News of note from Tinsel Town and beyond. AI can tell you what your dog is thinking but also will make stuff up. So, don’t believe your dog when he says your brother has been visiting your wife and playing the tickling game every Tuesday and Wednesday starting 10 minutes after you leave for work... that’s just AI hallucinating.
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Speaker 3 (00:26):
There's no business life business. That was pretty good. I'm
glad you got your your act together there that that
was very good.
Speaker 5 (00:34):
Kayla needs to chill.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
You did a nice job. Appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Let's start with let's start with celebrities in court or
celebrities behaving badly. Okay, we'll start there and we'll talk
more about the business side of business coming up here
in about ten minutes or so. Did he may have
lost a key witness or rather the prosecutors did if
you missed this, big news this week is that they've
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got the jury nearly in place for Diddy in his
criminal trial for being on the same level as Jared
from Subway, Bill Cosby, Harvey Weinstein. Who else did we
decide to throw into that category. Epstein, Right, Yeah, he's
in the same category there.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
The Feds say.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
That one of the accusers it might not show up
here on Friday. Prosecution defense seems excuse me, had an
opportunity there. We go to question potential jurors in a
second round of probing into their background. They're getting close
to setting those a jurors, but then come to find
out there are a number of actors who were on
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the questionnaire for the jury. That list included actor Michael B. Jordan,
rapper kid is it Cutty or Cutie Cutty Cutty? Okay,
thank you. I apologize for being moronic when it comes
to current artists, both of.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Whom were.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Diddy Comb's former off partner Cassie Ventura dated. I remember
she's the one that got beat up by the elevator,
isn't she I remember that one correctly. Yeah, we saw
her on the video where he was kicking her. The
list also contained actor Mike Meyer's name, but we don't
know why, so Austin Powers could end.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Up in this case.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
We have no idea, but one juror last week so
that they were too distracted by the release of Disney's
and or to finish all of the questionnaire, saying I
was tired USA today reporting I was binging the new
Star Wars series and or it just came out. The
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judge asked the man about his ability to concentrate on
the trial or if he will be too busy binging
and or the potential juror may have won some points
for honesty when he replied, like I said, I was binging,
I'm just being lazy.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Do you win points for that honesty? Or is that
you feel like maybe they were just trying to get
out of jury duty. I'm feeling that way.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Yeah, are telling a judge that they may have lost
one of the four victims of Comb's scheduled to testify
and making their case against the fallen rap mogul that
from the Hollywood Reporter, The witness, named victim number three
in the indictment, was set to tell the court how
Comb's had coerced her into sexual acts and how she
was sexually exploited by him. Prosecution said that they were
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unsure if Victim three would show up for the trial.
According to the prosecutor, we do not know whether she
intends to appear, and we are trying very hard to
find out because we are having trouble communicating with her counsel.
Prosecutor telling the court that the woman, excuse me, the
defense telling the court that the woman the prosecution is
called victim number three does not live locally and may.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Not show up. So there we go.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
It makes it tough to make your case when your
chief complainant doesn't even show up.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
So that's problematic.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Anybody found that key witness or let your imagination run wild.
Somebody figured out who it was and they put a
stop to her being able to testify.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
No, I don't believe that to be the case either,
but it is juicier.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Hey, speaking of a list celebrities being dragged into other
people's cases, Taylor Swift, I think she just got a
subpoena to show up with Blake Lively.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Yeah, the shake.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
It Off superstar, according to Deadline, has taken center stage
with a subpoena issued for Taylor Swift to reveal what
longtime buddy Blake Lively told her. If you'll recall Blake Lively,
he has got this multimillion dollar legal battle going out
with Justin Beldoni, allegations of sexual harassment and an online
smear campaign campaign. So now Deadline is confirming that Swift
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was suboena earlier this week by lawyers for Beldoni. Roping
in of Swift, one of the most famous people on
the planet truly cranks up the volume on the now
six month old case that went public in December when
Lively filed like a play with California Civil Rights Department,
So we could be looking at Taylor Swift taking the stand.
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According to some, a settlement is a non starter. Lively
in Baldoni are set to face off but for the
judge and a trial starting in March of next year.
Oh god, they're right up to these trials is longer
than the elections.
Speaker 6 (05:23):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
You know how we always get to like the middle
of October, beginning of October, we go, I just wish
this election was over by now. I'm so tired of
dealing with this election. And then you finally get through
the November election, you go, Okay, thank god, it's finally over.
It's kind how I'm feeling on this case with Blake
Lively and Baldoni. Here, get this over with Pete's sake.
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I don't have to put up with another nine months.
Good Lord, Now of that nonsense. An icon finds himself
being sued as well. Smokey Robinson say it ain't so,
smoke say it ain't so.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
Their faces and concealing their names. The four women who
are accusing music legends Smokey Robinson of sexual assault let their.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
Lawyers fifty million dollars.
Speaker 6 (06:08):
And a graphic lawsuit do the talking.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Allegations include million dollars wow.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
Sexual battery, assault, false imprisonment, and gender violence.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
I mean this sounds like sounds like the accusations against Diddy.
Was Smokey Robinson the original diddyd.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
I hope not.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Oh, now, before you start going, Smokey would never do that.
Remember we've been down this road before.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Where we go?
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Oh, Bill Cosby would never do that. Okay, so reserve judgment.
I hope Smokey didn't do this, but.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
We wanted to get his attention.
Speaker 6 (06:44):
According to the suit, the women worked for Robinson and
his wife Francis as housekeepers and assistants over different time periods.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
Our four clients have a common thread.
Speaker 7 (06:53):
Uh oh, they're Hispianic women who were employed as housekeepers.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
Yeah by the rob and sins.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
So does that qualify him to be governor of California.
See what I did there? See what I did?
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Is it? Kayla? Did you get this? Arnold Schwartz nag No,
you didn't get a shortznagger. No, I don't get your
get that.
Speaker 6 (07:20):
The eighty five year old is accused of raping and
assaulting the women between two thousand and seven and twenty
twenty four, mostly at his Chatsworth home. In the most
recent case, in twenty twenty.
Speaker 7 (07:29):
Three, after having just showered, he would come out of
the adjoining bathroom naked and proceed to force her to
have sex with him against her will.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
The lawsuit says this happened seven times.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Another accuser seven times means I mean like that was
his move. He just come out of the bathroom and
he's like, oh, housekeepers here, I think I saw this
on the internet. Let's see if it works.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
That was his move.
Speaker 6 (07:58):
Another accuser legend robbing, and would call her to parts
of the homes that didn't have cameras.
Speaker 7 (08:02):
The garage, in the laundry room. When she would meet
him at this location, he would immediately begin to sexually
assault in rapeer.
Speaker 6 (08:14):
According to the lawsuit, that happened twenty three times. The
four horsssuing Robinson's wife, Francis Robinson, alleging in the suit
she did not prevent the abuse.
Speaker 8 (08:23):
We believe she was aware of the misconduct by her husband,
Smokey Robinson, and that.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
She used.
Speaker 8 (08:32):
Their status, as well as our clients reliance on their
living wage, in order to keep them in check.
Speaker 6 (08:41):
As for why the women are only now coming forward
about abuse that some of them claimed began nearly two
decades ago, these.
Speaker 7 (08:47):
Women were all low wage earners, living from paycheck to paycheck.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
They all feared missing a payday.
Speaker 8 (08:57):
No police reports had been filed by a clan and
says if you had given.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
You know their their fear.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
All right, So are they going to file a police report?
We don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
The attorneys say, well, maybe they will. And I know
you're thinking, well, why didn't they just get a different job?
