Episode 3059 CWSA 01/01/26
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What are the highlights of today's news?
people, so my voice is still a little sketchy. We'll see if it improves. But we'll get as far as we can today in that thing we all enjoy. This time we'll do the same. Not much news today, but we'll do the best we can. Come on in. And while you're streaming in, this would be a perfect time to remind you why you're here. You're here for the simultaneous sip. And all you need for that is a cup or mug or a glass or tank or a chalice or a stein, a canteen jug or a flask, or a vessel of mankind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. Join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine of the day, the thing that makes everything better is cold. That's right, the simultaneous sip. It happens now.
So good. So, so good. Well, let's check in on the news. It's the first day of the year. If you don't have your Dilbert calendar, believe it or not, you can still hurriedly get one by the end of, I don't know, probably just taking a few days. You wouldn't miss much. Well, there's a new robotic skin for robots. So researchers have developed a neuromorphic robotic electronic skin. So apparently the skin that you put on your robot could judge intensity, danger, and injury risk. So do you think that's going to be the killer app for robot skin? Would you get a robot with skin just because it's easier at identifying pain? This seems mean. It would be mean to the robot. I think it's slightly more likely that the killer app will be sex.
Because it's no fun to have sex with a robot if you're just banging metal. But what if the robot could feel every sensation? Are you telling me that if you made the robot soft enough, and you gave it a skin so it could act as though you were doing something good to it. Like, ooh, ooh. Are you telling me that's not the killer app? Of course it is. Of course it is. But do you know why the robot industry keeps talking about hands, you know, really good hands, and they keep talking about, you know, stuff like skin? But what they're not talking about, because they can't do it, is real intelligence. So we'll see what happens from that. There's an article in Ars Technica talking about how this might be the year that AI gets sort of, I won't say debunked, but that the skepticism about AI will be a little more obvious.
so after we've got what two years of ai and it still can't do actual generic reason so but it's got good hands and it could do somersaults it might have good skin but you know it can't get past the hallucinations and it doesn't look like there's any way to do it that we know of if there was a way to do it meaning make the ai actually intelligent like we want it to be, you would already see it. There's no way you wouldn't have seen it by now. So I think the rest of the world is catching up with what is hype and what is real. Now, I'm going to take some credit for being one of the first people to say, after I played with the large language models a little bit, I was one of the first people to say, uh-oh.
This doesn't look like you could ever have a path to general reason. And now I would say that I went from something like in the 5% of opinions to more like the 75%. So I'm going to take a win for that prediction. Tesla apparently is now going to offer a car rental service in Michigan. that has no dealers and no middlemen, and for $60 a day, you could apparently just go in and get your vehicle. You'd probably use an app or something to reserve it. But why wouldn't you do that? If I had a rental company near me where I didn't have to talk to anybody at the counter, and for $60 I could go get a self-driving car, It wouldn't matter if I had a regular car. I would still rent a car, because the self-driving car would be so much better.
Apparently, it's limited to where I could go, and we don't know if there'll be others, but it seems like one of the best ideas Teslas have. Renting a self-driving car without the milkman. So, remember my skepticism. about the story that Ukraine had tried to kill Putin by bombing his residence. Do you remember what I said about that?
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What are the highlights of today's news?
0:00–8:01
2
How is AI perceived in the current landscape?
8:01–27:32
3
What is Tesla's new car rental service about?
27:32–34:33
4
What are the implications of the alleged attack on Putin's residence?
34:33–47:19
5
Why is China considered unsafe for business?
47:19–58:13
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