Episode 125 – The Failure of the Star Wars Hotel

Show Notes  Ben and Josh discuss High School Graduation(s) and the AI arms race. They both use ChatGPT to help with their work and wonder how long before it comes for the jobs (hint: it already is). And finally, the hosts take on the 4-hr video essay by Jenny Nicholson on the failure of the Star Wars Hotel.   Intro & Follow-up (0-28:18) The Fright of the Rabbit by Ammon Rich  OpenAI releases ChatGPT4  Google, Meta, and OpenAI have Artificial Intelligence Summit  How Star Wars was saved in the edit (by Marcia Lucas)  Turning off your lightsaber mid combat  Bad at Parenting (28:18-40:35) The Sartov Approach (2013) — Full Movie on YouTube  What I’m Reading (40:35-54:53) Josh: Towers of Midnight (Wheel of Time Book 12) by Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson  Andre Agassi tennis hack against Boris Becker  Ben: A Brief History of Intelligence by Max Bennett  Why the Star Wars Hotel Failed (54:53-end) The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel by Jenny Nicholson NBC News  Rolling Stone  First discussed on the Bad at Magic Episode 46, May 2021 (starts @42:51)  Also discussed on B@M Ep. 52, Jul 2021, (starts @2:53)  Evermore Park  United Breaks Guitars  The food was maybe the best part  The Hotel Station Cosmos (in France)  Join in the discussion on: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BadAtMagicPodcast  Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/badatmagic/  NOW ON YOUTUBE!: https://www.youtube.com/@badatmagic/podcasts  Check out our website(s): http://www.badatmagic.live  Our YouTube Channel  Support us on: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/badatmagic/  Credits: Bad at Magic Logos by Jonica Rich  Transition music by Jarus Rich  Outro music from The Fright of the Rabbit by Ammon Rich