THE LEAST KNOWN HUXLEY

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You are listening to the nearly kri new talk. Your listening to the nearly kri new talk today is October 7th, 2020. This is episode 252. And today, the least known Huxley, and, hah, that was for you guns.

And, uhh, what's the rest of it? I'm your best buddy Basil. And this is gone. So welcome to the podcast where we love Jesus.

We love you. We love us and we love our enemies too, even though it's hard to do. Oh, snappy. I'm loving it.

Yeah, much shorter. Much shorter. Loving it. Love it.

All right. Well, we are back. What is it? It's Wednesday.

It's what the Wednesday? And we're going to learn some stuff about the least known Huxley later on in the show. Any updates regarding you still on Baby Alert there, Gons? Still on Baby Alert.

I woke up this morning with anxiety. I've never really had it before. It was weird. Yeah.

It was first off, I had a dream about the baby happening. So your life is saying it's we got to go to the hospital. It's not the baby is happening. The baby is happening.

Yeah, so I had that dream. And then it was a weird, I was laying in bed. And I know how you kind of go in and out of sleep. And you're in that state.

Well, I was in this like weird state where I was super high anxiety because I'm a conspiracy theorist. It was the weirdest thing. It was like, oh, got him tried not to be so conspiratorial. Because I was OK.

It was part of your dream or half dream or something. I don't remember what I was dreaming about. But I woke up with that. It was like a double man.

Because I was weird. Mine control is kicking in, Gons. And then I felt super old because I got up and I fell over because my ankle, you know what? I don't know what it is about getting older.

But you just wake up and the just things hurt. The old man bones hit my ankle was just like, ah, it's not right. I didn't twist it or anything. But yeah, there you go.

No more hoops for you, Gons. I know I'm so sad about that. I haven't played in a while because nobody's out. They actually, one of the local parks, they took down the rim during the whole Rona thing.

They're like, no basketball for you, sit is in. Wow. So hit up some deep underground black market basketball games. Black market B-ball?

Yeah, OK. That's a good episode title. Yeah. Yeah, well, I had sort of a similar, you know, it's been having some hard time sleeping lately.

Last night, slept great, slept in, in fact, and was feeling great, woke up, and then got an email that just sent me into a spiral of furious activity. So it's been a busy day. And that's why we're a little bit late on the show today. But it's OK.

I think I saved the day. I don't know. I won't really know until after the show's over. Yeah, a lot of anxiety producing life events recently.

I don't know. I don't know what's going on spiritually, but they're probably after us. Yeah, it seems that way. So keep us in prayer, everybody.

We certainly need it. But I suppose we should get into the show. What do you say? Blah, blah, blah.

Cool. It's going to be one of those days. You want to cry for that? That's right, everybody.

It's a flippy update. For those who don't know, if it's your first time listening or watching the show, Flippy is our dear, dear, colloquially named friend. Gosh, see, when I go off script, I can't remember what to do. Flippy is the colloquial name we have for the burger flipping robot, the disembodied arm.

We use it as a proxy conversation to talk about how robotics are coming into our lives. They're taking our jobs and slaving our children and flirting with our spouses. Today, we have an actual flippy update. You know, we like to check in with the original Flippy now and again.

So most of you know, Flippy from Mistle Robotics. Started this all off by making the burger flipping robot. We got some updates here. This is coming from DigitalTrends.com.

Flippy, the fast food prepping robot, goes on sale for $30,000. Why not 33? Just tack on that extra 3K tax and go through it. Oh, you just wait.

Oh yeah, well, add in tax. I'm sure it gets pretty close to 33K there. The article reads, Robot Fry Chef Flippy, the fast food prepping bot created by Mistle Robotics, is now available for purchase by Eteries, opening up access to a wider audience than ever. Described as a roar, that's a robot on a rail, natch.

The current Flippy robot is capable of whizzing from one kitchen workstation to another with a growing set of impressive culinary skills. Using a depth sensing camera, it can identify different foods and temperatures and then carry out the necessary prep work, along with limited grill maintenance tasks. At present, it can cook a reported 19 different food items, including, but not limited to, waffle fries, burgers, potato wedges, french fries, popcorn, shrimp, chicken wings and more. It's a deep fry frenzy, Gonzco.

Quote, our global commercial availability allows operators of chains across the globe to tackle the current challenges of labor and social distancing in a cramped kitchen, low margins due to a shifting trend towards delivery and takeout, as well as health and safety concerns to stimulate growth in an industry-facing record permanent closures. Buck Jordan, which sounds like a fake name, but okay, Buck Jordan, president and chairman of Miesle Robotics told Digital Trends, quote, "'Flippy can be customized to meet the needs of operators, but the standard install can be done quickly, overnight, to make access to automation pretty instantaneous. The robot itself costs $30,000 upfront, which can, if required, be financed through time payments." Not sure what time payments are, but it sounds- It's not payments. I know, but the term time payments sounds like we will take four months off your life every month.

But on top of that, there's an added, and this is where the getchagons always read the fine print. On top of that, there's an added $1,500 monthly fee to gain access to the necessary AI software. While that might seem steep at a time when eateries are struggling, the increased automation could help increase efficiency in the kitchen, meeting more money coming in. Jordan said that the goal is eventually to be able to pull in enough customers that there will be no upfront for the robot and everything will be packed into monthly cost.

