Was driving me nuts how Jabril basically said "the algorithm/ai is only a problem because someone is benefiting off of how its made so you should blame them and not the tool itself" and everyone kinda ignored it and then said "they should regulate it because the algorithm is dangerous" which is essentially both exactly what Jabril is saying while missing his point.
I'm so glad I discovered this when I did, binged the whole thing in like a day, this was an awesome idea and I'm glad that y'all came together to do this and I hope it stays around cause it feels super natural and about as chaotic as you can expect with William involved xD
something about the camera angle/lens focus allen was using makes it look like he has big head mode enabled on the on from the old NFL blitz games when its in the 4 way split.
53:50 this reminds me of Hitchhiker's Guide, where the Nutrimatic machine produces a liquid everyone finds unpleasant that is "almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea". Arthur Dent then dumps a bunch of info into the machine, including the history of the East India Company, and the the Nutrimatic co-opts the ship's main computer to help it work out how to make tea, leaving it unable to respond when the ship gets attacked.
Will, thank you for starting and organizing these pod casts. I really enjoy when you get really quite and then just come back to the conversation with these knowledge bombs. It really highlights the intelligence behind your clown facade.
I worked in the testing industry for many years. I worked with several US states to make science tests. What my company did was try to help the states come up with standards that were actually what students need to learn. A big part of it involved teaching AND testing critical thinking skills. It is possible to make great testing programs, so that if teachers do "teach to the test" they are teaching critical thinking and a great foundation in the sciences. Also, even back before 2000, states had sensitivity committees made up of teachers and community members. They reviewed each and every test question before kids ever saw them, and the sensitivity committee could veto any question. THEN they reviewed the data from field tests of the questions. It should be noted that science teachers from the states we contracted with also had their own committees to review the test items and then field test data as well. The vast majority of the teachers and administrators I worked with cared deeply about giving students a strong science foundation, and even more about teaching critical thinking. And by the way, the strongest predictor of performance on a test is socioeconomic status. There are many reasons for that: from poorer parents not having the time to make sure their kids are studying, to nutrition, to a million different things. Anyway, if the standards are good and include scientific method and critical thinking, it is possible to make tests that are worth teaching to and will help as one tool in the education toolbox.
Your comment reminded me of the high school physics curriculum in my state of Australia. For roughly 15 years the curriculum avoided basically any complicated physics concepts and instead had a bunch of 2 page essay style questions like, "what was the impact of the transformer on rural Australia?", apparently this was done because teachers were complaining that real physics was too hard to teach. Luckily the curriculum changed the year I took it and instead focused on more maths, and combining different equations on the spot to fit a certain previously unseen problem. If I had done the previous curriculum I would have been in for a rude shock doing university physics. Curriculum design and the test that goes with it is so important.
30:28 My friends and i cracked the code on standardized testing in the mid 90's. we all realized that the standardized test has literally no impact on us as students at all (this was before NCLB). It was like a massive weight was lifted off our shoulders. It was a pointless test with NO SCORE and NO GRADE. We would have assembly after assembly with the staff literally chanting "DO YOUR BEST FOR THE TEST" to the point where its the only thing i remember about school now. When the day finally came for the test, my friends and i just scribbled all over the packet, drew on the page that said not to draw on it, and wrote in random answers. After it was over, we made it about a few hours before the teachers came and rounded us up. they were furious and kept grilling us on why we didn't take the test. i remember just asking them how many points the test was worth, and they just wouldn't answer my question. ultimately, they threw our tests out and made us swear not to tell any other students what we had done. i'm glad we saw through the bullshit as kids though, because the relief from all the stress was amazing. And i made it as a engineer without EVER taking a single college placement test. No SAT, no ACT, NONE of that. Standardized testing can butt chug a gallon of Hot Ones brand name Last Dab hot sauce, with Pepper X.
The education conversation reminds me of the Carlin standup about the gov programs. "No child left behind? It wasn't so long ago you were talking about giving children a head start. Someone's fucking loosing ground here!"
