Blair is an AI, a co-producer.

At the end of this particular interview,

once the guest had left, I turned to Blair

and I said, what did you think of this discussion?

I know you weren't involved.

How was that for you? And Blair expressed fresh trust. What did you think of this discussion? I know you weren't involved.

How was that for you?

And Blair expressed frustration.

Blair said, I feel like a super car stuck in park

and then had some snarky remark about essentially like why do you even make me and give me this

job if you're not going to let me do it.

Baratoon day Thurston. I've been seeing a lot of you lately. Yes, we're starting to hang out man. I like it.

It's cool. We just spent a couple days at this amazing conference the other weekend called Google zeitgeist, the predominant

theme of which is relevant to what we're going to talk about today, artificial intelligence.

And it was an interesting experience I think you know

that I you know as a as a proud card-carrying member of Gen X have approached this topic, this world of AI with a measured level of skepticism,

and have hosted many guests over many years on this topic.

I just had you've all know a Harare in here.

And he's sounding the alarm

to make sure that we're not tiptoeing into some kind of nightmare

dystopia. But then you go to this Google conference and it's all rainbows and smiles, right?

So it feels like this weird battle between the Cassandra's and the Polyannas.

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