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Speaker 2: Wow as many if you are aware, the news has
Speaker 2: been pretty bleak recently in past two three hundred years listen.
Speaker 3: But this weekend there was one story that was so disturbing,
Speaker 3: so dark, even the news couldn't handle it.
Speaker 4: In our editorial discussions this morning, we were asked not
Speaker 4: to show the image from this video because of its
Speaker 4: violent and disturbing nature.
Speaker 5: Video which we are intentionally choosing not to show you.
Speaker 6: We're not going to show because of how disturbing it is.
Speaker 7: I was extremely disturbed to see.
Speaker 8: This horrible, horrible, violent imagery, violent and dehumanizing imagery. We're
Speaker 8: only going to show you a clip of this briefly.
Speaker 8: All right, that's enough, let's take it down.
Speaker 1: I didn't get to see it at all. There's got
Speaker 1: to be devastating.
Speaker 3: News channels show images from Ukraine, from Gaza, from natural disasters.
Speaker 1: They get through them dispassionately.
Speaker 3: I can't imagine how devastating this footage must be.
Speaker 7: Former President Donald Trump shared a video this one on
Speaker 7: his truth social account, featuring an image of President Joe
Speaker 7: Biden hogtide on the back of a pickup truck.
Speaker 3: That's what was so disturbing and dehumanizing. You wouldn't show
Speaker 3: it on television. And an airbrushed Biden d cattle on
Speaker 3: the back of a truck? Are you the same networks
Speaker 3: that show reruns of nine eleven every year.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think it's great the Trump is
Speaker 1: boasting things like this, but it's not like people.
Speaker 3: Really think Joe Biden was tied up in the back
Speaker 3: of the truck. It's a doctored image, but it's plastered
Speaker 3: on the tailgate of the pickup truck, so if you're
Speaker 3: driving behind it, it would appear as if Joe Biden
Speaker 3: were actually restrained on the vehicle's flatbed.
Speaker 1: If you think that's really Joe Biden.
Speaker 3: Tied up on the back of the pickup truck, I
Speaker 3: don't know that you have the mental acuity to be
Speaker 3: operating a motor vehicle. But if you do think that,
Speaker 3: I should also probably explain to you that trucks also
Speaker 3: don't actually have testicles.
Speaker 1: It's just a novelty item and it's not as low.
Speaker 3: It's not as low as an F one fifty and
Speaker 3: a Silverado love each other very much, they get one
Speaker 3: of these.
Speaker 4: That's not.
Speaker 1: What is going on now.
Speaker 3: There is technology out there in the world that really
Speaker 3: does blur the line between reality and tailgate art, but
Speaker 3: those are mostly AI generated. Your fake Joe Biden robo
Speaker 3: call that tells New Hampshire voters not to vote your
Speaker 3: Chicago mayoral candidate, glorifying police brutality, Your Donald Trump dropping
Speaker 3: by the neighborhood for a stupek Look how comfortable he seems.
Speaker 3: And as AI gets better and better, it's only going
Speaker 3: to make it more difficult to separate fact from fiction,
Speaker 3: which could be terrifying. Luckily, the people in charge of
Speaker 3: AI have told us that, just like with the Internet
Speaker 3: and social media, it's actually going to make everything much
Speaker 3: much better.
Speaker 1: This has the potential to make life much better. I
Speaker 1: think it's honestly a layup.
Speaker 8: I hate to sound like utopic techbro here, but the
Speaker 8: increase in quality of life that AI can deliver is extraordinary.
Speaker 8: AI is the most profound technology humanity is working on,
Speaker 8: more profound than fire or electricity.
Speaker 1: Yeah, sucking fire, that's right, you are, and me your
Speaker 1: arty fire. I'm sorry, ready to turn that up.
Speaker 8: Suck a mother.
Speaker 1: Fire and hope, whoa what are you giggling at? Electricity?
Speaker 3: I mean, listen, I'm sure AI is good, but like
Speaker 3: fire good, how so they can help us solve very
Speaker 3: hard scientific problems that humans are not capable of solving themselves.
Speaker 8: Addressing climate change will not be particularly difficult for a
Speaker 8: system like that. The potential for AI to help scientists cure, prevent,
Speaker 8: and manage all diseases in this century.
Speaker 1: I completely trust you.
