:19 The day of his debut, over 100,000 people signed up for Apple TV+.
16:26 -And you just see it. Lionel Messi. He comes to New York, everybody has a message here.
16:30 In Miami, everybody just wants to be around him.
16:32 -Messi!
16:37 -Messi!
16:39 -Soccer has grown here. It's become more popular. European League games are broadcast here.
16:44 Kids talk about their favorite players overseas.
16:46 So it's not to say that soccer in the U.S. hasn't been on the upswing, but the growth is going to be accelerated now.
16:53 The interest is going to be accelerated now.
16:55 All because of one person.
16:57 -Messi!
17:01 -Couldn't have been any other way!
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