As the parent of a Kindergartener, I can confirm, she does SOMETIMES pretend to be talking to a camera (in addition to tea parties and building forts and all the stuff a kid does.). I pretended to make radio shows when I was her age, with my tape recorder so I kinda see it as an evolution of that same concept, only just with more modern contextualized technology.
My highschool did two years with classes at a local college, and we had to do a placement test for math. They had just switched test providers, and the system messed up. Everyone of us got placed in the lowest bracket, despite that half of us had already taken Calc. They put the calc kids into trig, so we still all had to retake calc :(
i just need jabril to act as referee on every episode of the podcast from now on. always refraining from talking over people, getting everyone back on topic and even asking others to let kevin finish his point. its a nice change of pace from the usual chaos
Yo jabril is legit the best host.. He includes everyone, goes back to topics, plays devil's advocate, tries to have some semblance of structure. Also caretakers takes were very informative. Honestly terrifying how kids are with online media.
In uk we have exactly what will is talking about in terms of healthcare, we pay tax but we also pay something called national insurance which goes towards the NHS and things like unemployment pay and benefits for people who are unable to work.
For AI, Halo made a super interesting distinction in their books forever ago. There was VI, and there was AI. AI was anything that was essentially just a manmade consciousness. Free thought, everything. VI was just made to handle specific functions which would be stuff like modern AI, for the most part.
About the selective services signup, for me, I had to fill out a form when I started college. It was required before I could receive any financial aid.
I was in a class of 3 students for a major qualification and the underlying stress of the person in charge saying saying they were expecting the highest was jut slowly set in from the start. I could only do well, at so many things at a time and other subjects needed the focus and this subject was pretty much solely carried by me naturally being better at it etc. There was just other stuff happening in my life too that impacted that entire section of my life.
I like how they say you had to sign up for the draft 30 days after your 18th birthday, and I'm just sitting here six months after my 18th, and I never signed up...
So the draft is done through the Selective Service System. All male US citizens and male immigrants, who are 18 through 25, are required to register with Selective Service. If you EVER attempted any sort of federal aid for school, signing up for Selective Service was mandatory. But it was also pretty easy, you basically just went to the website and type in your name and social security number and address I think. I know I did it in college freshman year.
Will, I really like your podcasts and i hope that you won't stop.. I'm feeling like i'm being at the start of something big. Maybe thats just me but i hope you will continue with this natural kind of podcast. Also i hope that nigel will continue to be on the podcasts i just love seeing him outside of his 6 month upload schedule or yt shorts
There is still very little consensus on the definitions of Machine Learning and AI. It doesn't help that the two are often used interchangeably. I do academic work in machine learning and my current understanding is that machine learning is any process which can determine patterns in a set of input data which correlate with a certain output or outputs (which are either defined ahead of time or left for the algorithm to determine) without being told what those patterns are. AI though is fairly nebulous and the definition seems to change depending on what the person using it wants it to mean. ML is not necessarily AI, and AI is not necessarily ML.
4:40 I switched to pee sitting down and it's actually MUCH better than peeing standing up... Not only your pets wont get in the way but also you wont get those random droplets flying out the toilet and either landing on your pants or the floor. It's MUCH cleaner.
When I was in middle school I was on the bus going home, and when I looked out the window there were two girls clawing and scraping at each other and pulling each other's hair. But the best part of watching these chicks going at it was this fat kid that for some reason was jumping around them, laughing and throwing armfuls of leaves over them
1:05:15 This is so funny. Think about it: Usually we're talking about a human training a machine neural network. On tiktok, the recommendation algorithm is literally training the neural network in the girl's head. It's kinda funny how we've come full circle.
In the AI discussion my take is that the program has a possibility of being incorrect. the tic tac toe analogy falls apart because the program already knows all the possible game states and there is no room for error, that is quite literally a flow chart. If a program starts by learning all the states and outcomes through trial and error and builds its own state table, I would say it AI at this point in time, I think it stops being AI when it can stop improvement.