You know, that's annoying because it seems like everything is going to monthly cost. Even like Microsoft Word and Adobe products, you don't buy any of it upfront. You're locked into a monthly payment, which is kind of nice because it used to be like 900 bucks or something for some of these big software suites, but after a couple of years, you are paying out that nose. Anyways, however, until then, a $30,000 buy-in price still represents a major saving on what ARM robots cost just a few years ago.

Quote, we believe the news and wide availability of flippy roar will help to increase automation adoption in the market, which is really the only path forward in a post-pandemic climate. Jordan said, quote, we have seen tremendous excitement from investors who see the opportunity for an AI platform, automation and robotics delete a new era of growth for the quick service restaurants. So there you go, Gons. And you know, this was kind of a big update because we talk a lot about different robots and flippy and the different automatons that are making their way into our daily lives.

Most of them are not sort of commercially available for everyone to buy immediately. You know, a lot of them are still in beta testing or only available to certain high level clients that can really test out use cases. But we have moved into the era. This marks a new era where flippy is available to anyone.

You can make the measly investment of $30,000. No, there you go, big news, big news. I'm pretty sure they listen to your dinosaur roar and try to fit the robot on a rail thing. It just sounds right.

Yeah, they got tips from you and no check for you. That sounds legit. Gons, I do have to say, I'm looking at the chat today before we get into the main stories or the updates, sorry. We are an especially international show today.

I saw somebody said there from Romania, we got a Swedish person in there, Holland. Yeah, we're especially international today. So that's good news. Yeah, well, we're a world community, not the world order.

Look at all these global citizens. Yeah, I was actually on that note, was responding to one of our producers who emailed us about why, she was asking why churches don't teach on Revelation, on the book of Revelation. And I was just mentioning how it's because a lot of it is divisive and people, a lot of churches are seeker friendly, quote unquote, so they don't want to get into Revelation where there's a lot of different opinions. But I reminded her that, of course, Matthew 18, 20 talks about how when there are two or three gathered in his name, they're MI in the midst of them.

So even this technically, even though it's online, if we're doing it, this is church more or less. I mean, it's a little, you know, we're not sitting here. Yeah, there's plenty of people who have shared that sentiment with us. This show, not just the show, but the whole community, of course, we've got different communities and the chat during the show is a great replacement in this time of church being closed down.

And, you know, especially for those who are on the fringes, who don't necessarily feel welcome sharing certain beliefs in church, this is the place for you. And some more international updates, we got Australia, we got Brazil, we are really all across the globe or the pancake, whichever side of the flat earth discussion you're on, you are welcome. I think fishbowl makes sense, you know. Outside of it still looks like a globe, but we need some inner hollow earth citizens to pipe up here.

If it's a fish globe or a fishbowl, you're doing, you're kind of doing all of it at once, because it's kind of flat on the inside, but then it's still round from the outside and it's still hollow, you know? Whoa. Yeah. So deep.

Real quick, I don't know if this matters at all, but Eddie Van Halen passed away yesterday. Were you ever a Van Halen fan? Not really, I mean, I'm a fan as much as, you know, I recognize their impact on pop culture in general and rock and roll. So yeah, it's too bad to hear.

Was it the Rhona? No, it was I think Cancer. I think he never, it was like throat cancer. So I don't think he stops smoking and drinking from the 80s.

Yeah, that'll happen. But it's, I just want to mention how my mother-in-law what used to hang out with Sammy Hagar. Oh, yeah. I know, I don't know if it's good to have a bad woman.

I think her bad thing, I was like, oh, okay. All right, we'll see. There's a lot of implications tied up in that, but we don't need to get into that now. I know, crazy.

Okay, all right, let's go through some updates here. We're gonna have to have a conclusion with the great word. 33 is also the number that the elite use to signal to each other. It is the, what do you call it, the elite?

What is it? The Illuminati dog whistle. Dog whistle, thank you. My favorite description.

Okay, so this is richlandsource.com. 33 forever continues fundraising and education efforts. So I was like, what is 33 forever? And it's actually, it's kind of sad.

I was sort of depressing. I found out. Is that a charity thing? It's a charity, it's a different charity from the one we didn't looked at before.

Oh, yeah, okay. This is 33 forever helping resources for those suffering from depression and anxiety. It's named after this gal who passed away at Danielle. She passed away at age 33.

So they named it 33 forever, which again, kind of sad, but also, you know, I don't know. Very fits right into the narrative. Yeah, I guess. But yeah, so there's, you know, I was curious.

I went down the rabbit hole and found a, that I might need to call them. Cause I'm depressed now, depressed from finding out that it's just a thing trying to help people. That exists. Yeah.

Here's another one. This is Ottomwa career. Police Ottomwa man had 33 pounds of meth. Ooh.

Yeah. Illuminati meth. Yeah, you know what I did? I was supposed to prepare a jingle.

We had a little ISO, Crystal meth for days, but I don't have it on me. I just wanted an excuse to play that, but there you go. These 33 updates are a real emotional rollercoaster today. Oh my gosh.

It's, yeah, it's everywhere. Okay. You know, I like the picture of this police crew, you know, standing in front of the 33 pounds of meth they found and they were posing like, yeah, check it out. Check out the 33 pounds of meth that we took down.

