Le Show for the Week of October 20, 2024
Le Show
Harry Shearer
4.6 • 972 Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Here it is. |
| 0:02.0 | From deep inside your audio device of choice. |
| 0:07.0 | You know, ladies and gentlemen, I've asked my friend and the friend of the show Gary Marcus AI |
| 0:16.6 | Skeptic expert |
| 0:18.7 | Skeptert |
| 0:21.3 | Why the industry, AI industry, started by trying to ape human intelligence or to human ape intelligence. |
| 0:33.4 | Nobody, you know what I mean. |
| 0:36.3 | I thought, and I still do, maybe start lower down on the evolutionary scale, yes evolution, and try to mimic the |
| 0:49.2 | intelligence of other lesser animals, the lesser of two animals who are known to have something |
| 1:01.5 | called intelligence to. octopus your crow your dog now I know |
| 1:10.7 | after thinking about it a little bit, why they can't teach machines to achieve |
| 1:20.2 | dog intelligence, because we know dogs |
| 1:26.0 | Mainly rely on a very powerful old factory sense |
| 1:45.0 | and machines don't have that. Of course they don't have a sense of hearing and sight either. They're sort of like Helen Keller on chips. |
| 1:52.0 | And speaking of futility, you no doubt have noticed, you have not been able to avoid |
| 1:55.0 | able to avoid noticing that the media are obsessed. |
| 1:58.5 | That the media are obsessed, have been obsessed, four months, but really obsessed right now with public opinion polls. |
| 2:10.0 | And it was on Saturday mornings Smirkonish show on CNN, where a guest who was an academic who studies polling finally admitted to the general public |
| 2:28.6 | that the response rate to polls is now around 5%. I have seen other publications which suggested it may be |
| 2:39.1 | as low as 2%. And they adjust, they wait. |
| 2:43.0 | wait. |
| 2:45.0 | W-E-I-G-H-T the results. |
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