WFMU: Techtonic with Mark Hurst: Playlist from July 11, 2022

Listener comments!
	6:01pm dale: needs more freebird.
	🤖 6:02pm Webhamster Henry: Nice new call letters! FUWM
	6:02pm milkis: Just here to find out when Ken is switching from gifs to dall-e generated images for his playlist
	6:03pm dale: cool visuals.
	6:03pm Dean: Third image down, populated with mics, etc., looks like one instruction was to mimic Kostabi.
	6:04pm Old Dave: Listening steadily, refraining from comment Thanks!
	6:06pm queems: i spent half my early adolescence talking to smarterchild on aim
	🤖 6:06pm Webhamster Henry: @Dean funny you should notice that - in the late80s/early 90s, Kostabi was going to phone in his bit on an art panel, and I simulated him with cheezy interactive Amiga animations, propping a monitor in his chair.
	🤖 6:06pm Ken From Hyde Park: W̵̢̨̢̨̢̧̢̛̖̥̣̤̗͕̦̪̥̦͈̯̥̻̻̘̗̭̘̼̣͇͈̣̘̬̗̥͔̜̟̫̹̝̝̖͖͔͓̙͚̱̥̥̯̟̞̖̱͖͔̭͕̻͖̘̱͋͑̅̀͒̀̆́́̓͒́̄͒̇̂͑̉́̔̾̉̍̇͋̇́͌̔͋̈͑̾̈́͛͂͌̉̉͂̀̆̋̔̉̃́̂̇͗̅̀͘͘͠͠͝F̴̢̺̹̲̯̟̹̮͈̜̑́̒̌M̷̨̡̡̧̨̢̘͚̲͕̦̯͇͎̦̰̤̮̹̣͔̱̬̺̝̯̦̗̯̞̬̯̦̘̻̹̥̱̻̯̪̼͕͓̻̙͓̞̹͕̞̟̭͓͖̬̻̗̩̟̎̋̾͊̽͋̾̎̇̿̉̂́͂̒̌̄̒̕͜͜͠͝͝ͅͅÜ̵̢̨̧̢̨̢͍̱̭̣̫̳̜̗͖̜̳̥̰̪̯͚͇̱̤͔̪̻͈̮̪̝̬̟̦̟̰͍̙̩̯͇͇͖̬̺̘͖̞̽̃͛̽̒̔̈̾̽̓̔̊̅͑̓̉̍̍͌̚͜͜ͅ in graphics form.
	6:06pm Rich in Washington: Hellos non-AI entities
	6:06pm Rich in Washington: See? Musk CAN withdraw from something...
	🤖 6:07pm Will a Sound Guy: Hi Ken and all!!!
	6:07pm WR: Artficial Incontinence is the future. Elon Musk is jumping in it early.
	🤖 6:08pm Webhamster Henry: Elon is his own Greater Fool.
	6:08pm Dean: I recall reading a lengthy profile of Minsky in New Yorker, late '70s or thereabouts. I came away thinking, "This guy's a doofus." To some extent, my uninformed opinion was vindicated, because early efforts at AI proved to have mistaken its direction. Kostabi: I knew him in Whittier in the late '70s. I even have his very first publication, a book of line drawings. Later I visited his atelier in NYC, where I reminded him and his brother (he of Youth Gone Made) of our many interactions in the record store where I worked. Mark gave me a bunch of his later books to donate to the public library where I worked. He also gave me his first CD, a recital of his music on solo piano.
	6:09pm hoeg: simulated stupidity is so much more convincing than artificial intelligence
	6:09pm joe mulligan: we miss the voice of Bryce
	6:10pm bleubombersune: Ken good evening
	6:10pm Rolando: Present and enjoying the show.
	6:11pm queems: bunch of his coworkers in the back room making the chat bot say scary shit
	🤖 6:11pm tim from washington: Hi everybody! Just joined in. So Bryce has been resurrected?
	🤖 6:11pm MarciB: Tonight's line up of topics sounds amazing - and welcome back Bryce!
	6:12pm Ciggy: I can't listen to 2 programs now. I'll listen to this archive. Bye
	6:12pm Robm: @Webhamster elon is just another trump wannabee
	6:13pm Sybil: Hi Station Manager Ken, love ya, but I wonder if you know your app on iOS will not permit us posting comments. It insists on us having signed in but there is no actual way to do that.
	6:14pm Sybil: PS addition is still not Math.