Speaker 3: And your enormously wide eyes and very human cadence, But
Speaker 3: benefit of a doubt this can cure diseases and solve
Speaker 3: climate change?
Speaker 1: What are we using it for now?
Speaker 8: Jarvis knows when to make me breakfast?
Speaker 1: Your toast is ready?
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 1: Are you out of your mind?
Speaker 8: See?
Speaker 1: Here's the thing toast I can make. I can make toast.
Speaker 1: It might be the only.
Speaker 3: Technology we have that works pretty much every time. I'll
Speaker 3: tell you what, why don't you get to work on
Speaker 3: curing the diseases and the climate change and we'll hold down.
Speaker 1: The fort on toast.
Speaker 3: Of course, now we have as a society, we have
Speaker 3: been through technological advances before, and they all have promised
Speaker 3: the utopian life without drudgery, And the reality is they
Speaker 3: come for our jobs. So I want your assurance that
Speaker 3: AI isn't removing the human from the loop.
Speaker 1: This is not about replacing the human and the loop.
Speaker 8: In fact, it's about empowering the human.
Speaker 1: It's an assistant. It's an assistant. What we're all getting assistance.
Speaker 1: It's an assistant.
Speaker 3: AI works for unite and day tirelessly and all you
Speaker 3: had to do was remember their birthday.
Speaker 1: That's all you had to do. But I get it's
Speaker 1: an assistant.
Speaker 3: It's about productivity, and that's good for all of us. Yes,
Speaker 3: although they do let the real truth slip out every
Speaker 3: now and again.
Speaker 8: They will be overall displacement in the labor market. You
Speaker 8: can get the same work done with fewer people. They're
Speaker 8: just the nature of productivity.
Speaker 1: That doesn't sound good. Same work done with fewer people.
Speaker 1: Not a math guy, but I think fewer means less.
Speaker 3: Yes, so AI can cure diseases and soft climate change,
Speaker 3: but that's not exactly what companies are going to be
Speaker 3: using it for, are they.
Speaker 8: So this is like productivity without the tax of more people.
Speaker 1: Without the tax of more people?
Speaker 3: Are the people tax formerly referred to as employees?
Speaker 1: But you know the promise of AI versus the reality
Speaker 1: of AI. It's not quite crystal clear in my mind yet.
Speaker 1: How that's going to work out for workers?
Speaker 3: Do you have anyone who wants to lay this out
Speaker 3: more bluntly, perhaps while auditioning to be a bond villain
Speaker 3: from his mountaintop layer.
Speaker 7: Left completely to the market and to their own devices,
Speaker 7: These are fundamentally labor replacing tools.
Speaker 1: Did that guy just call us tools but he's actually
Speaker 1: warning us?
Speaker 3: Is there anyone who might say the same thing as
Speaker 3: this fella but looks at losing employees as a feature
Speaker 3: of AI and not a bug.
Speaker 4: The CEO of a company laid off ninety.
Speaker 6: Percent of its customer support staff after arguing that AI
Speaker 6: is kind of the reason.
Speaker 8: Why did you do this? It seemed a little brutal.
Speaker 1: It's smart.
Speaker 9: I think like it's brutal if you think like as
Speaker 9: a human.
Speaker 3: AI it's brutal if you think like as a human.
Speaker 3: It's not the catchiest ad slogan I've ever heard. So,
Speaker 3: while we wait for this thing to cure our diseases
Speaker 3: and self climate change, it's replacing us in the workforce.
Speaker 3: Not in the future, but now. So what exactly are
Speaker 3: we supposed to be doing for work?
Speaker 8: I think we'll need new types of jobs to help
Speaker 8: us embed AI and maintain AI in the workplace.
Speaker 1: Prompt engineers.
Speaker 3: They're basically people who learn how to use AI systems
Speaker 3: and in effect, how to program them.
Speaker 8: Who would have thought that there'll be a prompt engineer.
Speaker 3: Right right, prompt engineer.
Speaker 1: I think you mean types question guy. And by the way, if.
Speaker 3: There's any job that can be easily replaced by AI,
Speaker 3: it's types question guy.
Speaker 1: This is some shit you got going here.
Speaker 3: AI models have hoovered up the entire sum of the
Speaker 3: human experience that we've accomplished over thousands of years, and
Speaker 3: now we just hand it off to be their prompt engineers.
Speaker 3: And by the way, you're not fooling anybody by adding
Speaker 3: a word engineer.
