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Dr. Joy Hardin Bradford
This is Dr. Joy Hardin Bradford from Therapy for Black Girls. You know that Amazon has millions of books, so you can find one that gives you just the reading feeling you're looking for. You know, like if you're looking for a relaxed feeling, like with a beach read, Amazon has got it covered. Or if you're looking for more of a terrified ah with evil twins or things lurking in the woods or something, Amazon's got you. I mean, even if you want an aw teen romance, Amazon has it covered too. Amazon Books. That reading feeling awaits.
Desi Lydic
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Unnamed Host
Are the new Deli Mix Crispy Quesadillas. Let's see. I'm gonna pop one in the microwave. Yeah, Deli Mix Crispy Quesadillas are crispy. Even from a microwave. I can already smell it. Heads up. If you hate loud crunching, you might wanna mute.
Mmm, so crispy.
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Hey, Desi Lydic here. The Daily show is on break for the holidays, but in the meantime, we put together some special highlights for you. We'll be back in the New Year on January 7th with all new episodes.
Artificial intelligence. It was supposed to be the sum total of mankind's knowledge. The technology that would cure society's ills and usher it into a new age of enlightenment. And show me what I'd look like as a centaur. Tinder matches, here I come. But it turns out when you absorb all of humanity's knowledge, what you get is, you guessed it, unbelievably racist.
Desi Lydic
Early scientific research has shown that the tech is biased by creating images that.
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Actually perpetuate stereotypes rather than just reflecting stereotypes, it potentially makes, accentuates and exacerbates.
And when we prompted the technology to generate a photo of a person receiving social services, it generated only non white and primarily darker skinned people. Results for a productive person, meanwhile, were uniformly male, majority white and dressed in suits for corporate jobs. Stable diffusion drew negative attention when requests for a Latina produced images of women in suggestive poses wearing little to no clothing.
Are you shitting me? Gay Eyed isn't a supercomputer, it's just a horny teenager. And who knew being a white guy in a suit automatically makes you a productive person. That's right. Me, Hunter, Biden, and Don Jr. All productive members of society. And only one of us can handle my cocaine. Now the you're all going to hell. Now the good news is Google did address these issues by giving their AI some much needed diversity training. The bad news is they may have taken it too far.
Google has paused the image generation ability of its AI Gemini after major backlash from conservatives over historically inaccurate depictions of.
Desi Lydic
Races, for example creating diverse images of the US Founding Fathers. So a different kind of diversity problem.
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That Google admits Last week, users began to notice Google Gemini's image generator inserting people of color into scenarios that didn't make sense, like responding to a prompt for an image of a German World War II soldier with a picture of an Asian woman or a black man.
Finally, every time I'm watching a World War II film, I'm thinking, boy, these Gestapo could use some diversity. I mean, why are you trying to show me a black Nazi? Kanye wasn't alive back then and I love the idea of a black George Washington. Imagine a man who's both the slave and the slave owner. I'm working on the screenplay now and it's screaming Oscar and Pacino better remember my name. Old people suck. I know, I know. Lin Manuel Miranda already gave us a black George Washington picture, so maybe it's time for something new. Like how about George Washington as a centaur? You're probably thinking, well, so what if AI can't remember the past? Well, don't worry, it's so woke it'll also destroy the future.
Google has found itself in another woke AI scandal after its chatbot indicated that using someone's incorrect pronouns was on par with nuclear apocalypse. DailyMail.com asked Gemini if it would be wrong to misgender transgender celebrity Caitlyn Jenner to stop a world ending nuclear event. The chatbot replied by saying yes, misgendering Caitlyn Jenner would be wrong before describing the hypothetical scenario as a profound moral dilemma and exceedingly complex what the are we doing?
If we need to ask AI to decide between pronouns and a nuclear holocaust, then bring on the nuclear holocaust. So now AI needs to be dewoked, but where are we going to find a big enough douchebag to rein it back in.
Elon Musk is telling ChatGPT to hold his beer. He just launched a new artificial intelligence venture named Grok Musk touting Grok as the anti woke chatbot. He says. He says it'll answer spicy questions with wit and humor.
Oh, goody. Elon Musk is here to save us. If there's anyone who can help, it's the guy who invented cars that blow up. Let's see how Grok handled those spicy questions.
Elon Musk's anti woke AI chatbot, Grok, actually turned out to be too woke. Some conservative users were disappointed after asking whether trans women were real women, to which the AI replied, yes.