Okay. One more quick one. I thought this was interesting. This is a OC register dot com, my neck of the woods.

Disneyland lays off layoffs include 2,800 restaurant workers, food cart vendors and club 33 staff. Oh. Wow. Wow.

So if you didn't know at Disneyland here in Anaheim, Orange County, there's a secret, well, it's not that secret anymore, but there's a place called Club 33. It's like a restaurant for insiders and such. Yeah, VIP celebrities. It costs like a million bucks or something crazy to join.

Yeah. Yeah. It's a very exclusive group. I've actually, I think I took pictures of the door when I went a few years ago, but yeah.

So even the Club 33 staff taking out in the layoffs, that's really too bad. They must be the lowest ranks, you know? I don't know. That's a big, that seems bigger than just like your normal churro worker getting laid off.

You know, the Club 33, there's a lot of very, a lot of theories surrounding it. I cannot confirm any of the details now, but certainly some people have made connections with, you know, the Jeff, Jeffrey Epstein types stuff like that. Who is the famous Johnny Depp, famously loved Club 33, which automatically should put it into question. Well, there's also that Walt Disney statue where, he's standing next to Mickey and from certain angles, it's kind of an nefarious outline that creates it.

There's a lot of that in Disney movies and stuff too, a lot of hidden messages and stuff that are less than wholesome. So there you go. Those are a couple of 33 updates. Here's a few Trump things here.

We will launch a new age. Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia. That was a great jingle combo. Yeah, good stuff.

Okay, this is Yahoo.com. Trump news live CIA analyst says Putin likely bugging president's doctors as he goes on Roy rage Twitter rampage. The, how do you get likely Putin likely bugging the doctors? Is he bugging as in like surveillance?

Yes, but also CIA analyst. Okay, so former, here's what I said, it's a really short, you know, couple paragraphs here. Former intelligence agents. So former intelligence agents.

Yeah, right. Former my, my, my, yeah. Yeah. Warren that foreign powers like Russia and China may know more than the US about Donald Trump's health status through clandestine.

Yeah, may through clandestine espionage, like bugging the president's doctors. Trump was accused of suffering, Roy'd rage in reference to the experiments with COVID steroid treatment after tweeting dozens of posts early on Wednesday morning, the stream of consciousness focused on his enemies, the stimulus package and the MEC town hall that called Joe Biden voters as undecided. The president has been accused of being a super spreader, responsible for the current outbreak of coronavirus in the White House. That's where they're wrong.

If it's Trump, he's the super duper spreader. Yeah, the super duper, super duper, super duper. Where's my super duper jingle? It's always missing from where I want it here.

I call it the super duper, it's incredible. Incredible. Yeah, people talk about the deep state and stuff and it's become, I don't know, it's become like a mainstream phrase now. But yeah, of course, you have people that are in the CIA.

And if there is some kind of quote unquote draining of the swamp, then certain people on the inside are gonna, you know, push out misinformation. This just seems like misinformation to me to push more of that Russia narrative. I think it's a little to push. Yeah, and notice how nothing's confirmed is a quote unquote ex-intelligence officer say it may be possible.

Of course it is. If those doctors have a cell phone, just any sort of, yeah, a nominally experienced hacker can bug those doctors. There's a lot more that's bugged and trapped than Trump's doctors, I'm sure. And if they have TikTok, then China has all their info too.

Yep, yep, yes they do. Okay, here's a quick mask update. If you're working alone, wear a mask. The mask is enough for you.

It's to protect the baby you care about. That's right. This is USA Today. COVID-19 and CARS, this was sending by producers.

So thank you to the producers sent that in. The article in COVID-19 and CARS, not a good medical mix as it can harm drivers and passengers. I was reading through this. I was appalled at what it says here.

President Donald Trump's Sunday ride outside Walter Reed National Military Medical Center can be a teachable moment for drivers and passengers, experts say experts or government shield. I don't know. If you know or think you are sick, they say, you shouldn't get into a vehicle unless it's unavoidable. Any person known to have suspected of having COVID-19 should quote, isolate themselves at home except if he or she needs to get medical care says, Sanja Rasmussen, a professor of pediatrics and epidemiology at the University of Florida College of Medicine and College of Public Health and Health Professions.

If they have to travel in the vehicle to get care, the driver and passenger should wear masks and the person with COVID-19 should sit in the backseat or further back if in a large vehicle such as a van, she says, quote, more stigmatizing, getting the back. Getting the back. Getting the back. I know, isn't that crazy?

This is like the complete opposite of civil rights stuff. And I don't know how many details you wanted to get into, but I thought it was interesting that they basically show their hand right up front, which is, oh, the president rode in a car. So now riding in CARS is bad. Don't do it.

The orange man rode in a car, and that means you should not. The car, quote, the car windows should be opened and the car vents should be used to bring an outside air. But I thought it spreads through the air. What do you want us to do?

USA Today? Anyway, yeah, this is just fabulous. It was outrageous. And of course, like I said, at the beginning, the president rode in a car, so now riding in CARS is evil.

Yeah. I do want to give a quick shout out before we finish up the updates here. There is a YouTube person, Byron, that had a very inspiring message. I'm addicted to the show.

