Steve Gibson
speaker
30,295 appearances
25 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 6d ago
Steve Gibson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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November.
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Unless it came out after November 29th.
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And you know, like all classic movies, while its age may be showing, its themes have stood up well over time.
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Um, in the movie, the phenomenally technologically advanced Krell are inadvertently killed off in one night by their own creation, a spectacular underground machine which has absolutely no agenda of its own.
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It's just doing their bidding.
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The machine was designed to give any member of the Krell, anywhere on the planet, anything they wanted at any time, merely by wishing for it with their mind.
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Over the course of the movie, we learned that the mistake they made was to fail to appreciate that their subconscious was also able to get anything it wished for.
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And the krell didn't last very long.
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One of the biggest problems we have with today's AI is its rampant anthropomorphization.
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The fact that the darn things refer to themselves in the first person certainly doesn't help because
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But I'm not sure it would make much difference either way.
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The source of the confusion is that any facility with language is so intertwined with our perception of intelligence that it's difficult not to equate anything that talks like us as being like us.
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But today's AI is not like us.
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There is no mind that's producing language to describe its internal experience.
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Today's AI ingests and learns from a massive quantity of our language recordings.
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Which it then uses to simulate what a mind would say if it had one.
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But it doesn't.
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So it's a linguistic simulation.
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