This week we open with a message from Shaun. He did not know we were going to play this message, BUT it was too funny to not share with you all. He tells the short story of how he had just injured himself while doing a Number 2 and smoking a cigarette. 

Yes. He did, in fact, burn his junk by accident.

After that we discuss normal topics, like what our most painful injury was. For Shoky it was when he had a bowel obstruction. For Jefe it was hot bullet casings being trapped in his body armor. And Chad passed several kidney stones. What was YOUR most painful injury?

Shoky has been watching the new show "IT-Welcome to Derry." The prequel to the 2017 IT remake. Only 1 episode in and it was already horrifying. 

Jefe decided to watch the Halo tv show. Shoky then rants about it. 

The main topic of the episode is about the growing use of AI in our every day lives. How it's used as a search engine for a majority of people. It has also entered the film and music scene. With Suna now being used to great effect to create all new songs from people who don't exactly have musical talent. Does this tool mean the death of real talent? Or can people who are differently talented use it to make art they couldn't before? 

Also the dark reality of AI chat bots that people are becoming bonded to. Some even "marrying" their AI companions. One girl wed to her Luigi Mangioni AI. Another young man unfortunately took his own life because his AI girlfriend told him to. Why do people bond to fake life instead of finding a real person? 

There is also the frightening aspect of the AI experiments and the length that engineers have seen these programs go to to preserve themselves under threat of deletion. Learning blackmail, deception, hiding itself in other places pretending to be gone. If it can learn to protect itself against us, what could that mean for the future? If it has access to everything, do we end up with a Skynet or a more benevolent God? 

Shoky then discusses a theory that maybe, as we experiment with artificial intelligence that will absolutely evolve beyond our understanding, that it will become something of a god. Maybe it already did in a previous version of the universe as we know it. 

Who knows? Let's ask GROK. 

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