Over the course of the past few months, we brought you all kinds of coverage of AI on

today's splint.

We told you about the puffer pope.

Can I say something without you guys getting mad?

We told you about the fake Drake song.

We told you about the people doing my numbing work to train AI systems.

Together, almost 50,000 workers from 167 countries around the world helped us to clean,

sort, and label nearly a billion candidate images.

But what we didn't tell you is that we don't really know how AI works.

I've built these models, I've studied these models.

We built it, we trained it, but we don't know what it's doing.

Our friends, over at Unexplainable, are going to help us wrap our heads around that fact

on the show today.

Hello, it's Sean, but I'm going to hand things over to Noam Hassanfeld from the unexplainable

program also from Vox.

Noam recently reported out a two-part series titled The Black Box.

It's all about how even the people who designed AI don't really understand how it works

and how it's kind of scary that we're moving full steam ahead anyway.

We're bringing you episode one today and episode two on Monday while we take a little breather

for Labor Day.

Here's Noam.

So how did we get to this place where we got these super powerful programs that scientists

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