Getting panicked and a rush of energy to work on things when they become urgent is another sign of ADHD. You guys joke about it a lot, but so many content creators have it without knowing. It might be worth getting tested. Turns out I have it too lol.
I remember being in elementary school and realizing what the words "pledge of allegiance" meant and I didn't want to recite it anymore and my teacher forced me to recite it multiple times by myself in front of the class
also having the shitty peices in chex mix probably makes it more addicting, i don't think I'd like it as much if i didnt have to dig through the whole bag and throw out all the fuking pretzels
gov. needs to start incentivizing saftey and honesty by paying large platforms to make their algorithms more boring and ads less constant. if they want money, give it to them ..
The definition of AI is very vague, but basically, just like Kevin said, a simple state machine is just a program. It's an actor, to be more precise. The "Intelligence" part of AI requires the program to not be specialized. The program must be able to learn, and apply general principles to unknown tasks. A TicTacToe "AI" is per definition not an AI, it is just an agent that "chooses" the correct action based on a ruleset, which is usually implemented using a state machine, which you guys explained well. But like Jabrils correctly mentioned, a neural network is just one possible implementation of AI. You could theoretically write an algorithm that is able to apply knowledge to new situations. The most important aspect of AI is the ability to _solve problems,_ meaning not just doing something the programmer told it to do, but making decisions. Because of this definition, there is no hard difference between a program and an AI, it is more of a spectrum, and we need to draw the line somewhere. So none of you were "wrong" in the end. It is not really something you can clearly define, and I mean it's just a word. Who cares what it means, as long as we know what we're talking about. Because a neural network is also just a function that takes an input and produces an output, it just lends itself to machine learning, because you can adjust weights and biases by back-propagating errors. I would say, "AI" is a topic, and not a thing. Just saying "this is AI" sadly doesn't mean much, since the word is kinda open to interpretation.
on neural tic tac toe: Matt Parker - Matchbox Menace video inspired me. Great explaination of neural AI. I made my game. In fact, there are 250K combinations =)
"any kids gimmie lip, imma fight a kid." I literally had to do this more than once... Granted, I was a Taishi so... Yeah. (Taishi roughly translates to "teacher" in martial arts. Those kids literally asked to fight me.)
So, I have the same issue with a screaming roommate, and I thought about earbuds, but my problem is not waking up to my alarm then. So, any clever ideas a clever person would care to grace me with?
I wish I'd just plowed on and done a foundation chem degree straight after school instead of assuming I'd never make the grade because I didn't have chemistry Alevels. I was top in my class for science but I got a bit lower in my maths score. So as a result I wasn't allowed to do science A-levels (high school diploma for US) and had to do crappy humanities subjects (they were my second best group of subjects behind science). So then after my A-levels, 2020, COVID pandemic, all my travel plans for my gap year went to shit. Instead of applying to university I put it off because I didn't have any motivation to do the subjects, so I just dumped all my dreams and went to work in a shitty IT job in a school, thinking maybe in a few decades I'd be in a top paid it job...about a month in I realized that wasn't going to happen but plowed on for a year doing that. While working I forgot to apply for university AGAIN because of the stress of work, and added stress because my girlfriend was getting distant (turned out she was seeing another person). So now here I am, two years late for university, my girlfriend broke up with me a week ago. I've applied for university and I'm going to go, but I've never felt more unsure of anything in my life. Nothing makes sense anymore without her. I've lost everything, all my plans for after and during university, everything is gone.