Might not have felt like they could. I don't know,
I don't know. I'm not uh not crazy about that.
And then one more quick one here before we get
out of the business of show business, and that is this.
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If you missed the story this week about the dude
who crashed into Jennifer Aniston's place, he showed up in court.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
You're not gonna believe what he was wearing.
Speaker 9 (09:35):
The man accused of crashing his car through the front
gate of Jennifer Aniston's home appeared in court today.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
And what was he wearing? Oh? Oh, who's your designer?
Who are you wearing?
Speaker 9 (09:48):
This is new video just into the newsroom showing.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
I can't see it.
Speaker 9 (09:52):
It's radio Jimmy Carwile wrapped in only a blanket.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Oh is that bed back? And beyond your wearing?
Speaker 9 (10:01):
A judge ordered a mental competency hearing for Carwile. Police
say he repeatedly harassed Anniston before driving his car through
her gate earlier this week. He is facing felony, stalking
and vandalism charges, while a motive is still unclear, sources
tell ABC News investigators found social media posts from Carwile
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referencing the actress.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
All right, so obvious the guy who was obsessed, he's
a weirdo. And then he shows up the court without
any shirt on. So and I don't know if he
was wearing pants, but they had to throw a blanket
on him. Yeah, So, I don't know. Maybe he's going
for the insanity. Please, I don't have any idea. Meanwhile,
it looks like Hollywood could be this is going to
come as a surprise. Struggling weird that's next. How bad
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is it? He is getting pretty ugly? Chris Merril, I
AM six forty. We're live everywhere and you're Rightheartradio.
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KFI AM six forty more stimulating talk. Tayla, that was Steppenwolf.
That is a classic rock band. You need to get
to know.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
You like that?
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Nothing you hear that? I get nothing, Tayla. Wow, all right,
there's no business like show business. Boy, I'm just getting
shut out all together. Now, news have know from tiny
the worst news of know from tinseltown and beyond. It
looks like we're gonna have another split. You know, Comcast
did a spinoff. Comcast is splitting. They're like, uh, you
know what, how about if we come up with a
(11:30):
new company that can take care of our TV products
and we'll name it something nobody's ever heard or understands,
and we'll build a brand from scratch.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
So they did.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
They call it Versant. So Versant is not a medication
for your STD Versants is the new NBC Comcast spinoff.
And in the wake of that, Warner Brothers Discovery, who.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Own all the Warner.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
HBO, Discovery channel, HGTV, all that conglomerate.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
They are now also saying that they might break up.
Speaker 10 (12:06):
Chairs of Warner Brothers Discovery jumped as much as nine
percent Thursday morning after CNBC reported the Media Giant is
moving toward a potential breakup. Chairs had fallen earlier in
this session after the company posted revenue that missed forecasts
and a wider than expected loss due to a sluggish
box office performance and ongoing declines in cable TV, but
(12:29):
Chairs rebounded on the news of a potential spin off.
Warner Brothers Discovery did not immediately respond to a Reuter's
request for comment on the CNBC report, which cited unnamed sources.
The Media Giant would follow in the footsteps of Comcast,
which is spinning off most of its cable assets, including
CNBC and MSNBC, into a new company called Versant, to
(12:52):
position itself for growth in the streaming era.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Oh, we're positioning ourselves for growth in the streaming era.
That's why we have come up with this new Oh
and blah blah blah blah blah. Nobody cares.
Speaker 10 (13:02):
Warner Brothers Discovery laid the groundwork for a possible sale
or spin off of its declineing cable TV assets in
December by announcing a separation from its streaming and studio operations.
It reported results under the news structure for the first
time on Thursday, and analysts have long speculated about a
(13:22):
breakup of WBD, whose assets include CNN, HBO, and the
coveted Warner Brothers studio.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Does this mean we're gonna have to buy more streaming
services or does it just mean that is this just
on the business side Bank of.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
America more streaming services?
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Of course it is right, because it was I thought
it was kind of nice when I didn't have to
have Discovery Plus because I have I have It's max now,
but it was HBO Max, so I have HBO Max.
And then all of a sudden, I was able to
watch all my HGTV. You know how much I like that.
So you're laughing, But my son and I were just
(13:59):
horrible people. We watch those house hunting shows and just
mock the people on the show mercilessly.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
And then every yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
And then every now and again, we'll get we'll get somebody,
and like we're trying, we're trying to make and then
we just kind of one of us will look at
the other go, yeah, I actually kind of like these people. Okay,
all right, these people are okay, all right, fast forward, go.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
To the next people.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Okay, well I hate them too, and they've got a
funny accent, you know, so we do that.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Thank you for America.
Speaker 10 (14:27):
Research analyst Jessica reef Erlike said last year that wbd's
cable television assets are a very logical partner for Comcast's
new spinoff company.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
This Reuter's guy is boring, Come on, dude.
Speaker 10 (14:40):
Like others in the media business, Warner Brothers Discovery is
losing thousands of cable TV subscribers.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Each year to their own streaming service.
Speaker 10 (14:49):
Putting pressure on the company to consistently produce hit content
and boost profitability in its streaming business.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
What if they here's a novel idea.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
What if they had been producing good content before they
had this other competition? Right, Competition breeds new good content.
It does, because if it's not good, it doesn't survive.
But if there is no competition, then what's the incentive
(15:20):
to make things better? If importing crap from China is
one hundred and forty five percent more than making the
product here in the United States. The United States doesn't
have the same competition, And if they don't have the
same competition, what's the advantage to working harder to make
it better?
Speaker 3 (15:39):
What are you gonna do?
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Go somewhere else, And all of a sudden, these companies
are like, crap, everybody's going somewhere else. And then they say, hey,
everybody go to our other thing. And then people go
and they start buying the Max so they can be
horrible people and watch the lake Front bargain Hunt.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
And then they go, that's weird, and we want why
nobody's watching her cable products anymore? Weird, craziest thing.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Meanwhile, if you are at NBC, a number of cancelations
bad news if you were a fan of Suits.
Speaker 11 (16:13):
Lopez Versus Lopez and night Court have both been canceled
after three seasons at NBC. This news comes after night
Court aired its third season finale, which will now serve
as its series finale on Tuesday. However, sources say Warner
Brothers TV, which produces the show with Universal TV, may
try to find a new home for the series. You
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know there's something about you that weirdly feels like we've.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Have we met before.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
I doesn't feel contrived at all. Oh, Warner Brothers TV
is going to try to find a new home for this.
I wonder where it's going to.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Be found me.
Speaker 11 (16:49):
Meanwhile, Lopez Versus Lopez, starring George Lopez and his real
life daughter Mayan Lopez, has also been canceled. The show
saw George wrestling with his sobriety and getting older while
Mayan was getting married. Season three finale aired back in February.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
What's happening? It was just being nice like we always are.
You're never nice?
Speaker 6 (17:10):
Yes, we are so far.
Speaker 11 (17:11):
For next season, the network has renewed first year comedies
Happiest Place and Saint Dennis Medical.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Oh I like this Saint Dennis Medical. I have washed
Happies Place.
Speaker 11 (17:19):
Along with its Chicago and Law and Order drama franchises.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Yeah, and also suits La gets the acts as well. Sorry,
suits fans, all done. I will continue here in just
a few moments with hallucinations and weird science happening all
around us. Who's hallucinating? And do we even want to
fix it? That's next?
Speaker 3 (17:41):
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Speaker 2 (17:48):
Hey, pleasure bring with you. I love it when we
get to hang out. The best part of the week.