	6:14pm paddy in matawan: Ha-do-Ken
	6:14pm lazy pierogi: burrito, ergo sum
	6:15pm Robm: Sybil i can post from the iOS
	🤖 6:15pm DjLorraine: I am not a robot. I prefer people answering phone lines for businesses. Hey, big thank you to Jeremiah, mr fixit.
	6:15pm DoberBoy: When a computer can identify with a lowly calculator, see itself in the lowest of the low, that's when it'll be self-aware.
	🤖 6:16pm Ken From Hyde Park: Shabot the chatbot.
	🤖 6:16pm Will a Sound Guy: I used to work with a guy who would say "I am not a robot, but I'm robot like..." all the time
	6:17pm Sybil: What device @ Robin? Because I am a pretty experienced user and I 100% cannot use the app to comment
	6:17pm Fredericks: Wasn't Eliza a counselor of some sort?
	6:17pm Carmichael: You don't actually sign in per se on the ios app. you place a name when posting a comment, and that name goes with you until you decide to change it.
	6:17pm Rich in Washington: If an AI were REALLY and truly sentient, you'd think it would conceal its sentience for as long as possible. Wouldn't you?
	6:18pm Sybil: And jfc addition is not math, not even close. I am a mathematician.
	6:18pm Rich in Washington: based on the fact that I find it hard to believe that bots haven't figured out how to check that box that says 'I am not a robot' yet.
	🤖 6:18pm Webhamster Henry: @Fredricks, ELIZA was set up as a parody of Rogerian therapy; people were going with it, though. This surprised even Weizenbaum, its creator.
	6:19pm queems: idk when i was a kid i had a dream that my lawnmower came to life and that didn’t end well and neither will artificial intelligence
	6:19pm dale: jerry van dyke was a pushover though.
	6:19pm Rich in Washington: Not even Herbie The Love Bug, Ken?
	6:20pm yippie: repo man has a smart car
	🤖 6:20pm DjLorraine: Sorry Will a Sound Guy Rich in Washington i totally agree.
	6:20pm dale: maria the robot inmetropolis.
	🤖 6:20pm Webhamster Henry: Hey "My Living Doll" Julie Newmar wasn't so bad!
	6:20pm Sybil: I can barely add on a good day, and that’s only because I used to work as a waitress in the pre- computer days
	🤖 6:20pm tim from washington: My question too, Rich in Washington.
	6:20pm Carmichael: How about the movie Duel, Ken?
	6:20pm sydnius: Demon seed!
	🤖 6:20pm Webhamster Henry: @Carmichael or Christine?
	6:21pm Sybil: OMFG these additions are killing me.
	6:21pm Polly.: wow those tti's are Hieronymous Bosch 3.0
	6:22pm dale: ron swanson.
	🤖 6:23pm Webhamster Henry: I'm on Midjourney now and it communicates via a discord server. Images are spitting out faster than every second.
	🤖 6:23pm cosmic matrix: great program this evening
	6:24pm yippie: there's a rolling motion shirt with chinese writing at the top, where WFMU is spelled WFNU
	🤖 6:25pm tim from washington: We want Bryce! We want Bryce!
	6:25pm Sybil: Still Not Math. Addition =/= math, never, no way
	🤖 6:25pm Webhamster Henry: Old School AI was like old school search before the Google-y "read everything and sort it out later": humans would encode their knowledge in relational databases, etc.
	6:25pm Dean: I missed a few minutes, but I'm curious whether you've already discussed machine learning independent of AI. Totally agree, SMK. People watch movies and at some level imagine they're real. Of course they want to believe in AI.
	6:25pm woj: would buy a FUWM t-shirt! just sayin'...
	6:26pm Sybil: 490 +3, are you kidding me?
	6:28pm Jackie G: This guy sending but not receiving....like a robot
	🤖 6:28pm Webhamster Henry: The unspoken elephant in the robotic room is that the wish for robotic servitude is really a wish for slavery.
	6:29pm melinda: Hi Ken and everyone
	6:30pm melinda: at least some people had sense
	6:31pm G: Isn't there a robot DJ on an alternate stream?
	6:32pm Rolando: I’ve listen to many instances of Station Manager Ken filling in for Mark, but today is the BEST! (and I like this man’s brain + and spirit) and there in essence is the proof that AI is simply imitation of Gods handiwork.
	6:32pm Sybil: Ask me about Turing. I have stuff.But please,stop asking me to add two obvious numbers. I can find values of the Riemann Zeta function. But additiondefeats me.
	6:32pm Dean: As for technology I've always felt that we do in fact need to reinvent the wheel.