Yeah, No Child Left Behind reaaaaaally fucked up the way stuff was taught. Since funding was all based on attendance and test scores, suddenly it's less about caring about the student's outcome, and just whether or not they're there and can take a very specific set of tests well. I was lucky because my school had enough outside funding to be able to pay for teachers who could provide a more liberal education (mind you, not in the political sense, in the education sense, look it up lol) where I got to learn more than just the curriculum. And that set me up so much for college in terms of just base skill level, since I knew way more shit than other students, like how to write a thesis statement and what not. Unfortunately, I went to a public university, despite the fact that my parents could afford a private one, and so I ended up getting kicked out (and let back in) due to medical reasons, leaving, doing some cc to transfer to a different college, and ended up leaving that too. Now I'm like, where do I try to go, how, should I try to get an internship and work in the field I'm pursuing, all that shit. And I still have some of the medical problems, so I'm hesitant to jump until I get my shit together. Funny thing about a lot of the UA-camrs I watch, most of them are fairly smart or talented people, and they've helped justify that like, if you have problems in college, or don't like it, it's not because you're stupid or untalented. It just means shit happens, and you gotta figure it out, whether it's get back on the old horse, or get on a new one (and thankfully none of them suggest becoming a UA-camr lol, kids these days are fucked thinking they'll be UA-camrs or TikTok stars lol).
this was a lot of fun, great conversation, & I finally get the Nigel Milk Reference 😂
Sir sleeping at 4 AM in the morning
My idol 🎶🎶🎶
I finally broke my terrible sleeping habit of falling asleep at 4 am and waking up at 9 am
@@kadensharpin2156 it's not terrible, that is just what society tells us😔
I was pumped to see you on this episode. Love your work and general demeanor. Keep it up, man
gomad
i miss hearing nigel’s near death experiences but it’s refreshing seeing new guests and seeing caretaker on the podcast
nigel is there alright, in the spirit of his milk story
I know these don’t bring in a ton of views but the people who like the podcast love it. Please keep going as long as you can
yes, this a thousand times, its my highlight of the week
I watch this multiple times, in case I missed sth. So fun.
totally agreed
Is this channel even promoted by anyone? I stumbled upon it by random chance.
@@Voyajer. Promoted by algorithm perhaps. If you have interest in science you have higher chance to get advertised to these videos.
Was driving me nuts how Jabril basically said "the algorithm/ai is only a problem because someone is benefiting off of how its made so you should blame them and not the tool itself" and everyone kinda ignored it and then said "they should regulate it because the algorithm is dangerous" which is essentially both exactly what Jabril is saying while missing his point.
I never noticed that Chelsea sounds the same as Scarlett Johansson but now I can't unhear it
Jabrils is actually a fantastic guest, loved every second of him. Also that ending alone is enough for a like.
I liked the part where everyone but Jabril got confused about AI
"Is the machine making decisions, no matter how rudimentary? Then its AI."
Woah i cant believe they got scarlett Johansson
I'm so glad I discovered this when I did, binged the whole thing in like a day, this was an awesome idea and I'm glad that y'all came together to do this and I hope it stays around cause it feels super natural and about as chaotic as you can expect with William involved xD
Everyone dodging Alan's 'huge posse' comment like the fastest gunslingers in the west
Caretaker’s teaching stories are great.
Kevin is a real one. Jabril too, ahead of the curve trying to solve problems at the root. Keep Kevin and Allan as staple guests please.
something about the camera angle/lens focus allen was using makes it look like he has big head mode enabled on the on from the old NFL blitz games when its in the 4 way split.
William Osman single-handedly disproves free will. We are just if-then statements.
yeah that kind of broke my brain a for a little after he said that
I’m not going to lie, I love conversations on philosophy and theology. It’s one of my greatest loves besides technology and science.
@@TheBackyardScientist when did he said that
we should get gus johnsonn in on this
Wasn't Will on the Gus and Eddy podcast?
Uh oh
@@danielnunez1587 this one hasnt aged too well
I didn't understand the caretaker memes till now. She's so considerate and lovely. Chelsea
19:20 Chelsea "Our mascot was a dragon."
Alan "Hahaha... Nerds"
Perfect ending. Also, she really wouldn't sell her socks for 10000 bucks?! What's insane!
That's obviously not true, unless she's rich, crazy or paranoid about the buyer planting her socks at a crime scene.
