Returning for Episode 301, "Crazy Eddie" Matuk & "Sailor Jack" DeViney kick the new year into high gear by going over the numbers, nuts and bolts of just how much AI is NOT revolutionizing the economy. Neither one of them are naysaying the tech, which has limitless potential, but neither is naive enough to be blind optimists about it, either. Taking a middle-of-the-road, pragmatic approach, they question just how much money the firms involved are saving when they fire thousands of people only to pour billions into data centers that not only cost massive amounts of money to launch but also further untold millions to maintain.
While there's still much to come on the subject, they remain agreed largely that Artificial Intelligence won't replace workers (much less work itself) but will change and greatly augment work itself. As opposed to eliminating strain and stress on the job, it is likely to exacerbate it given its potential benefits for productivity.
In addition to a sweeping wrap-up of some current events odds and ends around America and Earth at-large, they close with a cautionary, realistic assessment of the multimedia library published by the United States Department of Justice as pertains to the Jeffrey Epstein "files". While the e-mail correspondence contained therein is rife with asides and possible references to potentially ghastly events and horrifying social gatherings, one big takeaway from this should be that we don't know much of anything for certain about most of the people involved. While Epstein himself was a convicted sex offender, names such as Woody Allen and Elon Musk may be tough to miss and even tougher to ignore, their names being mentioned in the correspondence and/or their being participants in correspondence does not in and of itself make them guilty of similar crimes.
The duo, Mr. Matuk III and Mr. DeViney, feel the bottom line, at this time, is that the Jeffrey Epstein library (available for public viewing by those aged 18 years and older [perhaps the ultimate irony] on the DoJ website) should be viewed with caution, yes, and also for what it is: bits and pieces and individual parts of a much larger investigation that, truly, we hope is ongoing.
https://www.justice.gov/epstein
