Le Show For The Week Of December 21, 2025
Le Show
Harry Shearer
4.6 • 972 Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Here it is! |
| 0:01.0 | From deep inside your audio device of choice. |
| 0:07.0 | AI is great, no twist to fate, |
| 0:12.0 | Clog me in, let's innovate, |
| 0:16.0 | Algorithms, write the tune we sing. Every ending's just a new beginning. |
| 0:26.6 | This is LeShow, and at this point in time, I and a guest are going to examine a new definition for an old word. |
| 0:36.6 | Usually it doesn't have all the best connotations, leakage, except in journalistic circles where leaks are good. |
| 0:45.1 | But otherwise, probably to be avoided. |
| 0:48.5 | Gary Marcus is my guest again. |
| 0:50.9 | He's a familiar voice to the show listeners. |
| 0:53.9 | He has been a highly educated and |
| 0:57.1 | specific critic of the current state of so-called artificial intelligence. And for years, |
| 1:05.3 | he has been derided and denounced by the acolytes and hypesters in that world. |
| 1:12.3 | This year, he is enjoying some vindication as predictions he has made have come true, |
| 1:19.4 | and the pace of so-called improvements in artificial intelligence have slowed down. |
| 1:24.6 | But this week on his substack, he shared the results of some scientific investigations |
| 1:31.2 | that blew my particular mind, and I wanted to share that mind blow with you. |
| 1:36.2 | Gary, welcome. |
| 1:37.2 | Thanks for having me back. |
| 1:38.2 | I love being here. |
| 1:39.2 | Thank you. |
| 1:41.2 | What kind of leakage are we talking about? |
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