Back to episode — Episode 2213 Scott Adams - How I Could Easily Program AI To Spot Fake News. It's Pattern Recognition
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sh. That totally happened. Yeah, no. The most obvious explanation is it didn't happen. Do you know what the most obvious explanation is whenever something amazing and hard to believe happens? That it didn't happen. It's almost always the case that if it's that remarkable, yeah, it didn't happen. Or there's some context missing. Well, my mind was blown by a video by Elon Musk yesterday. So you kn…
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But watching a car figure out things it had not learned, it had only somehow got it by pattern recognition, because the car doesn't know what anything is. So it doesn't know what a traffic light is. It has nothing like a definition or an understanding of it. Nothing. It's just pure pattern recognition. And it can drive as well or better than a lot of humans already.
All right. Here's an idea from RFK Jr. that I'm going to put squarely in the category of I'm so glad he's running for president. I'm just so glad because he keeps bringing up topics and ideas that seem genuinely nonpartisan. He communicates them well. And here's another one. Like, I'm trying to find some political reason not to like this, but I can't find one. He wants free passports for anybody who wants one. If you have a free passport, then all of your voter ID problems go away because everybody can get to a post office, right? Pretty much everybody's a short drive or a walk away from a post office. So if you could go to a post office and get a free birth certificate, I guess it's a card or something, then your voting ID problem
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is solved. But as RFK Jr. points out, it also solves banking because if you don't have ID, you can't have a bank account. So you would end up getting rid of some of that payday, same-day, expensive check-cashing stuff for people who don't have banks. So that's an idea. This seems like a relatively small change in the existing system that would give Democrats what they want. You know, people would…
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