About this episode
The episode discusses AI's portrayal in commencement speeches and unusual AI training methods involving preschool teachers.
We start this week with Sam telling us all about the commencement speeches where speakers have been praising AI, including former Google CEO Eric Schmidt. That did not go down well! After the break, Jason tells us how he was offered the chance to buy a bunch of images of poop to train AI (really). In the subscribers-only section, Joseph explains how researchers planned to stick cameras onto preschool teachers to train AI. Students Boo Commencement Speaker After She Calls AI the ‘Next Industrial Revolution’ Internet of Shit: AI Poop Analysis App Offered to Sell Me Database of Its Users' Poops Researchers Wanted Preschool Teachers to Wear Cameras to Train AI YouTube Version: https://youtu.be/VE0EtqQLcgY Subscribe at 404media.co Don’t sleep on Ultra Pouches. New customers get 15% Off with code 404MEDIA at takeultra.com! #UltraPouches #ad Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
People in this episode
Hosts: Sam, Jason, Joseph
Topics covered
- AI
- commencement speeches
- technology
- education
- research
Keywords
- AI
- commencement speeches
- Eric Schmidt
- poop images
- preschool teachers
- camera training
- 404 Media
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