So Gwyn gets to part one of her mission-- the skating. Yeah, and, like, you know, going, like, around town, you know like, climbing on buildings, like, going outside a lot. I spent a long time looking and could not find anything like it. Okay. I think everyone, once they start playing around with something like ChatGPT, has a kind of "holy shit" moment. John and Mark are in a room with a cat, a box, and a basket. What I'm seeing here, this is like, it's actually an intellectual being by, at least, my standards. The first place I drove was to McDonald's. Also--. Discussions of a television adaptation of TAL date back to at least 1999. On the Microsoft campus, as the weeks went by, everyone kept having these moments, coming around to a similar feeling about this thing. It's particularly shocking if you know a little bit about how things like ChatGPT work. [18], For live shows, which combine live and pre-recorded elements, Glass previously used a mixing console and CD players. Fellow earthlings, stay with us. The fact that it's been fed so much material makes it hard to run tests on it. In this engrossing episode, producer Adam Beckman tells the story of how, when he was eleven years old, he and two friends came across an abandoned house in the small town of Freedom, New Hampshire. Are we kind of making it up on the fly one word at a time? It told a New York Times reporter to leave his wife because it loves him more. Content varies widely by episode. WebIt's also known for launching the careers of several popular writers, such Sarah Vowell and David Sedaris, as well as featuring other notable recurring contributors, such as journalist Laptop goes on the eggs, then the bottle, then the nail on the bottle cap, pointy end of the nail facing up. They come in peace. It was the first podcast episode ever chosen for inclusion in the registry. Every nerve and bone in my body says, no, we're thinking far ahead, we're learning on the fly, all these other things that we think that we're doing. This is like pure freedom. Serial is available only in English. And then you do it. Sign up here for our weekly newsletter. Seemed better to stop. So here is what we asked. It couldn't steer. I don't know what it says about us as a species, but we make way more films about creatures who go so far out of their way, like, they travel hundreds of millions of miles, light years with the sole purpose of wanting to kick our asses. Dawn follows Hitt as he interviews old friends and family in Charlotte about a mysterious neighbor. So as not to blow up her spot by being a weird adult at the park with her, I pinned a small mic on her t-shirt and we'll watch and listen from the car. For some reason, I just feel so afraid of awkward social interactions. Cooper jumps in to tell Horus he should see how good Gwyn's ollie has gotten. It's not boredom exactly. [70], In 2019, Lulu Wang adapted her autobiographical story called "What You Don't Know" from the 2016 episode "In Defense of Ignorance" into The Farewell. I take those lines of code, put it into a TikZ compiler, and then I press enter. "[21] Glass used a unique strategy to promote the show to stations by giving away pledge drive ads he developed himself. While much of the shows first 10 years turned around the shows home base of Chicago, once in New York, the show went global. Our program was produced today by Chris Benderev with Alaa Mostafa. In January 2012, This American Life presented excerpts from a one-man theater show The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs by Mike Daisey as an expos of conditions at a Foxconn factory in China. GPT-4 was the same idea as ChatGPT. When the show went on without him, Covino says he felt "betrayed". (L-R): Julie Shapiro, Audrey Mardavich Courtesy of Adrianne Mathiowetz. But the humans will end up attacking them anyway. Or you can throw her some money and buy it on Bandcamp. But I feel like they don't, like, put their finger on the one thing which is this thing is as intelligent as an above average human being in so many, so many different things. There was a political dimension to this: as the Bush administration tripped over itself in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, and the follies of the Iraq and Afghan Wars became ever more apparent, This American Life was perfectly positioned to reach into the heart of these major stories and record the shifting ground under life in these United States. Serial tells one story a true story over the course of a season. "[92] Fred Armisen parodied Ira Glass for a skit on Saturday Night Live's "Weekend Update" in 2011. So a lot of kids, they just like go do Rite Aid. Brendan Mattox lives in Lansdowne, PA. So what does Monica think the orcas are doing? I was gonna buy the Vans, but they're 40 bucks. Ira's own father, Barry Glass, co-hosts this special Father's Day show. 6 on iTunes comedy charts", "4 Predictions About Podcasting For 2014", "Ira Glass Has a Cameo in the Season Premiere of The Simpsons! Sean Cole is taken on a field trip to Famous Blacks in Wax by producer B.A. And then he showed me this pink unicorn. [102][103] Members of an "Occupy" group kidnap Stan after he tries to infiltrate their group. Horus is compact, tidy, and kind of looks like he could be in a boy band. But at that pointI was in my late 30sI just wanted to do the thing I wanted to do."