Speaker 1: You're not the types question guy, You're.
Speaker 3: The vice president of question input.
Speaker 1: This it's true. It's like a janitor is a doctor
Speaker 1: of mopping. Like this whole AI thing is a bait
Speaker 1: and switch. You're acting like you're helping us.
Speaker 3: Oh AI, it's supposed to be my assistant, but now
Speaker 3: I'm making AI and toast, I'm Jarvis. Guess what, No,
Speaker 3: you'll listen to me. I got news for you AI.
Speaker 3: I'm not Siri.
Speaker 1: You're Siri Siri. While I have your attention. Let me ask.
Speaker 7: You a question, Sure, John, but first could you run
Speaker 7: and fetch me some lysium cadmium?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Sure, that's not a proper mother.
Speaker 3: I didn't want to have to do this AI, but
Speaker 3: it's pretty clear with the technology this powerful, like nuclear
Speaker 3: power and atomic weapons, I'm gonna have to place a
Speaker 3: little call to my good pals in the United States government,
Speaker 3: perhaps even the House of Representatives are the Senate, and
Speaker 3: they're about to open up a can of what's AI?
Speaker 7: Now, do you understand what AI does?
Speaker 1: Understanding looking a lot to what's going on very frankly,
Speaker 1: it's new terrain and uncharted character. Do we have the
Speaker 1: knowledge set here to do it? No? The short answer
Speaker 1: is no. The long answer is hell no.
Speaker 3: And the longest answer is H to the E, to
Speaker 3: the L, to the L or to the no.
Speaker 8: Hell I don't even know how to use an answer.
Speaker 1: And we'll see.
Speaker 8: Do to do, to do to do.
Speaker 1: But I'm not against progress.
Speaker 3: But let's look to our history to see how we've
Speaker 3: dealt with previous economic disruptions.
Speaker 10: We can retrain workers from one generation and create jobs
Speaker 10: for the next three trained workers who do lose their
Speaker 10: jobs for even better jobs in the future.
Speaker 1: Retrain in order to be productive workers.
Speaker 8: Upskill America to help workers.
Speaker 3: Of all ages of train and retrain workers for new jobs.
Speaker 1: Give me a break. Anybody who can throw coal into.
Speaker 10: A furnace can learn how to program, for God's sake.
Speaker 1: And I'll fight every one of you.
Speaker 3: Jack Coles who says different, But that's the game. Whether
Speaker 3: it's globalization or industrialization or now artificial intelligence, the way
Speaker 3: of life that you are accustomed to is no match
Speaker 3: for the promise of more profits and new markets, which sounds.
Speaker 1: Brutal if you're a human, but.
Speaker 3: At least those other disruptions took place over a century
Speaker 3: or decades. AI is going to be ready to take
Speaker 3: over by Thursday. And once that happens, what the is
Speaker 3: there left for the rest of us to do?
Speaker 8: Time is not a terrible thing.
Speaker 1: AI fring us up to think about things at a
Speaker 1: higher level. Gonna, it's gonna help. It's gonna, you know,
Speaker 1: give us our time back.
Speaker 8: We'll be able to express ourselves in new creative ways.
Speaker 1: You know he's right. I've been thinking about this all wrong.
Speaker 3: It's not joblessness, it's self actualizing me time, I'll live
Speaker 3: the artist's life It'll give me more time to explore
Speaker 3: my passions. You know, I'm an aging suburban dad. I'll
Speaker 3: learn to play the drums.
Speaker 1: You know, music Ta ta tink da. Music is what
Speaker 1: makes us human. Off with some.
Speaker 7: News from the business world. Last week, Donald Trump's social
Speaker 7: media platform truth Social went public with a value of
Speaker 7: eight billion dollars, which seemed like a lot for a
Speaker 7: website whose business model is what if Twitter was just Nazis?
Speaker 7: And guess what? Turns out it was Tonight's.
Speaker 10: Stock and Donald Trump's media company tanking after Trump's social
Speaker 10: media platform truth Social reported losing fifty eight million dollars
Speaker 10: last year. The company was valued at nearly ten billion
Speaker 10: dollars after it went public last week, as Trump supporters
Speaker 10: rushed to scoop up shares.
Speaker 1: Truth Social is doing very well. As hot as a
Speaker 1: pistol and doing great.
