Rod and Karen are joined by comedians, actors, and hosts of “The War Report Podcast”, Shalewa and Gastor, to discuss acting gigs, the Diddy verdict, Trump’s big beautiful bill, Elon Musk wants to start a new party, the TX flood, what it would take for a violent revolution in America, Welcome to the Cookout™, Gender Wars and Sword Ratchetness.
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I love Gastor and Shalewa I listen to the war report thanks to TBGWT and they are so hilarious. Please have them on often.
I think Shalewa was on point when she said that Diddy will probably get a pardon because more than he loves having his saggy musty balls gargled Dump loves money and Diddy is willing to pay the price for his freedom. And the sad thing is when he does pardon Diddy he’ll say this is something he did for the black community.
Diddy should have been under the jail when he shot that lady in the face and Shine took the fall for it. He’s a horrible person. I hated those making the band shows when he made Da Band walk 100 blocks for some damn cheesecake. I hope he drives into a sink hole.
(This is Charles from TransMissions)
I work on AI in my day job and Rod is right that it is automation, not actual intelligence. A lot of the history of AI and computing is figuring out how much of what humans do can actually be automated, and realizing that there’s still so much further to go to achieve actual “intelligence.” Years ago people thought that only human intelligence could do complex math calculations. But computers have us beat there easily. Then people thought a computer beating a grandmaster in chess would prove its intelligence, and that’s been done as well. And Alan Turing proposed the Turing Test that said if you could have a computer program fool a human in carrying on a conversation that would prove intelligence. Now chatbots powered by ChatGPT and other Large Language Models (LLMs) can do that too. But most people understand that neither a calculator, nor a chess-playing program, nor a sassy chatbot, nor any other computer program is actually intelligent. Humans have just figured out how to automate things that we used to think required human intelligence to do.
What scares me is that tech bro billionaires have the least understanding of what LLMs are and what they’re good for, and yet they think they can replace a large portion or all of human creative output? These LLMs are built in such a way that we don’t even understand how they work. At their core they are just algorithms that run very complex equations of billions of math operations based on the training data you feed into it. But the equations are so complex that it’s essentially a black box we don’t understand. We feed inputs into it and the outputs are mostly reasonable, but we have a very vague notion of how we got those outputs. It’s definitely not anything close to thinking or reasoning as we humans understand it. It’s mimicry, not creativity. And also, it takes so much energy and computing power (contributing to more climate change as well) to build these systems to badly mimic what a single human can do efficiently on a brain that runs on the equivalent of 20 watts of electricity.
LLMs can do some amazing things just by being essentially autocomplete on steroids. For example I use it to help write code sometimes. But I have to be the one responsible for making sure the code the LLM gives me actually works and doesn’t have any bugs. The LLM doesn’t actually understand what program I want to create, it just synthesizes code from all the existing code examples humans have already put on the Internet.
Maybe someday soon LLMs or some other new technology will be able to achieve something similar to human creativity, but I don’t think we’re close. The nightmare scenario isn’t Skynet becoming self aware and turning on its human masters, it’s the human masters deciding Skynet is good enough to replace actual human decision making. And the reality is that it doesn’t make decisions at all, it just follows an algorithm we don’t even understand that could have some disastrous fail state we didn’t anticipate.
I’ve started trying using AI to help with some mundane email tasks, and it’s not intelligent. It can automate, but it will still get dates wrong and I have to proofread closely honestly. The recent project I gave it was to summarize a list of events that i provided from links, give info with date/time/price, and then a blurb of info i had introducing and signing off. The “hard” work of compiling the data from the different sources was great, but it got an easy thing wrong that seemed like a human error I would make (Saying Friday August 9th, when it should read Saturday August 9th). It’s not artificially intelligent if it’s making the same organic stupid mistakes that a human would!
When Rod was talking about larger people eating on camera. Back when I was doing comedy on Japanese TV I ended up with an agent (it’s complicated), and they called me up and told me that they were looking for someone “like me” to be in an eating competition. Now, I may be above the average weight, but I actually don’t eat that much. And the idea that it could be used to either minimize my selection of roles going forward or be passed around by my students, in addition to the fact I would be last place in the eating competition led to an immediate no.
That’s just to say, good job on standing your ground, even though some lobster sounds delish atm.
As I chill with a cool refreshing German Bier while in Apia’s homebase. I recalled that in the last 5 years, we had Andrew Yang’s Forward Party (now where’s he gone?) & January this year Mark Cuban was talking about starting a new movement/political party with all the homeless Republicans who could no longer find a home in the GOP and of course Democrats were too Left for them. Forward Party interestingly wasn’t considered an option. It’s build from scratch and achieve glory in one cycle or bust. Elon’s party will go the same route and then he’ll blame Epstein, Madoff, and any dead person he can remember. Ya’ll better off with my leadership than any of them TRASH got to offer. Join the Orcas Protected Party (OPP) NOW
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The new Musk party could take away votes from republicans, but also, it could go nowhere as he concentrates on something totally different in a week. I also wonder who would really vote for a party founded by Musk, but than I look at who the people voted for in the last American election and see that everything is possible as long you are a white, rich man who loves to be angry, of course. Otherwise, it’s what about her emails.
But overall it’s good that they seem to be broken up for real.
AI, as I see it, now is a summery machine of what already exists and creates something similar to it. This can be useful! But I don’t see it creating anything new or innovative and as you said, it uses the work of authors without compensation. I try to switch it off when I can , because its suggestions were never helpful for me at work. It was always off, the tone all wrong. Maybe I’m missing something but I’m open to have my mind blown and it hasn’t happened yet.