Really outstanding. Great way to get the week off off
the right foot.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Love that.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Thank you so much for any time with us. Let
me see, we did talk then. We talked about AI
last week, Cayler.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Were you re pron that.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
I can remember what I had for breakfast?
Speaker 3 (18:10):
But I already?
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Yeah, we did, we did. We did talk a last week.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Yeah, we did, we did. I wanted to talk some more.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
Last few weeks.
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Speaker 5 (18:34):
Kayla needs to chill.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Yeah, appreciate that. So crazy? All right? So we talked
about from my heart and.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
From my head? What don't people understand my intentions?
Speaker 2 (18:48):
We talk about the weird science around AI last week.
Now we're finding out that AI is not only super.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
Cool, but.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Also it's possible AI.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Is on something, and by on something, I mean hallucinating,
totally hallucinating. According to experts, AI hallucinations are getting worse
as it becomes more and more powerful. The New York
Times running an article saying that an AI bought the
Handles tech support for Cursor, which is an up and
coming tool for computer programmers that are learned several customers
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about a change in company policy so they were no
longer allowed to use Cursor on more than just one computer.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Why.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Some cancel their Cursor accounts, and some got even angry
when they realized what happened. The AI bot had announced
a policy change. They did not exist. So more than
two years after chat GPT, tech companies, office workers, and
everyday consumers, they're using AI bots for an increasingly wide
array of tasks.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
But there's still no way of ensuring that.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
These systems produce accurate information. They're calling it hallucinations.
Speaker 12 (19:53):
Open ais O three just beat Google and Anthropic on
almost every benchmark. There's some reason through math.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Code sorry this from my AI insight pro.
Speaker 12 (20:03):
Code, and even generate novel scientific hypotheses. But behind the hype,
it's hallucinating. In one out of every three responses, and
sometimes inventing things it physically can't do. Even Keyankatan Farush,
Stanford professor and CEO of Work, who praises A three's
coding skills, admits it often generates broken website links, links
that don't work. Sure, hallucinations can lead to creativity, but
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in fields like law, finance or medicine, that's not a feature.
That's a risk. So what's the fix. One hope is
web search GPT four with search hit ninety percent on
open AI's simple QA benchmark.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Okay, QA benchmark.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
I think is a question and answer, and so it
checks it and then it double checks it. Basically uses
a web search and double checks the answer. Well, that
sounds great unless I didn't want my question to be
on the internet.
Speaker 12 (20:53):
Maybe that could bring reasoning models back on track if
users are okay with sharing prompts to third parties. The
bigger problem the whole AI industry is shifting toward reasoning models.
They're faster to improve, cheaper to scale, and more versatile.
But if that also means more hallucinations, then we're in trouble.
Because the smarter these models get, the more they might
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start making things up.
Speaker 13 (21:15):
Oh awesome. Oh, I feel like we're in good hands.
Here's the bottom line. Three and four Mini are brilliant,
but dangerously over confident. Their reasoning world class, their truthfulness
not guaranteed.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Oh, it's kind of like a scientist turned politician.
Speaker 12 (21:34):
And open AI even they aren't sure why it's getting worse.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Oh, open AI isn't why what do what? Sam Altman,
the head of a of open AI, thinks about that.
All right, hallucinations are getting worse and hearing about it. Basically,
the machines are really good at facts, and then they
start filling in the blanks instead of just admitting you
don't know the answer, kind of like being married.
Speaker 14 (21:59):
Ais are getting much better. We have not solved the
problem entirely yet, but we've made pretty remarkable progress over
the last few years.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Huh, that's strange.
Speaker 14 (22:07):
When we first launched chat to BT, it would hallucinate
things all the time, this idea of robustness, being sure
you've can trust the information. We've made huge progress there.
We cite sources, the models have gotten much smarter. A
lot of people use these systems all the time, and
we were worried that if it was not one hundred
zero point zero percent accurate, which is still a challenge
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with these systems. It would cause a bunch of problems.
But users are smart. People understand, Yeah, we're not that smart.
You know what these systems are good at, when to
use them when not.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
And in fact, people who are smart start using systems
like this to input misinformation because we're all not that
smart and we find information we want to believe, not
information that it's true.
Speaker 14 (22:49):
As that robustness increases, which it will continue to do,
people will use it for more and more things. But
we've made as an industry, we've made pretty remarkable progress
and that direct over the last couple of years.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
It sounds like sam Altman is hallucinating.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Because we literally have reports of AI hallucinations that AI
is becoming very fast. It is very good at reasoning,
but not so good at the creative part. It just
takes liberty as it doesn't need to take AI insight process.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
It's getting worse.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
The statistics are dependable, The presentation is not Sam Altman's
like everything's cool here, man, everything's great. Well, then what
happens when we start applying AI and we don't have
a way to double check what the answers are. We
start using AI and we say, wow, thanks to AI,
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we're able to accomplish ABCD and E faster than ever before.
Or we can do these things that we could never
do before because we didn't have the capability to be
able to process so many things all at once, but
AI allows us to do that. What if it's something
we hadn't even dreamed of before, and now it is
seemingly posed possible, except can we believe it?
Speaker 15 (24:02):
What if animals have been talking all along and we
just couldn't understand them. Right now, AI is cracking the
code of nature's oldest mystery. Animal language projects like Earth
Species Project are using machine learning to translate dolphin clicks,
decode elephant rumbles, and even speak back.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
In their own voices.
Speaker 15 (24:19):
Imagine asking a whale about the ocean's secrets, or hearing
a chimpanzee describe its dreams.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
This isn't fair.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
What do you think that chimpanzee dreams of bananas and
throwing poop? Of course, yeah, so basically it's like again
being married.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
This isn't fantasy.
Speaker 15 (24:36):
Scientists say we'll have the first real animal translator by
twenty thirty, but here's the wildest part. What if animals
are smarter than we think? What if they've been waiting
for us to finally listen. The age of human animal
conversation is dawning, and the first words we hear might
change everything we know.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Yeah, I don't think we're gonna find out animals are
smarter than we think. I think we're gonna find out
there are some animals that have some capabilities. But I
don't think we're suddenly going to be like, Wow, who
knew my dog understands relativity. I don't think that's gonna happen.
But again, to my point, if we're getting translations from
animals and we go, hey, chimp, what'd you dream about
last night?
Speaker 3 (25:12):
And he's like, which means throwing a poop?
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Then how are we to believe ai AI has a
problem with telling the truth when it comes to creativity,
and especially if there's no way to double check that information.
That's not to say that we should be afraid of it,
because humans have screwed things.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Up for ever.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
I mean, even when we have a great breakthrough, we
still find a way to screw up great breakthroughs. A
children's hospital Wisconsin has now accidentally disposed of a brain
from a young woman that was donated for research. She
had undergone pioneering gene treatments for a rare degenerative disease,
donated her brain to science in the hospital. Gum it,
(26:04):
where did I put that? I thought it was over here.
I bet the cleaning crew took that out. But this
girl was three years old. She underwent experimental surgery and
saw a functional gene injection into her brain with the
hopes that it would displace the defective one. It didn't
cure her disease, it did buy her a decade's worth
of life. Most kids who are diagnosed with this disease
(26:25):
die before the age of ten. She made it to
twenty four.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
It's pretty great.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
And they're thinking, we have to be able to look
at her brain so we can try to figure out
what went right so we can make it better.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
And then they lost it. I don't know that AI
would have lost a brain. Might have.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
I told you exactly what was in the brain, but
I don't think it would have misplaced it. All right,
you barely barely escaped to death this week.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
You don't even know. It's one of those deals that.
