143: No Such Thing As Chariots in Space

No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

4.8 • 17.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2016

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Dan, James, Anna and Alex discuss placebo pharmacies, Britain's 17th century space program, and the robot that cheats at Rock, Paper, Scissors.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Things A Fish, a weekly podcast coming
0:19.6	to you from the QI offices in Culvernt Garden.
0:22.7	My name is Dan Schreiber, I am sitting here with Anichesinski, James Harkin and Alex Bell,
0:28.6	and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts
0:32.2	from the last seven days and in an open-tacular order, here we go, starting with you, James.
0:39.2	My fact this week is that scientists at MIT have invented an artificial intelligence that
0:44.9	can see into the future, but it can only tell two seconds into the future.
0:49.1	Totally useless.
0:53.1	What's it reported about?
0:54.1	It knew you were going to say that.
0:57.0	So this is really cool.
0:59.5	What they did was they got this algorithm to watch TV shows like the office and the big
1:05.6	bang theory.
1:08.0	And it watched what people did when they met each other.
1:10.5	So did you go in for a hug or a kiss or a handshake or a high five and then when you
1:15.3	showed them a picture of two people coming near each other, it could work out what they
1:19.3	were going to do, whether they were going to high five, whether they were going to hug
1:22.1	whether they were going to kiss or whatever.
1:24.0	So that's basically as far as this has gone so far.
1:26.5	It's still pretty good for an AI.
1:28.5	And I'm surprised it was able to do this based on the office and the big bang theory,
1:31.6	both of which are about totally socially inept people.
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