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Hard Fork

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Hard Fork

The New York Times

Technology

4.55.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

It’s been a week of A.I. vertigo - the feeling that we’ve been dragged five years into the future and aren’t sure what to do about it.

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0:00.0

My biggest news of the week is that I am in a war with a car wash.

0:04.0

Really? Yes. Last week, or I guess two weeks ago now, I took my car into a car wash to get it washed.

0:10.0

And it's one of these places where they will not only wash the outside of your car, but they also vacuum out the inside and clean the floor mats and get all the like crusty food out of the...

0:18.6

A full service car wash. We love a full service car wash. This one, unfortunately I drop my car off I go get a

0:24.4

coffee I come back half an hour later and they have lost my key. And so I

0:29.4

can't drive my car away because it's the key is gone and I have to call my wife who brings the spare and at first they try to blame it on me they're like well was the key here when you dropped it off? I'm like yes because you had to drive it through the car wash and to the place where they, you know, vacuum it out.

0:46.0

So clearly they had just lost it. They looked in the vacuum cleaner and couldn't find it there and so now I am out a key and Casey I want you to guess how much it costs to replace a key

0:58.4

on a Toyota SUV I know too much about this because of the following story.

1:07.0

My friend got a new apartment and he was like, I want you to have a spare key and I said, of course, I would love to be able to do that for you, dear friend, and he gave me the key and I said of course I would love to be able to do that for you

1:13.2

dear friend and he gave me the key and I lost it the very same night I went home and

1:17.1

I reached in my pocket and it was God he's never trusting me again the same friend

1:20.8

got a car and he wanted to again to consider letting me have a spare key and so he went to get a key for his car which is like a 20 year old car and the replacement key was $1,000.

1:32.0

And so the key exists, but it has an air tag on it because he doesn't even trust himself with it,

1:38.0

and certainly I wouldn't either.

1:39.0

Yeah, so mine was not quite that expensive, but I did get quoted five hundred and seventy five dollars for a single

1:46.2

key does this he have a large language model running inside it yes it is actually

1:52.2

connected to a neural interface in my brain.

1:55.0

No, it is just a key, but because it's proprietary and they have to program it and it has to be specially matched to your vehicle identification number, you know it they are able to

2:04.4

jack up the price. We need to bring back hot wiring yes you know we you need to

2:08.1

learn how to just be able to reach right into that steering wheel and see I was

2:11.6

looking for regulatory solutions and I would I would like for the federal

2:14.6

government to take this on maybe the FTC could take a look at some

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