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It could have happened to any of us, and yet
it happened to none of us unless you're dead, in
which case you're not listening anyway. But this particular mechanism
of injury could have hit any of us, but didn't.
You'll find out how we all almost got killed this
week next Chris Merril KFI AM six forty were live
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The podcast is going to be found on the featured
segment page of KFI AM six forty dot com. If
you missed it, you came very close, not that close
to dying this week when you got bonked in the
head by space junk.
Speaker 7 (27:50):
For those of you just joining us, we are all
going to die.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Cosmos four eighty two was supposed to go to Venus.
It didn't make it. It's been in orbit for fifty
three years. Last week we found out it was coming
back gravity finally did its thing, pulled it back, and
then it was supposed to land somewhere between the North
Pole and the South Pole. That's not much of an exaggeration.
It was something like the fifty three degrees north of
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fifty three degrees south, which means all of the populated
area of the world was in the flight path.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
What ends up happening.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
It plunged to Earth yesterday morning and it landed in
the Indian Ocean. If it hadn't, that would have been
a three foot by three foot, nine hundred pound basically
a piano falling on your head from space.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
But it didn't went into the Indian Ocean.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
I was really hoping it would crash into like Barstow.
I mean, who's gonna miss Barstow?
Speaker 3 (28:56):
Joining us right now?
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Is the great doctor Wendy Walls, Doctor Wendy after Doctor
Wendy would not miss Bark, she would not miss Barstow.
So it's a nice to have you. Yeah, who's gonna
miss Barstowe? Nobody had this nice call from a woman
who wants me to get a new job.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
Chris Burrow.
Speaker 6 (29:12):
I am hoping that he gets the Morning spot when
Bill Handle retires.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
God I don't want to get up with that.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
That's a nice compliment.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
It is really nice.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
But he's not retiring, is he?
Speaker 2 (29:23):
I mean, eventually some point I did mornings before I
did Mornings in San Diego and it was just.
Speaker 16 (29:29):
Like, yeah, I don't know, he's a trooper man because
he's still getting up super early.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
And it was funny true story, Doctor Wendy. I don't
know if you've ever had a difficult conversation with an employer,
but the new PD at KFI was my program director
in San Diego.
Speaker 4 (29:44):
You're kidding, No comes around?
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Yeah, right, So well he's fired me twice so time
you never know.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
But that also means he's hired me a couple of
times too. So in fact, the job I have now
he hired me for. So here's the thing is that, uh,
Brian just got hired. It was the previous PD that
put me on the mornings And Brian came in one
day after the show and he sat down and he
had that look on his face like I got to
tell you a hard truth and he just goes He says, hey, man,
mornings isn't working out for you. I'm gonna I want
(30:14):
to move you into the back into the afternoons. And
I looked at him and I went, oh, dear God,
thank you, Oh, thank you so much. Oh, yes, I'm
going to radio long enough. I've done mornings for half
my career, and it's just it's great. I mean, nobody's
gonna say no to the morning show, especially in Los Angeles,
but uh, it's I mean, it takes a commitment.
Speaker 5 (30:33):
The rest of your.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Life is just gone. Yeah, but you've accomplished so much.
You've accomplished so much more than I ever have.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
Though.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Yeah, doctor Wendy, So I you know, hey, I wanted
to bring this up. I saw a story. Men are
shaving off their eyelashes. Why, well, it's a trend, I get. Well,
that's a good question. Yeah it's on TikTok, so who knows.
They're like, oh, it's new TikTok thing. Evidently they say
it's to look more masculine.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Some barbers are seen wielding buzzing electric clippers, and others
are freestyling with just a pair of hair dressing scissors
and hopefully a steady hand in order to trim eyelashes. Now,
I know you're going to say this is all about
attracting a mate and standing out above the suiters and
all that other stuff.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
Right, No, no idiocy.
Speaker 16 (31:21):
Oh, eyelashes are designed to keep pathogens out of your eyes.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
Okay, but women shave body hair that has a purpose.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
No, there's a lot of left over here there that's
sitting out of us. Uh No, I I think, no,
it's dumb.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Well it made me wonder this though, because I know
that there are some things that we do as part
of our mating ritualment. Yeah, okay, right, but some of
that is based on current trends. It's not necessarily instinctive.
So I was thinking, like beards or some people wear
glasses versus content implants. Right, well, and that I was
going to say, skimmy versus what role likes that? Uh So,
(32:02):
these are all things that we go through. I know
in the fifties, the average weight of a woman was
a little more than it was in the early two thousands.
That number is kind of ticking back up again. So
I and I have a feeling like how much does
society influence that mating dance and how much of it
is just completely inate?
Speaker 4 (32:18):
Oh no, society is everything. It shapes us. We need
to learn to walk to a different drum.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Yeah, okay, So does that drum involve shaving eyelashes?
Speaker 9 (32:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (32:29):
I don't know. I just I think it's the dumbest
thing I ever heard of.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
I don't like it.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
Well, you haven't listened to the last three hours.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
I don't like it when people mutilate their bodies anyway.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
I'm not a fan either.
Speaker 16 (32:39):
I'm not a big anti aging person who believes that
women need to mutilate their face.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
What's the line piercings?
Speaker 4 (32:47):
Well, I mean that's a dormant.
Speaker 16 (32:49):
I just can't wait till we see the old age
homes filled with the blurry, sagging tattoos the people. There's
so many legs and the sleeves.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
And what everybody's got tattoos?
Speaker 16 (33:00):
Now?
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Yeah, got like six?
Speaker 4 (33:03):
Yes she does.
Speaker 16 (33:04):
Yeah, I have one little tattoo in like kind of
my bikini area.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
Oh, it's gonna be saggy.
Speaker 16 (33:10):
And I had two pregnancies right and now it's just
a blop you. It was a memorial tattoo to my
mother for mother's share.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
To give you a pass for that? Yeah, did you
have it? Is it still there? Do you think about lazer?
Speaker 16 (33:23):
Because it got stretched out huge like a balloon twice
with pregnancy, and I.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Just see all these especially young women, but I see
men doing it too, and it's just like, hey, at
some point, we all age.
Speaker 16 (33:35):
I saw an article recently saying that the tattoos are toxic,
all the ink going into our bodies. Also, people who
are addicted to tattoos, they were a little like cutters,
but it's allowed. They're getting endorphins, right, they love the Yes, they're.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
Trying to fill a hole somewhere right.
Speaker 16 (33:53):
Well, they're just they're getting high off of Mother Nature's
natural painkillers and doorphins.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
I still think of its successive that it's somebody trying
to trying to fill a hole in their life somewhere.
Speaker 4 (34:03):
I could just be artistic.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
Yeah, there's something more rationable. I'm gonna go trim my eye,
my eyelashes, don't do it. I'm going to I have beautiful,
beautiful eyelashes. You'd be jealous, but not for long.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
We go trim them right now, Doctor Wendy Walsh, Doctor
Wendy after Dark. I always love your insight. Thank you
so much. You're the best looking forward to the show.
Uh Kayla, God bless you. You make every Sunday so
much fun. Raoul, You're like my brother from another mother.
I've said that before, I'll say it again. So happy
another Mother's Day and Brigitta enjoy the rest of the circus,
(34:35):
this time with doctor Wendy Walsh as the ringleader. So
glad you were able to come in today too. Can't
wait until next week either. Until next week, Chris Merril
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App appreciated. Degastino, Welcome to the circus.
Speaker 4 (00:12):
I love this circus.
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We love it when you're here too, We really do.
The addiction is real, so thank you for being a
part of it. That said, every week at six o'clock
we talk about the news of note from Tinselton and beyond.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
There's no business life business. That was pretty good. I'm
glad you got your your act together there that that
was very good.
