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you right. And it happens now. Go. That's so good. So good. Well, the news is all interesting today. News out in Palm Springs, California, is that an amnesia patient who woke up 14 months ago and could only speak Swedish, which was not his natural language, was found dead in his home. So for 14 months, for reasons that are a mystery, he could only speak Swedish. How do we explain this? How do we…
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Do you know what the most obvious explanation is whenever something amazing and hard to believe happens? That it didn't happen. It's almost always the case that if it's that remarkable, yeah, it didn't happen. Or there's some context missing.
Well, my mind was blown by a video by Elon Musk yesterday. So you know that AI can be trained by looking at words. Everybody knows that. But apparently if you want to train AI to be a self-driving car, words are not enough. So I guess the new version of Tesla's self-driving car AI software has been trained with only video now. If you want to have your mind blown, it's coming. They gave it only massive video from cars driving so that it would understand how a car should drive without ever being trained on what a roundabout is. You know, a traffic roundabout. It handled it perfectly without even knowing what the
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concept of a roundabout is, because it had seen so many videos that it just sort of did what other videos did. And apparently the massive video training technique is probably going to be the thing, and it will probably be the thing that makes self-driving cars practical. So that's fun. But watching a car figure out things it had not learned, it had only somehow got it by pattern recognition, beca…
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