Strange News: Classrooms with AI Teachers? A Mushroom-robot Hybrid, and Trouble in Millersville, TN
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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4.2 • 11K Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Over in the UK, David Game College has instituted a revolutionary -- and disturbing -- pilot program: What if, they argue, we can just have AI teach students in place of human teachers? "What could go wrong?" Researchers create a biohybrid robot controlled by a King oyster mushroom -- and it just learned to start walking around. Months of turmoil in the small town of Millersville, Tennessee lead to a TBI raid of the local police department. All this and more in this week's strange news segment.
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| 0:00.0 | From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies history is riddled with unexplained events. |
| 0:06.7 | You can turn back now or learn the stuff they don't want you to know. |
| 0:11.4 | A production of I-Heart Radio. Hello, welcome back to the show. My name is Matt. My name is Noel. They called me Ben. We are joined with our guest producers |
| 0:33.4 | Dylan the Tennessee pal Fagan and Andrew Triforce Howard |
| 0:38.1 | most importantly you are you you are here |
| 0:41.3 | that makes this the stuff they don't want you to know. It's hurtling headlong into autumn and we are excited to explore strange news guys. |
| 0:54.3 | You remember how we talked pretty often about water filters? |
| 1:00.3 | Remember when we're talking about life straws with the casual preppers and the whole |
| 1:05.2 | fluoridation argument? Yeah, those are very important things to have in your house |
| 1:11.4 | the same way, well it's not the same way a |
| 1:14.0 | fire extinguisher is but it's close. |
| 1:17.0 | Guys I literally just got a kitchen fire extinguisher I'm a real boy now and I also have my water filter for the fridge on auto reorder |
| 1:25.5 | so that whenever it's time to change it a new one shows up because that is really important. |
| 1:30.5 | And it's just what they want you to do, no. They want you on all those auto-ordered things. |
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| 1:38.0 | Just subscribe, right? And we're bringing this up for some positive strange news. |
| 1:44.0 | The Boffins over at MIT have developed a water filter |
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| 1:53.7 | So apologies to all fans of heavy metal water. |
| 1:58.8 | Those days may be. |
| 2:00.3 | Liquid death. |
| 2:01.3 | Is that what you're talking about? |
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