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we've got all kinds of news today. It's amazing. Did you know that Home Depot will sell you a whole house, 540 square feet prefab, for $444,000? So now you can buy a whole house from Home Depot, a whole house from Amazon. Okay, just checking. Do we have sound? Can anybody hear me? It's not entirely clear that I'm actually live. Anybody? Any sound at all? Is there any kind of a show happening? I c…
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There's a new AI that can take your script and turn it into a full movie just from the script. How cool is that? You can just take your movie script and it just becomes a movie. Now I have certainly a lot of questions whether that really does that. I'm going to predict it's really a demo where, you know, something that looks like it could work and you wish it would work but doesn't quite work, like everything else in AI. It almost does something well. I think that's what's going to happen.
But what's different is that the pitch for funding at the Y Combinator demo day was done using AI. So the founder pitched it using an AI version of herself, or one of the founders. I think that's kind of cool.
Can a robot read your mind? Well, there's one called Emo now, and it will smile back at you if you smile, and it might change really how you interact with machines. Imagine a robot that knew the correct context to smile back. I mean, just hold that in your mind that you smile at your robot and it smiles back. That's a game changer. That's the point where you lose the ability to know it's not real or that it's not conscious. When your robot starts smiling at you, there's almost nothing you'll be able to do to think that it's not conscious. I don't think it will be, but boy isn't it going to seem conscious when it smiles at you.
But apparently this one, the one that smiles, can also read your face and try to get an idea what your attitude is. So now they have AI that'll listen to your words for your emotional state, but this one will look at your face and your body language. So yes, the robots are getting into our emotional space, and that's going to be a problem.
You may have seen this story. It's not too new, but there was a New Jersey postal worker who had been just throwing away the mail, which by the way is not that uncommon. Sometimes it's just easier to go home and throw the mail away than it is to deliver it all over town. That's a lot of work. So sometimes you'll hear the story about a mail person who just would take the mail home and dump it in the, you know, his living room or something. Well, but this one has an extra element to it. There were 99 election ballots in this 2,000 pieces of mail.
Now there's no indication that the mail person had any political motive or that throwing the mail away had anything to do with ballots. But well, here's my question. How did they detect that he threw the mail away? Was it because somebody knew about their ballot missing? Is that what happened? Let's see. Let me see if I can figure out how to go private on this because I'm still getting people, trolls telling me there's no sound, and I don't think that they're real people. I think they're trolls. They're trolls, right? Sound is fine. Yeah, I'm not going to ask again.
All right. So the question is, does our election system detect if a mail person throws the mail away? How in the world did they know that any mail was missing in the first place? Now I didn't see that in the story, but here's where I would sound the alarm. Here's what I expected to see in the story. There were 99 ballots that were thrown away, and 10 of those 99 people complained because they knew their ballot didn't reach its destination. So when they tracked it down they could easily figure out which postal person it was because of where the ballot Dropbox was. Do you think that happened? Do you think that the election process picked up that ballots were thrown away? Because if it didn't pick it up, then what we did is we outsourced o
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ur election security to the post office. The post office. Because I can't think of a more secure environment than the post office. But looks like that's what we did. Well, vigilantism is breaking out right on schedule. There are three stories in the news just today of people taking matters into their own hands. Surprise, surprise. People feel there's no law, and so men are starting to take the la…
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