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Le Show

Le Show For The Week Of July 28, 20224

Le Show

Harry Shearer

Sports, News, Tech News, Music, Society & Culture, Politics

4.6972 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s edition of Le Show, Harry brings us regular features like News of AI, News of the Olympic Movement, News of the Godly, and The Apologies of the Week. He also discusses how AI is “high on it’s own supply,” why Brazilian sharks have traces of cocaine in their systems, and why Donald Trump is not gonna be nice. All that and more on this week’s program.

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0:07.0

Ladies and gentlemen, there's a commonplace idiom that I gain popularity I guess during the ascent of marijuana as a stimulant

0:20.2

and toxicant of whatever and it Well it applies not only to people apparently it applies to machines we learn this week

0:38.1

Researchers have found that the buildup of-generated content on the internet is set to collapse machine learning models

0:50.7

unless the industry can mitigate the risks.

0:53.0

The University of Oxford team found that using AI generated data sets to train future models

1:01.0

may generate gibberish.

1:04.4

That's not a known language yet.

1:07.2

A concept is known as model collapse.

1:13.0

You've seen that in Paris.

1:15.0

No, you haven't.

1:16.0

In one example, a model started with a text about European architecture in the Middle Ages

1:21.0

and ended up nine generations down spouting nonsense about jackrabbits.

1:28.4

It was high on its own supply.

1:33.0

In a paper published this week in nature, work led by

1:40.0

couple of researchers found that an AI may fail to pick up less common lines of text. In training data sets, which means

1:48.5

subsequent models trained on the output cannot carry forward those nuances.

1:55.0

training new models on the output of earlier models in this way

1:58.4

ends up in a recursive loop. Reason this may be happening, of course, is because starting with the New York Times, a lot of publishers and websites have said in varying degrees of severity,

2:15.0

don't scrape our stuff for your stuff,

2:18.0

don't scrape our text for your

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