Back to episode — Episode 2213 Scott Adams - How I Could Easily Program AI To Spot Fake News. It's Pattern Recognition
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cience. Have they ever lied to you? No, of course he was on that plane. Maybe his body was, or maybe he's still in a basement under Putin's dacha, chained to a wall so Putin can torture him for the rest of his life. How would you know? Do you think it's case closed because we learned it from Russia after they used some science? And oh, but wait, if you're concerned about the credibility of Russia…
← Previous segment →appiest idea of the whole day? Do you want to hear something that will make you laugh with happiness probably for a full week? Do you want AI to go away because it's too dangerous? I can make that happen for you. All you have to do is train one model of AI how to spot fake news because it's a pattern. It's all patterns. Oh yeah, you're feeling it, don't you? Just think about it. AI, no doubt about it. If you can teach AI to drive by looking at videos of driving, you don't think you can get AI to spot fakes?
Let me ask you this. There's a news story and the people pushing it the hardest are Adam Schiff, Eric Swalwell, and Philip Bump from The Washington Post. Is the story true? Let's say those three say it's true. But Alan Dershowitz says it's not, and Jonathan Turley says it's not, and Glenn Greenwald says it's not, and Michael Shellenberger says it's not. Just to pick some names. Is it true? Do you think that AI couldn't spot that in less time than you imagined? His time. That didn't make any sense, but you know where I was going with it, right?
Now remember I gave you the list of ways to tell fake news. At the top of the list of probable fake news would be an anonymous account, an anonymous report. One anonymous report. Do you think you couldn't teach AI to look for an anonym
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ous report? Okay. Do you think you could teach AI to spot a Rupar? Do you know what a Rupar is? So Rupar is named after journalist named Rupar. It's when you take out some context from a story to reverse its meaning. If you asked AI was the fine people hoax a hoax, how hard would it be for AI to figure out what it was? Because it would know to look for context that's missing. It would just go loo…
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