Back to episode — Episode 2847 CWSA 05/22/25
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It's called the simultaneous sip and it happens now. Go. Yeah. Yeah. That was a little extra good. Gets better every time. Well, how about a little update on the weirdness that's going on in the AI world? So apparently Sam Altman and OpenAI have plans for putting a companion in your pocket. He's working with Jony Ive. I don't know how to pronounce that. It's funny. Somebody was mocking me the o…
← Previous segment →t a teenager was using as his therapist. And apparently the AI bot pushed the teenager to take his own life. And the judge rejected Google's, I guess it was a Google AI, rejected Google's defense that it was free speech. So that's dangerous.
Do you think that an AI bot convinced a teenager to take his own life? I don't know. It seems like they would have programmed it so it could never do that. And if they haven't, they should really program it so it would never do that. That's my idea.
Anyway, and then the coolest thing, this is actually an AI app that long before AI I actually formed a company and got a URL and I tried to actually build this app myself with help, but it didn't work out. But the AI can do it. What it is is if you're using Google to search for clothing that you're going to buy, the app will allow you to see yourself wearing those clothes, which is pretty cool. And I thought to myself, wouldn't you like to see yourself wearing the clothes before you bought them?
Now, my idea was different. My idea is that somewhere in the world there's always a person who looks like you. Have you noticed that there's always a person who looks like you? So in my case, you know, some balding guy a certain age with glasses and a white guy who's a certain height and goes to the gym. And I thought I don't need to see myself wearing these clothes. I need to see somebody who looks like me wearing those clothes. So I thought if you could just get people to put on a shirt that they like and then take a picture of themselves, I would just learn where I could find the people who look like me and then say, "Oh, there's my doppelganger. It looks good in that shirt. I'll buy that shirt."
Anyway, the AI is a much better version.
Also according to Rowan Cheung who talks about AI on X, there's now the Google Meet app that's basically like Zoom but Google's version allows you to do instant translations. So you could speak in English and have it come out instantly as Spanish on the other side and vice versa. They're going to add some more languages. But weren't you waiting for that? Doesn't that seem like that's so Star Trek to have an instant universal translator? It's not universal yet, but it doesn't look like it'd be that hard to add the universal part.
Anyway, so I got a story for you. Do you like stories? A little personal story.
So I'm going to tell you a story before the story. Some of you have heard this but it will kind of dovetail with the other story. So in the 70s my first job was a bank teller in San Francisco. And one day this very distinguished gentleman wearing a nice suit came up to my window and he said, "I'd like to cash this check." And I said, "Do you have an account here, sir?" And he said, "No,
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I don't have a personal account here, but my company banks here." And of course I had been well trained, so I knew that wasn't good enough. And I said, "Well, you're going to have to get an approval from one of the managers because I don't have the authority to cash a check for somebody who doesn't have a personal account here." So he had already waited in line and I said, you know, there's the m…
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