53:50 this reminds me of Hitchhiker's Guide, where the Nutrimatic machine produces a liquid everyone finds unpleasant that is "almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea". Arthur Dent then dumps a bunch of info into the machine, including the history of the East India Company, and the the Nutrimatic co-opts the ship's main computer to help it work out how to make tea, leaving it unable to respond when the ship gets attacked.
Will, thank you for starting and organizing these pod casts. I really enjoy when you get really quite and then just come back to the conversation with these knowledge bombs. It really highlights the intelligence behind your clown facade.
I worked in the testing industry for many years. I worked with several US states to make science tests. What my company did was try to help the states come up with standards that were actually what students need to learn. A big part of it involved teaching AND testing critical thinking skills. It is possible to make great testing programs, so that if teachers do "teach to the test" they are teaching critical thinking and a great foundation in the sciences. Also, even back before 2000, states had sensitivity committees made up of teachers and community members. They reviewed each and every test question before kids ever saw them, and the sensitivity committee could veto any question. THEN they reviewed the data from field tests of the questions. It should be noted that science teachers from the states we contracted with also had their own committees to review the test items and then field test data as well. The vast majority of the teachers and administrators I worked with cared deeply about giving students a strong science foundation, and even more about teaching critical thinking. And by the way, the strongest predictor of performance on a test is socioeconomic status. There are many reasons for that: from poorer parents not having the time to make sure their kids are studying, to nutrition, to a million different things.
Anyway, if the standards are good and include scientific method and critical thinking, it is possible to make tests that are worth teaching to and will help as one tool in the education toolbox.
Your comment reminded me of the high school physics curriculum in my state of Australia. For roughly 15 years the curriculum avoided basically any complicated physics concepts and instead had a bunch of 2 page essay style questions like, "what was the impact of the transformer on rural Australia?", apparently this was done because teachers were complaining that real physics was too hard to teach. Luckily the curriculum changed the year I took it and instead focused on more maths, and combining different equations on the spot to fit a certain previously unseen problem. If I had done the previous curriculum I would have been in for a rude shock doing university physics. Curriculum design and the test that goes with it is so important.
30:28 My friends and i cracked the code on standardized testing in the mid 90's. we all realized that the standardized test has literally no impact on us as students at all (this was before NCLB). It was like a massive weight was lifted off our shoulders. It was a pointless test with NO SCORE and NO GRADE. We would have assembly after assembly with the staff literally chanting "DO YOUR BEST FOR THE TEST" to the point where its the only thing i remember about school now. When the day finally came for the test, my friends and i just scribbled all over the packet, drew on the page that said not to draw on it, and wrote in random answers. After it was over, we made it about a few hours before the teachers came and rounded us up. they were furious and kept grilling us on why we didn't take the test. i remember just asking them how many points the test was worth, and they just wouldn't answer my question. ultimately, they threw our tests out and made us swear not to tell any other students what we had done. i'm glad we saw through the bullshit as kids though, because the relief from all the stress was amazing.
And i made it as a engineer without EVER taking a single college placement test. No SAT, no ACT, NONE of that. Standardized testing can butt chug a gallon of Hot Ones brand name Last Dab hot sauce, with Pepper X.
It's crazy the amount of stress you go through as children in elementary/middle school over tests that will literally never affect you as an adult.
Allen just casually drinking a beer during the podcast is hilarious to me for some reason.
The education conversation reminds me of the Carlin standup about the gov programs.
"No child left behind? It wasn't so long ago you were talking about giving children a head start. Someone's fucking loosing ground here!"
As the parent of a Kindergartener, I can confirm, she does SOMETIMES pretend to be talking to a camera (in addition to tea parties and building forts and all the stuff a kid does.). I pretended to make radio shows when I was her age, with my tape recorder so I kinda see it as an evolution of that same concept, only just with more modern contextualized technology.
this is podcast that give the most value I've ever listen..
