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Back to episode — Episode 2823 CWSA 04/28/25

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now. Go. Perfect. That's just what I needed. Well, in Texas somebody 3D printed a Starbucks. It's one of those big 3D printers that does concrete walls and it's just a little drive-thru, so there's no internal seating. So it's a small one. But how long before robots can make the coffee? Oh, turns out that's my next story. Global coffee report says that AI robots will soon be making your mornin…

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't think they know exactly why. I assume it's not some kind of cyber crime because I don't know who would go after Portugal, Spain, and parts of France. That'd be a weird target. But they're dealing with that. And it kind of reminds you how fragile civilization is. There was probably, my guess is, one piece of equipment that went bad and it took three countries offline. So we'll keep an eye on that and see what the hell is going on with that. That's pretty scary.

On the brighter side of news, it's being reported that the attention economy is turning into the intention economy, which I had not been exposed to before. So attention is all your social media where they're trying to get your attention because if they have your att

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ention, you look at advertising and then they win. But with AI, they're going to move to an intention economy, meaning they're going to figure out what it is you're likely to want, maybe before you even know it. And so they'll be looking at your intentions to give you what you want. You can say goodbye to your illusion of free will because once your AI gets good enough to know what you want and i…

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