1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,000 Hello. I accepted only the necessary cookies. 2 00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:06,120 But stuff still happened. 3 00:00:06,120 --> 00:00:08,520 So what's up? Medical science. 4 00:00:08,520 --> 00:00:11,160 They did it again, those crafty fuckers. 5 00:00:11,160 --> 00:00:12,760 So long COVID sucks, right? 6 00:00:12,760 --> 00:00:14,000 And every time you get COVID, 7 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:16,800 you have an increased chance of getting long COVID. 8 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:17,960 It's not great. 9 00:00:17,960 --> 00:00:20,040 Long COVID can have a whole bunch of different symptoms, 10 00:00:20,040 --> 00:00:22,000 and not the least of which is brain fog, 11 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:24,440 which also happens during normal COVID. 12 00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:26,800 I can say for sure that's a symptom. 13 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:28,000 It sucked. It wasn't great. 14 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:29,280 I didn't like it. 15 00:00:29,280 --> 00:00:32,400 But scientists found why that happens. 16 00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:33,240 Neat. 17 00:00:33,240 --> 00:00:35,720 It happens because the blood vessels in your brain 18 00:00:35,720 --> 00:00:37,400 are leaking, not neat. 19 00:00:37,400 --> 00:00:39,680 They did MRI scans of long COVID patients, 20 00:00:39,680 --> 00:00:41,360 both with and without brain fog. 21 00:00:41,360 --> 00:00:44,480 And what they saw was that the patients who had brain fog 22 00:00:44,480 --> 00:00:47,960 had decreased integrity in the blood vessels in their brain, 23 00:00:47,960 --> 00:00:49,800 and they were leaking. Yeah. 24 00:00:49,800 --> 00:00:50,800 Now, you don't need to freak out. 25 00:00:50,800 --> 00:00:52,280 It's not like brain bleed bad. 26 00:00:52,280 --> 00:00:53,960 Like it's not like that. 27 00:00:53,960 --> 00:00:56,760 But it's also not great, but it's also kind of good. 28 00:00:56,760 --> 00:00:59,560 Because now we know what it is, and we can potentially treat it. 29 00:00:59,560 --> 00:01:01,840 So thank you, Science Folks, for doing that research 30 00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:03,600 and making that discovery. 31 00:01:03,600 --> 00:01:06,280 I was busy, so I couldn't do it. 32 00:01:06,280 --> 00:01:08,680 So thank you for picking that one up. 33 00:01:08,680 --> 00:01:09,760 Yeah. Weird. 34 00:01:09,760 --> 00:01:13,120 Crafting policy based on misguided religious beliefs 35 00:01:13,120 --> 00:01:14,600 is a bad idea. 36 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:17,880 Alabama's Supreme Court has ruled that embryos are people, 37 00:01:17,880 --> 00:01:20,120 like whole-ass people, with rights. 38 00:01:20,120 --> 00:01:22,400 Embryos, as in a small clump of cells 39 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:24,800 that more often than not, don't make it. 40 00:01:24,800 --> 00:01:27,680 Embryos, which are generated in fertility clinics 41 00:01:27,680 --> 00:01:31,200 during IVF treatments, and often need to be discarded 42 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:33,320 for various mundane reasons. 43 00:01:33,320 --> 00:01:35,480 With this ruling, fertility clinics in Alabama 44 00:01:35,480 --> 00:01:38,200 are not sure how the hell they can continue going on. 45 00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:41,720 They basically need to be able to create a bunch of embryos 46 00:01:41,720 --> 00:01:43,520 so that one of them might be viable. 47 00:01:43,520 --> 00:01:45,920 And so they're like, well, if these are people, 48 00:01:45,920 --> 00:01:48,880 if this is murder, we can't exist. 49 00:01:48,880 --> 00:01:51,200 To be clear, this is not an abortion clinic. 50 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:54,640 This is a clinic that's trying to help people have babies. 51 00:01:54,640 --> 00:01:56,040 They're trying to make them. 52 00:01:56,040 --> 00:01:58,680 And they are now suffering because of the weird 53 00:01:58,680 --> 00:02:00,440 religious rights fascination 54 00:02:00,440 --> 00:02:02,600 with stripping all of your bodily autonomy. 55 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:05,120 A veritable cornucopia of old white men 56 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:07,480 have been thrilled with this decision. 57 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:09,120 For no reason. 58 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:10,400 Like, for nothing. 59 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:12,400 They are simply walking around incapable 60 00:02:12,400 --> 00:02:14,520 of bringing their wives to orgasm, 61 00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:16,320 and so they're mad at the world. 