Welcome back to Ty and that guy. Very special Ty in that guy. We're still in the living room.

We're in, Ty is here in the flesh. Very excited about that. A lot of flesh.

Notice that shirt.

God damn, I love him.

I love him so much.

He's driven across country to come and spend some time with his lover, sometimes hugger,

sometimes snuggler.

We have been talking about Black Mirror, and this episode we're going to talk about Joan is awful. Yeah, yeah, I know.

This is one I wanted to talk about, not so much about the episode, but about the questions that the episode brings up, which I think is a really interesting combination of two things. And this is a classic

Black Mirror episode, because Black Mirror is about the ethical and moral questions that come up

from technology, human interaction with technology. And this episode is about two technologies

that are ubiquitous right now and in the public consciousness

and what happens when we marry them together.

So everybody's carrying a phone around. The name Black Mirror comes from phones.

So if there's this device that you carry on your person which monitors everything you do all day. Then you combine

that technology in this episode with the relatively new technology of generative AI, which is

computer programs that can take a massive data, use that massive data to create variations on the data.

So you can take every story you ever written, put it in this thing, then somebody says,

write a story about a princess who fights with a goblin.

And it goes through all those stories and it finds the commonalities between all those stories

that are about princess, about goblins, about fighting goblins,

and creates a story out of that sort of refining and dendetting of that data.

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