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Well, I'd like to start out with the most interesting story I just saw before I came on here. At the University of Maryland they've developed a sweatshirt that acts as an invisibility cloak against AI. So if you're worried that the AI will recognize you via facial recognition, they've developed a sweatshirt that—it looks like the technique has crowd faces in it or something. But whatever it does, it confuses the AI, and they showed a live demonstration where the AI just became invisible, or the person became invisible. So they literally have developed a cloak of invisibility for AI. It's an actual thing and it works. That's why I say it's about time. It's about time. Get that AI cloak.
Some of you may have watched my livestream yesterday afternoon, a special livestream in which I demonstrated how a senior citizen like me gets a health care appointment through their health care provider, Kaiser Permanente North. If you think I ever got to talk to a doctor or got a doctor appointment, you'd be wrong. Because I demonstrated how difficult it would be just to work through the system of just getting an appointment. And it wasn't until this morning I realized that the problem is that the entire system is designed to prevent you from ge
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tting a doctor appointment. Literally, not a joke. Because that's the only way they can handle it economically. They need to take all the people whose doctor requests are marginal and really should have been handled in some other way, and they shunt them off. So it's all about preventing you from getting to a doctor. And the trouble is they got a little too good at it. I actually can't figure out…
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