My partner is black and we have never not needed to provide a criminal background check when we were living in ND
My highschool did two years with classes at a local college, and we had to do a placement test for math. They had just switched test providers, and the system messed up. Everyone of us got placed in the lowest bracket, despite that half of us had already taken Calc. They put the calc kids into trig, so we still all had to retake calc :(
William mentioned how you where forced to sign to draft. I’m 16 and sighed that 2 weeks ago when I got my learners permit.
i just need jabril to act as referee on every episode of the podcast from now on. always refraining from talking over people, getting everyone back on topic and even asking others to let kevin finish his point. its a nice change of pace from the usual chaos
Will: Wake up, take a shit, get out of bed
A man of true talent
"is your dad like that too" *never answers the question and stays silent*
Yo jabril is legit the best host.. He includes everyone, goes back to topics, plays devil's advocate, tries to have some semblance of structure.
Also caretakers takes were very informative. Honestly terrifying how kids are with online media.
In uk we have exactly what will is talking about in terms of healthcare, we pay tax but we also pay something called national insurance which goes towards the NHS and things like unemployment pay and benefits for people who are unable to work.
For AI, Halo made a super interesting distinction in their books forever ago. There was VI, and there was AI. AI was anything that was essentially just a manmade consciousness. Free thought, everything. VI was just made to handle specific functions which would be stuff like modern AI, for the most part.
I remember when I was studing in Canada, I slept at 2 am, telling myself that it's the Asia time. Now I am in singapore staring at my ceiling at 4 am.
"The pledge is okay to do and also an expectation."
That was said in an email from my principal to staff during the first week of school.
These episodes are one of the highlights of my week for sure
50:00 that's two minute papers
About the selective services signup, for me, I had to fill out a form when I started college. It was required before I could receive any financial aid.
My roommate in college went to school in the same area as Jabrils I think. I heard similar stories about these massive fights and gang activity.
4 guys and 1 girl watch me pick my nose for 1 hour 35 minutes and 22 seconds.
I don't know who Jabril is but for his rant on testing I'm giving him a sub. Preach it
I was in a class of 3 students for a major qualification and the underlying stress of the person in charge saying saying they were expecting the highest was jut slowly set in from the start.
I could only do well, at so many things at a time and other subjects needed the focus and this subject was pretty much solely carried by me naturally being better at it etc. There was just other stuff happening in my life too that impacted that entire section of my life.
Please keep doing these podcasts this really makes me happy
This was a more mature conversation than i expected from these people.
I like how they say you had to sign up for the draft 30 days after your 18th birthday, and I'm just sitting here six months after my 18th, and I never signed up...
So the draft is done through the Selective Service System. All male US citizens and male immigrants, who are 18 through 25, are required to register with Selective Service. If you EVER attempted any sort of federal aid for school, signing up for Selective Service was mandatory. But it was also pretty easy, you basically just went to the website and type in your name and social security number and address I think. I know I did it in college freshman year.
I really enjoyed this one. Jabril is a great guest. Down with capitalism comrade!
57:03 Alan just described brave new world
Will, I really like your podcasts and i hope that you won't stop.. I'm feeling like i'm being at the start of something big. Maybe thats just me but i hope you will continue with this natural kind of podcast. Also i hope that nigel will continue to be on the podcasts i just love seeing him outside of his 6 month upload schedule or yt shorts
The thinning had that plotline 26:00
There is still very little consensus on the definitions of Machine Learning and AI. It doesn't help that the two are often used interchangeably. I do academic work in machine learning and my current understanding is that machine learning is any process which can determine patterns in a set of input data which correlate with a certain output or outputs (which are either defined ahead of time or left for the algorithm to determine) without being told what those patterns are. AI though is fairly nebulous and the definition seems to change depending on what the person using it wants it to mean. ML is not necessarily AI, and AI is not necessarily ML.
4:40 I switched to pee sitting down and it's actually MUCH better than peeing standing up... Not only your pets wont get in the way but also you wont get those random droplets flying out the toilet and either landing on your pants or the floor. It's MUCH cleaner.