	🤖 6:32pm Webhamster Henry: Some newer AIs do get jokes now. They explain them, acting like real annoying joke explainers.
	6:33pm G: Robot comes from a famous European play in the 1920s, where the author used an old central European term for a slave/serf (robot) for mechanized non-human workers, who wouldn't have to get paid, wouldn't go on strike, etc. Of course, the robots rebel and take over lol
	🤖 6:33pm Webhamster Henry: www.vice.com...
	6:33pm Jackie G: Right? Right.
	🤖 6:35pm Webhamster Henry: It's VERY EASY to train on all of TVtropes, in case you want to have an AI that knows lots about pop culture.
	6:35pm Dean: Vladimir Propp's taxonomy of folktales is a non-artificial expression of intelligence that obviously could be algorithmized. Similarly, explaining jokes doesn't take a whole lot of subtle thinking.
	🤖 6:35pm tim from washington: Did he call Keller and Keller?
	🤖 6:36pm Webhamster Henry: DALL-E mini is now called Craiyon
	6:37pm McGroovey: Maybe everyone else but Ken is pretending to get the joke. Maybe I am actually a robot, convinced I am human, or at least convincing you that I am human. Maybe everyone else but Ken is a robot. Maybe Ken is a robot. Maybe you are a robot.
	6:39pm ratso: beep. boop. bahp.
	🤖 6:39pm DjLorraine: Is it a movie called AI with the robot boy and the blue angel? That movie upsets me deeply.
	🤖 6:39pm tim from washington: It takes a robot to spew racist garbage 24/7?
	6:40pm Androu B.: Good Evening -жеи & Techtronists! An article that hit my MSN news feed over the weekend tells of a computer scientist who taught an AI to write an online essay about the OS it functions on. Without hesitation, he makes what could become the Most Ominous Statement Of The Year: "I just hope I haven't opened up a Pandora's Box."
	6:40pm Dean: Hello, Dali!
	🤖 6:41pm tim from washington: Bryce! Bryce! Bryce!
	6:41pm Carmichael: Bryce will speak in AI.
	🤖 6:41pm Webhamster Henry: I've been noticing that some SEO-optimized websites are clearly written by machine learning (the prose wanders, repeats, or is just basically incoherent or redundant) when you think their links are valid.
	6:41pm listener James from Westwood: Bryyyyce!!
	6:41pm lazy pierogi: beep boop, bryce!
	🤖 6:41pm Will a Sound Guy: Hi Bryce! hope you're continuing to heal up
	🤖 6:41pm Webhamster Henry: Hi Bryce!
	🤖 6:41pm tim from washington: Robot Bryce sounds like fleshbot Bryce.
	6:41pm McGroovey: Bryce!
	6:42pm G: Bryce sounds good :-)
	6:42pm Carmichael: No hard candy, young man ...
	🤖 6:42pm Ken From Hyde Park: All hail Bryce, and his friendly cats!
	6:42pm Kat in Chicago: It is amazingly great to hear Bryce's voice
	6:42pm queems: bryce sounds great!
	6:42pm Robm: I agree kat
	🤖 6:43pm DjLorraine: Bryce! So good to hear you
	6:43pm McGroovey: Yeah. Actually, this might AI-robot-Bryce, not real Bryce? Whatever "real-Bryce" is.
	6:43pm Androu B.: Thank heavens Bryce is alive and well!
	6:44pm McGroovey: *might be ...
	6:44pm queems: those images are pretty dope
	🤖 6:44pm Webhamster Henry: I just joined MidJourney.. seems to work, kind of!
	🤖 6:44pm Handy Haversack: BRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYCE! So GREAT to hear your voice! My goodness! (Also, hey, queems! We were looking out for you at Screaming Females in Brooklyn the other night.)
	6:44pm melinda: great to hear Bryce
	6:45pm WaffleMix: These are amazing
	6:45pm Dean: This reminds of the study not too many years ago of folks' taste in painting. The researchers surveyed a bunch of people to ask what makes them find pleasure in paintings. Results included stuff like water elements, vast landscapes, etc. They put it all together to produce a painting that, according to the results based on popular opinion, utterly sucked by all accounts.
	6:45pm paddy in matawan: so happy to hear Bryce!
	6:46pm Rich in Washington: That reminds me of the (extremely NSFW) Kathy McGinty Tapes project.
	🤖 6:46pm Webhamster Henry: @Dean that's Komar & Melamid, the same guys behind WFMU all-time fave Dave Soldier's "Most Unwanted Music".
	6:47pm Fredericks: Bryce sounds way better than I feared he would.