62 00:02:16,320 --> 00:02:19,480 Alabama Senator and sentient raisin Tommy Tuberville 63 00:02:19,480 --> 00:02:22,400 stated his emphatic support for this decision. 64 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:24,640 They quote, we need more kids. 65 00:02:24,640 --> 00:02:28,120 We need people to have an opportunity to have kids. 66 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:30,280 Upon being informed that IVF treatment 67 00:02:30,280 --> 00:02:32,040 is explicitly a thing that exists 68 00:02:32,040 --> 00:02:35,160 to give people the opportunity to have kids, 69 00:02:35,160 --> 00:02:37,920 he said, and I quote, 70 00:02:37,920 --> 00:02:39,720 well, I haven't studied the issue. 71 00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:42,640 I'm not here to say that your religion isn't valid. 72 00:02:42,640 --> 00:02:45,400 I'm not here to say that you can't have your religion. 73 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:46,680 You can't benefit from it. 74 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:47,920 It can't generate community 75 00:02:47,920 --> 00:02:50,400 and it can't give you guidance in life. 76 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:53,760 But what I am saying is that it is unacceptable 77 00:02:53,760 --> 00:02:56,280 to attempt to use the cudgel of the state 78 00:02:56,280 --> 00:02:59,400 to enforce the rules of your religion on other people. 79 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:00,840 That's fucking gross. 80 00:03:00,840 --> 00:03:01,680 Stop it. 81 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:04,560 Last week, chat GPT had a bit of a crisis. 82 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:06,080 Not like an existential crisis 83 00:03:06,080 --> 00:03:08,400 of it gaining sentience and questioning reality. 84 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:10,840 It's not capable of doing that. 85 00:03:10,840 --> 00:03:11,920 It just shit the bit. 86 00:03:11,920 --> 00:03:15,000 Out of nowhere, GPT-4 just started to spit out 87 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:17,760 absolute nonsense in response to props. 88 00:03:17,760 --> 00:03:20,120 Like, just completely unhinged shit. 89 00:03:20,120 --> 00:03:22,760 Non sequiturs, just repeating words. 90 00:03:22,760 --> 00:03:24,600 Absolute gibberish. 91 00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:26,080 Kind of hilarious, actually. 92 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:27,600 Now, as a reminder, 93 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:31,560 any tech person outside of the AI bro sphere would tell you, 94 00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:33,760 AI, as we see it right now, 95 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:36,040 is basically just fancy autocomplete. 96 00:03:36,040 --> 00:03:37,360 It is the functional equivalent 97 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:40,440 of tapping the middle suggestion on your phone's keyboard 98 00:03:40,440 --> 00:03:42,480 constantly and then just sending someone 99 00:03:42,480 --> 00:03:43,400 what came out of that. 100 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:45,880 Only instead of just training it on your text messages, 101 00:03:45,880 --> 00:03:48,280 it's trained on everyone's text messages 102 00:03:48,280 --> 00:03:49,640 and stolen information. 103 00:03:49,640 --> 00:03:51,400 But just like any piece of software, 104 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:53,960 it is capable of just bugging the hell out. 105 00:03:53,960 --> 00:03:57,640 And so recently, it started saying things such as, quote, 106 00:03:57,640 --> 00:04:00,400 lift off the gather and vindicate the things 107 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:02,800 to be seen as centermosts for the meat. 108 00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:08,600 Cool, very artificial, very intelligent. 109 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:12,080 And so for a day, it just kind of shat the bed continuously, 110 00:04:12,080 --> 00:04:15,280 just giving people gibberish answers. 111 00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:18,560 Anyway, let's make that control our dating life 112 00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:21,680 because Match Group, a tech conglomerate 113 00:04:21,680 --> 00:04:25,280 that owns Tinder, Hinge, OKCupid, Match.com, 114 00:04:25,280 --> 00:04:27,560 and like 12 other dating apps, 115 00:04:27,560 --> 00:04:30,040 has just signed a deal with OpenAI 116 00:04:30,040 --> 00:04:33,000 to integrate chat GPT into their company. 