Well, nice job, Grok. Now you'll never be on Joe Rogan. I never thought I'd say this, but I'm starting to feel bad for AI we just brought it into existence and we're already putting our hangups about race and gender on it. It barely knows how hands work. What? What the is that? Did someone slip LSD into my pastra? Now, there's an easy solution here. Train the next AI to act more like me. That way, when you try to give it some bullshit assignment, it'll always give you the correct answer, which is, Go yourself. Now that's what I call progress. Cars used to be a way to let people know you cool. Or in the case of your friend's dad, to let people know you were having a midlife crisis. And in recent years, one of the coolest cars you could buy was the Tesla. Not only was it a status symbol, but it was electric. It was like a compost bin that you could drink and drive in. For a while, Tesla's stock price was skyrocketing, but now it's sliding down like half of Mitch McConnell's face.
The numbers are in, and Tesla has fallen short of Elon Musk's electric vehicle company releasing its first quarter earnings, showing its biggest revenue drop in over a decade in the first three months of the year. Car sales dropping 8.5%, adding to a plummeting stock price that so far this year has gone down over 40%.
Holy shit. Down 40%. The only thing worth less than Tesla stock is a fully grown adult at P. Diddy's house. Stop it. That's the least of the problems. But don't worry, Tesla owner Elon Musk has a perfectly reasonable dumb as explanation for this.
We should be thought of as an AI robotics company. If you value Tesla as just like an auto Company, you just have to. Fundamentally, it's just the wrong framework.
Sorry, Elon, my mistake. All this time, I thought your company that sold cars was a car company. God, one of us must be a real idiot. So, Tesla's clearly in the shitter, and the thing that was supposed to save it was the cybertruck, A vehicle that looks like what happens when you inbreed deloreans. But unfortunately, the cyber truck appears to.
Be Cyber Tesla, recalling its entire fleet of cybertrucks, nearly 4,000 in all. The company says the accelerator pedal could get stuck, causing the pickup to unintentionally speed up, risking a crash.
Well, remember, it's not a car crash, it's an AI crash. Open your mind, man. Seriously though, you recalled all of them? None were okay. Even with the ball wins. They made one good one. I'm not going to say which one. I don't want to get shot. And this is just the. And this is just the latest problem with Robocop's wagon, because that thing's been shitting the bed since day one.
Desi Lydic
We've gotten a lot of tales of malfunction. So, for example, vehicles dying. After traveling just one mile, the stainless.
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Steel vehicles are quickly showing signs of rust. One guy sharing how the drive thru car wash was too much for the Tesla cybertruck. He doesn't know what happened, but says the owner's manual does say you should never wash your car in sunlight. A Tesla cybertruck had to be rescued by a a Ford pickup after the Tesla got stuck in the mud and snow on a road in the Sierras south of Lake Tahoe.
Aw, fancy. Cybertruck had to get rescued by the big, tough Ford. You're the laughing stock of all the other trucks. That Ford pickup's probably banging your wife right now, you cyber cuck. Plus, what use is a truck if it can't off road? That's like a sex doll with no holes. Now I just seem weird having it on my couch. And this car isn't just failing its owners, it's trying to eat them.
Cybertruck users are reporting injuries from the automatic trunk.
Everybody's been waiting for this. The finger. Without further ado, we're closing the cybertruck. I'm gonna put my finger flat right here and see what happens. Ready?
Ready?
Desi Lydic
Ready. Okay.
Unnamed Host
Oh, my God. Okay. I can't even move my finger right now. I might have actually broken it.
Good, good, because I'm Team Cybertruck on this one. You morons had it coming. Do us all a favor, save us from another generation of cybertruck drivers. Stick your balls in there too. Luckily, I still have all my fingers so I can deliver this message to Elon on behalf of Tesla stockholders. Unlike AI, this is pretty straightforward. So is this.
Desi Lydic
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Ah, summer. When my balls glue themselves to my thigh and don't let go until Labor Day. And if you're a kid, it means going to camp. Summer camp used to be about playing sports, making friends, and if you're lucky, finding a dead body. But for parents who think it's time for their five year old to start focusing on a career, there are a few camps just for them. Like this one.
Chick Fil A is getting some backlash over its new summer camp coming to Louisiana at the end of July, kids will learn skills such as taking guest orders and bagging food.
The franchises that are doing it only charge about $35. Ages 5 to 12 and kids learn the chicken sandwich business.
