The Two Vague Podcast
The Two Vague Podcast
Ben Cheknis
Episode 65 - Intelligence
1 hour 14 minutes Posted Nov 12, 2022 at 2:37 am.
“We are your hosts for the Two Vague Podcast this week,” and Cheyenne’s absence
Project Zomboid by The Indie Stone, a post-apocalyptic SIMS 2, and your COD
Cult of the Lamb by Massive Monster, and 9 out of 10 doctors recommend…
A nebulous topic, the definition, a gum condition, and a little dip in the 1900s
The 9 types of intelligence, our fathers, drinking bleach, and walking into walls
Intelligence Quotient, Mensa meetings, memory, and knowledge retention
Changing the (college) academic culture, staying in school, and new experiences
Splitting hairs, Cheyenne crystalizes, Ben’s attorney, and college degrees
Artificial intelligence, building robots, computers with feelings, and sentience
The hypothetical barista, sex robots, and AI communication methods
Training robot baristas, the moisture content of cappuccinos, and probing questions
77 Snickers bars, an AI designing its own body, and fears about automation
An AI winning an art contest, Ben’s fair pun, and programs being “creative”
Rules for casual art contests, abstract concepts, and DALL-E’s diversity problems
Cheyenne’s “Non-binary person in cornfield” as “imagined” by WOMBO’s dream AI
Teaching goldfish how to drive, and Ben’s imagined future of taxicabs
Teaching grown mouse and human brain cells how to play Pong (badly)
Biological computers, augmenting the human brain, and remembering stuff
Rotting brains, developing skills, dopamine, and games that teach
Cheyenne explains the game Spore developed by Maxis and released in 2008
Ben and Cheyenne have different opinions about messing around with asteroids
Closing thoughts on the word intelligence
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Show notes
Cheyenne joins Ben in the studio this week to discuss intelligence… human, biological, artificial, or otherwise.  To get the conversational juices flowing (eew!), they talk about the games they are currently playing: Project Zomboid and Cult of the Lamb.  Upon becoming adequately lubricated (again… eew!), they talk about the definition of the word intelligence and the “types” of intelligences.  Along with the excessive use of the word dry, other topics of conversation this week include: IQ tests, Mensa meetings, college culture, robot baristas, AI artists, goldfish driving cars, grown brain cells playing Pong, and the game Spore by Maxis.  
 
 
Note: The “Non-binary person in cornfield” image from the episode artwork was created (by Cheyenne) using WOMBO’s dream AI.  For more information on this AI artist, go to https://www.wombo.art/