Now I'm thinking of becoming a producer. All right. Thank you very much, Byron. And I think a lot of people are in the same boat, so maybe you guys can encourage each other.

It's the thought that counts. It's the thought is where it's something. It's where something. Yeah.

All right, quick race wars update. Race wars, race wars, race wars. I've warned you and warned you and warned you. This was a training right now all over the place, Fox9.com.

Derek Chauvin released from jail on $1 million bond. And of course, Chauvin the guy who had his knee on George Floyd. And yep, that means basically the headline there. Yeah, so what was the most recent update?

Did he actually get convicted or is the case ongoing? It was like second degree or something like that, but maybe not. Hold on. Yeah.

Oh, here we go. Chauvin was arrested and charged with third degree murder in manslaughter just four days after the memorial day death of George Floyd. Uh, da da da da da. Chauvin, the officer, seeing kneeling on the neck in a video was charged with second degree murder, third degree murder, and second degree manslaughter.

And defense teams of all four former officers of five motions to move the trial out of Hennepin County. Yeah. So he's not technically convicted yet. Yeah, not yet, but.

Yeah. Yeah, you know, whatever. You know, we'll see. It's very meaningful to a lot of people.

I know. But yeah, moving. They certainly, I mean, 1 million bail. That's pretty large bail.

I mean, that's pretty nothing. Yeah. I mean, you got to get all those white supremacists to the pitch in. And that's all, you know, all 200 KKK members out there.

Yeah. What was the last number? I think they said the last no number of KKK members was 3,000 or something. Yeah, it was a couple of thousand.

Yeah. It was a pretty small group. I know. Take it over the country, Basil.

I haven't even been watching the news. They love Trump and they're taking over. Trump's democracy. Yeah, OK, OK.

Let's keep moving. I know you're a little too cynical there. OK, one more quick update. This is about CRISPR.

CRISPR. OK. All right, this is Vox.com. Of course, we've been following CRISPR, the DNA editing.

I was about to say software, but it's more like a kit. OK, so headline CRISPR has ignited a gene editing revolution. These noble winning women scientists were the spark. And I'm going to read a little bit of this here.

Mushrooms that don't brown. A treatment for sickle cell anemia. Driving malaria, carrying mosquitoes to extinction, resurrecting the woolly mammoth, editing genes and human embryos to make them less susceptible to HIV. These are just a handful of the possibilities of the versatile gene editing tool known as CRISPR that scientists have explored in the few years since this discovery.

On Wednesday, the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to the pair of scientists who discovered the CRISPR gene editing mechanism, known also known as CRISPR-Cas9. It acts as a pair of genetic scissors to precisely make cuts and insertions and genomes creating the possibilities of treating genetic maladies, as well as introducing new heritable traits into living organisms. Emmanuel, interesting. Emmanuel, sharp and tear, director of the Max Planck unit for the Science of Pathogens in Berlin, Germany, and Jennifer Doudna, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, will split a $1.1 million prize evenly, marking the first time two women scientists have been awarded the Chemistry Noble without a male collaborator.

So go girls. A power. Jennifer Doudna, just for reference to the says here she's at Berkeley. And she was in a whole bunch of lawsuits fighting for some of the patents of CRISPR.

And she's claiming that she came out with some of the original technology, and she won, I think, a bunch of them. Getting on that daddy fauci business model. Yeah, yeah. So I know in the last few years she's been fighting a whole bunch of that in court.

OK, this is the part where I thought was very interesting. Quote, this year's prize is about rewriting the code of life. Gorin K. Hansen, Secretary-General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science said on Wednesday, and it goes on to talk more about CRISPR there.

There is a section at the end. The science of gene editing is advancing much faster than the ethics. And it brings up the whole situation that happened in China with he, Janku. And they're basically saying, oh, we have to make sure the science checks out before we move forward with this.

And of course, no matter what, they're going to move forward with it. And of course, as we've speculated, there's probably things in laboratories unknown to the public that have done quite the disastrous things well before even CRISPR was around. But now that it is, I'm sure there's abominable things in places that you don't know about. Abominable snowmen.

Yeah, it's possible. People always complain that we don't talk Bigfoot enough. So yes, we don't talk Bigfoot as much as we probably should. That's true.

Yeah. Might need to do a little Bigfoot update. Yeah, I did mention, as a tweet, I sent out the quote, this year's prize is about rewriting the code of life. And I quoted Lucifer.

I will be like the most high, Isaiah 1414. So this is very much in line with trying to play God. And we've been looking at that from a biblical perspective for a while. And that's why people tune in to shows like ours, because we'll talk about these issues in a biblical context, both ancient and eschatological.

And we're not afraid to do that because I don't know. It's weird because I see a lot of church folk. This kind of stuff keeps getting published. And the science keeps moving, the quote unquote science keeps moving forward.

And a lot of the church is they're either like, oh cool. We're going to be like X-Men. Or they're like, ah, they're never going to achieve it. It's just really weird how it's kind of split.

Just sort of a refusal to interact on a deeper level either way. Yeah, yeah. It's either just whatever society says or it's all fake. Never going to happen.

Right. Speaking of fake, Gons. We are in Deepfake. We are in Deepfake.