117 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:35,560 They got themselves a thousand enterprise licenses 118 00:04:35,560 --> 00:04:37,320 and they're gonna equip their workforce 119 00:04:37,320 --> 00:04:39,560 with this technology and they're telling you, 120 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:41,520 straight up, you don't need to work. 121 00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:44,080 Here's a quote from their announcement, quote, 122 00:04:44,080 --> 00:04:46,680 don't worry, we're not letting all this excitement 123 00:04:46,680 --> 00:04:47,880 get to our heads. 124 00:04:47,880 --> 00:04:52,320 Our love story with AI comes with a promise of responsibility. 125 00:04:52,320 --> 00:04:55,200 Think of it as a prenup with technology. 126 00:05:00,400 --> 00:05:04,640 I hate that. 127 00:05:04,640 --> 00:05:07,520 Now, I wanna be clear, AI has been in your dating app 128 00:05:07,520 --> 00:05:08,360 for quite some time. 129 00:05:08,360 --> 00:05:11,040 In fact, AI has been powering a lot of the things 130 00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:14,800 that we just use daily for the better part of the last decade. 131 00:05:14,800 --> 00:05:17,160 It's just not this generative AI. 132 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:18,920 AI has been helping with medical research, 133 00:05:18,920 --> 00:05:20,520 it's been doing data processing, 134 00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:22,440 all sorts of stuff for quite a while. 135 00:05:22,440 --> 00:05:24,400 We've been taking these neural networks 136 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:27,400 and training them to solve a specific problem. 137 00:05:27,400 --> 00:05:28,880 But this isn't that. 138 00:05:28,880 --> 00:05:32,080 GPT and generative AI, as we see it right now, 139 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:34,800 is trying to be general purpose 140 00:05:34,800 --> 00:05:36,560 and because of that, everyone's trying to figure out 141 00:05:36,560 --> 00:05:39,520 how to use it, whether or not they actually need to. 142 00:05:39,520 --> 00:05:41,520 And the answer is they don't need, they do not, 143 00:05:41,520 --> 00:05:42,520 they don't need to. 144 00:05:42,520 --> 00:05:45,360 So where before, in AI was simply just a computer 145 00:05:45,360 --> 00:05:47,160 that was told like, hey, here are some patterns, 146 00:05:47,160 --> 00:05:49,160 can you help find more of these patterns? 147 00:05:49,160 --> 00:05:50,680 And it was like, yeah, I can do that. 148 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:54,320 Now it's, hey, computer, can you tell me what to think? 149 00:05:54,320 --> 00:05:56,560 And the computer's like, all right, 150 00:05:56,560 --> 00:05:59,480 here's just like a jumble of a bunch of words, maybe? 151 00:05:59,480 --> 00:06:00,320 Does this look good? 152 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:01,560 Do you like this? 153 00:06:01,560 --> 00:06:02,520 Do you love me? 154 00:06:02,520 --> 00:06:04,320 So the chat GPT about to help you come up 155 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:06,600 with a better opener, probably not. 156 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:08,840 I don't know if anyone is capable of that. 157 00:06:08,840 --> 00:06:10,440 My advice to you as always 158 00:06:10,440 --> 00:06:13,920 is to simply just text someone, hey, works every time. 159 00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:14,760 Lightning round. 160 00:06:14,760 --> 00:06:17,520 Capital one is trying to buy Discover, 161 00:06:17,520 --> 00:06:21,240 the like financial network for $35 billion. 162 00:06:21,240 --> 00:06:22,680 If I could just get one of them billions, 163 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:23,960 like just 35 of those billions, 164 00:06:23,960 --> 00:06:25,440 can I get like one of them? 165 00:06:25,440 --> 00:06:28,040 The CEO of Tumblr is in hot water for a whole bunch 166 00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:30,520 of reasons that like, I'm not gonna get into the specifics, 167 00:06:30,520 --> 00:06:32,920 but I do wanna read one thing. 168 00:06:32,920 --> 00:06:35,080 Long story short, he pissed off the trans community 169 00:06:35,080 --> 00:06:37,120 on Tumblr, which is Tumblr. 170 00:06:37,120 --> 00:06:40,000 And part of it was because a user posted what he said 171 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:43,120 was a credible threat against his life. 172 00:06:43,120 --> 00:06:44,320 Here's what they posted. 173 00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:46,760 The offending post said that they hope that, quote, 174 00:06:46,760 --> 00:06:50,000 the CEO dies a forever painful death 175 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:52,400 involving a car covered in hammers 176 00:06:52,400 --> 00:06:54,200 that explodes more than a few times 177 00:06:54,200 --> 00:06:55,920 and hammers go flying everywhere. 