Speaker 5 (00:34):
Kayla needs to chill.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
You did a nice job. Appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Let's start with let's start with celebrities in court or
celebrities behaving badly. Okay, we'll start there and we'll talk
more about the business side of business coming up here
in about ten minutes or so. Did he may have
lost a key witness or rather the prosecutors did if
you missed this, big news this week is that they've
(01:00):
got the jury nearly in place for Diddy in his
criminal trial for being on the same level as Jared
from Subway, Bill Cosby, Harvey Weinstein. Who else did we
decide to throw into that category. Epstein, Right, Yeah, he's
in the same category there.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
The Feds say.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
That one of the accusers it might not show up
here on Friday. Prosecution defense seems excuse me, had an
opportunity there. We go to question potential jurors in a
second round of probing into their background. They're getting close
to setting those a jurors, but then come to find
out there are a number of actors who were on
(01:40):
the questionnaire for the jury. That list included actor Michael B. Jordan,
rapper kid is it Cutty or Cutie Cutty Cutty? Okay,
thank you. I apologize for being moronic when it comes
to current artists, both of.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Whom were.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Diddy Comb's former off partner Cassie Ventura dated. I remember
she's the one that got beat up by the elevator,
isn't she I remember that one correctly. Yeah, we saw
her on the video where he was kicking her. The
list also contained actor Mike Meyer's name, but we don't
know why, so Austin Powers could end.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Up in this case.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
We have no idea, but one juror last week so
that they were too distracted by the release of Disney's
and or to finish all of the questionnaire, saying I
was tired USA today reporting I was binging the new
Star Wars series and or it just came out. The
(02:37):
judge asked the man about his ability to concentrate on
the trial or if he will be too busy binging
and or the potential juror may have won some points
for honesty when he replied, like I said, I was binging,
I'm just being lazy.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Do you win points for that honesty? Or is that
you feel like maybe they were just trying to get
out of jury duty. I'm feeling that way.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Yeah, are telling a judge that they may have lost
one of the four victims of Comb's scheduled to testify
and making their case against the fallen rap mogul that
from the Hollywood Reporter, The witness, named victim number three
in the indictment, was set to tell the court how
Comb's had coerced her into sexual acts and how she
was sexually exploited by him. Prosecution said that they were
(03:18):
unsure if Victim three would show up for the trial.
According to the prosecutor, we do not know whether she
intends to appear, and we are trying very hard to
find out because we are having trouble communicating with her counsel.
Prosecutor telling the court that the woman, excuse me, the
defense telling the court that the woman the prosecution is
called victim number three does not live locally and may.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Not show up. So there we go.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
It makes it tough to make your case when your
chief complainant doesn't even show up.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
So that's problematic.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Anybody found that key witness or let your imagination run wild.
Somebody figured out who it was and they put a
stop to her being able to testify.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
No, I don't believe that to be the case either,
but it is juicier.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Hey, speaking of a list celebrities being dragged into other
people's cases, Taylor Swift, I think she just got a
subpoena to show up with Blake Lively.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Yeah, the shake.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
It Off superstar, according to Deadline, has taken center stage
with a subpoena issued for Taylor Swift to reveal what
longtime buddy Blake Lively told her. If you'll recall Blake Lively,
he has got this multimillion dollar legal battle going out
with Justin Beldoni, allegations of sexual harassment and an online
smear campaign campaign. So now Deadline is confirming that Swift
(04:46):
was suboena earlier this week by lawyers for Beldoni. Roping
in of Swift, one of the most famous people on
the planet truly cranks up the volume on the now
six month old case that went public in December when
Lively filed like a play with California Civil Rights Department,
So we could be looking at Taylor Swift taking the stand.
(05:08):
According to some, a settlement is a non starter. Lively
in Baldoni are set to face off but for the
judge and a trial starting in March of next year.
Oh god, they're right up to these trials is longer
than the elections.
Speaker 6 (05:23):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
You know how we always get to like the middle
of October, beginning of October, we go, I just wish
this election was over by now. I'm so tired of
dealing with this election. And then you finally get through
the November election, you go, Okay, thank god, it's finally over.
It's kind how I'm feeling on this case with Blake
Lively and Baldoni. Here, get this over with Pete's sake.
(05:46):
I don't have to put up with another nine months.
Good Lord, Now of that nonsense. An icon finds himself
being sued as well. Smokey Robinson say it ain't so,
smoke say it ain't so.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
Their faces and concealing their names. The four women who
are accusing music legends Smokey Robinson of sexual assault let their.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
Lawyers fifty million dollars.
Speaker 6 (06:08):
And a graphic lawsuit do the talking.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Allegations include million dollars wow.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
Sexual battery, assault, false imprisonment, and gender violence.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
I mean this sounds like sounds like the accusations against Diddy.
Was Smokey Robinson the original diddyd.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
I hope not.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Oh, now, before you start going, Smokey would never do that.
Remember we've been down this road before.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Where we go?
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Oh, Bill Cosby would never do that. Okay, so reserve judgment.
I hope Smokey didn't do this, but.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
We wanted to get his attention.
Speaker 6 (06:44):
According to the suit, the women worked for Robinson and
his wife Francis as housekeepers and assistants over different time periods.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
Our four clients have a common thread.
Speaker 7 (06:53):
Uh oh, they're Hispianic women who were employed as housekeepers.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
Yeah by the rob and sins.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
So does that qualify him to be governor of California.
See what I did there? See what I did?
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Is it? Kayla? Did you get this? Arnold Schwartz nag No,
you didn't get a shortznagger. No, I don't get your
get that.
Speaker 6 (07:20):
The eighty five year old is accused of raping and
assaulting the women between two thousand and seven and twenty
twenty four, mostly at his Chatsworth home. In the most
recent case, in twenty twenty.
Speaker 7 (07:29):
Three, after having just showered, he would come out of
the adjoining bathroom naked and proceed to force her to
have sex with him against her will.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
The lawsuit says this happened seven times.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Another accuser seven times means I mean like that was
his move. He just come out of the bathroom and
he's like, oh, housekeepers here, I think I saw this
on the internet. Let's see if it works.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
That was his move.
Speaker 6 (07:58):
Another accuser legend robbing, and would call her to parts
of the homes that didn't have cameras.
Speaker 7 (08:02):
The garage, in the laundry room. When she would meet
him at this location, he would immediately begin to sexually
assault in rapeer.
Speaker 6 (08:14):
According to the lawsuit, that happened twenty three times. The
four horsssuing Robinson's wife, Francis Robinson, alleging in the suit
she did not prevent the abuse.
Speaker 8 (08:23):
We believe she was aware of the misconduct by her husband,
Smokey Robinson, and that.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
She used.
Speaker 8 (08:32):
Their status, as well as our clients reliance on their
living wage, in order to keep them in check.
Speaker 6 (08:41):
As for why the women are only now coming forward
about abuse that some of them claimed began nearly two
decades ago, these.
Speaker 7 (08:47):
Women were all low wage earners, living from paycheck to paycheck.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
They all feared missing a payday.
Speaker 8 (08:57):
No police reports had been filed by a clan and
says if you had given.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
You know their their fear.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
All right, So are they going to file a police report?
We don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
The attorneys say, well, maybe they will. And I know
you're thinking, well, why didn't they just get a different job?
Might not have felt like they could. I don't know,
I don't know. I'm not uh not crazy about that.
And then one more quick one here before we get
out of the business of show business, and that is this.
(09:28):
If you missed the story this week about the dude
who crashed into Jennifer Aniston's place, he showed up in court.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
You're not gonna believe what he was wearing.
