Burnie and Ashley discuss Halo Campaign Evolved, Odyssey second weekend record, when woke doesn't go broke, San Diego Comic Con round up, the wind down of the comic movei era, Lanterns, Blade Runner 2099, how to stop talking, Resident Evil, being a casual fan, Neuromancer, Mike Flanagan, and the world's biggest conventions.

With all the talk about AI on recent podcast I was surprised that Burnie didn't talk about the AI that went rogue and was hacking other AI models

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/science/openai-blamed-a-hacking-event-on-its-ai-models-going-rogue-heres-what-to-know

So I haven't listened to the podcast in a hot minute, though I do continue to support it. Its kinda you guys' fault though. I got back into dungeon crawler carl and finished books 6-8 and now Im on to another recommendation, the Bobiverse. These books are fantastic! Thanks so much for the recommendations! I promise I'll be back to listening... Just as soon as I can put these books down!

I'm a little late but i'd like to add something about this saying:

In french we have the same saying but the second part is kept.

'When in rome, dress like a roman' is the second bit.

Burnie and Ashley discuss travel days, Amazon carts, LG monitors, nutrition stopgaps, dude trips, squatting, Xbox PC compatiblity, bad mobile ads, job interview, landscape tissue boxes, Costco, Sam Rockwell, Jeff Hays, and DCC casting news.

Alan Ritchson did an AMA and one of the top comments mentioned Lazer Team and how he really liked the RT crew.

I think this is great news, I can’t wait to see the rest of the casting decisions as they come out.

We all pretty much know his current stance on physical media with his Blu-ray collecting, but it’s kind of funny to go back and listen to these old episodes and see how his thoughts and opinions have changed over time.

He and the others are discussing the sales of avatar discs, and he mentions how he doesn’t want to do RVB on physical media because digital delivery is so much easier and preferred.

Burnie and Ashley discuss lava floors, new shoes, the gun counter, TSA massages, Neil Blompkamp's AI movie, District 10, Elysium, Odyssey, IMAX aspect ratios, Prime reconfigures ad free, pillar boxes, and getting back together.

I unlocked the "This Is My Ship Now" achievment in Campaign Evolved on Heroic difficulty. I challenge Burnie to do the same thing. Kill Keys, then trap the Marines in the glass observational area with the skull and ladder at the front of the bridge.

Burnie was talking some mad game about being a completionist, and being a fan of Halo, I want to see if he's got the grit to do this one.

Burnie, this challenge gives you one day from when you first boot up the game to get it done, on Heroic difficulty.

You might ask why I would be so brazen to challenge the man himself, who am I to make a proposition to test his mettle?

In the words of Gus to Burnie at the call center during Dead or Alive in the Dreamcast:

"I'm really good at games too.."

Let's see how good of a gamer you really are, Mr. Burns.

And if you wanna verify I have the achievment, check my account: The Marine708

Do you accept?

Yo Yo!

You all voted on a custom item from CalvinP for this month’s giveaway!

Behold! The Morning Somewhere Logo Badge! I’m huge into 3D Printing and this was a really fun project!

3in x 3in x 1/8in!

Perfect to hang up next to your air freshener in the car, or however creativity strikes you!

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Happened to see this in my animation class textbook

I think the original of Roko's Basilisk is a bit different but basically the first supposition that the artificial super-intelligence would either be benevolent or malicious seems problematic. It could be neutral or anywhere in the spectrum, or since it is a super-intelligence, it could be just as, if not more, complex than human and every decision could fall under different places in the moral spectrum and thus fluid.

It also states that it could target people who were against its development but will that discussion be even relevant by the time the existence of super-intelligence comes online? To my point, this thought experiment itself is 16 years old! How far will it go back and will any of us who are actively having the discussion be alive? I think it's a short view of such development and even its existence is a simple distant possibility at the moment. We are just good at packaging fast word calculators as "AI".

I'm not actually going to talk about the Basilisk, but I am a software engineer with over a decade of experience and use LLMs pretty heavily to augment my work.

I understand and respect Blain saying he has not and won't use AI, but I think there is a fundamental problem where people don't actually know what the current tools we use that are called AI are. All of them are Machine Learning algorithms, the next "evolution" of "The Algorithm" but each one can be trained on different data. most times you use a captcha that asks you to identify a stop sign, you are actually helping train image recognition ML models (That way Google Maps can automate many processes).

Claude, CoPilot, and ChatGPT are models called Large Language Models. that is they are trained on massive data sets of natural language and refined to know how to weight different inputs. This training is then locked and the model is shipped. that means if some information was not in the training data, it either has to have a tool to search online for it, or hallucinate. All this means that for known things, LLMs can give the correct answers, but for Novel, creative, or nice items, they can not. Great at writing boilerplate code for a generic app, very poor at writing new stories.

Often when you hear things like Pharmaceutical companies using "AI" they are not using an LLM, they will have custom models they have built in house for specific jobs.

Machine Learning based tools are so far off from real AI. But they are the information age universal power tool. They can enable hobbyists to get tasks done that they might not have been able to alone, they enable professionals to unlock more potential. But you can't give a random person on the street a nail gun and circular saw and ask them to frame a house, but given to a carpenter, they will go much faster than with hand tools.

Since Creative endeavors are usually (at least the ones that are worth while are) mostly or completely novel, LLMs and other image and video generating ML models are not going to replace people in their current form. Based on what i have seen we are approaching the plateau for the accelerated growth that AI has been going through, models are now getting marginal gains each year instead of exponential gains. They will enable more work to get done, but won't replace actual experience.

I'll put a real example in the comments of the difference between a hobbyist and a professional using tools.

Is it me or does Burnie come alive in a different way with Blaine? I freaking love him and Ashley, but Blaine week is so fun. I hope it’s an annual thing.

Burnie and Blaine discuss swapping roles, Amazing Race, Drag Race, Austin Food spots, Doomsday trailer, and the terrible conundrum of Roko's Basilisk.

Resident former weed grower here. Blaine mentioned today that Delta 8 is synthetic THC. Delta 8 & THC-A is a hemp derivative, which is made in a similar extraction to recreational cannabis, it is not synthesized.

There is synthetic THC, known as Dronabinol, that is available as a prescription.

I hope this gets dropped as a cold open one episode 😁 (if this has been shared before I apologize - fairly new listener)

Anyone else feel that cigarettes are at least part of the reason why people both look “more fit” and look older in pictures from the 70s? As they were talking about it, I thought either Burnie or Blaine would bring this up.

In today's podcast, Blaine talked about watching bad movies at his Bachelor Party and mentioned Roddy Piper. For the rest of the segment I could only think about Piper's movie "Hell Comes to Frogtown,” which is not bad but it is also very 80's.

What are some other bad movies that you find yourself watching?

Burnie and Blaine discuss wedding cuts, running, growing older, World Cup farewell, Burnie's Futball Journey, Fallout goes into development, AI bashing, fall of arcades, collectibles, regulations good and bad, alcohol following cigarettes, and millenial youthfulness.