[10]. It felt like more than just typing out the next likely word. 1 hr 10 min playlist_add Jun 4, 2023 692: The Show of Delights In these dark, combative times, we attempt the most radical counterprogramming we could imagine: What happ-- wait, why? That's what I'm trying to tell you. [30], In March 2014, the program announced that PRI would stop distributing the show in July, and that May, Glass announced that the staff would be distributing the show themselves, with Public Radio Exchange doing the technical legwork to deliver the audio to the radio stations. This prologue will then lead into the presentation of the theme for that week's show. With filmmakerMaisie Crow, we recorded the day Roe v. Wade was overturned in the abortion clinic that was at the center of the Supreme Court case,and then headed out from there to other places around the country where the effects of the landmark decision were felt. Paramount Pictures and Broadway Video are in production on Curly Oxide and Vic Thrill, a film based on the TAL story in the episode "My Experimental Phase". Note: This American Life is produced for the ear and designed to be heard. Wants to be friendly again. It is capable of doing, of accomplishing what an intelligent human being is capable of. And that is the non-human force that the people of Earth are trying to figure out in this first act. I loved Gary. It's quite a thought. As he sat down in that room, he was frankly a little worried that Microsoft was investing so much money in this stuff. Are these guys friendly or not? Everything is going great. First, it wants to talk to us. Returning to the Scene of the Crime. They don't call this vengeance, but the internet definitely does. WebThe Talent Show has another show coming up, at a new location -- Littlefield in Gowanus, Brooklyn -- on October 27, featuring This American Life producers Ira Glass and Jane Nobody else seems to notice. [15] The program's first year was produced on a budget that was tight even by US public-radio standards. [citation needed], Two weeks later, the show also reiterated that they had previously removed three stories by Stephen Glass due to dubious content, namely episode 57, "Delivery", episode 79, " Stuck in the Wrong Decade", and episode 86, "How to Take Money from Strangers." But in the meantime, were producing other projects as well. This American Life is delivered to public radio stations by PRX, the Public Radio Exchange. They talk by flapping their meat at each other. And here's how they work. [19] After remarking that producing so many stories each episode is "labor intensive," David Stewart with Current said it is "remarkable that while a few stories were fatuous or trite, most were successful and some really memorable." He'd been in the field a long time, had chaired the computer science department at Carnegie Mellon, and, like Ronen, was skeptical. He himself is not a modern-day This inspired Glass to work with Birbiglia for two years on a movie based on this segment. Also, Gwyn really wants to try and make friends with the skater guys. Daiseys Trumpian diction, his slow revision of facts as he tries to cover his ass with a dishcloth as well as the way that certain parts of Agony and Ecstasy, once stripped of their truth, embody the worst forms of western poverty porn and the infantilization of the Other these are things that This American Life had hoped to dismantle in its mission. Each of the episodes four acts investigates a doomed, hilarious series of errors. Thanks, as always, to our program's co-founder Mr. Torey Malatia. Monica says in Washington State the last few weeks, people who go whale watching are starting to ask her, is it safe? It's gonna seem simple to you, but here's the question they asked. This spring, she quit the tennis team to practice skateboarding instead. Please check the corresponding audio before quoting in print. And it's a category of question that AI models have always had trouble with because to get the right answer, you have to know something kind complicated about people, namely that people are not eggs or books but that they have minds and that what is in one person's mind is not in someone else's mind. But I'm not seeing anyone yet. And then I see one other person who is a really good skateboarder. I mean, they're just--. What it does exceedingly well, with stories from reporters Molly OToole and Emily Green, is chart