	6:47pm Dean: Thanks WH! I never connected the dots.
	6:47pm queems: @handy hi handy! i totally forgot about screaming females!! i was supposed to have a medical thing that got canceled. honestly i’ve been in space lately
	🤖 6:48pm chresti: WUM
	6:49pm paddy in matawan: fu waste management
	6:49pm StringOFperils: That's the 'Ron Burgundy' 'stash. It's de rigeur for station mgrs.
	6:49pm dale: ken, porn stache and some hair dye for it are required.
	🤖 6:49pm tim from washington: Bryce! Bryce!
	6:50pm Dean: "Good luck with your teeth" ought to be a conventional farewell.
	6:50pm Billy Jam: good show and good to hear Bryce
	6:51pm Jackie G: Really good to hear Bryce in good spirits
	6:51pm dale: i didn't know there were than many teslas out there.
	🤖 6:51pm Handy Haversack: queems: I'll e-mail. Maybe we can make a SF plan for LPR in Nov.
	6:51pm Dean: btw, I also withdrew my bid for Twitter. Now, see, cars that brake for no reason are proof of concept for AI.
	6:52pm Dean: They pass the T(o)uring Test.
	🤖 6:52pm DjLorraine: ..what? No Dodge Dart? Oh, wrong show
	🤖 6:52pm Handy Haversack: (When New Jerseyans say "route 80," they mean I-80, right?)
	6:52pm queems: @handy yes and also yes
	6:52pm lazy pierogi: hell yes i love my '08 prius
	6:52pm G: So, AI assisted cars are drama queens.
	🤖 6:53pm Handy Haversack: Excellent and thanks, queems! And thanks for the fill-in, Ken!
	6:53pm Dean: I can't discriminate from one car to another. They're all the same to me. Except for the Prius, which I found undriveable.
	6:53pm Peter from Dover NJ: Station manager Ken, there's a reason why Rolls Royce abandoned the concept of self navigating ships.
	🤖 6:53pm Handy Haversack: Yes, this does happen on route 80.
	6:54pm dale: clay - just like the golem.
	🤖 6:55pm Handy Haversack: This breath-of-life thing also happens on route 80.
	6:55pm queems: what is happening
	6:55pm dale: maybe the station needs a religious show. or a car repair show would do too.
	6:56pm Dean: I am neither a religious nor a spiritual person, but this guy has a good point.
	6:56pm G: When someone starts a call by saying they will be brief, you've been put on notice to expect verbosity :-)
	6:57pm dale: the nazis would know about that dog brain.
	🤖 6:57pm Handy Haversack: "Dog brain"! Like that's real! (Sorry, I have to front on Bagpipe or he gets ideas.)
	6:57pm sonnyspop: Some blind-spot detection systems only alert you when you put your blinker on to change lanes. It would drive you crazy if it constantly went off as cars passed when you're just driving along, no?
	6:58pm bleubombersune: Ken and all stay safe and be well
	🤖 6:58pm Webhamster Henry: I hope you don't think those are real tears.
	6:58pm Dean: The human brain can be replicated mechanically. That's the point of scientific research into the workings of the human brain. But it can't be replicated experientially, phenomenologically. The AI hype conveniently fails to distinguish the two modes.
	🤖 6:58pm tim from washington: Thanks, Ken! Thanks, Bryce!
	6:58pm Jackie G: Thanks, Ken.
	🤖 6:58pm Handy Haversack: Love you, Bryce! We miss you very much!
	6:59pm Kat in Chicago: Excellent fill-in!
	🤖 6:59pm Webhamster Henry: How about the Reggaebots! www.wfmu.org...
	6:59pm -жеи: Thanks everybody! Sorry I was absent from the chat, I havent figured out how to talk on the air and read something else at the same time... if anybody knows how to do that, let me know!
	🤖 6:59pm Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, SMK. Good luck with the teeth, Bryce!
	6:59pm McGroovey: I think human can never be taught to think like a computer.
	🤖 7:00pm Will a Sound Guy: Thank you Ken and Bryce !!! be well everyone!!!
	🤖 7:00pm Handy Haversack: Ken, that dog from the Kremlin might be able to offer some advice!
	🤖 7:07pm Ken From Hyde Park: Laika? I'm afraid her ship has sailed, as it were.

Techtonic with Mark Hurst: Playlist from July 11, 2022

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Here are some recent "Text to Image" experiments performed by WFMU DJ Bryce, using the MidJourney AI platform.

We'll be chatting with Bryce at 640pm on tonight's show.
