Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
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Chapter 2: What are the key insights on AI from CES?
It's like this cheap AI image. What not even one of the good ones like that. They're like clear artifacts and. blurry, weird lines and things and that you could Google an anime JPEG and get a better image for this. So just even the smoke and mirrors of it was cheap. Yeah, that was at Love Ants is the sex robot booth. And yeah, they had two products.
One was like, it's like, you know, silicon, like realistic human skin sex robot, which is similar to like, you know, those horrifying sex dolls, except now we have an LLM inside. It's another one of those LLM wrappers, except it's wrapped around a redheaded woman. Sorry, Garrison, I find that very offensive.
It's actually, some people are just, they're not capable of talking to women or other human beings of any kind. Yeah, people with ADHD. It's actually a disability where people can't know other people and can only have sexual gratification through a creepy robot chatbot. I apologize for my on-air ableism.
But no, again, this is the year of LLM rappers, and now they're putting it in a sex bod, which is more unnerving to me than a regular sex doll, because a regular sex doll, you kind of know it's an object. It's not trying to be much more than an object. You put it in positions, but it's static. Because this thing tries to kind of engage with you, it activates my Uncanny Valley response way more.
Because it's kind of trying to pretend to be a person. And I could not look at the thing for very long. I just felt bad. And some of that's probably my latent Protestantism. But I just felt bad. But the other product they had around the corner was... was this anime-style avatar, which is on a screen that you can talk to, and it's synced up to a Jack-Off robot.
So you can engage with this blonde-haired, blue-eyed anime woman as it connects to a little Jack-Off machine. And that was the other product, which did not work because there was no Wi-Fi in the Venetian version. So we could not see it. But the jack-off machine was still going strong.
You could say, I guess, that like, well, obviously there's fundamental issues with like having Wi-Fi be decent when you've got 70,000 people like all cramming themselves into a room. Of course, that's going to cause problems. The chatbots and the devices using them are actually capable of more. They're more impressive than you're giving them credit for just because the Wi-Fi didn't work.
But also, if all you build is a shell that without the internet and access to someone else's chatbot doesn't do anything... This is the big problem, right? You haven't really made a product. All these products are going to brick. As soon as ChatGPT raises its API costs, they're going to do one of two things.
They're either going to stop working or they're going to move their chatbot provider to a different one that's going to behave differently. And then it's fundamentally a different product. And that's why periodically I would run into someone where it's like everything that we do is on device.
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Chapter 3: How are AI products impacting consumer electronics?
It'll cost about $700 to fix. Great. Book me an appointment with the dealership. So first off, that's not how people work. I've had carāeveryone has car issues. A regular person, there's a problem with your car. You either have a mechanic that's not the dealership that you go to because they didn't rip you off in the pastā And you're like, well, I trust them not to fuck me too bad.
Or you go to a couple because most people don't just drop $700 on a repair and not think about it. But the person that this engineer was pretending to be for the purpose of this AI demo said, great, book me a repair at the dealership. And the AI was like, OK, I've called them and I've booked you an appointment. And by the way, would you like to schedule a test drive for this specific kind of car?
Oh, my wife loves that car. Book us. And that was the whole thing is he was like, don't be impressed that we can theoretically book you an appointment. Be impressed that we can have the machine upsell you on trying to buy a new car when you come in to fix your old car that broke. because you bought a bad car. And there was no shame.
They were so proud of themselves for this machine can repeatedly upsell you things. And that was the only utility. It was not this allows you to more easily navigate town. This allows you to more easily cut out problems in your life. It was this machine can upsell you every minute of your day. Everything you ask it to do, everything you try to have it do, and we get a cut of that.
If we send it to a restaurant and you buy food there, we get a cut of that. And so does whatever company put the thing in your car. If you buy a new car, we get a cut of that. That was the product. And that we have gone from, here are machines that do things.
And even back in the glories of smartphones, at least everyone was showing like, look, we have a new phone that's thinner than a phone has ever been. Yeah, or like the camera is like, you know, 4K now or something, whatever. And the focus was always, and now people who buy them can do this with it, right?
Yeah.
I mean, I would guess that so much of the impetus for creating this stuff and developing it is all for producer goods. And then the more revenue is honest in that, like, that's what the... And all the consumer goods are mostly just getting, you know, cast off. It's like, now we have all... I mean, literally, that's what the LLM wrappers are. It's just like, oh, we have this thing.
Let's throw a plastic robot on it and try and sell it. But what drives its development is...
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Chapter 4: What ethical concerns arise from AI in consumer products?
These only exist as separate thoughts. No, this robot basically has a soul. Watch us hit it with a liquor bottle. It would just be so great to like with all of the how much the they're focused on the AI can develop real human connection. But it's also saccharine. I would love to just do a booth where it's like we're teaching our robots hate. They know how to hate. Yeah.
And I do want to end by noting one thing that we talked about a little briefly, but is kind of low-key the most upsetting thing about this, which is I saw a bunch of different booths that used the term empathy. And what they meant by empathy was the robot can understand and anticipate what you want, right?
That it's learning you and your patterns in order to offer you and more effectively assist you. And I guess technically, yeah, but reducing the concept of empathy to the robot knows when you might want something snacks is kind of evil. Like it's, it's like a minor evil.
Time for Fritos, Robert.
Right, right. Empathy means the robot knows when to serve you is like a bad way to talk about empathy. I don't think most people, when you, what is empathy? Well, it means someone knows when I want to be upsold on a Hyundai. That's not what empathy is. Yeah, our robot learns empathy by being instrumental to you and useful. See, we... Famously, you know, the core of empathy.
