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, but it will. It will. It's going to get on track any moment now. Have you seen the video of the Iranian women knocking the headgear off of clerics during it? It's really fun to watch. So you know you're watching the government cracking down on the women who are trying to not wear the traditional face coverings and stuff, and it's becoming a really big deal. The protests continue. I thought they…
← Previous segment →ecause they'd all look the same, right? So I think that the Iranian women should embrace and amplify. They should over-cover themselves and all look the same so they could be knocking hats off clerics all day long and nobody can get caught. Be like, oh, there's like 600 of them. I have no idea which one did that. Am I right?
Just give them what they want. Just all dress the same, wear masks. And once you cannot be identified, go nuts. Once you can't be identified, go nuts. That's what they're asking for. They're asking for you to be completely unidentified. Give them what they want. Show them what happens when you're unidentified. Give them exactly what they're asking for.
I've told you this before, but man, is it true. Remember when we were waiting for AI artwork to someday be as good as a human? That day passed a while ago. AI art is unambiguously better than human art. I've seen enough examples now where one after another, AI art I want to put on my wall. Like I'll see it, I'll go, I would put that on my wall. That's actually beautiful. I don't really see human art that makes me do that. I don't see human art that makes me want to put it on a wall. I can't remember the last time. Like if I put up artwork, it's a protest. I like I'd rather have nothing on my wall.
But Machiavelli did another piece of artwork in which he just asked it to do a Dilbert comic. I'll show you which AI he was using here in a moment. And the artwork, in my opinion as a professional cartoonist, is equal to the best human cartoonist. Just the art. But there's an interesting quality about it that blows my freaking mind. Let me show you here in a minute. So you won't be able to see it as clearly as I want it, but the request from Machiavelli's underbelly was to make a Dilbert cartoon about a zebra. And interestingly it made Dilbert part zebra. Not a zebra. Giraffe, I'm sorry, part giraffe.
And look, look at the quality of the cartoon at the bottom. That is a hundred percent as good as the best human cartoonist right there. There's nothing missing on that. It's beautiful, really. And like this art, like that bottom cartoon, that is so well designed. Like I would put that on my wall. It's just cool to look at. Now, but here's the weird thing. Do you notice that the humans have weird characteristics like they don't quite look like they have the right features and stuff? They look all interesting. But even from one panel to the next, the AI is making the person look different. Like one has three lenses and blah blah.
Now, here, you want a freaky idea? Do you want a really freaky idea? All right, I'm going to build into this. This will just freak you the fuck out. You ready for it? You know how the human brain gives you a perfect image of things that you don't see perfectly? You know that, right? So for example, you will have a memory of something that didn't even happen. The false memory is pretty common. We all have them, right?
You also, if you're watching, let's say, a tennis ball being hit hard and it bounces near a line, your brain says I saw that tennis ball. I saw it hit the ground and I know if it's in or out. But did you know you don't see that tennis ball? Your brain or your eyes can only pick up the tennis ball every, depending on the speed it's going, it can only pick up the tennis ball every five feet or something. But all the stuff in between, your brain filled in, and it wasn't there. But your memory is you saw the ball the whole way. You did not see the ball the whole way. Your brain allowed you to imagine you saw it the whole way.
Now, do you accept, do you accept that your brain is in real time translating things into things that are not true? Do you agree with that? Your brain is always translating your approximate environment into a specific picture which is not true. Now what happens when you take AI that you know, high intelligence, and you train it to look at human faces, and then you tell them to reproduce a human face in some artwork, and then the AI makes the human face look different in each panel all the time, all the time? Well, it seems like it doesn't seem to matter which AI you're using. And you can train the AI to really know what a face looks like, right? Because faces are approximately the same and approximately symmetrical, right? It knows what a nose is. It knows what eyes are. It knows where they appear on the face.
Are you telling me that AI can't make a human face? What should be the simplest thing? Right now I'm going to blow your mind. You ready? You ready for this? Get ready. It could be the human faces don't look the same from minute to minute, and that we can't tell because our human brain is making your face look the same as it looked a minute ago to me. What if our faces don't look the same from moment to moment, and that they're actually like a wave function? That your face is only a potential face, and when somebody looks at it, they're picking up the potential. They're forming in their mind their own face, and then they lock it in. And so every time they look at you, they see that face that they've locked in. But your actual face is never the same.
Okay, did I freak anybody out? Because give me one other reason that AI can't make a face the same twice in a row. There's no other reason, because the technology could easily do it. The technology is telling you what is actually there. The AI is telling you that our faces are not the same from moment to moment. That's what it is. But we don't see it. N
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ow I'm not saying that's true. I'm just saying it might be. That is within the realm of something that could be true, which is freaky by itself even if it's not true. But I can't think of another reason that AI can't make a face. I mean, there's just no other reason. All right. A really clear politics poll asking people if we thought the country was heading in the right direction or the wrong dir…
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