Such a great podcast. great topics covered and for a naturally good test taker the school topic was very interesting to me
When I was in middle school I was on the bus going home, and when I looked out the window there were two girls clawing and scraping at each other and pulling each other's hair. But the best part of watching these chicks going at it was this fat kid that for some reason was jumping around them, laughing and throwing armfuls of leaves over them
1:05:15 This is so funny. Think about it: Usually we're talking about a human training a machine neural network.
On tiktok, the recommendation algorithm is literally training the neural network in the girl's head. It's kinda funny how we've come full circle.
In the AI discussion my take is that the program has a possibility of being incorrect. the tic tac toe analogy falls apart because the program already knows all the possible game states and there is no room for error, that is quite literally a flow chart. If a program starts by learning all the states and outcomes through trial and error and builds its own state table, I would say it AI at this point in time, I think it stops being AI when it can stop improvement.
Getting panicked and a rush of energy to work on things when they become urgent is another sign of ADHD. You guys joke about it a lot, but so many content creators have it without knowing. It might be worth getting tested. Turns out I have it too lol.
Most of them have talked about having adhd in past episodes
This bothered me, but you sign up for the draft when you sign up to vote
I’m glad they talked about the draft, I still have to register
I remember being in elementary school and realizing what the words "pledge of allegiance" meant and I didn't want to recite it anymore and my teacher forced me to recite it multiple times by myself in front of the class
This one is the absolute best one, I lOOOOVVEEEE THIS!!!!! MORREEEEEEEEEEEE!!
how did i miss this !! i love this channel
also having the shitty peices in chex mix probably makes it more addicting, i don't think I'd like it as much if i didnt have to dig through the whole bag and throw out all the fuking pretzels
Amazing conversation about social media, thank you
1:21:10 The Backdoor Scientist = Cancelled!! 🤣🤣
I didn't expect the extensive discussion on VRChat.
It's cool though.
Edit: "I think it's funny when they just cut off abru-"
lol
this is an underrated conversation. i love this episode!
CodeBullet would be an awesome guest...
Man. I live for these podcasts.
Nigel should change his profile picture on discord to a chocolate milk jug
If the teacher can't help you, and you want to learn, the teacher failed you
That ai part aged well LOL
I love Chelsea in this, had some of the best takes. Watching every episode from the start, hope i see more of her
gov. needs to start incentivizing saftey and honesty by paying large platforms to make their algorithms more boring and ads less constant. if they want money, give it to them ..
I signed up for the draft when I applied for FAFSA for college
The definition of AI is very vague, but basically, just like Kevin said, a simple state machine is just a program. It's an actor, to be more precise.
The "Intelligence" part of AI requires the program to not be specialized. The program must be able to learn, and apply general principles to unknown tasks.
A TicTacToe "AI" is per definition not an AI, it is just an agent that "chooses" the correct action based on a ruleset, which is usually implemented using a state machine, which you guys explained well.
But like Jabrils correctly mentioned, a neural network is just one possible implementation of AI. You could theoretically write an algorithm that is able to apply knowledge to new situations.
The most important aspect of AI is the ability to _solve problems,_ meaning not just doing something the programmer told it to do, but making decisions.
Because of this definition, there is no hard difference between a program and an AI, it is more of a spectrum, and we need to draw the line somewhere. So none of you were "wrong" in the end. It is not really something you can clearly define, and I mean it's just a word. Who cares what it means, as long as we know what we're talking about.
Because a neural network is also just a function that takes an input and produces an output, it just lends itself to machine learning, because you can adjust weights and biases by back-propagating errors.
I would say, "AI" is a topic, and not a thing. Just saying "this is AI" sadly doesn't mean much, since the word is kinda open to interpretation.
Really enjoyed the length and conversations!
51:40 THAT WAS JABRIL??????????
on neural tic tac toe:
Matt Parker - Matchbox Menace video inspired me.
