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PCJ Pop #32 · Pop Culture Junkie®

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  - Hello, I'm Olivia here with,
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  Shauna, and this is your PCJ Pop for the Week.
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  I recently rewatched a movie, great movie,
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  also from 2004, I robot with the one
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  and only Will Smith.
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  - Oh my God, why?
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  - So I have actually been on a bit of a rabbit hole
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  of like AI whistleblowers, like,
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  like there are a lot of AI engineers who are truly
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  like sounding the alarm, like we should be concerned,
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  we need legislation and there are some of the
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  original creators of this technology.
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  So I've really been in kind of that mind space
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  of everything, also good in San Francisco.
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  They have these humanoid robots
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  that they're like walking on the streets
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  in San Francisco or in Iroba.
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  - Yeah, in San Francisco.
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  - What?
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  - No.
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  - Yeah, like they're testing them, right?
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  They're still people like controlling them,
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  but they're doing little things like that.
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  So it's been kind of interesting as well,
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  like you just see like TikTok videos of it.
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  So Iroba is set in 2035, they call Will Smith
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  a techno-phobic cop.
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  And best of gets a crime that have been perpetrated
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  by a robot and ultimately leads to this larger threat
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  to humanity.
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  And I think that this movie came out in 2004, right?
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  It was at the time quite wild.
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  And people are like, oh, that's so far off.
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  That's never gonna happen.
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  - Yeah, 2034.
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  - We're not gonna have robots by then.
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  And now I just looked at what year it was.
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  Like, well shit, that's only nine years.
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  - Yeah, nine years.
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  I mean, if Elon has his way,
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  he's gonna release those robots in one to two years.
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  - Oh God, no.
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  - As well.
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  And so yeah, I think it's a really, really interesting one.
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  It's around our artificial intelligence,
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  our trust within the safeguards that we're putting into them
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  and the assumption that the super intelligent beings
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  can't outthink our protections that we put into play.
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  So I think it's just really, really up the time
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  and an interesting movie.
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  It is like very cyberpunk and silly.
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  - Yeah, I remember it speaking to like,
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  can the robots feel, do they have real emotions,
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  do they feel regret and pain and love and all that good stuff too?
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  - Yeah, it's super interesting.
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  Like what makes a human brain?
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  And like what is emotion and a soul?
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  I think that it grapples with that.
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  And you know, it's something that I've really been asking myself
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  as of late.
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  - Interesting.
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  - So yeah, I think if you haven't seen it in a long time,
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  watch it and be like, oh shit, we are much closer to that
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  than we were in 2000 before we give it a whirl.
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  Yeah, yeah, it's, but it's so late.
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  It's very futuristic, very like transparent computer screen.
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  How we thought we would see the world in 2035 back in 2004,
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  which I would fuck up the transparent computer screen.
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  Where do we get that tech?
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  - Dude, I just want those computers back
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  with that were like the max with the,
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  they're all colorful.
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  - Okay.
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  - You get like a hot pink one and a green one.
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  Yeah, I want that back.
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  And it was clear in the back of it.
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  You could see all that.
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  - Where is my country little computer?
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  - Yes, bring back country little computers.
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  - I don't want gray.
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  What is this?
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  - This is ugly.
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  - Oh, oh.
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  (laughing)
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  So as we say goodbye to the clankers,
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  I just kept saying, I don't want no clankers.
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  - No, get in clankers.
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  - And no, the clankers duck car jobs.
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  - You can't take the car, yeah.
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  They took the car jobs.
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  - Where can we watch?
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  - I robot if we were so inclined to live here.
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  - You can watch it on Hulu.
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  You can also buy it on, I think, on Prime Video as well,
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  if you don't have Hulu, but that's it for your PCJ Pop.
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