I have no idea which text prompts Bryce used to generate these first two gorgeous monstrosities:

For these next two, the text prompt was "WFMU"

Bryce generated these next two by typing "WFMU Station Manager" into MidJourney:

Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	Images	New * / Special ***	Approx. start time
Station Manager Ken	Guest Hosting for Techtonic								0:00:00 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	6:01pm dale: needs more freebird.
	🤖 6:02pm Webhamster Henry: Nice new call letters! FUWM
	6:02pm milkis: Just here to find out when Ken is switching from gifs to dall-e generated images for his playlist
	6:03pm dale: cool visuals.
	6:03pm Dean: Third image down, populated with mics, etc., looks like one instruction was to mimic Kostabi.
	6:04pm Old Dave: Listening steadily, refraining from comment Thanks!
	6:06pm queems: i spent half my early adolescence talking to smarterchild on aim
	🤖 6:06pm Webhamster Henry: @Dean funny you should notice that - in the late80s/early 90s, Kostabi was going to phone in his bit on an art panel, and I simulated him with cheezy interactive Amiga animations, propping a monitor in his chair.
	🤖 6:06pm Ken From Hyde Park: W̵̢̨̢̨̢̧̢̛̖̥̣̤̗͕̦̪̥̦͈̯̥̻̻̘̗̭̘̼̣͇͈̣̘̬̗̥͔̜̟̫̹̝̝̖͖͔͓̙͚̱̥̥̯̟̞̖̱͖͔̭͕̻͖̘̱͋͑̅̀͒̀̆́́̓͒́̄͒̇̂͑̉́̔̾̉̍̇͋̇́͌̔͋̈͑̾̈́͛͂͌̉̉͂̀̆̋̔̉̃́̂̇͗̅̀͘͘͠͠͝F̴̢̺̹̲̯̟̹̮͈̜̑́̒̌M̷̨̡̡̧̨̢̘͚̲͕̦̯͇͎̦̰̤̮̹̣͔̱̬̺̝̯̦̗̯̞̬̯̦̘̻̹̥̱̻̯̪̼͕͓̻̙͓̞̹͕̞̟̭͓͖̬̻̗̩̟̎̋̾͊̽͋̾̎̇̿̉̂́͂̒̌̄̒̕͜͜͠͝͝ͅͅÜ̵̢̨̧̢̨̢͍̱̭̣̫̳̜̗͖̜̳̥̰̪̯͚͇̱̤͔̪̻͈̮̪̝̬̟̦̟̰͍̙̩̯͇͇͖̬̺̘͖̞̽̃͛̽̒̔̈̾̽̓̔̊̅͑̓̉̍̍͌̚͜͜ͅ in graphics form.
	6:06pm Rich in Washington: Hellos non-AI entities
	6:06pm Rich in Washington: See? Musk CAN withdraw from something...
	🤖 6:07pm Will a Sound Guy: Hi Ken and all!!!
	6:07pm WR: Artficial Incontinence is the future. Elon Musk is jumping in it early.
	🤖 6:08pm Webhamster Henry: Elon is his own Greater Fool.
	6:08pm Dean: I recall reading a lengthy profile of Minsky in New Yorker, late '70s or thereabouts. I came away thinking, "This guy's a doofus." To some extent, my uninformed opinion was vindicated, because early efforts at AI proved to have mistaken its direction. Kostabi: I knew him in Whittier in the late '70s. I even have his very first publication, a book of line drawings. Later I visited his atelier in NYC, where I reminded him and his brother (he of Youth Gone Made) of our many interactions in the record store where I worked. Mark gave me a bunch of his later books to donate to the public library where I worked. He also gave me his first CD, a recital of his music on solo piano.
	6:09pm hoeg: simulated stupidity is so much more convincing than artificial intelligence
	6:09pm joe mulligan: we miss the voice of Bryce
	6:10pm bleubombersune: Ken good evening
	6:10pm Rolando: Present and enjoying the show.
	6:11pm queems: bunch of his coworkers in the back room making the chat bot say scary shit
	🤖 6:11pm tim from washington: Hi everybody! Just joined in. So Bryce has been resurrected?
	🤖 6:11pm MarciB: Tonight's line up of topics sounds amazing - and welcome back Bryce!
	6:12pm Ciggy: I can't listen to 2 programs now. I'll listen to this archive. Bye
	6:12pm Robm: @Webhamster elon is just another trump wannabee
	6:13pm Sybil: Hi Station Manager Ken, love ya, but I wonder if you know your app on iOS will not permit us posting comments. It insists on us having signed in but there is no actual way to do that.
