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It's one of my powers. I wonder if you could increase some of these oxytocin levels by hypnosis. I'll bet you could. I'll bet that's actually possible. But let's talk about the news. So there's a ne

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w way that AI is being trained. You know the old way was it would look at words and it would say, oh, if this combination of words is more common, then it'll use it that way. And so just the combination of words created this AI that we use now. But you might also be aware that Tesla is using a video training thing. So it's training its cars to drive autonomously by just feeding it a gazillion videos of cars driving. And it doesn't teach it any rules. It just shows it a bazillion miles of driving, and the AI just figures out how to drive by looking at how other people drive.

But apparently that could be extended to other things. So now there's something called an LBM. The LLM is the large language model, so that's trained on human words. And the LBM is a behavior model. So here's how they train it to make breakfast. They put the AI there and they say, watch this. And then they make breakfast in front of it, and then they do it again a bunch of times, and then it knows how to make break

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fast. Now it's only going to know what it saw cooked in front of it, but it's actually learning tasks by observation. I guess one of the breakthroughs is they gave it a thumb that could feel like a human hand. So if you've got at least one part of the robot that can feel something, then the feeling

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