Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Jeffy's Corner: Moral Robots & Emotional Trees

Episode Date: February 20, 2016

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That's 1-800-6-39-10. Again, 1-800-6-6. 686, 3910. Call now. I'm reading this story, and I see the headline, which just fascinates me, about trees. And the headline is, German Forest Ranger finds that trees have social networks, too. And I thought, yeah, they're called roots. No, that's not what he's talking about.

He believes that the forests are talking to each other. And you see how the thick branches point away from each other. That's so they don't block their buddy's light. No, seriously. Sometimes pairs, they're interconnected at the roots. One tree dies, the other one dies too. See that tree up there? Look, see how they're breaking away from each other?

Oh, yeah. That's because, you know, he doesn't want to block his buddy's light. All right. I, you know, okay. Okay. I got it. So he's in the German forest and he's Mr. Trees. And he's got the big book now,

The Hidden Life of Trees. What they feel, how they communicate, discoveries from a secret world. The German forest. is back in the spotlight. Trees are now organic robots designed to produce oxygen

and wood but there's so much more to them. Please, please trees have social lives too. The Hidden Life of Trees. So, if you want to read Mr. Wallerman,

It's a hidden life of trees It's out there for you I would suggest perhaps maybe Some alcohol or some other Substances that may help you get through that Because I got it All right forest trees They're connected and one dies and more than

More than that die after one dies Because they're all connected Yeah Yeah I got it That's what happens Trees get sick spread it to other trees so they die it's kind of like tree Zika

okay it's just it's fascinating to me I mean it's just fascinating nobody wants to go you know I understand but perhaps maybe maybe my man has spent a little bit too much time

in the old black forest that's all I'm saying maybe you spend just a little bit too much time in the forest, okay? So I see the headline, Caitlin Jenner, I get more flack for being conservative than transgender. Why doesn't that surprise me?

She was speaking. He was speaking. Bruce came on. It's Caitlin now. It's not even Bruce. In fact, the latest picture of Caitlin. I've always, you know, been a huge fan of Bruce Jenner.

And I mean, she looks great. she looks comfortable and happy. I mean, good for Bruce or Caitlin. It's not Bruce anymore, okay? It's Caitlin. That's just the way it is, okay? I mean, so she's taught. Hard for me to call him.

Her, she, him. There my. A group of students at the University of Pennsylvania. He's constantly criticized for his conservative, views asked by a college student. I wish there was, we've got to find audio of this. There probably is none. There might be a cell phone audio of it somewhere.

Asked by a college student. Why isn't he, why aren't you a Democrat? I've gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican that I have for being trans. Oh, I mean, that is, that's been since the Diane Sawyer interview, right? I was fascinated with that interview. Fascinated. I've always been a little conservative.

I mean, Diane was... Perhaps Caitlin should have just stood up and said, hey, here you go. Here's what you need to know, college student. Free? Doesn't actually mean free. You're not entitled to... someone else is harder in money ever.

You cannot tax a nation into prosperity. Oh my gosh, Bernie Sanders, is that you? The rich are not responsible for your financial situation. You are. Huh. And, oh, this specifically is for Bernie Sanders. Socialism and Hillary Socialism Light. Socialism will destroy the innovation

that made America great. Free, the word free, the product, free, doesn't actually mean free. Someone will have to pay for it. Duh. Okay, someone will have to pay for it. All right. So, scientist, a machiavarde. Tells colleagues, change could come within 30 years.

Few professions immune to effect of advanced artificial intelligence. Okay? Machines could put more than half of the world's population out of a job in the next 30 years. Wow. He says society needs to confront this question. before it's upon us. I think it's already here. Stephen Hawking, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, they all have warned that AI could spell the end of the human race.

I don't think we're that far. I don't think it's going to end. But Musk, his quote, was, it represents our biggest existential threat. Okay. You know, they've, we talked a little bit about the UN meeting for, you know, campaign to stop killer robots. I don't think you're going to stop that.

They're already trying to get the robots to have some sort of moral compass by reading, whatever. Good luck. Good luck. More than half in 30 years. I think you're going to, 30 years is a long time. There's a lot that can happen in 30 years. and which means it's going to be 30 years in today's world is when somebody says 30 years it's probably 15 half that. I mean it's moving at a record pace, record pace.

If you professor at Rice University said that technology presents a more subtle threat than the masterless drones that some activist fear, he suggested AI could drive global unemployment to 50% wiping out middle class. jobs, wiping them out. That is amazing. We're already using robots and so many jobs, doing so many things. And when you see people fighting at Wendy's, and I watched a footage of some girl that got into a fight at Wendy's were giving her the wrong order. And the Wendy's girl was saying, I give it to her, she had some heart.

stop it perhaps we need the robot to just serve me my frosty and my double with cheese please instead of some smart punk talking back to me

and then cause I mean it's just I want the robot I don't want to have to deal with you and we all need human interaction somewhere right I mean somehow some way we need that human interaction so if we're not if we're out of a job

If a robot, more than half the population out of a job, what do you do? How do you survive? Amazingly, I think, you know, we'll adapt and we'll find ways to survive and we'll find ways to, you know, what humans will do. Do I think the robot, I think that hopefully we at least believe we're smart enough not to let the robots take over? I know. I know. I know. I made myself laugh.

You probably, you'd probably laugh at too because that's, you know, that's not going to happen as well as I do. Sooner later, the robot says, you suck. You're stupid.

I'm going to take over. Got it? I, you know, I understand that's going to happen, clearly. No doubt about it. it in anyone's mind.

But when they talk about the morality of robots and they're using books to teach the robots about morality, do you. Okay. I mean, that's fine. That's fine. We definitely need to try. But really, I mean, it's going to be the, it's going to be you don't have a certain tone, light, sound emitting from you. I kill you

Or I take you to some holding cell, right? So how do you survive? I mean, really, do you just pay people? You just give like a national A national check to everyone. Say everyone gets, there's no more income tax. Right, there's no more income tax. There's no, well, maybe there has to be an income tax.

Let me see, figure it out. It has to be some sort of, you know, maybe just a flat tax or percentage tax. everyone gets a check from the government, right? Everyone gets from the leaders. Everyone gets a check, whatever that amount is. And then that's it. There's not food stamps.

There's nothing else. That's what you get. So then, I mean, that just changes everything. And my gosh, that's probably what you're going to get with Bernie Sanders. Just remember, free isn't free. You're listening to the Jeff Fisher Show, the Blaze Radio Network. When our water heater broke down last month, it was a nightmare. It took five hours for the plumber to show up, and he charged us a couple of hundred bucks just to come out.

Then it cost another $1,800 to put in the new water heater. By the time it was all said and done, I felt like I'd been taken. But what else could I do? The smartest thing you can do is get a home warranty from American residential warranty. Their home warranties pay to repair or replace. all your major appliances when they break, and they will break, and at the worst possible time. Call American Residential Warranty right now. For free information on home warranties starting at just pennies a day.

Don't wait for your refrigerator to stop running or your ceiling fans to stop turning. Call American Residential Warranty right now. Ask how you can save up to 50% on washer and dryer coverage. Just call 1-800-6-8-6-39-10. That's 1-800-6-6-39-10. Again, 1,800-686-39-10. Call now.