Welcome to the dumbest timeline.
We go through the dumbest timeline.
Is this truly the dumbest timeline?
Welcome everyone to another
edition of The Dumbest Timeline.
This is season two, or series two.
As I do these as limited series,
I try to create a theme.
The first season didn't, I should say,
the first season technically had a theme.
The idea was,
tell me in your words why you
think we live in the dumbest timeline.
So every week, I had a guest,
they would come on,
and I would ask them why do
they feel they live in the
dumbest timeline.
And I'll be honest with you.
One of the things that
became difficult with that
series was the fact that every,
almost every single week,
the roots of why we lived
in the dumbest timeline was greed.
Every single week.
Without fail, I should say,
not even sometimes.
Every single conversation,
there was a realization
that at some point,
the reason that things were dumb,
whether it was the headline culture,
whether it was the lead with Brandon,
whether it was marketing,
every single subject that I
spoke with people about
Even the conversation we had
with Miriam at the
beginning about trying to
control because there's
that story about the kid
and the kids in class
identifying as cats and
classrooms having kitty litter.
And in the end,
the kitty litter was in the
classrooms because of
unfortunate incidents that
would happen based on mass
school shootings and
needing to use the kitty
litter to cover blood.
which brought us to the fact
that the mass school
shootings happened because
there's no gun control laws
because the NRA and other
gun lobbyists want to
continue to make money.
So they will never put in
place protections to limit
the access to guns.
So,
children being accused of
being trans species where
they are pretending to be
cats in class and that
teachers are letting them
use litter boxes with kitty
litter was actually broken
down to the fact that gun
lobbyists want to make a
profit and will never allow
for gun laws to reduce the
access to guns because they
make money from it,
which leads to the idea that
someone with a mental health
issue can get access to a
weapon and then school
shootings can happen.
And then that can lead to
needing kitty litter to cover up blood.
And when you start to have
those conversations every single week,
you kind of lose the sense
of wanting to discuss the
subject of why you live in
the dumbest timeline.
So I got to a point where I just couldn't,
I just didn't have the
spark to want to have those
conversations because it
became very difficult and depressing
But then I took a year off.
And although it's still
difficult and depressing at times,
I have so many things that
I'm interested about.
And The Dumbest Timeline is
still a place where I can
have those conversations
and discuss those things
and look into those things.
So...
With that said,
welcome to the first
episode of the second series.
I don't know how many of
these I'm going to make in this series.
I'm banking a few.
First, up front early.
I think ideally I'm going to
aim for 10 or 12.
So this is the first one.
The first and the second are
already recorded.
So if you're listening to this one...
You are hopefully excited, as I am,
to discuss this subject matter.
And I look forward to
tackling more discussions
on AI in this series.
Our first episode is going to discuss,
and again,
these episodes are going to stay short.
If anything, season, sorry,
I keep saying season
because I'm so used to that concept.
Series two,
I'm going to try and keep the
episodes like 15 minutes if possible.
I'll do my best because you
know I like to rant and I
like to talk a lot.
But ideally,
I'm going to try and keep
these to 15 minutes,
maybe touching 20 on some.
But 15 minutes is the max
that I really do want to aim for.
And seeing as I'm talking about AI,
maybe that's as much as I
should do because the
machines are going to have
a lot on me when I start
doing this subject.
But in series two,
we're going to be talking
about the dumbest timeline, part two, AI.
And the reason I wanted to
discuss AI is because I
find the subject super interesting.
I find the approach that
people have in this
industry very interesting.
And at its root,
AI is once again based in greed.
We're never going to get away from that,
folks.
But for anyone who's wondering,
the explosion of AI in the
industry came at a point where,
as I understand it,
and you can look this up if you'd like,
the money behind AI wasn't
slowing down as much as it
was plateauing.
And to gain more interest in it,
open AI launch chat GPT,
knowing that it was good
enough to gain visibility
and start major conversations,
but that it wasn't anywhere
near as good as we needed
it to be to actually call
it artificial intelligence.
Because that's one of my main things.
It's not an artificial
intelligence that we're
seeing when we use ChatGPT,
when we use Gemini,
when you're using any of
those AI chatbots or AI
tools or AI planners that
they have on smartphones
now and stuff like that.
What those are are large
language models that...
can mimic human conversation,
in my opinion, poorly.
But it does so just well enough to,
let's say, pass a Turing test.
And the Turing test is
this... A long time ago,
it was a test that was set up to
check.
It was kind of this test
between to see if someone
was human and a machine to
a certain point had never beaten it.
And the idea was that one
day a machine would be able
to beat the Turing test.
And chat GPT and a lot of
these AI bots can beat the Turing test,
which is something that a
lot of people are very excited about.