That's right. OK, big news coming from Tom's Hardware.com. Tom. Just sort of a nerd website.

It's got news. It's got all sorts of stuff, lots of reviews for computer hardware. But also some other stuff. Let's take a look at it.

The article is titled Deepfake Yourself with NVIDIA Maxine's video chat tool. This is a tool, multiple tools. Oh, wow. Lots of fun stuff.

You got Deepfake. You got Maxine in there. Yeah, like Maxine Waters. Maxine Waters.

OK, moving on. The article reads, it's October now, which means it's mask season. Or it would be if this whole year weren't mask season. At any rate, it seems that NVIDIA's getting in on the holiday cheer with its newly announced NVIDIA Maxine video streaming platform, which among other features essentially lets you video chat while wearing a Deepfake style mask of yourself.

Maybe the results wasn't intended to be spooky, but looking at NVIDIA's video demonstrations, Maxine is perfectly fitting for October. Maxine actually comes with a bunch of features, but the one that first caught my eye was its new AI assisted video compression tool. Have you ever wanted to deepfake your own face? No.

Or turn your own face into a virtual chat avatar to then animate with something like the face rig tool that's so common among virtual YouTubers, like Kizuna AI? No. Because that's essentially what this tool does, all with the end goal of reducing bandwidth and maybe improving video streaming quality. Essentially, rather than constantly sending video data to whoever you're chatting with, this new video compression tool sends them a static picture of your face, then reads the movement of your lips, eyes, cheeks, and other key facial features to animate that picture on the other end using AI.

NVIDIA gives an example of the video stream using nearly 100 kilobytes per frame versus an AI compressed stream using just 0.12 kilobytes per frame. Wow, that's a huge difference, meaning about 1,000 times difference in size. The result is a mostly realistic depiction of what you actually look like talking, but with much less data being sent over the network, emphasis on mostly. Because the compression tool isn't actually sending video, but is instead animating a static picture, it has to make some guesses which results in things like blurry teeth, fuzzy edges, and an animatronic style feel on some motions.

It's up to you whether a lower bandwidth cost is worth some uncanny valley imagery, but it does kind of feel like a little, it does kind of feel like a little like an alien is wearing a skin suit and in video, an example video, perfect. Assuming those kinks get worked out, it still feels odd that we could eventually live in a future where video chats essentially use computer generated facsimiles of our own faces, which we would operate using actual video of those same faces. And like deep fakes, this does raise questions as to potential impersonation. Could I send someone a picture of Tim Cook and just map my facial movements onto his face?

But given that this is currently being positioned as a developer focused tool rather than a consumer facing one, companies might consider the trade off in realism worth it for increased performance. Or of course, Maxine doesn't stop just at recreating your face, it's also promising AI powered enhancements like face reanimation. Ah, the concept here is pretty simple. Say you're focusing your eyes on a certain corner of your monitor screen or tilting your head off to the side so you can look at a second monitor, much like the AI video compression outline above, face reanimation will use a still reference image in your facial movement data to adjust and you look on camera so that you appear to be looking directly at the screen with your eyes focused on its center.

Wow, that is so crazy and also useless. Just to summarize that part for everybody, you know in your video chatting, you're looking off to the side, you're looking at yourself in the little box there, you're looking down, maybe you're looking at emails. This would deep fake your face to look like you're actually paying attention. I know a lot of learning at home students who have to go to school on Zoom would love to take advantage of that option, I think.

In video's example video shows that this still has ways to go as the reanimated face is distinctly lower quality than the input data and stutters a bit as it moves to the center. It also comes with the same uncanny value quality as the AI video compression tool, but assuming this all gets worked out, I could see something like this being helpful for workers who need to multitask during meetings or even students dealing with overly aggressive virtual learning software, punishing them for not looking directly at the screen. Oh yeah, there you go. On a less unsettling end of the spectrum, Maxine also promises AI assisted video upscaling, which could help those who don't have the best webcams as well as similar features to RTX voice's noise reduction and NVIDIA broadcasts auto frame.

NVIDIA's demo video also briefly shows off tools for live language translation and for mapping facial movements to cartoon avatars, which might help offset the uncanny valley nature of Maxine's AI compression and face reanimation tools. We currently don't know much about these features, but they seem like they'd be genuinely helpful regardless of whether someone is a developer or not. For now, in video's Maxine is incoming straight to consumers, instead, in videos offering free cloud access to it to third party firms who can then use it to improve their own software, that's probably good because while running these tools locally off your own RTX cards, can improve performance, keeping them to the cloud will make them more accessible to the average person. And we'll go further toward normalizing them.

Still, communications firm, Avaya, is the only partner to have currently announced that it's using Maxine, so don't expect these features popping up in your Zoom calls anytime soon. All jokes aside, as work from home continues to be the new normal across plenty of industries. It's not surprising to see companies like NVIDIA step up to try to make these spaces easier and more professional, even if it means they have to walk through the uncanny valley first. Okay, so just to summarize for those trying to keep up, NVIDIA has come out with a platform that will make deep fakes incredibly easy for everyone, and will probably soon be built right into Zoom, built right into Skype, built right into all your messaging platforms, because as they mentioned, right now they're not selling it directly to consumers, but they're partnering with other firms, third party firms.