Speaker 9 (09:35):
The man accused of crashing his car through the front
gate of Jennifer Aniston's home appeared in court today.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
And what was he wearing? Oh? Oh, who's your designer?
Who are you wearing?
Speaker 9 (09:48):
This is new video just into the newsroom showing.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
I can't see it.
Speaker 9 (09:52):
It's radio Jimmy Carwile wrapped in only a blanket.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Oh is that bed back? And beyond your wearing?
Speaker 9 (10:01):
A judge ordered a mental competency hearing for Carwile. Police
say he repeatedly harassed Anniston before driving his car through
her gate earlier this week. He is facing felony, stalking
and vandalism charges, while a motive is still unclear, sources
tell ABC News investigators found social media posts from Carwile
(10:22):
referencing the actress.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
All right, so obvious the guy who was obsessed, he's
a weirdo. And then he shows up the court without
any shirt on. So and I don't know if he
was wearing pants, but they had to throw a blanket
on him. Yeah, So, I don't know. Maybe he's going
for the insanity. Please, I don't have any idea. Meanwhile,
it looks like Hollywood could be this is going to
come as a surprise. Struggling weird that's next. How bad
(10:44):
is it? He is getting pretty ugly? Chris Merril, I
AM six forty. We're live everywhere and you're Rightheartradio.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
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KFI AM six forty more stimulating talk. Tayla, that was Steppenwolf.
That is a classic rock band. You need to get
to know.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
You like that?
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Nothing you hear that? I get nothing, Tayla. Wow, all right,
there's no business like show business. Boy, I'm just getting
shut out all together. Now, news have know from tiny
the worst news of know from tinseltown and beyond. It
looks like we're gonna have another split. You know, Comcast
did a spinoff. Comcast is splitting. They're like, uh, you
know what, how about if we come up with a
(11:30):
new company that can take care of our TV products
and we'll name it something nobody's ever heard or understands,
and we'll build a brand from scratch.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
So they did.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
They call it Versant. So Versant is not a medication
for your STD Versants is the new NBC Comcast spinoff.
And in the wake of that, Warner Brothers Discovery, who.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Own all the Warner.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
HBO, Discovery channel, HGTV, all that conglomerate.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
They are now also saying that they might break up.
Speaker 10 (12:06):
Chairs of Warner Brothers Discovery jumped as much as nine
percent Thursday morning after CNBC reported the Media Giant is
moving toward a potential breakup. Chairs had fallen earlier in
this session after the company posted revenue that missed forecasts
and a wider than expected loss due to a sluggish
box office performance and ongoing declines in cable TV, but
(12:29):
Chairs rebounded on the news of a potential spin off.
Warner Brothers Discovery did not immediately respond to a Reuter's
request for comment on the CNBC report, which cited unnamed sources.
The Media Giant would follow in the footsteps of Comcast,
which is spinning off most of its cable assets, including
CNBC and MSNBC, into a new company called Versant, to
(12:52):
position itself for growth in the streaming era.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Oh, we're positioning ourselves for growth in the streaming era.
That's why we have come up with this new Oh
and blah blah blah blah blah. Nobody cares.
Speaker 10 (13:02):
Warner Brothers Discovery laid the groundwork for a possible sale
or spin off of its declineing cable TV assets in
December by announcing a separation from its streaming and studio operations.
It reported results under the news structure for the first
time on Thursday, and analysts have long speculated about a
(13:22):
breakup of WBD, whose assets include CNN, HBO, and the
coveted Warner Brothers studio.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Does this mean we're gonna have to buy more streaming
services or does it just mean that is this just
on the business side Bank of.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
America more streaming services?
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Of course it is right, because it was I thought
it was kind of nice when I didn't have to
have Discovery Plus because I have I have It's max now,
but it was HBO Max, so I have HBO Max.
And then all of a sudden, I was able to
watch all my HGTV. You know how much I like that.
So you're laughing, But my son and I were just
(13:59):
horrible people. We watch those house hunting shows and just
mock the people on the show mercilessly.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
And then every yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
And then every now and again, we'll get we'll get somebody,
and like we're trying, we're trying to make and then
we just kind of one of us will look at
the other go, yeah, I actually kind of like these people. Okay,
all right, these people are okay, all right, fast forward, go.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
To the next people.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Okay, well I hate them too, and they've got a
funny accent, you know, so we do that.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Thank you for America.
Speaker 10 (14:27):
Research analyst Jessica reef Erlike said last year that wbd's
cable television assets are a very logical partner for Comcast's
new spinoff company.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
This Reuter's guy is boring, Come on, dude.
Speaker 10 (14:40):
Like others in the media business, Warner Brothers Discovery is
losing thousands of cable TV subscribers.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Each year to their own streaming service.
Speaker 10 (14:49):
Putting pressure on the company to consistently produce hit content
and boost profitability in its streaming business.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
What if they here's a novel idea.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
What if they had been producing good content before they
had this other competition? Right, Competition breeds new good content.
It does, because if it's not good, it doesn't survive.
But if there is no competition, then what's the incentive
(15:20):
to make things better? If importing crap from China is
one hundred and forty five percent more than making the
product here in the United States. The United States doesn't
have the same competition, And if they don't have the
same competition, what's the advantage to working harder to make
it better?
Speaker 3 (15:39):
What are you gonna do?
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Go somewhere else, And all of a sudden, these companies
are like, crap, everybody's going somewhere else. And then they say, hey,
everybody go to our other thing. And then people go
and they start buying the Max so they can be
horrible people and watch the lake Front bargain Hunt.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
And then they go, that's weird, and we want why
nobody's watching her cable products anymore? Weird, craziest thing.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Meanwhile, if you are at NBC, a number of cancelations
bad news if you were a fan of Suits.
Speaker 11 (16:13):
Lopez Versus Lopez and night Court have both been canceled
after three seasons at NBC. This news comes after night
Court aired its third season finale, which will now serve
as its series finale on Tuesday. However, sources say Warner
Brothers TV, which produces the show with Universal TV, may
try to find a new home for the series. You
(16:34):
know there's something about you that weirdly feels like we've.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Have we met before.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
I doesn't feel contrived at all. Oh, Warner Brothers TV
is going to try to find a new home for this.
I wonder where it's going to.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Be found me.
Speaker 11 (16:49):
Meanwhile, Lopez Versus Lopez, starring George Lopez and his real
life daughter Mayan Lopez, has also been canceled. The show
saw George wrestling with his sobriety and getting older while
Mayan was getting married. Season three finale aired back in February.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
What's happening? It was just being nice like we always are.
You're never nice?
Speaker 6 (17:10):
Yes, we are so far.
Speaker 11 (17:11):
For next season, the network has renewed first year comedies
Happiest Place and Saint Dennis Medical.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Oh I like this Saint Dennis Medical. I have washed
Happies Place.
Speaker 11 (17:19):
Along with its Chicago and Law and Order drama franchises.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Yeah, and also suits La gets the acts as well. Sorry,
suits fans, all done. I will continue here in just
a few moments with hallucinations and weird science happening all
around us. Who's hallucinating? And do we even want to
fix it? That's next?
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Chris Merril I Am six forty Live Everywhere on the
iHeart Radio app.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Hey, pleasure bring with you. I love it when we
get to hang out. The best part of the week.
Really outstanding. Great way to get the week off off
the right foot.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Love that.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Thank you so much for any time with us. Let
me see, we did talk then. We talked about AI
last week, Cayler.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Were you re pron that.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
I can remember what I had for breakfast?
Speaker 3 (18:10):
But I already?
