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Lisa & Russell - Ladies and Gentlemen We Have A Luddite · Lisa & Russell

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  Speaker 1: Lisa, more evidence. The robots are taking over. They're getting
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  Speaker 1: smarter and smarter and smarter.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: They're coming for your job.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Soon as they finish doing this. I mean, really, come on.
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  Speaker 4: What is that saying about with great power comes great responsibility?
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  Speaker 1: But you have to, this is about problem solving. If
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  Speaker 1: we want them to solve our problems, then what do
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  Speaker 1: you do? You throw them a Rubik's Cube.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, this is what we're getting at. A quartet of
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  Speaker 4: New Zealand engineering students, I probably got a grant for this.
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  Speaker 4: Created a robot that solved a Rubik's Cube in a
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  Speaker 4: record-breaking time of 9.8 seconds.
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  Speaker 1: 9.8.
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  Speaker 4: That kid that did it standing on his head or.
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  Speaker 1: Something did it quicker than that. But see, now this
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  Speaker 1: is the thing. This is the thing. This one solved
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  Speaker 1: a 4x4x4 cube. What does that even mean? Well, actually,
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  Speaker 1: I typed it into AI and even AI took a while.
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  Speaker 1: It said, hang on, hang on. I'm just trying to
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  Speaker 1: work this out. It's the process of completely aligning and
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  Speaker 1: solving a 4x4x4 Rubik's Cube, historically known as Rubik's Revenge.
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  Speaker 2: Rubik's Revenge.
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  Speaker 1: So it's the really, really hard one.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: I'm still not impressed. No, but they cut it down
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  Speaker 1: because they saw a video of a robot solving... No,
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  Speaker 1: it's not. I disagree.
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  Speaker 4: I do?
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, they had a robot. It solved it in 45 seconds.
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  Speaker 1: These guys have done it in 9.8.
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  Speaker 3: That's a.
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  Speaker 1: That's one giant leap for mankind.
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  Speaker 3: Who cares if the Rubik's Cube is solved or unsolved?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, let's get real. If you're going to have
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  Speaker 3: a robot, it should be doing the ironing. It should
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  Speaker 3: be cleaning the bathroom. Not bloody solving a Rubik's Cube.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, but it's all part of the process. It's all
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  Speaker 1: part of the process. It's problem solving. It's... It's working out.
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  Speaker 1: It's experimenting.
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  Speaker 4: Next, it's going to make a Lego Millennium Falcon. I
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  Speaker 4: don't need that either.
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  Speaker 1: No, but I would like one that can pick it
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  Speaker 1: up off the floor and put it back in the box,
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  Speaker 1: all colour coordinated, so that I don't have to bloody
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  Speaker 1: do it. And it doesn't end up in my heel.
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  Speaker 4: If it's not cooking my dinner.
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  Speaker 1: Of my foot, not my shoe.
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  Speaker 4: Stacking the dishwasher.
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  Speaker 1: But all these things, it all comes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but no one gets interested in a story about a, well, actually,
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  Speaker 2: then again, maybe they would, a robot that stacks a
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  Speaker 2: dishwasher without breaking any plates in 9.8 seconds.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That's better than any human can do it.
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  Speaker 4: And puts the knives and forks the right way.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Potential end down.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, the robot has four cameras, looks at the cube,
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  Speaker 1: sees where all the colours are, and then it feeds
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  Speaker 1: it all into an open source algorithm and works out
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  Speaker 1: the moves needed to solve it in less intensive.
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  Speaker 4: Well, to me, that is just a mammoth waste of
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  Speaker 4: time and robotic skills.
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  Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, I think we have a Luddite. We
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  Speaker 1: have a Luddite in our presence. No, I'm not a Luddite. Well,
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  Speaker 1: you're certainly sounding like one. I just think. I say
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  Speaker 1: you've got to give them, and it's an entertaining problem
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  Speaker 1: to solve for us all to observe. And then we go, gee,
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  Speaker 1: they're good. They're smart. And now we'll move them on
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  Speaker 1: to other things like the ironing, the picking up the legos.
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  Speaker 1: Stacking the dishwasher. Now that we've got that cube out
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  Speaker 1: of the way. Yes. Right. Hang on.
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  Speaker 4: How much money did we waste on getting the robot
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  Speaker 4: to solve.
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  Speaker 1: The Rubik's Cube? Four by four by four by four, whatever.
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  Speaker 1: That's for the New Zealand taxpayer to worry about, not us.
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  Speaker 1: We didn't do it. I mean, I tried to, but
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  Speaker 1: my robot is still working on it.
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  Speaker 2: Does not compute.
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  Speaker 3: Does not compute.
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  Speaker 2: Does not compute. See?
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  Speaker 4: That's the bubbling booby. That's my kind of robot.
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  Speaker 3: You ninny.