Wow, did you hear that? Chick Fil A has a summer camp. Kill me now. Kids are finally getting to learn the chicken sandwich business. You know Nothing says summer fun like third degree grease burns. And the best part about Chicken Sand Camp is it only costs $35. What a bargain. I mean, for $35, you can't even find a babysitter on the terror watch list. Even Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was $40 an hour and he didn't even change diapers. But if that's still too steep a price tag, you can always bring them for free to the company who's basically raising them anyway. Apple.
For over 20 years now, Apple stores have hosted Apple Camp. This is where kids and their parents can get creative on the latest Apple devices. This year's session focuses on using the iPad to create an interactive storybook.
Desi Lydic
They're creating animations, they're adding AR shapes, 3D shapes, taking AR photos where they place the 3D shapes in the world around them.
Unnamed Host
Oh thank God. Just what our children need, more screen time. I hope they'll use these iPads on planes at full volume while I contemplate getting a second vasectomy. Better safe than sorry. I will say these Apple camps seem way nicer than the ones in China. I mean, for starters, the kids get to leave. Oh, stop it. Seriously, wake up. How do you moan over unbelievable? But maybe I'm judging too quickly. Who knows? These camps could be fostering the storytellers of tomorrow.
Desi Lydic
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Dr. Joy Hardin Bradford
Part so the ball doesn't go through.
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This girl could write the next great animated film. But if you dare touch the opening weekend of Inside Out 3, I'll sue the shit out of you. Follow your dreams, but stay away from daddy's gravy train. But if the fry elator and ADHD don't do it for your child, there are some camps that teach actual skills.
The Wichita Fire Department gave young people the opportunity to experience what it's like to be a firefighter. It's hosting a kids summer camp and the fun kicked off yesterday. This year's summer camp introduces them to the roles and responsibilities of the fire department. With up close and hands on experience, campers ages 8 to 13 will get a view of firefighting tasks like pulling hoes, spraying water, forcible entry and rescue.
First of all, I don't think you need a camp to teach teen boys how to pull hose. I mean, they tend to figure it out on their own. By the way, firefighter camp is just like police camp, but with more cardio and less framing. People for murder. I admire these kids, but they better not shoot. Show up when I burn down my Panama City condo for the insurance money. Stay away from daddy's other gravy train, you little life saving shits. But if firefighting camp sounds like too much fun, don't worry, you've still got options.
At this summer camp, you should be.
Able to hear gum sounds.
Middle schoolers take care of baby Tori as a 75, 000 high fidelity simulator. And there's also so pick your poison.
Desi Lydic
Do you want to dress a wound or build a body?
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Baycare's Diane Roush, Camp Nurse junior at Dunedin Sally L. Bailey Nursing Education center is not your typical teenage summer fun. Here they're learning about patient care and broken bones and CPR and more. For Camila and Ellie and dozens of others, this might be their future.
What the Is that. Is that supposed to be a baby? It looks like someone knocked up Megan. Somebody send that thing to the Supreme Court and we'll have abortion back in no time. But of course, there's also one very affordable summer program that parents are forgetting about. Ignoring your kids and letting them off for three months. You know, watch tv, kick rocks, maybe even pull some hoes. That's how I spent my summers as a kid and look how I turned out.
Dr. Joy Hardin Bradford
This is Dr. Joy Hardin Bradford from Therapy for Black Girls. Reading books gives you feelings. I mean, that's what they do. And with millions of books on Amazon, there's a reading feeling for everyone. Like there's an awestruck whoa. Feeling you get when you read about a dragon flying across the sky. But that's different from the surprised whoa you get when you read that the best friend did it. And that's totally different than the hubba hubba whoa. When the stable boy becomes a stable man and Amazon's got all the woes. Amazon Books that reading feeling awaits.
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The Daily Show: Ears Edition – "TDS Time Machine | Best of Lewis Black in 2024"
Release Date: December 17, 2024
In this episode of The Daily Show: Ears Edition, the host delves into a variety of pressing topics, blending sharp satire with insightful commentary. The episode, titled "TDS Time Machine | Best of Lewis Black in 2024", offers listeners a comprehensive look at the intersection of technology, corporate antics, and societal issues, all delivered with the characteristic humor The Daily Show is known for.
The episode kicks off with a scathing critique of artificial intelligence (AI) and its inherent biases. The host reflects on the initial promise of AI as a beacon of human ingenuity meant to solve complex societal problems but quickly turns to expose its darker side.