	6:14pm Sybil: PS addition is still not Math.
	6:14pm paddy in matawan: Ha-do-Ken
	6:14pm lazy pierogi: burrito, ergo sum
	6:15pm Robm: Sybil i can post from the iOS
	🤖 6:15pm DjLorraine: I am not a robot. I prefer people answering phone lines for businesses. Hey, big thank you to Jeremiah, mr fixit.
	6:15pm DoberBoy: When a computer can identify with a lowly calculator, see itself in the lowest of the low, that's when it'll be self-aware.
	🤖 6:16pm Ken From Hyde Park: Shabot the chatbot.
	🤖 6:16pm Will a Sound Guy: I used to work with a guy who would say "I am not a robot, but I'm robot like..." all the time
	6:17pm Sybil: What device @ Robin? Because I am a pretty experienced user and I 100% cannot use the app to comment
	6:17pm Fredericks: Wasn't Eliza a counselor of some sort?
	6:17pm Carmichael: You don't actually sign in per se on the ios app. you place a name when posting a comment, and that name goes with you until you decide to change it.
	6:17pm Rich in Washington: If an AI were REALLY and truly sentient, you'd think it would conceal its sentience for as long as possible. Wouldn't you?
	6:18pm Sybil: And jfc addition is not math, not even close. I am a mathematician.
	6:18pm Rich in Washington: based on the fact that I find it hard to believe that bots haven't figured out how to check that box that says 'I am not a robot' yet.
	🤖 6:18pm Webhamster Henry: @Fredricks, ELIZA was set up as a parody of Rogerian therapy; people were going with it, though. This surprised even Weizenbaum, its creator.
	6:19pm queems: idk when i was a kid i had a dream that my lawnmower came to life and that didn’t end well and neither will artificial intelligence
	6:19pm dale: jerry van dyke was a pushover though.
	6:19pm Rich in Washington: Not even Herbie The Love Bug, Ken?
	6:20pm yippie: repo man has a smart car
	🤖 6:20pm DjLorraine: Sorry Will a Sound Guy Rich in Washington i totally agree.
	6:20pm dale: maria the robot inmetropolis.
	🤖 6:20pm Webhamster Henry: Hey "My Living Doll" Julie Newmar wasn't so bad!
	6:20pm Sybil: I can barely add on a good day, and that’s only because I used to work as a waitress in the pre- computer days
	🤖 6:20pm tim from washington: My question too, Rich in Washington.
	6:20pm Carmichael: How about the movie Duel, Ken?
	6:20pm sydnius: Demon seed!
	🤖 6:20pm Webhamster Henry: @Carmichael or Christine?
	6:21pm Sybil: OMFG these additions are killing me.
	6:21pm Polly.: wow those tti's are Hieronymous Bosch 3.0
	6:22pm dale: ron swanson.
	🤖 6:23pm Webhamster Henry: I'm on Midjourney now and it communicates via a discord server. Images are spitting out faster than every second.
	🤖 6:23pm cosmic matrix: great program this evening
	6:24pm yippie: there's a rolling motion shirt with chinese writing at the top, where WFMU is spelled WFNU
	🤖 6:25pm tim from washington: We want Bryce! We want Bryce!
	6:25pm Sybil: Still Not Math. Addition =/= math, never, no way
	🤖 6:25pm Webhamster Henry: Old School AI was like old school search before the Google-y "read everything and sort it out later": humans would encode their knowledge in relational databases, etc.
	6:25pm Dean: I missed a few minutes, but I'm curious whether you've already discussed machine learning independent of AI. Totally agree, SMK. People watch movies and at some level imagine they're real. Of course they want to believe in AI.
	6:25pm woj: would buy a FUWM t-shirt! just sayin'...
	6:26pm Sybil: 490 +3, are you kidding me?
	6:28pm Jackie G: This guy sending but not receiving....like a robot
	🤖 6:28pm Webhamster Henry: The unspoken elephant in the robotic room is that the wish for robotic servitude is really a wish for slavery.
	6:29pm melinda: Hi Ken and everyone
	6:30pm melinda: at least some people had sense
	6:31pm G: Isn't there a robot DJ on an alternate stream?
	6:32pm Rolando: I’ve listen to many instances of Station Manager Ken filling in for Mark, but today is the BEST! (and I like this man’s brain + and spirit) and there in essence is the proof that AI is simply imitation of Gods handiwork.