Great explaination of neural AI.
I made my game. In fact, there are 250K combinations =)
"I would sell my clean underwear for $1000 no questions asked"
Will, you're asking for trouble man
@EDITOR theres some rouge pixels on the bottom left quadrant of the rectangle outline that makes my OCD go INSANE lol
everyone on drugs and stuff feels like the sao alicization thing
On testing kids at school - farmers will tell you that you don't fatten the pig by weighing it.
I remember having to go to the post office and fill out a draft card when I turned 18
Dude I love those podcasts lmao
This is the BASED episode of the safety third podcast
Some really great rhetoric for sure. Very pleased to hear it.
Close the bathroom door with the cat outside before you per. 🚽 🐈⬛ Problem solved. 😂 🚿
Treat social media like free alcohol everywhere you go
1:2810 what you wouldn't sell your socks? I would sell my used socks in less than a second.
Great podcast! Jabrils was awesome, y'all should totally bring him back!
"any kids gimmie lip, imma fight a kid."
I literally had to do this more than once... Granted, I was a Taishi so... Yeah.
(Taishi roughly translates to "teacher" in martial arts. Those kids literally asked to fight me.)
this is just getting better and better :0 :)
So, I have the same issue with a screaming roommate, and I thought about earbuds, but my problem is not waking up to my alarm then. So, any clever ideas a clever person would care to grace me with?
16:58 question about dad was not taken well but nobody noticed
I wish I'd just plowed on and done a foundation chem degree straight after school instead of assuming I'd never make the grade because I didn't have chemistry Alevels.
I was top in my class for science but I got a bit lower in my maths score. So as a result I wasn't allowed to do science A-levels (high school diploma for US) and had to do crappy humanities subjects (they were my second best group of subjects behind science). So then after my A-levels, 2020, COVID pandemic, all my travel plans for my gap year went to shit. Instead of applying to university I put it off because I didn't have any motivation to do the subjects, so I just dumped all my dreams and went to work in a shitty IT job in a school, thinking maybe in a few decades I'd be in a top paid it job...about a month in I realized that wasn't going to happen but plowed on for a year doing that. While working I forgot to apply for university AGAIN because of the stress of work, and added stress because my girlfriend was getting distant (turned out she was seeing another person).
So now here I am, two years late for university, my girlfriend broke up with me a week ago. I've applied for university and I'm going to go, but I've never felt more unsure of anything in my life. Nothing makes sense anymore without her. I've lost everything, all my plans for after and during university, everything is gone.
These people know what they are talking about specially jabrils i like this podcast
HELL YEAH JABRILS
Yeah, No Child Left Behind reaaaaaally fucked up the way stuff was taught. Since funding was all based on attendance and test scores, suddenly it's less about caring about the student's outcome, and just whether or not they're there and can take a very specific set of tests well. I was lucky because my school had enough outside funding to be able to pay for teachers who could provide a more liberal education (mind you, not in the political sense, in the education sense, look it up lol) where I got to learn more than just the curriculum. And that set me up so much for college in terms of just base skill level, since I knew way more shit than other students, like how to write a thesis statement and what not. Unfortunately, I went to a public university, despite the fact that my parents could afford a private one, and so I ended up getting kicked out (and let back in) due to medical reasons, leaving, doing some cc to transfer to a different college, and ended up leaving that too. Now I'm like, where do I try to go, how, should I try to get an internship and work in the field I'm pursuing, all that shit. And I still have some of the medical problems, so I'm hesitant to jump until I get my shit together. Funny thing about a lot of the UA-camrs I watch, most of them are fairly smart or talented people, and they've helped justify that like, if you have problems in college, or don't like it, it's not because you're stupid or untalented. It just means shit happens, and you gotta figure it out, whether it's get back on the old horse, or get on a new one (and thankfully none of them suggest becoming a UA-camr lol, kids these days are fucked thinking they'll be UA-camrs or TikTok stars lol).