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Yeah, we did, we did. We did talk a last week.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Yeah, we did, we did. I wanted to talk some more.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
Last few weeks.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Hey, thanks man I boom here you are boom here,
we are thanks to the talk back. If you're on
the iHeartRadio app, just click on that talkback button. Gives
you a chance to send a little message into the show.
And if you think that we need to change our behavior,
you can let us know in that talk back as well.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
Kayla needs to chill.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Yeah, appreciate that. So crazy? All right? So we talked
about from my heart and.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
From my head? What don't people understand my intentions?
Speaker 2 (18:48):
We talk about the weird science around AI last week.
Now we're finding out that AI is not only super.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
Cool, but.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Also it's possible AI.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Is on something, and by on something, I mean hallucinating,
totally hallucinating. According to experts, AI hallucinations are getting worse
as it becomes more and more powerful. The New York
Times running an article saying that an AI bought the
Handles tech support for Cursor, which is an up and
coming tool for computer programmers that are learned several customers
(19:23):
about a change in company policy so they were no
longer allowed to use Cursor on more than just one computer.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Why.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Some cancel their Cursor accounts, and some got even angry
when they realized what happened. The AI bot had announced
a policy change. They did not exist. So more than
two years after chat GPT, tech companies, office workers, and
everyday consumers, they're using AI bots for an increasingly wide
array of tasks.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
But there's still no way of ensuring that.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
These systems produce accurate information. They're calling it hallucinations.
Speaker 12 (19:53):
Open ais O three just beat Google and Anthropic on
almost every benchmark. There's some reason through math.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Code sorry this from my AI insight pro.
Speaker 12 (20:03):
Code, and even generate novel scientific hypotheses. But behind the hype,
it's hallucinating. In one out of every three responses, and
sometimes inventing things it physically can't do. Even Keyankatan Farush,
Stanford professor and CEO of Work, who praises A three's
coding skills, admits it often generates broken website links, links
that don't work. Sure, hallucinations can lead to creativity, but
(20:25):
in fields like law, finance or medicine, that's not a feature.
That's a risk. So what's the fix. One hope is
web search GPT four with search hit ninety percent on
open AI's simple QA benchmark.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Okay, QA benchmark.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
I think is a question and answer, and so it
checks it and then it double checks it. Basically uses
a web search and double checks the answer. Well, that
sounds great unless I didn't want my question to be
on the internet.
Speaker 12 (20:53):
Maybe that could bring reasoning models back on track if
users are okay with sharing prompts to third parties. The
bigger problem the whole AI industry is shifting toward reasoning models.
They're faster to improve, cheaper to scale, and more versatile.
But if that also means more hallucinations, then we're in trouble.
Because the smarter these models get, the more they might
(21:13):
start making things up.
Speaker 13 (21:15):
Oh awesome. Oh, I feel like we're in good hands.
Here's the bottom line. Three and four Mini are brilliant,
but dangerously over confident. Their reasoning world class, their truthfulness
not guaranteed.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Oh, it's kind of like a scientist turned politician.
Speaker 12 (21:34):
And open AI even they aren't sure why it's getting worse.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Oh, open AI isn't why what do what? Sam Altman,
the head of a of open AI, thinks about that.
All right, hallucinations are getting worse and hearing about it. Basically,
the machines are really good at facts, and then they
start filling in the blanks instead of just admitting you
don't know the answer, kind of like being married.
Speaker 14 (21:59):
Ais are getting much better. We have not solved the
problem entirely yet, but we've made pretty remarkable progress over
the last few years.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Huh, that's strange.
Speaker 14 (22:07):
When we first launched chat to BT, it would hallucinate
things all the time, this idea of robustness, being sure
you've can trust the information. We've made huge progress there.
We cite sources, the models have gotten much smarter. A
lot of people use these systems all the time, and
we were worried that if it was not one hundred
zero point zero percent accurate, which is still a challenge
(22:27):
with these systems. It would cause a bunch of problems.
But users are smart. People understand, Yeah, we're not that smart.
You know what these systems are good at, when to
use them when not.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
And in fact, people who are smart start using systems
like this to input misinformation because we're all not that
smart and we find information we want to believe, not
information that it's true.
Speaker 14 (22:49):
As that robustness increases, which it will continue to do,
people will use it for more and more things. But
we've made as an industry, we've made pretty remarkable progress
and that direct over the last couple of years.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
It sounds like sam Altman is hallucinating.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Because we literally have reports of AI hallucinations that AI
is becoming very fast. It is very good at reasoning,
but not so good at the creative part. It just
takes liberty as it doesn't need to take AI insight process.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
It's getting worse.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
The statistics are dependable, The presentation is not Sam Altman's
like everything's cool here, man, everything's great. Well, then what
happens when we start applying AI and we don't have
a way to double check what the answers are. We
start using AI and we say, wow, thanks to AI,
(23:41):
we're able to accomplish ABCD and E faster than ever before.
Or we can do these things that we could never
do before because we didn't have the capability to be
able to process so many things all at once, but
AI allows us to do that. What if it's something
we hadn't even dreamed of before, and now it is
seemingly posed possible, except can we believe it?
Speaker 15 (24:02):
What if animals have been talking all along and we
just couldn't understand them. Right now, AI is cracking the
code of nature's oldest mystery. Animal language projects like Earth
Species Project are using machine learning to translate dolphin clicks,
decode elephant rumbles, and even speak back.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
In their own voices.
Speaker 15 (24:19):
Imagine asking a whale about the ocean's secrets, or hearing
a chimpanzee describe its dreams.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
This isn't fair.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
What do you think that chimpanzee dreams of bananas and
throwing poop? Of course, yeah, so basically it's like again
being married.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
This isn't fantasy.
Speaker 15 (24:36):
Scientists say we'll have the first real animal translator by
twenty thirty, but here's the wildest part. What if animals
are smarter than we think? What if they've been waiting
for us to finally listen. The age of human animal
conversation is dawning, and the first words we hear might
change everything we know.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Yeah, I don't think we're gonna find out animals are
smarter than we think. I think we're gonna find out
there are some animals that have some capabilities. But I
don't think we're suddenly going to be like, Wow, who
knew my dog understands relativity. I don't think that's gonna happen.
But again, to my point, if we're getting translations from
animals and we go, hey, chimp, what'd you dream about
last night?
Speaker 3 (25:12):
And he's like, which means throwing a poop?
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Then how are we to believe ai AI has a
problem with telling the truth when it comes to creativity,
and especially if there's no way to double check that information.
That's not to say that we should be afraid of it,
because humans have screwed things.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Up for ever.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
I mean, even when we have a great breakthrough, we
still find a way to screw up great breakthroughs. A
children's hospital Wisconsin has now accidentally disposed of a brain
from a young woman that was donated for research. She
had undergone pioneering gene treatments for a rare degenerative disease,
donated her brain to science in the hospital. Gum it,
(26:04):
where did I put that? I thought it was over here.
I bet the cleaning crew took that out. But this
girl was three years old. She underwent experimental surgery and
saw a functional gene injection into her brain with the
hopes that it would displace the defective one. It didn't
cure her disease, it did buy her a decade's worth
of life. Most kids who are diagnosed with this disease
(26:25):
die before the age of ten. She made it to
twenty four.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
It's pretty great.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
And they're thinking, we have to be able to look
at her brain so we can try to figure out
what went right so we can make it better.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
And then they lost it. I don't know that AI
would have lost a brain. Might have.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
I told you exactly what was in the brain, but
I don't think it would have misplaced it. All right,
you barely barely escaped to death this week.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
You don't even know. It's one of those deals that.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
It could have happened to any of us, and yet
it happened to none of us unless you're dead, in
which case you're not listening anyway. But this particular mechanism
of injury could have hit any of us, but didn't.