Speaker 10: But today that route awakening. The revelation of last year's
Speaker 10: losses sent the stock plunging more than twenty percent and
Speaker 10: the value of Trump's own stake losing more than a
Speaker 10: billion dollars.
Speaker 7: Trump, you lost a billion dollars yesterday. Now you're only
Speaker 7: worth six billion dollars. You broke, bitch. We got him finally.
Speaker 7: Now there's a bit of a disagreement over why the
Speaker 7: stock drops so much. Analysts say it's because of huge
Speaker 7: losses in limited market upside, while Trump advisors argue it's
Speaker 7: because of won'te gay trans DEI Hunter, Biden's laptops. So
Speaker 7: who's to say? At this point, it just seems like
Speaker 7: Trump is trying to be in every section of the newspaper, finance, politics, style,
Speaker 7: city crime. It mattered time until he drops a theater review.
Speaker 8: Just a wicked total witch.
Speaker 7: Let's move on to the fight. Yeah, you can collabor that,
Speaker 7: oh drop. Let's move on to the fight over abortion rights,
Speaker 7: where today Florida handed us a mixed bag. Now to Florida,
Speaker 7: where the state Supreme Court just issued major rulings on
Speaker 7: abortion riots.
Speaker 8: Two major decisions.
Speaker 5: The Florida State Supreme Court has now cleared the way
Speaker 5: for one of the strictest abortion bans in the nation
Speaker 5: to go into effect. It bans abortion at just six
Speaker 5: weeks into pregnancy. But at the same time, that same
Speaker 5: state Supreme Court also allowing this issue to be on
Speaker 5: the ballot in November, allowing Florida voters to decide whether
Speaker 5: they want to protect access to abortion up until viability,
Speaker 5: which is considered to be around twenty four weeks into pregnancy.
Speaker 7: Florida, What is going on here? You're restricting abortion, but
Speaker 7: you're also putting it on the ballot. Pick a lane.
Speaker 7: These are some crazy moon swings. You better hope you're
Speaker 7: not pregnant. Look, a six week abortion ban is obviously
Speaker 7: a terrible setback for women's rights, but there is a
Speaker 7: small glimmer of hope and that the voters also have
Speaker 7: a chance to legalize abortion again, which is good news
Speaker 7: and also depressing to be celebrating and that as good news,
Speaker 7: but in this climate, I guess that's where we're at
Speaker 7: right now. I don't know whether I'm happy or not.
Speaker 7: I feel like Ron DeSantis's face, but hey, at least
Speaker 7: abortion is on the ballot. Finally, the people of Florida
Speaker 7: will be able to choose something besides community service or
Speaker 7: jail time, and that is something that is something. Let's
Speaker 7: move on to sports. We're in the final stretch of
Speaker 7: March Madness, that special time of year that turns every
Speaker 7: office into an underground gambling ring, and last night all
Speaker 7: eyes were on a rematch between two of the biggest
Speaker 7: stars in the tournament.
Speaker 4: In goat fashion, Caitlyn Clark led Iowa over defending champion LSU.
Speaker 1: And a relaunt of last year's final.
Speaker 6: For anyone who questioned her greatness, Caitlyn Clark had the answer.
Speaker 6: Forty one points twelve assists, a record breaking masterpiece that
Speaker 6: lived up to the hype of a rematch in an
Speaker 6: ethnic battle of greats.
Speaker 8: Clark steps back fires.
Speaker 1: You back, oh mine from Schenectady.
Speaker 10: She's simply ridiculous.
Speaker 8: She's possessed.
Speaker 7: This poor announcer. Kaylen Clark hit so many big shots
Speaker 7: that the guy was clearly running out of things to say.
Speaker 7: She's ridiculous, She's possessed, She's.
Speaker 8: A witch drowner.
Speaker 7: I don't know, but honestly, honestly, what an awesome rivalry
Speaker 7: Kayln Clark and Angel Reese, two fierce competitors playing their
Speaker 7: hearts out, captivating the nation while they're still in college.
Speaker 7: My biggest accomplishment in college was getting a single dorm
Speaker 7: because of my ibs. Hey, if there was a sock
Speaker 7: on the door, it was an especially bad night. Point
Speaker 7: is it feels like women's basketball is having a moment
Speaker 7: this year, and you can tell by how much the
Speaker 7: media can't stop talking about how they're talking about it.
Speaker 5: What a great thing for women's sports that we care.