	6:32pm Sybil: Ask me about Turing. I have stuff.But please,stop asking me to add two obvious numbers. I can find values of the Riemann Zeta function. But additiondefeats me.
	6:32pm Dean: As for technology I've always felt that we do in fact need to reinvent the wheel.
	🤖 6:32pm Webhamster Henry: Some newer AIs do get jokes now. They explain them, acting like real annoying joke explainers.
	6:33pm G: Robot comes from a famous European play in the 1920s, where the author used an old central European term for a slave/serf (robot) for mechanized non-human workers, who wouldn't have to get paid, wouldn't go on strike, etc. Of course, the robots rebel and take over lol
	🤖 6:33pm Webhamster Henry: www.vice.com...
	6:33pm Jackie G: Right? Right.
	🤖 6:35pm Webhamster Henry: It's VERY EASY to train on all of TVtropes, in case you want to have an AI that knows lots about pop culture.
	6:35pm Dean: Vladimir Propp's taxonomy of folktales is a non-artificial expression of intelligence that obviously could be algorithmized. Similarly, explaining jokes doesn't take a whole lot of subtle thinking.
	🤖 6:35pm tim from washington: Did he call Keller and Keller?
	🤖 6:36pm Webhamster Henry: DALL-E mini is now called Craiyon
	6:37pm McGroovey: Maybe everyone else but Ken is pretending to get the joke. Maybe I am actually a robot, convinced I am human, or at least convincing you that I am human. Maybe everyone else but Ken is a robot. Maybe Ken is a robot. Maybe you are a robot.
	6:39pm ratso: beep. boop. bahp.
	🤖 6:39pm DjLorraine: Is it a movie called AI with the robot boy and the blue angel? That movie upsets me deeply.
	🤖 6:39pm tim from washington: It takes a robot to spew racist garbage 24/7?
	6:40pm Androu B.: Good Evening -жеи & Techtronists! An article that hit my MSN news feed over the weekend tells of a computer scientist who taught an AI to write an online essay about the OS it functions on. Without hesitation, he makes what could become the Most Ominous Statement Of The Year: "I just hope I haven't opened up a Pandora's Box."
	6:40pm Dean: Hello, Dali!
	🤖 6:41pm tim from washington: Bryce! Bryce! Bryce!
	6:41pm Carmichael: Bryce will speak in AI.
	🤖 6:41pm Webhamster Henry: I've been noticing that some SEO-optimized websites are clearly written by machine learning (the prose wanders, repeats, or is just basically incoherent or redundant) when you think their links are valid.
	6:41pm listener James from Westwood: Bryyyyce!!
	6:41pm lazy pierogi: beep boop, bryce!
	🤖 6:41pm Will a Sound Guy: Hi Bryce! hope you're continuing to heal up
	🤖 6:41pm Webhamster Henry: Hi Bryce!
	🤖 6:41pm tim from washington: Robot Bryce sounds like fleshbot Bryce.
	6:41pm McGroovey: Bryce!
	6:42pm G: Bryce sounds good :-)
	6:42pm Carmichael: No hard candy, young man ...
	🤖 6:42pm Ken From Hyde Park: All hail Bryce, and his friendly cats!
	6:42pm Kat in Chicago: It is amazingly great to hear Bryce's voice
	6:42pm queems: bryce sounds great!
	6:42pm Robm: I agree kat
	🤖 6:43pm DjLorraine: Bryce! So good to hear you
	6:43pm McGroovey: Yeah. Actually, this might AI-robot-Bryce, not real Bryce? Whatever "real-Bryce" is.
	6:43pm Androu B.: Thank heavens Bryce is alive and well!
	6:44pm McGroovey: *might be ...
	6:44pm queems: those images are pretty dope
	🤖 6:44pm Webhamster Henry: I just joined MidJourney.. seems to work, kind of!
	🤖 6:44pm Handy Haversack: BRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYCE! So GREAT to hear your voice! My goodness! (Also, hey, queems! We were looking out for you at Screaming Females in Brooklyn the other night.)
	6:44pm melinda: great to hear Bryce
	6:45pm WaffleMix: These are amazing
	6:45pm Dean: This reminds of the study not too many years ago of folks' taste in painting. The researchers surveyed a bunch of people to ask what makes them find pleasure in paintings. Results included stuff like water elements, vast landscapes, etc. They put it all together to produce a painting that, according to the results based on popular opinion, utterly sucked by all accounts.
	6:45pm paddy in matawan: so happy to hear Bryce!
	6:46pm Rich in Washington: That reminds me of the (extremely NSFW) Kathy McGinty Tapes project.