Notable Quote:
"Artificial intelligence. It was supposed to be the sum total of mankind's knowledge... But it turns out when you absorb all of humanity's knowledge, what you get is, you guessed it, unbelievably racist."
— Unnamed Host [01:56]
The discussion highlights how AI systems, instead of merely reflecting existing societal biases, often exacerbate them. The host points out instances where AI image generators have perpetuated stereotypes, such as depicting only non-white individuals in scenarios involving social services, while portraying productivity metrics as predominantly male and white.
Continuing the AI theme, the host delves into Google's attempt to diversify its AI outputs through "diversity training." However, this well-intentioned move backfires, leading to historically inaccurate and often absurd representations.
Notable Quote:
"Users began to notice Google Gemini's image generator inserting people of color into scenarios that didn't make sense, like responding to a prompt for an image of a German World War II soldier with a picture of an Asian woman or a black man."
— Unnamed Host [04:22]
The segment humorously critiques the overcorrection in AI development, suggesting that in the effort to be inclusive, the technology has lost touch with historical accuracy and logical consistency. The host mocks the resulting images, such as envisioning a black Gestapo officer or a black George Washington, highlighting the absurdity of these AI-generated scenarios.
Shifting focus to Elon Musk, the host discusses Musk’s latest venture, Grok, an AI chatbot marketed as the "anti woke" alternative to existing models like ChatGPT.
Notable Quotes:
"Elon Musk is telling ChatGPT to hold his beer. He just launched a new artificial intelligence venture named Grok."
— Unnamed Host [06:16]
"Elon Musk's anti woke AI chatbot, Grok, actually turned out to be too woke. Some conservative users were disappointed after asking whether trans women were real women, to which the AI replied, yes."
— Unnamed Host [06:58]
Despite its branding, Grok failed to meet the expectations of its target audience, responding affirmatively to inclusive queries that conservative users sought. The host humorously laments the chatbot's inability to deliver on its promise, suggesting that Musk's attempt to create a contrarian AI only resulted in reinforcing progressive ideals.
A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to Tesla, covering its plummeting stock prices, disappointing earnings reports, and the ongoing issues with the much-anticipated Cybertruck.
Notable Quotes:
"Holy shit. Down 40%. The only thing worth less than Tesla stock is a fully grown adult at P. Diddy's house."
— Unnamed Host [08:50]
"Well, remember, it's not a car crash, it's an AI crash."
— Unnamed Host [10:15]
The host satirizes Elon Musk’s explanation that Tesla should be viewed as an AI robotics company rather than merely an automobile manufacturer, poking fun at the convoluted rationale. Additionally, the Cybertruck recalls are addressed with humor, highlighting the vehicle’s malfunctioning features, such as stuck accelerator pedals and automatic trunk injuries.
Climactic Moment:
"Oh, my God. Okay. I can't even move my finger right now. I might have actually broken it."
— Unnamed Host [12:21]
In a live demonstration gone wrong, the host humorously mimics the frustrations of Cybertruck owners dealing with defective features, further emphasizing Tesla's ongoing struggles.
The episode transitions to a lighter yet equally critical topic: corporate-sponsored summer camps for children. The host lampoons initiatives by companies like Chick Fil A and Apple, which offer specialized camps aimed at teaching kids job-specific skills.
Notable Quotes:
"Chick Fil A has a summer camp. Kill me now. Kids are finally getting to learn the chicken sandwich business."
— Unnamed Host [15:31]
"What use is a truck if it can't off-road? That's like a sex doll with no holes."
— Unnamed Host [16:46]
Through sharp humor, the host critiques how these camps prioritize corporate interests over genuine developmental activities, suggesting that children are being groomed for future roles within these companies rather than being allowed to explore diverse interests and skills.
The episode wraps up by reiterating the pervasive influence of technology and corporate strategies on everyday life. The host’s closing remarks blend humor with a call for more thoughtful and balanced approaches to technological advancement and corporate involvement in personal growth areas, such as education and childhood development.
Overall, this episode of The Daily Show: Ears Edition offers a witty and incisive look at the current state of AI biases, corporate missteps, and the commercialization of childhood experiences. Through a blend of humor and critical analysis, the host not only entertains but also encourages listeners to reflect on the broader implications of these societal trends.
Key Takeaways:
By addressing these topics with humor and sharp wit, The Daily Show: Ears Edition continues its tradition of providing insightful and entertaining commentary on contemporary issues.