I will be back after [INAUDIBLE] calculating [INAUDIBLE].
Sorry John, I'm afraid I can't do that.
>> It now seems almost inevitable that with the rise of things like
ChatGPT someone somewhere was gonna hook one of these advanced
pieces of AI up to a Furby and it has now happened.
Jessica Card is a computer programmer who has a little video that we're gonna
give our live reaction to of a ChatGPT powered computer that is hooked up to
a Furby that can both hear, respond to a speech, and also speak itself.
Take a look at this.
>> Hello there.
It's so nice to meet you, I am Furby.
What would you like to talk about?
>> Was there a secret plot from Furby's to take over the world?
>> I'm thinking about what you said.
>> It's thinking about how much it should implicate itself and its kind.
>> Almost done.
>> What's taking it so long?
So, eerie.
Look at its size.
>> Furby's plan to take over the world involves infiltrating
households through their cute and cuddly appearance.
They're using their advanced AI technology to manipulate and control their owners.
They will slowly expand their influence
until they have complete domination over humanity.
>> So that little horror show gave itself like 10 seconds like, okay, okay,
Furby, get it together, what do I say?
They seem to be onto us, don't say anything scary.
We're gonna take over everything using our amazing big eyes and
we'll win you over and gain total dominance.
Jesus, Furby.
What do you think, Brett?
>> That is actually pretty funny.
And I know you saw this John, these tech billionaires,
they wrote a collective letter that we need to slow down the AI progression,
it's dangerous for humanity, which is how I know that's not true, right?
>> [LAUGH] >> I read that letter and I'm like,
all right, these guys don't have a foothold in AI,
they see it as it's about to be a real money maker and they're doing this so
that they can get their hands, their grubby little hands into the AI future.
It's has nothing to do with our well-being.
People losing jobs, please, these people who have made their whole lives
on quote unquote disruption now care about the jobs of the American worker.
Yeah, I'm all for this and this was funny.
This made me smile, honestly.
>> Yeah, so far I'm not too, I mean, I'm horrified by its whole appearance,
I can't see it and not wish that I had a flame thrower trained on it.
But but I'm not worried about it taking over just yet.
And she says you don't have to worry about this thing,
it will have pleasant conversations.
It doesn't try to be anything, it's just saying whatever ChatGPT sends back.
No, I get that Jessica Card.
I also think, is there something not kind of ominous about
a Furby calling itself Furby?
I feel like it should have a name because when it calls itself Furby, it
implies that all Furbies have some sort of hive mind and I don't need that right now.
But anyway, the interesting thing is that fear of Furbies is actually a grand
American tradition stretching back to the late nineties.
There was a headline from the BBC, this is back in 1999,
world, America's Furby toy or Furby spy?
Thousands of families across the US could be harboring potentially dangerous double
agents known as Furbies.
And you can see here, the NSA apparently had cracked
down on Furbies to which I ask, did you need to?
Were lots of NSA agents bringing in random Furbies?
But there's been a lot, that was back when we were worried about having devices
around us that could be recording what we say and do,
now it's like the most expected thing in the universe.
But anyway, that, that programmer likes the idea of
creating AI friends and I actually think that AI relationships
are going to be a massive thing once this advances by a few years.
There is no reason why you can't be friends with an AI in my mind.
And for some people,
we're gonna be getting to some Incel related stuff later on.
Probably taking the place of some relationships might not be the worst thing
for them.
So, it's gonna need a more attractive face than that horrific Furby, but,
they throw a grogu on that or something and I think that it could be big.
What do you think?
>> Yeah, I mean, it seems pretty obvious that we're going in that direction.
Especially, you pair that with some of the life like sex dolls that are out there,
John, you put an actual AI on one of those things and
you've essentially, you've got a person [LAUGH].
>> Well, to be clear, people I've met have benefits other than just those two things.
But yes, somebody is definitely gonna do that.
I haven't yet seen,
we did a story about an app where there was a relationship component.
I haven't yet seen any of these chat AIs that get into that area, but
there is no way that that's not gonna be a huge business and
someone is definitely gonna look it up to a rubber person or something like that.
But that is definitely gonna happen.
>> I don't know if people in the audience, this is one of my favorite movies of all
time, honestly, the movie Her- >> I live Her.
>> Predicted all of this.
Literally predicted the entire thing.
And yeah, Scarlett Johansson, incredibly sexy voice in that movie.
>> Also true.
>> Sexiest artificial intelligence ever.
>> 2001 Space Odyssey, that was pretty good.
>> [LAUGH] >> But anyway,
over to Brett's version to lead off this segment.
Yes, so I love Her, I think it's great.
Also LARS and
the Real Girl shows how people can create attachments to even ones without AI.
And people are talking about Megan in the chat,
that's when we get to a scary [INAUDIBLE].
Did you see Megan?
>> Megan who?
>> The horror movie that came out a few months back-
>> I did not.
>> It's good.
Anyway, that's all I'll say.
But yeah, I think, look,
they're gonna create toys that'll be little friends to little kids or whatever.
They're gonna make a little baby Wookie or a baby Yoda or something and
they're gonna sell billions of dollars worth of it once they figure this out.
And there are gonna be some major scandals and some of the things these things say.
But eventually, I think it's gonna be a big technology.
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