So this is another step, Gons, towards the, you can't believe literally anything you see on the internet, journey, because now if it can be done live and done in such normal circumstances as a Zoom call, I mean, you can't even trust Zoom calls anymore. If someone looks like they're paying attention, they could technically just be taking a nap, or playing video games or something. It's this commercialization of the ubiquitousness of deception, as much as it is. Yeah, so a couple of things.

One, of course we've mentioned it several times, but the NVIDIA logo is like a swirly spiral eyeball. So you have like your eye, all seeing eye reference, but also like the creepy, kind of similar to like the swirly peto symbols too. Right. But this reminds me big time of the proxy in a story called the Atopoeop Chronicles by Matthew Mather.

I've mentioned it several times because I think Matthew Mather is one of those guys that wrote about things that will come in sometime in this century. That's the Lord returns. And one of those things is the proxy. So what the proxy does is it's a little bit different from what this is, but it's similar in that a proxy will take over your biological body, and it'll do all the boring things like eat and sleep, and go to the restroom and the stuff that's time consuming, keeps you from doing fun things like surfing the internet.

And so you have your proxy to handle all that, and then you have your real you, quote unquote, be in the cyberspace and interacting and doing all kinds of stuff. So I feel like this isn't moving in that direction, especially that part about like, oh, you'll be looking, it'll make it look like you're paying attention, but actually you're not. You're actually doing something else, but for the person on the side. You know they're gonna build in filters like Snapchat and Instagram and all those things.

So you won't even really be able to believe that that's the person you're looking at. It's just unsafe. I mean, there's gonna come a day of guns, and we need to figure out our way around it, but there's gonna be a day where we'll connect to do a show, and we won't even be sure if the person on the other side is guns or basil. And we're gonna have to come up with some protocol, make sure they're not deep fake.

That might be a good way to solve our baby week problem. That's true, yeah. And if I go on vacation, you can still have a deep fake of my VR doggles, roaming around the screen. Yeah, I don't know man, it's just this is a, this one actually caught me off guard.

You know, we spend a lot of time thinking about this and keeping up with latest updates and stuff, and the possibilities that are in our near future. This one caught me off guard. I did not think that they were gonna go so far as to try to build in deep faking into every video call. Yeah, it's fascinating too, because you have this diagram on the video that was playing in the background, and it has like a girl, she's on a webcam, and then you know, the sender basically, and it has the key point extraction on her face, and then it shows what the receiver gets, and then a neural network that outputs the AI compression of your face.

Yeah. Yeah, of course there's a neural network in between you and the other person. Yeah, and to put it simply, it's kind of like the way that the teleporter works on Star Trek, where you know, in the teleporter, it takes your body apart and puts it back together in another place. It's a little bit how this is, where you're no longer even sending a video signal.

What you're doing is sending instructions to a deep fake on the other end to act like you are acting. So it's kind of, it's even weirder in that you're not sending a video signal, which is like the last bastion of truth, a live video, you know, the last bastion of truth online, where now it's not even a live video, it's just a recreation of just some AI data being sent through. Did you ever see the movie Sargit? Never did.

So in the movie, there are basically people in the closet while their robot avatars are out in the world doing things or whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. They're better than that. Yeah, there's a lot of movies that have that kind of theme, but then they show the wife, I can't remember the main character if it was Bruce Willis or somebody in the chat with now, but anyway, they show the wife in real life and she looks all, you know, tattered and hairs all messy and dark bags under her eyes, but then her avatar robot of herself out there walking around is all- It's beautiful.

Yeah, it's all done up and everything. So it's like that except, you know, not quite the physical robots yet, just the online version, which conveniently, of course, the whole Rona thing has multiplied the advancement of that type of technology, not just the advancement per se, the use, the common day use of online technologies really sped it up a whole lot. I think I was reading some, it was a story that I didn't include, but there was a, you know, I'm looking for stories that have the phrase new world order in there. And one of these guys on one of the Japanese outlets speaking for China was basically saying that because of the coronavirus, seven years of technology have been smashed into seven months.

Totally. And in terms of the usage of, you know, the kinds of technologies that would have been, you know, would have taken about seven years ago mainstream are now smashed into a few months here. So since it's being brought up, Sir Gitz, I guess, has Bruce Willis in it? I think that's what I'm saying.

We were talking before the show, when we were discussing my accent, that I would say the title of the show in, and I told the story guns about, I was talking with some Australian guys and some Irish guys, and we were talking about English accents and Irish accents and Australian accents. And the topic came up to my accent, my American accent, and I asked these Australians and Irish guys, you know, what's the American accent like? What do I sound like? And they're like, oh, you sound like you're gonna kill someone and jump out of a helicopter.

I'm like, what? I'm like, oh, you sound like Bruce Willis. It's cool, man, we love it. I think, oh, weird.

I've never, nobody's ever told me I have anything in common with Bruce Willis, but I'll take that one. Well, and I was mentioning how, and we have international listeners live right now that may be able to attest to this, but most of what people get of what the American accent is around the world is through movies and like action heroes. And although, I don't know, do people really think we talk like Arnold, you know, like walking around? No, but Arnold doesn't have an American accent.

I know, that's what I'm saying, but it's American movie. Oh, no, that's why Bruce Willis. We're all Bruce Willis over here. Or like Tom Cruise or something.

