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tunities. So the people that you've chosen to teach your children don't believe that AI will significantly affect their employment opportunities. What do you even say about that? Did we intentionally find the dumbest people to become teachers? How in the world could they have that opinion that the job that's most likely to disappear entirely is their job? Am I wrong? The most likely thing to disap…
← Previous segment →the people watching this broadcast are the exceptions. I don't know how that happened. But everybody else, they're doing some sketchy stuff.
Do you know who never got arrested before? Puff Daddy. Do you think the AI could have figured out what was going on there? Probably. Probably I think so. So I think the risk of AI and predictive crime is that you would find out that most average people are criminals. They're either cheating on their taxes or they're doing a little something at work. They're fudging their expense accounts. They're doing something. They're speeding. Who knows? They're drinking and driving. I don't know. But yeah, if we had a society where every bad thing you did got caught every time, we'd all be in a lot of trouble. Except for, like I said, except for those of you who are watching this now and me. Luckily for us we're the exceptions. But other people, they'd be in a lot of trouble.
Well apparently the Don Lemon show is not the roaring success that Don Lemon had hoped, and that its audience has almost disappeared after three shows. And maybe this is what we can learn from that. Did you think that Don Lemon had a natural audience or do you think that people watched him because he was on primetime on CNN? And do you think that people watched his Elon Musk interview because it was Elon Musk or because it was him? What do you think?
Well I would say that his recent performance suggests that he did not have an audience that would follow him. Rather he had an experience on a platform that brought a sizable audience to anybody who was at 8:00 or whatever his time zone was, whatever his time was. So it seems that through the process of trial and error Don Lemon has determined that literally nobody wants to watch him. Now I'm exaggerating a little bit, right? I think his show is bigger than mine. I think even his failed show is bigger than mine. But he started from a higher base so it looks worse. I started from nothing and grew it up, at least this part of my work. He started from a higher base and so it looks like failure. But he's still doing better than I'm doing. I mean if he did nothing but continued his low-rated show he'd be killing me with numbers probably. So we'll see. Anything could happen.
I still wish him well. So we'll see. I don't really like to see anybody who's doing what I'm trying to do, you know, this sort of a job, if you could call it a job. I'm not even sure if I call this a job. If any of you noticed that I literally am doing this for my own entertainment. I don't really have to work. I don't really have to get up at 4:30 to do this. I don't have to. But I actually love it. It's a highlight of my day usually. Like right now in this very moment. You know I'm hoping that you're enjoying something you're watching, but I'm having a better time than you are because I'm getting all the attention and I get to say w
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hat I get to say and put things the way I want to. It's a great, great, great experience, you know. So I feel bad for anybody who feels like it's a job. Now the other thing that makes this fun is that I do it live. I wouldn't like this at all if I were recording it right now and then you just got to see it an hour later. No fun at all. I wouldn't have any interest in that whatsoever. It's only th…
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