You'll find out how we all almost got killed this
week next Chris Merril KFI AM six forty were live
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Speaker 1 (27:22):
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Speaker 2 (27:26):
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Producer Kaila always wants me to remind you that the
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Speaker 3 (27:35):
Excuse me.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
The podcast is going to be found on the featured
segment page of KFI AM six forty dot com. If
you missed it, you came very close, not that close
to dying this week when you got bonked in the
head by space junk.
Speaker 7 (27:50):
For those of you just joining us, we are all
going to die.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Cosmos four eighty two was supposed to go to Venus.
It didn't make it. It's been in orbit for fifty
three years. Last week we found out it was coming
back gravity finally did its thing, pulled it back, and
then it was supposed to land somewhere between the North
Pole and the South Pole. That's not much of an exaggeration.
It was something like the fifty three degrees north of
(28:15):
fifty three degrees south, which means all of the populated
area of the world was in the flight path.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
What ends up happening.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
It plunged to Earth yesterday morning and it landed in
the Indian Ocean. If it hadn't, that would have been
a three foot by three foot, nine hundred pound basically
a piano falling on your head from space.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
But it didn't went into the Indian Ocean.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
I was really hoping it would crash into like Barstow.
I mean, who's gonna miss Barstow?
Speaker 3 (28:56):
Joining us right now?
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Is the great doctor Wendy Walls, Doctor Wendy after Doctor
Wendy would not miss Bark, she would not miss Barstow.
So it's a nice to have you. Yeah, who's gonna
miss Barstowe? Nobody had this nice call from a woman
who wants me to get a new job.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
Chris Burrow.
Speaker 6 (29:12):
I am hoping that he gets the Morning spot when
Bill Handle retires.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
God I don't want to get up with that.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
That's a nice compliment.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
It is really nice.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
But he's not retiring, is he?
Speaker 2 (29:23):
I mean, eventually some point I did mornings before I
did Mornings in San Diego and it was just.
Speaker 16 (29:29):
Like, yeah, I don't know, he's a trooper man because
he's still getting up super early.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
And it was funny true story, Doctor Wendy. I don't
know if you've ever had a difficult conversation with an employer,
but the new PD at KFI was my program director
in San Diego.
Speaker 4 (29:44):
You're kidding, No comes around?
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Yeah, right, So well he's fired me twice so time
you never know.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
But that also means he's hired me a couple of
times too. So in fact, the job I have now
he hired me for. So here's the thing is that, uh,
Brian just got hired. It was the previous PD that
put me on the mornings And Brian came in one
day after the show and he sat down and he
had that look on his face like I got to
tell you a hard truth and he just goes He says, hey, man,
mornings isn't working out for you. I'm gonna I want
(30:14):
to move you into the back into the afternoons. And
I looked at him and I went, oh, dear God,
thank you, Oh, thank you so much. Oh, yes, I'm
going to radio long enough. I've done mornings for half
my career, and it's just it's great. I mean, nobody's
gonna say no to the morning show, especially in Los Angeles,
but uh, it's I mean, it takes a commitment.
Speaker 5 (30:33):
The rest of your.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Life is just gone. Yeah, but you've accomplished so much.
You've accomplished so much more than I ever have.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
Though.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Yeah, doctor Wendy, So I you know, hey, I wanted
to bring this up. I saw a story. Men are
shaving off their eyelashes. Why, well, it's a trend, I get. Well,
that's a good question. Yeah it's on TikTok, so who knows.
They're like, oh, it's new TikTok thing. Evidently they say
it's to look more masculine.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Some barbers are seen wielding buzzing electric clippers, and others
are freestyling with just a pair of hair dressing scissors
and hopefully a steady hand in order to trim eyelashes. Now,
I know you're going to say this is all about
attracting a mate and standing out above the suiters and
all that other stuff.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
Right, No, no idiocy.
Speaker 16 (31:21):
Oh, eyelashes are designed to keep pathogens out of your eyes.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
Okay, but women shave body hair that has a purpose.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
No, there's a lot of left over here there that's
sitting out of us. Uh No, I I think, no,
it's dumb.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Well it made me wonder this though, because I know
that there are some things that we do as part
of our mating ritualment. Yeah, okay, right, but some of
that is based on current trends. It's not necessarily instinctive.
So I was thinking, like beards or some people wear
glasses versus content implants. Right, well, and that I was
going to say, skimmy versus what role likes that? Uh So,
(32:02):
these are all things that we go through. I know
in the fifties, the average weight of a woman was
a little more than it was in the early two thousands.
That number is kind of ticking back up again. So
I and I have a feeling like how much does
society influence that mating dance and how much of it
is just completely inate?
Speaker 4 (32:18):
Oh no, society is everything. It shapes us. We need
to learn to walk to a different drum.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Yeah, okay, So does that drum involve shaving eyelashes?
Speaker 9 (32:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (32:29):
I don't know. I just I think it's the dumbest
thing I ever heard of.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
I don't like it.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
Well, you haven't listened to the last three hours.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
I don't like it when people mutilate their bodies anyway.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
I'm not a fan either.
Speaker 16 (32:39):
I'm not a big anti aging person who believes that
women need to mutilate their face.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
What's the line piercings?
Speaker 4 (32:47):
Well, I mean that's a dormant.
Speaker 16 (32:49):
I just can't wait till we see the old age
homes filled with the blurry, sagging tattoos the people. There's
so many legs and the sleeves.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
And what everybody's got tattoos?
Speaker 16 (33:00):
Now?
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Yeah, got like six?
Speaker 4 (33:03):
Yes she does.
Speaker 16 (33:04):
Yeah, I have one little tattoo in like kind of
my bikini area.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
Oh, it's gonna be saggy.
Speaker 16 (33:10):
And I had two pregnancies right and now it's just
a blop you. It was a memorial tattoo to my
mother for mother's share.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
To give you a pass for that? Yeah, did you
have it? Is it still there? Do you think about lazer?
Speaker 16 (33:23):
Because it got stretched out huge like a balloon twice
with pregnancy, and I.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Just see all these especially young women, but I see
men doing it too, and it's just like, hey, at
some point, we all age.
Speaker 16 (33:35):
I saw an article recently saying that the tattoos are toxic,
all the ink going into our bodies. Also, people who
are addicted to tattoos, they were a little like cutters,
but it's allowed. They're getting endorphins, right, they love the Yes, they're.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
Trying to fill a hole somewhere right.
Speaker 16 (33:53):
Well, they're just they're getting high off of Mother Nature's
natural painkillers and doorphins.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
I still think of its successive that it's somebody trying
to trying to fill a hole in their life somewhere.
Speaker 4 (34:03):
I could just be artistic.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
Yeah, there's something more rationable. I'm gonna go trim my eye,
my eyelashes, don't do it. I'm going to I have beautiful,
beautiful eyelashes. You'd be jealous, but not for long.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
We go trim them right now, Doctor Wendy Walsh, Doctor
Wendy after Dark. I always love your insight. Thank you
so much. You're the best looking forward to the show.
Uh Kayla, God bless you. You make every Sunday so
much fun. Raoul, You're like my brother from another mother.
I've said that before, I'll say it again. So happy
another Mother's Day and Brigitta enjoy the rest of the circus,
(34:35):
this time with doctor Wendy Walsh as the ringleader. So
glad you were able to come in today too. Can't
wait until next week either. Until next week, Chris Merril
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