I don't know. We should move on. I'm running out of time. What's our next story?

The next story has to do, it's similar and it has to do with the brain and AI. Let's do artificial intelligence. And the outlet is govtech.com, government technology. Neural-like circuits bring brain-like computers a step closer.

And this was, who's the author here? Stanley, R Stanley Williams at Texas A&M University. It's written in the first person here. The big idea, for the first time, my colleagues and I have built a single electronic device that is capable of copying the functions of neuron cells in the brain.

We then connected 20 of them together to perform a complicated calculation. This works, this works shows that it is scientifically possible to make an advanced computer that does not rely on transistors to calculate and that uses much less electrical power than today's data centers. Our research, which began in 2004, was motivated by two questions. And we build a single electronic element, the equivalent of a transistor or switch, that performs most of the known functions of neurons in a brain.

If so, can we use it as a building block to build useful computers? Neurons are very finely tuned and so are electronic elements that emulate them. I co-authored a research paper in 2013 that laid out in principle what needed to be done. I took my colleagues, Suhas Kumar and others five years, to care for five years of careful exploration, to get exactly the right material composition and structure to produce the necessary property predicted from theory.

Kumar then went a major step further and built a circuit with 20 of these elements connected to one another through a network of devices that can be programmed to have particular capacitances or abilities to store electric charge. He then mapped a mathematical problem to the, oh my gosh, capacitances in the network, which allows him to use the device to find a solution to a small version of a problem that is important in a wide range of modern analytics. A simple example we used was to look at the possible mutations that have occurred in a family of viruses by comparing pieces of their genetic information. Pretty convenient.

Why it matters, the performance of computers is rapidly reaching a limit because the size of the smallest transistor is integrated, integrated circuits is now approaching 20 atoms wide. Any smaller in the physical principles that determine transistor behavior no longer apply. There is a high stakes competition to see if someone can build a much better transistor, a method for stacking transistors or some other device that can perform the tasks that currently require thousands of transistors. This quest is important because people have become used to the exponential improvement of computing capacity and efficiency of the past 40 years.

And many business models in our economy have been built on this expectation. Engineers and computer scientists have now constructed machines that collect enormous amounts of data, which is in order from which the most valuable commodity information is refined. The volume of that data is almost doubling every year, which is outstripping the capacity of today's computers to analyze it. And I think he's talking about Moore's law there.

Moore's law always talks about basically how computing, twice as much computing can happen in the same amount of space and the doubling that happens every year. I think it's every couple of years. I can't remember that. I can't remember that.

I think it was four years at doubles, the speed of computing. Maybe something like that, yeah. But yeah, we're running out of getting the end of that graph. 20 atoms wide.

That's very small. What other research is being done in this field? The fundamental theory of neuron function was first proposed by Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley about 70 years ago. Wow, 70 years ago.

He was ahead of his time, like the rest of the Huxley Brothers. I had not heard of this Huxley Brothers. Well, I was even questioning the fact that it was the, you know, part of the Huxley family. Well, let me just finish this paragraph here.

And it is still in use today. It is very complex and difficult to simulate on a computer and only recently has it been reanalyzed and cast in the mathematics of modern non-linear dynamics theory by Leon Chua. I was inspired by this work and I've spent much of the past 10 years learning the necessary math and figuring out how to build a real electronic device that works as the theory predicts. There are numerous research teams around the world taking different approaches to building brain-like or neuromorphic computer chips.

OK, so I wanted to check to see if this Andrew Huxley got anything to do with the notorious Huxley Brothers, or the Aldous Huxley and Julian Huxley. Julian Huxley, who basically started the UN and UNESCO specifically. And of course, Aldous Huxley, who wrote the book Brave New World. And as I went through some of his work here or his life, yes, he is part of the Huxley Brothers.

Wow. It says here Huxley was born in Lamsted, London, England on 22 November 1917. He was the youngest son of the writer and editor Leonard Huxley by Leonard Huxley's second wife, Rosalyn Bruce, and hence half-brother of the writer Aldous Huxley and fellow biologist Julian Huxley. And grandson of the biologist T.H.

Huxley. And if you guys know about T.H. Do you know about T.H. Huxley?

I don't know what he's talked about it before, but you can do a quick reminder. He's the guy that really was behind the theory of evolution. He was doing a lot of occult stuff surrounding it. And see, I went through the whole thing here, but I won't go through the entire thing.

I had some stuff. I thought I had stuff highlighted. Maybe not. Let's see, where was he?

Had stuff highlighted. What happened to the highlight? Maybe the Huxley got into my computer. And that's what happens, man.

Yeah. He, Andrew Huxley, was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1955 and became president in 1980. The Royal Society awarded him with a Copley medal in 1973. He was conferred a Knight Bachelor by Queen Elizabeth II in 1974.

It was like... Who was the best bachelor? Yeah. Not one for the show, unfortunately.

Wouldn't mind the Huxley Bucks. Huxley Bucks. I'm a Bucks. And he was appointed to the Order of Merit in 1983.

And where was the other part here? So basically in his career, he was doing all these experiments. And he was one of the first people to really look into muscles and neurons in general. Try to find the spot here.