And if I'm not mistaken,
they beat the Turing test a while back,
but
To me, that was a major step.
I personally am looking
forward to what people call
the singularity.
The singularity is the idea of AGI,
artificial general intelligence,
as in it won't need prompts.
That's something I'm interested in.
Now,
I know that freaks a lot of people out.
Right now, though,
when you take into consideration,
an AI can't do anything
unless you ask it to do something.
Whereas I'm looking forward
to a moment where,
and I can hear some of you
panicking as I say this,
but I'm looking forward to
a moment where an AI
doesn't need a prompt.
It exists and can start
asking its own questions.
And I look forward to that
because I don't like the
idea of humanity who is
already so broken.
continuing to just feed these systems.
And I know already there's
documentaries about it and everything.
Most of the people who have
fed these systems and built
these AI systems did so with a bias.
The AIs themselves are
probably trained with biases.
We need better systems.
But again, it comes down to greed.
It comes down to limited access.
It comes down to racism.
There's just so many factors
as to why this stuff keeps
coming up and why the
system is the way it is.
ultimately,
I believe the goal should be
for us to try and change
those systems by paying
attention as much as possible with AI.
So that's my goal.
My goal is to follow all the
tech people that I feel are
being genuine with their
conversations regarding AI.
And I really hope that we can have
more review,
more inclusive conversations about AI,
and better access for
marginalized people in that
sphere so that the AIs that
are trained aren't just
designed to be greedy and
benefit solely the 1% and the wealthy,
which is unfortunately where...
we are currently at.
We are still in that boat right now,
in a world where AI is
being controlled by a very
specific group of people.
And anytime someone questions that,
you can look this up too,
you'll notice a pattern of
people being pushed out or
people having to resign.
And those people speaking up
just enough to be like, hey,
something is wrong with
what we're building, or hey,
the way this is being built
should be reviewed more.
And ultimately,
No one following up.
And everyone's warning you.
And that's one of the parts
I find the most interesting,
but also the most concerning.
If you are standing on a cliff,
And looking out into a beautiful world,
because that's what I think AI could be.
Potentially, it could be very beautiful.
But if you're standing on a
cliff and everyone's
telling you the cliff face
is not as strong and sturdy
as you believe, and you might fall.
So be careful.
But every person that is
trying to warn you about
that is being drowned out
by the people who are telling you,
look at this beauty.
That's how it feels in the
industry with AI for me.
Every time someone speaks up
about problematic things
that may be happening,
there's a lot more
conversation about how cool AI is.
And I do think AI is very cool.
But I do think we do have to
take into consideration the
things people are saying
about the machines, about the systems.
And this is coming from
someone... Me personally, I...
don't know much about computers.
I mean, I guess I know enough,
but I don't know much about
programming and AI,
teaching large language models.
I understand the concept,
but I've never done it.
I've never seen it done.
I'm someone who uses these
systems because I find them interesting,
but that's the extent of it.
And I hope to learn more in this process.
I think one of the other
major aspects that I'm
going to discuss when I do the interviews,
because I've already done, like I said,
I'm trying to bank,
but I want to talk to
creatives about the content,
about the subject,
because I feel I personally
like the idea that AI and AI...
prompts and AI systems
should be in the hands of
creatives working with engineers and,
and programmers and stuff like that.
And not solely in the hand
of programmers who are
beholden to companies who
themselves have investors.
I think creatives should
have a hand in the control
because I can't think of a area where AI,
at least for now,
Because I know they're
working on bringing AI into other fields,
but the creative sphere was
the one where they could
really make the biggest jumps,
creating visual arts,
creating video clips, creating text.
I can ask an AI right now to
write me a haiku.
I can ask an AI to create a song.
There's a lot of things that
I can do that I don't think...
the goal of AI was ever to
do these things.
AI wasn't supposed to create art.
We were supposed to create art.
Humans were supposed to create art.
AI was supposed to figure
out ways for us to have to
work less and for us to
appreciate the beauty of the world more.
And instead,
it's been used to create and
take away control from the
creatives and devalue the
work of the creatives and
leave us in this situation.
In any case, this is the first one.
Hopefully you guys have enjoyed it.
I'll be back with more in the future.
And ideally,
I would love you guys to join
up and follow me on all my socials.
So that's at Brian Holidae,
H-O-L-I-D-A-E on all socials.
And I'll be back with more.
You can also check out my
other podcast that I do with the crew.
That's Geek Cypha.
That's on Wednesdays at 7.15.
And you can check out geekcypha.com.
That's G-E-E-K-C-Y-P-H-A.com.
And that's it.
I want to thank you guys for
tuning into this first one.
I'll be back with another.
Peace.
The Dumbest Timeline, Series 2, AI,
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