This week, Jason explains the conspiracy idea circulating behind a trippy inventory picture that went viral after the White Home Correspondents’ Dinner—was it despatched right here by a time traveler? (Spoiler: No.) Then Sam unpacks what’s taking place at Arizona State College with a messy rollout of a brand new AI-powered device that generates classes by scraping professors’ lectures with out their data. Within the second for subscribers on the Supporter stage, Emanuel will get philosophical with a dialogue concerning the query of machine consciousness and the way it pertains to a brand new paper from a Google-affiliated scientist.
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