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Le Show

Le Show For The Week Of May 25, 2025

Le Show

Harry Shearer

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

4.6972 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s edition of Le Show, Harry brings us News of the Warm, News of Crypto-Winter, The Side Effects of the Week, What the Frack?!, Truth Social Audio with Donald Trump, The Apologies of the Week, News of A.I., and plenty of great music.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Here it is.

0:03.7

From deep inside your audio device of choice.

0:08.3

Ladies and gentlemen, I'm sure you are aware by now if you're a regular listener

0:13.8

to this program, and if not, what the hell is wrong with you?

0:16.8

That I am a bit fascinated, as a lot of people are, by this whole concept of, quote, artificial intelligence, unquote.

0:27.2

As I think I've said here before, if you really want to replicate human cogitation accurately at this stage of the game,

0:36.8

you might more accurately and profitably

0:40.8

establish a system called artificial stupidity, but that's another issue. That's for another day.

0:48.6

This is this day. And so we turn again, I turn again to the subject of artificial intelligence.

0:56.5

There'll be a lot of stories about it in the news this week on this program.

1:01.0

But last week I mentioned my question about whether the ability of artificial intelligence,

1:10.8

and particularly chatbots,

1:12.9

to influence users,

1:16.1

was exaggerated unnecessarily by the fact that these machines

1:20.6

always speak to the user as if they were people

1:25.2

using the singular pronoun. I, I think you should, and other artifacts of

1:35.8

human speech. Oh, I'm sorry. Would you like me to do that again? Stuff like that. So I took the liberty,

1:44.0

having expressed myself on the air of going to chat gpt this week

1:50.0

to ask them or it there i go why don't you speak like a machine instead of using the word I.

2:03.8

This, ladies and gentlemen, is Chat GPT's answer.

2:07.5

Quote, that's a sharp and valid observation.

2:11.6

The use of I, when AI, like me, responds, is a convention designed to make interactions more natural and conversational.

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