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Invention

Scissors

Invention

iHeartPodcasts

Science, Natural Sciences, History

4.6634 Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Let's cut to the chase: scissors are an excellent and ancient invention that impacts our lives in a number of ways. In this episode, Robert and Joe discuss their origins, use and examples from past and present -- along with a little scissor myth and folklore.

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0:00.0

from iHeart podcast before social media before cable news there was alan berg he was the first

0:06.8

and the original shock shock that scratchy irreverent kind of way talking to people and telling

0:13.2

them that you're an idiot and i'm going to hang up on you this is live wire the loud life and

0:17.9

shocking murder of alan berg and he pointed to the denver book and said, well, there are probably two million suspects.

0:24.8

Listen on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:30.1

Open AI is a financial abomination, a thing that should not be, an aberration, a symbol of rot at the heart of Silicon Valley.

0:37.0

And I'm going to tell you

0:37.9

why on my show, Better Offline, the rudest show in the tech industry, where we're breaking down

0:42.1

why Open AI, along with other AI companies, are dead set on lying to your boss that they can take

0:46.8

your job. I'm also going to be talking with the greatest minds in the industry about all the other

0:50.7

ways the rich and powerful are ruining the computer. Listen to Better Offline on the iHot Radio app, Apple Podcasts, wherever you happen to get your podcasts.

0:59.8

Are there any pictures of you online?

1:01.8

Then you could already be in a massive police database without even knowing it.

1:05.7

Clearview scrapes together images from Facebook, from LinkedIn, from Venmo accounts. I'm Dexter Thomas,

1:12.5

host a Kill Switch, a podcast about how living in the future is affecting us right now.

1:17.2

Police, they are trusting the software with this magical ability to lead them to the right

1:22.2

suspect. In this episode, we dive into how cops are using AI and facial recognition,

1:26.9

and sometimes getting it wrong and putting innocent people behind bars.

1:30.8

So if your accuser is this algorithm, but you're not even being told that it was used, let alone given any of the details about how it works.

1:39.4

Listen to Kill Switch on the IHeart Radio app, Apple app apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts

1:44.9

welcome to invention a production of iHeart radio

1:55.7

hey welcome to invention my name is robert lamb and i'm joe mccormick and robert i'm going to start off with a question that may seem totally unrelated to today's topic, but we'll get there. How often do you encounter a belief in fate in the modern world, in this technological society that we live in?

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