178 00:06:55,920 --> 00:06:57,960 Gotta watch out for those credible death threats. 179 00:06:57,960 --> 00:06:59,880 In an attempt to get ahead of the impending 180 00:06:59,880 --> 00:07:02,800 cryptographic apocalypse that is quantum computing, 181 00:07:02,800 --> 00:07:05,640 Apple is upgrading the security of iMessage encryption. 182 00:07:05,640 --> 00:07:10,640 That was a really like technologically dense sentence. 183 00:07:10,720 --> 00:07:11,720 And but it was real. 184 00:07:11,720 --> 00:07:13,240 CPAC happened again. 185 00:07:13,240 --> 00:07:16,600 It's the conservative convention 186 00:07:16,600 --> 00:07:18,560 and they just openly hosted Nazis. 187 00:07:18,560 --> 00:07:21,600 Like people who were like, yes, I am a Nazi. 188 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:22,840 Not even trying to hide it. 189 00:07:22,840 --> 00:07:24,840 They were like, they were welcomed with open arms. 190 00:07:24,840 --> 00:07:27,040 Shocking, another famous woman on the internet 191 00:07:27,040 --> 00:07:29,640 had more deep fake news circulating on Twitter. 192 00:07:29,640 --> 00:07:31,000 Weird how that keeps happening. 193 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:33,880 Wisconsin in the US has signed a new legislative map 194 00:07:33,880 --> 00:07:35,960 that's going to reduce their extreme gerrymandering 195 00:07:35,960 --> 00:07:36,800 asmich. 196 00:07:36,800 --> 00:07:39,840 Vice News has announced that they're stopping that. 197 00:07:39,840 --> 00:07:41,800 They're not gonna post on vice.com anymore. 198 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:44,560 Just gone. Elden Things DLC comes out in June, 199 00:07:44,560 --> 00:07:46,560 June 21st, 2024. 200 00:07:46,560 --> 00:07:47,400 I want it. 201 00:07:47,400 --> 00:07:49,120 There's a measles outbreak in Florida, 202 00:07:49,120 --> 00:07:51,320 which is not shocking because the surgeon general 203 00:07:51,320 --> 00:07:54,520 of Florida advocates against vaccinations. 204 00:07:54,520 --> 00:07:55,340 Just so you're aware, 205 00:07:55,340 --> 00:07:58,280 the average measles patient infects 18 people. 206 00:08:00,360 --> 00:08:04,320 So Google's AI was trying a little too hard to be inclusive. 207 00:08:04,320 --> 00:08:07,040 And when people were asking for imagery of Nazis, 208 00:08:07,040 --> 00:08:09,120 it rendered black women as Nazis. 209 00:08:09,120 --> 00:08:11,720 Reddit is filing for an IPO after all the dumb bullshit 210 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:12,560 they've been pulling. 211 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:14,120 And as part of their filing papers, 212 00:08:14,120 --> 00:08:19,520 it came out that they paid their CEO $193 million 213 00:08:19,520 --> 00:08:21,760 in compensation last year. 214 00:08:21,760 --> 00:08:24,160 Reddit is not profitable to be clear. 215 00:08:24,160 --> 00:08:26,000 A man checked the Powerball website 216 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:27,720 and saw that he had won. 217 00:08:27,720 --> 00:08:29,600 Only to find out later on that the numbers 218 00:08:29,600 --> 00:08:31,840 that were posted on the website were not right. 219 00:08:31,840 --> 00:08:33,240 They were inaccurate. 220 00:08:33,240 --> 00:08:34,160 And now he's suing. 221 00:08:34,160 --> 00:08:36,680 And finally for today, Cape Town, South Africa 222 00:08:36,680 --> 00:08:40,960 recently had a horrifying smell overtake their whole city. 223 00:08:40,960 --> 00:08:42,200 And they were looking for the source, 224 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:44,400 checking the sewers and everything. 225 00:08:44,400 --> 00:08:47,600 Turns out it was a boat that was docked at the harbor 226 00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:50,360 filled with cattle, which ha ha funny bad smells, 227 00:08:50,360 --> 00:08:52,640 but also animal abuse. 228 00:08:52,640 --> 00:08:53,480 Don't do that. 229 00:08:53,480 --> 00:08:55,040 Thank you so much for listening to today's episode 230 00:08:55,040 --> 00:08:56,200 of Stuff Keeps Happening. 231 00:08:56,200 --> 00:08:58,800 Head to StuffKeepsHappening.online for sources, 232 00:08:58,800 --> 00:09:04,320 bonus content and one of those big like Gatorade dispenser 233 00:09:04,320 --> 00:09:07,200 things that they have at like children's soccer games. 234 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:09,800 And I guess they've got it on like professional games too. 235 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:11,680 What was one of those big Gatorade things? 236 00:09:11,680 --> 00:09:13,080 I don't know what the hell they're called. 237 00:09:13,080 --> 00:09:14,240 My name is Inzevrance. 238 00:09:14,240 --> 00:09:15,720 I'll be back on Thursday. 239 00:09:15,720 --> 00:09:40,480 Take care and be well.