Back to episode — Episode 2895 CWSA 07/12/25
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ime or something to look into that and find out that yes, there were armed gang members standing outside the apartment building? There was no way they could have figured that out on their own for a year. Sorry. Trust in the media pretty low. Pretty low. All right, here's a story that as far as I know has not been debunked, but it doesn't sound real to me. So I'm going to tell you the story but we…
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Well, somebody named Eddie Zu has developed AI glasses that will be used to train robots. And the way it will do that is they'll put these AI glasses on Chinese factory workers and it will watch them work. So the glasses will be on the human and it will be watching the human doing something with their hands that's assembling something or doing some kind of assembly line kind of thing and that's how they will train robots. So they'll collect all that data and feed it into robots and then robots will know how to put everyone in China out of work. I think the Chinese government is going to have to throw him out a window because I don't think you can put a few hundred million Chinese factory workers out of work with robots. But maybe it's coming.
Well Sam Altman was talking about a delay at ChatGPT and he says they're planning to launch their open-weight model next week but they're going to delay it for more safety testing. And you might say, "What the heck is an open-weight model?" Well I didn't know. So I went to Grok. I had to go to Grok today five times while I was reading the news. Five times the news told me something that I just said, "I don't even know what that is. Why don't you tell me what that means and then maybe I'll know what I'm looking at."
But the open-weight model is an AI that is a little bit open sourced, not completely, but it allows developers to know how the model works. So if they want to build their own product on top of it, it operates with the AI in the best way. Now he's saying the tech got delayed because they want to review the high-risk areas. Now when he's talking about high risk, he's not really just talking about it having a bug, right? They're talking about, well it might be the end of all civilization, but we're going to take an extra week to make sure that it doesn't destroy civilization. Well it's possible that all humankind will be eviscerated and possibly incinerated by the end of next week, but just in case we're going to take an extra week.
I can't tell how much of this is real because there's almost nothing I've heard about AI that I understand and also scares me. So why is it that the people who know the most, way more than I know, why are they so scared of AI? Is it like a mass hysteria? Is it possible that they don't want to be the one who didn't say it was dangerous when everybody else does? So maybe they just have to take that position because it sounds more socially responsible. If something bad happens they'll say, "Well we told you it wasn't fully safe." Yeah. I've been saying since the beginning good things might go wrong. And then at least you would think, "Oh well they're not morons, but something did go wrong and now we're all dead."
So I'm a little bit worried about what the smartest people know that I don't know about AI, but still I'm not afraid of it. Does anybody else have that feeling that you're watching the news, you're hearing what the smart people say and they tell you it might be a 10 or 20% chance it will destroy all humankind and I still don't worry about it? What's up with that? How many of you actually worry about it? I don't understand the risk enough to be actually worried. It just passes through.
But I'm going to add my own prediction. I would say that we could say at this point there's a 100% chance that human evolution with our organic bodies will be replaced by machine evolution and robots. And I don't mean cyborgs, I mean just machines. And that the obvious evolutionary path is for the organic humans to die off from one thing or another, not necessarily from AI. Could be we last a million years and then the sun explodes and we haven't gotten to another planet. Could be there's a new virus that comes out of a lab and kills all the humans, but we're not there yet. But we're very close to having these artificial general intelligence and artificial super intelligence robots that could potentially take over civilization and keep things running after all human organic people are gone.
So if you look at the history of other species and you look at the history of civilizations that were here 20,000 years ago but somehow they all got wiped out, is it more likely that we humans will find a way to be permanent and just keep evolving for millions of years? Is that more likely than all the organic people being killed? Not even being murdered, but just apparently if you wait long enough there's going to be a meteor, something's going to hit the Earth, something's going to go wrong. But the robots might be capable of, as long as they can get electricity, of just rebuilding civilization. So I'm going to make my prediction right now that human civilization will turn into machine evolution and it might live forever but as machines maybe.
All right. Trump and Melania visited the Texas flood zone and he did his presidential thing. Trump is very good at the empathy and meeting with people who have had tragedy and whatever. But Melania was very good as well. She was at the table with him and Trump said, "You, Melania might have a few words." And I wasn't sure if Melania was happy about that. I didn't know if she was prepared to speak. And I still don't know if she was prepared, but she very effortlessly went into an empathy related "we feel your pain, I'll come back" kind of a thing. And I was watching Trump because you know Trump will be very careful about managing his brand and would certainly want his family members and especially his wife to look good in public. And I thought to myself that he was looking at her with a lot of pride because she was really good. Very good. I don't know how much game she has, but yeah she nailed it. She got all the notes and looked very capable and I think he was probably quite happy with her response.
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t's see what else. According to Just the News, Ben Whedon is writing that the Treasury has announced that in June the government will have a $27 billion surplus from tariff revenues. Surplus meaning that after the government paid all of its bills it would have an extra $27 billion left over. And that happens to be the amount that came in from tariffs. Does that sound real? Doesn't that sound a lit…
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