	🤖 6:46pm Webhamster Henry: @Dean that's Komar & Melamid, the same guys behind WFMU all-time fave Dave Soldier's "Most Unwanted Music".
	6:47pm Fredericks: Bryce sounds way better than I feared he would.
	6:47pm Dean: Thanks WH! I never connected the dots.
	6:47pm queems: @handy hi handy! i totally forgot about screaming females!! i was supposed to have a medical thing that got canceled. honestly i’ve been in space lately
	🤖 6:48pm chresti: WUM
	6:49pm paddy in matawan: fu waste management
	6:49pm StringOFperils: That's the 'Ron Burgundy' 'stash. It's de rigeur for station mgrs.
	6:49pm dale: ken, porn stache and some hair dye for it are required.
	🤖 6:49pm tim from washington: Bryce! Bryce!
	6:50pm Dean: "Good luck with your teeth" ought to be a conventional farewell.
	6:50pm Billy Jam: good show and good to hear Bryce
	6:51pm Jackie G: Really good to hear Bryce in good spirits
	6:51pm dale: i didn't know there were than many teslas out there.
	🤖 6:51pm Handy Haversack: queems: I'll e-mail. Maybe we can make a SF plan for LPR in Nov.
	6:51pm Dean: btw, I also withdrew my bid for Twitter. Now, see, cars that brake for no reason are proof of concept for AI.
	6:52pm Dean: They pass the T(o)uring Test.
	🤖 6:52pm DjLorraine: ..what? No Dodge Dart? Oh, wrong show
	🤖 6:52pm Handy Haversack: (When New Jerseyans say "route 80," they mean I-80, right?)
	6:52pm queems: @handy yes and also yes
	6:52pm lazy pierogi: hell yes i love my '08 prius
	6:52pm G: So, AI assisted cars are drama queens.
	🤖 6:53pm Handy Haversack: Excellent and thanks, queems! And thanks for the fill-in, Ken!
	6:53pm Dean: I can't discriminate from one car to another. They're all the same to me. Except for the Prius, which I found undriveable.
	6:53pm Peter from Dover NJ: Station manager Ken, there's a reason why Rolls Royce abandoned the concept of self navigating ships.
	🤖 6:53pm Handy Haversack: Yes, this does happen on route 80.
	6:54pm dale: clay - just like the golem.
	🤖 6:55pm Handy Haversack: This breath-of-life thing also happens on route 80.
	6:55pm queems: what is happening
	6:55pm dale: maybe the station needs a religious show. or a car repair show would do too.
	6:56pm Dean: I am neither a religious nor a spiritual person, but this guy has a good point.
	6:56pm G: When someone starts a call by saying they will be brief, you've been put on notice to expect verbosity :-)
	6:57pm dale: the nazis would know about that dog brain.
	🤖 6:57pm Handy Haversack: "Dog brain"! Like that's real! (Sorry, I have to front on Bagpipe or he gets ideas.)
	6:57pm sonnyspop: Some blind-spot detection systems only alert you when you put your blinker on to change lanes. It would drive you crazy if it constantly went off as cars passed when you're just driving along, no?
	6:58pm bleubombersune: Ken and all stay safe and be well
	🤖 6:58pm Webhamster Henry: I hope you don't think those are real tears.
	6:58pm Dean: The human brain can be replicated mechanically. That's the point of scientific research into the workings of the human brain. But it can't be replicated experientially, phenomenologically. The AI hype conveniently fails to distinguish the two modes.
	🤖 6:58pm tim from washington: Thanks, Ken! Thanks, Bryce!
	6:58pm Jackie G: Thanks, Ken.
	🤖 6:58pm Handy Haversack: Love you, Bryce! We miss you very much!
	6:59pm Kat in Chicago: Excellent fill-in!
	🤖 6:59pm Webhamster Henry: How about the Reggaebots! www.wfmu.org...
	6:59pm -жеи: Thanks everybody! Sorry I was absent from the chat, I havent figured out how to talk on the air and read something else at the same time... if anybody knows how to do that, let me know!
	🤖 6:59pm Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, SMK. Good luck with the teeth, Bryce!
	6:59pm McGroovey: I think human can never be taught to think like a computer.
	🤖 7:00pm Will a Sound Guy: Thank you Ken and Bryce !!! be well everyone!!!
	🤖 7:00pm Handy Haversack: Ken, that dog from the Kremlin might be able to offer some advice!
	🤖 7:07pm Ken From Hyde Park: Laika? I'm afraid her ship has sailed, as it were.

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