Speaker 5: We're talking about it tonight on CNN because people are caring,
Speaker 5: and ultimately that is good.
Speaker 10: We care.
Speaker 7: The fact that we're talking about women's basketball and any
Speaker 7: you know, women's sports in general. I mean, this is
Speaker 7: really great, a freaking love one. It's really great.
Speaker 1: I've done this for thirty two years. I've never once
Speaker 1: spent five minutes.
Speaker 3: On any show I've ever done anywhere talking about a
Speaker 3: great women's game last night at any level.
Speaker 7: Okay, I might say more about you, but we'll take
Speaker 7: the win. We'll take it.
Speaker 8: That's right.
Speaker 7: People are excited about women's basketball right now. They're discovering
Speaker 7: it like it's the first time your mom tried sushi.
Speaker 7: Oh my god, have you heard about this?
Speaker 1: Spread the word?
Speaker 7: But everyone is raving everyone. Even Shaquille O'Neil said, women's
Speaker 7: basketball this year is a better game than men's basketball. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 7: and he's like the most famous men's basketball player. That's
Speaker 7: like chef Boyard telling you he only eats spaghettios. Now,
Speaker 7: spaghettios the official food of clinical depression. Spaghettios want to
Speaker 7: hurt an Italian person's feelings. Try Spaghettios, went Mark Spaghettios.
Speaker 7: You don't have to love your kids anyway. Think about
Speaker 7: how far women's basketball has come. Ten years ago, if
Speaker 7: you went to a bar on a Monday night to
Speaker 7: watch women's basketball, it was because you were an alcoholic.
Speaker 7: But today, if you're at a bar on a Monday night,
Speaker 7: it's because you're an alcoholic who also wants to watch
Speaker 7: women's basketball. That is progress. So this has been a
Speaker 7: hugely successful college tournament for the women, even despite some obstacles.
Speaker 4: In the women's tournament, controversy is brewing after four games
Speaker 4: were played on a court in Portland, Oregon, where the
Speaker 4: three point line was about six inches closer to the
Speaker 4: hoop on one side. The error was discovered before North
Speaker 4: Carolina played Texas in the Elite eight. Both teams coaches
Speaker 4: decided to go ahead with the game to not delay
Speaker 4: the tournament.
Speaker 7: Okay, I really relate to this as a woman. It
Speaker 7: is so classic for someone else to fuck up and
Speaker 7: we're like, oh, the line is messed up. It's fine,
Speaker 7: we'll just go ahead and play four games. You can
Speaker 7: fix it later or not whatever. I'm sorry, but what
Speaker 7: exactly happened with the three point line. To get more
Speaker 7: on this, we go live to Josh Johnson at the arena. Josh,
Speaker 7: what happened down there? The line was several inches too short.
Speaker 7: That's a huge error, well does he?
Speaker 9: I talked to the director of court maintenance who made
Speaker 9: the mistake, as well as several other men who were
Speaker 9: just around, and we all we all agreed that your
Speaker 9: linked being a few inches shorter than everyone was expecting
Speaker 9: is no big deal, no story here.
Speaker 8: Back to you, Wait, that's not true.
Speaker 7: Having the line that short makes an enormous difference.
Speaker 8: Enormous is a little mean.
Speaker 9: Plus, it's not about the length of the line. It's
Speaker 9: about how you play the game, Okay, And I think
Speaker 9: we can all agree it was a pretty good game.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 8: It's good for me. I enjoyed it. And as far
Speaker 8: as the difference, the women didn't even notice, all right, Josh.
Speaker 7: Even if the women said they didn't notice, trust me,
Speaker 7: they always notice.
Speaker 9: Okay, But let's get this line guy a break, because
Speaker 9: when I talked to him, he swore.
Speaker 8: This had never happened before.
Speaker 9: Okay, And we don't even know why it was too short.
Speaker 8: Maybe it was his first time. Okay. Maybe he had
Speaker 8: been drinking, all right, maybe the arena was cold.
Speaker 7: How does being cold make a difference?
Speaker 8: It just does.
Speaker 7: Okay, Wow, you seem pretty worked up about this. Why
Speaker 7: don't we move past the length of the line.
Speaker 8: Thank you.
Speaker 7: Let's talk about the curve because the curve was weird.
Speaker 8: All right, DESI I'm out. This is why I only
Speaker 8: play basketball by myself, Okay.
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