We made our robot watch four hours of videos from Gaza and it immediately said, I bet those kids want a Hyundai Elantra.
Like, that...
i anyway yeah if that's if your version of empathy is trying to sell coke vanilla because we have all of this all this stock way too much we fucked up we are in trouble we're underwater that's what empathy is yeah anyway welcome to the future everyone it's a ces miracle it's a ces miracle goodbye Hey everyone, it's Ed Helms.
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Chapter 5: What are the concerns about data protection at CES?
You also have like the tech accelerationists at CES where it's like they occupy this position of being so pro technology, no matter whatever downsides that the current iteration might have, because they need someone to hold that position in order for this thing to move forward. They know that there's concerns around data protection, but their opinion is that it doesn't matter.
There is problems there, but we, the people here at CES, the innovators, need to ignore them because we have to push forward. And this is what the Austrian Secretary of State said at the one panel I went to. It was like, data protection is a problem, but it gets in the way of innovation. And that's literally what he said.
And so you have this tech-optimistic acceleration viewpoint of technology will be better, but in order for it to be better and save us eventually, it's kind of shitty and has some problems now, but we need to push forward through that all the way. We can't go slowly. It has to go forward.
So they adopt this viewpoint because they need someone to hold this tech-optimism viewpoint in order for the process to unfold. Yeah, there's something strangely clear-eyed about that in the way that it's like, yeah, if, I mean, if you're limiting your view to the system of capitalism, yeah, the whole thing goes into crisis if you're not squeezing a little more juice out of the orange.
And if this is what it takes to do that, then full steam ahead. They're lucid about that. Yeah, yeah. You know what else is lucid?
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Chapter 6: How are protests in Iran being organized and what are their demands?
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Hey, everyone, and welcome to the podcast. It's me, James, today. And I'm very lucky to be joined again by Gordain, who's a journalist from East Kurdistan, working with Hengor, the human rights organization and lots of other organizations. And we're going to talk today about what has been happening in Iran for the past few weeks.
Chapter 7: What happened during the protests in Kurdish regions of Iran?
So thanks for joining us, Gordain.
Hello, thank you very much for inviting me again to the show. And yeah, I'm really glad to be here. And I am ready to talk about all the things that have happening in the past few weeks in Kurdistan and Iran.
Yeah, I think for a lot of people, what is happening in Iran in the last few weeks has not really punched into the mainstream US media for the most part, right? So I think we should probably begin with a very basic overview of what has been happening and a little bit of why it's been happening and also where, because I think that's worth mentioning, right?
Yeah, sure. So just a few days before the New Year's Eve on December 28, there was a spontaneous demonstration and strike in Tehran's Grand Bazaar, which is basically the center of Iran's trade and one of the most important backbones of the Islamic regime or revolution.
There were strikes inside the bazaar and so many shopkeepers and business owners just closed down their businesses and they took to the streets and inside the shopping centers and they started chanting, And they were basically protesting the horrible economic situations and the decrees of the Iranian rial or the Iranian currency against the U.S.
dollar, which was one dollar was equal to one million point four hundred thousand Iranian rials. And then these protests quickly spreaded all over the city in Tehran. And as usual, this is what happens all the time. The Iranian regime forces, they started attacking people and trying to control the situation, but it somehow got out of their control.
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Chapter 8: How is the U.S. government responding to the situation in Iran?
And the next days, these protests, these strikes spread to other cities, to other major cities from Shiraz, Mashhad, Isfahan, Tabriz, and many other cities got involved. But in the early January, around January 5 to 6 and 7... There were major protests in cities like Malik Shahi in Ilan province and other cities in Kermanshah province, which are basically the Kurdish provinces in Western Iran.
What is really unique about this is that usually when protests happen across Iran or when there is something happening, the Kurdish regions are the first to react. But this time, the Kurdish regions
Like if I want to say the West Azerbaijan province and the Sanandaj province, they were not really involved because a lot of people were saying that in the previous movements, especially in 2022, we gave too much. There were too many victims here, but the center was silent. I mean, Tehran and Shiraz and these major Iranian cities.
So a lot of people didn't really come out and there was nothing happening. And at the same time, this is my personal opinion, I think because there was also a heavy snowfall in Kurdish regions and it was really cold and I think a lot of people just didn't want to go out.
So this was happening in Malik Shahi and other cities in Elam and Kermanshah province until I think it was January 5th that there was a really, really big demonstration in Malik Shahi and it's a small city, but... I can say majority of the people were out on the streets and then the Iranian regime forces started shooting at people and they injured and killed a lot of people.
And the hospital in that city, in that small city was full and they had no space anymore. So the people took the injured protesters to the center of or the capital of the province in Elam city. to the Imam Khomeini Hospital. What happened in this hospital was that there were so many people in front of the hospital, like families and relatives of the victims.
And then after a few hours, the Iranian regime forces started attacking the hospital. There were so many videos and footage that came out, and we also posted it on Hangout, and all over the internet, that the regime forces were basically surrounding the whole building. And then they started shooting tear gases inside the hospital.
And then there was a video that came out that these regime forces were trying to get inside the hospital and arrest or kidnap all the injured people, or if there was a dead body or something. And then there was some sort of resistance from the medical staff. And then they started beating the medical staff.
And then a few days later, we also posted about it that some of these medical staff in that hospital were also arrested. The same thing was also happening in a few other cities, but this was very specific and it got very viral on social media. And a lot of people talked about it.
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