OK, 1980. Huxley was elected president of the Royal Society, opposed to held until 85. In his presidential address in 1981, he chose to defend the Darwinian explanation of evolution as his ancestor, T.H. Huxley, had in 1860.

Whereas T.H. Huxley was defined the bishops of his day. Sir Andrew was countering new theories of periods of accelerated change. And in 1983, he defended Margaret Thatcher as a fellow on the grounds of her support for science.

I think it was before this when he did some of this weird experiments on squids. Hence the artwork of the show here. I'm trying to find the spot. Man, it really bums me out that the highlighter.

Highlights didn't stick. Yeah. Well, basically he was hooking up a long fin in-shore squid and trying to figure out how the neurons, the electrical pulses worked in neurons, and measure those electrical signals. He was one of the first people to do that, too.

Wow, I'm just doing that a long time ago, too. Yeah, it's like 30 something like that. And again, this is like the beginning of... Well, and that's some real bio-computing, too.

That's basically creating a giant brain with a bunch of squids. Yeah, yeah. It's the earliest forms of cybernetics in terms. It has some true bio-cybernetics.

Holy smokes. So that's why it's fascinating that this lesser-known Huxley was involved in something like this. I don't know what they were feeding these Huxley kids. Wow, yeah.

That family was definitely connected. Yeah, it's really interesting when you consider the things that his two brothers were doing, Julian and Andrew, all this writing the book that he wrote, of course it was seen as a warning about what the future could look like, some considerate an instruction manual. But he was really surrounded. His brothers were doing this work.

And he was just kind of ended up being the communicator who put it all into his books and got it out into the mainstream, you know, zeitgeist, I guess. Right. So that's pretty interesting. A triple powerhouse, one doing cybernetics and biology, the other doing government work, and then the author brother putting it all together and putting it out in very popular work.

Yeah, so I think I found it here. So this is 1939. Alan Lloyd Hodgkin returned from the US to take up a fellowship at Trinity College and Huxley became one of his postgraduate students. Hodgkin was interested in the transmission of electrical signals along nerve fibers.

Beginning 1935 in Cambridge, he had made preliminary measurements on frog sciatic nerves, suggesting that the accepted view of the nerve as a simple elongated battery was flawed. Hodgkin invited Huxley to join him researching the problem. The work was experimentally challenging. One major problem was that the small size of most neurons made it extremely difficult to study them using the techniques of the time.

They overcame this by working at the Marine Biological Association Laboratory in Plymouth using the giant axon on the longfin in short squid, which had the largest neurons known. The experiments were still extremely challenging as the nerve impulses only last a fraction of millisecond, during which time they needed to measure the changing electrical potential at different points along the nerve. Using equipment largely of their own construction and design, including one of the earliest applications of a technique of electrophysiology known as the voltage clamp, sounds terrifying. They were able to record ionic currents.

In 1939, they jointly published a short paper in nature reporting on the work done in Plymouth and announcing their achievements of recording action potentials from inside a nerve fiber. So yeah, very much. You know, we talked about MKUltra and electro therapy and that kind of stuff. It's like some of the early forms of it.

And I'm not going to be surprised if a lot of that dark CIA research wasn't inspired by this guy. Oh, I'm sure. Some of the stuff he was doing. Yeah.

Yeah. That's crazy. Well, that's a very good, very good lesson on the Huxley family. It's just the thought pliccans.

Yeah. So back to the whole GovTech.com article. It says here, what's next, the technological challenge now, is to scale up our proof of principles of demonstration to something that can compete against today's digital behemoths. So there you go.

This is going along the traditions that were set by the family that came up with the Brave New World. I mean, it's very much go. You know, there's nothing really slowing it down. There's nobody out there saying stop this.

I just want to just too late. It's just what we're here for, Gons. Apparently it's our job, but we're not going to listen to us. Well, speaking of which, Gons, this is going to be a little bit of a shorter show, but we've got a lot more to get to.

So I think we should take a quick break. Well, kydoki folks, don't go anywhere. We're going to take a quick break, thank some people and show some art and things like that. But after the break, we've got an interesting story regarding the internet kill switch, the American Internet kill switch that needs to be discussed, as well as some QAnon news are going to continue observing the situation where QAnon and the mainstream are colliding.

But before that, let's start out by thinking some new Twitch followers, Gons. Oh, twitch, twitch, twitch, twitch. You ready? Yep.

All right. First, I want to thank that flat Earth guy. Thanks for the follow. Thanks.

Next, we have Jim Tendo. I like that. Yeah. Then Kemp 1105.

I'm Shonkin. I don't know. Then we have Ariaz, Riot's, Xis best. I had to switch up, then, and keep that friendly there.

Then we have Black Whales A. Black Whales ZA. Kabbalah Palooza. Sounds like a legit thing that I need to go to.

Then we have, it's like a coachella, but it's for Illuminati members. Then we have New Two Box. Yeah. I'm not sure if that's Old Two Box or if it's a different take on Old Two Box, New Two Box.

Then I want to give a big thank you to the Eliguana Man, or Feel Iguana Man. I'm not sure. There you go. Those are all of our new Twitch followers.

Thank you so much, folks. We like to try to make sure everybody is subscribed on multiple platforms and turn on notifications. Twitch is a great way to do that. And the Twitch chatters always having a good, good old time in the chat.

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