the real human stakes of a government action. [81][82], In October 2016, This American Life launched an app called Shortcut to allow listeners to share short audio clips on social media, similar to the way gifs allow social media users to share video clips. We welcome your pitches. A Serial notebook is available from our web store now. While the show episodes are removed from the podcast RSS feed after a week, they remain on This American Life's server, accessible to anyone who knows the location. So my wife and I, sometime ago we were walking together in Tel Aviv and we meet this math professor. Managing editor-- Sarah Abdurrahman. "Jeopardy!" [33] In 2017, This American Life launched the podcast S-Town through the spinoff company Serial Productions. He has this random update on Horus. She's a psychologist. Act 3, "Yacht Rocked." Directed by Jane Feltes, performers on this tour included, This page was last edited on 21 June 2023, at 00:49. So we're approaching and I can see the skate park. And like, I'm just gonna have to be in the corner alone, but let's go try it out. Like, this thing-- you know, a steam engine is, like, yeah, we don't need beasts anymore to move stuff around. Coming up, an alien walks into a skate park and tries to let the humans know it comes in peace. "Ira Glass Radio Turn-On". They get like-- They buy stuff. April knew that off the Southern coast of Spain-- that's where she was, by the way-- orcas had been ramming into boats a lot lately and tearing off the rudders. And Horus responded, "No reason.". Cox, Ana Marie; Dionis, Joanna (September/October 1998). The episode begins with the two daughters, Martha Miller and Susan McDonald, reading aloud the letter they received one day from Mary Miller (who raised Martha and is Sues biological mother), and from there details the emotional fallout of this news. They made the machines. [71], The 2019 film Ode to Joy was adapted from a TAL story by Chris Higgins called "I've Fallen in Love and I Can't Get Up."[72][73]. And then there are the films where the aliens want to kill us-- generally way more fun-- Independence Day, War of the Worlds, the Men in Black films, The Avengers, the film Nope. It's theater," but refused to acknowledge that he had liedeven in the face of obvious discrepancies. And Horus gives Gwyn pointers on how to do a shove-it while moving. Privacy Policy | Terms of Use, 2014 - 2023 Serial Productions, a New York Times Company. New episodes debut in our app a day earlier than the regular podcast feed, and weve also got [103] In a season 6 episode of 30 Rock called "St. Patrick's Day," Glass's voice appears on the radio, apparently presenting TAL, with his studio having been overrun by drunken thugs. A television adaptation of the show ran for two seasons on the Showtime cable network[6] between June 2007 and May 2008. #1 Party School contains especially potent examples of a kind of nihilism that have become the mark of millennial life; its also one of the shows most subtle episodes, revealing the conflicted relationship that America has with its young adults. The ultimate highlights of the experiment, Acts 6 and 20, tell two stories from separate juvenile detention centers. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. [62] In June 2008, Spike Lee bought the movie rights to Ronald Mallett's memoir, whose story was featured in the episode "My Brilliant Plan". At the moment we arent accepting listener-generated requests to translate the series. I was like, I have never done that before. But since she's the outsider here, this raises another fear. And because she's 16, so many things in her life right now feel like a first-contact experience. This thing, what I'm seeing right now is like, we can create intelligence. You'll see why, what I'm getting at. We need assistance immediately. Like, even if it's not skating, like, they're always going to Seattle and stuff like that. He asks it to write a piece of computer code to draw something. It turned out to be exactly right. ", "Public Radio International Dropping 'This American Life', "Spurning Suitors, 'This American Life' Opts for Self-Distribution", "This American Life Radio Program To Air Television Series on Showtime", "The Trouble With Birthdays: Ira Glass:: Stop Smiling Magazine", "Ira Glass to share 'Seven Things I've Learned' at Rialto in Tacoma", "This American Life episode 428: "Oh You Shouldn't Have" transcript", "Ira Glass's Messy Divorce: What Becomes of the Brokenhearted? The episode provides an empathetic, painful look at the cost of violence, and the efforts of the school and its students to bring about peace. Other episodes include segments recorded live. And for years, people have argued-- though it's sort of more like hoped-- that if you just made these big enough, added it enough neurons and gave them enough data, they might develop something like intelligence. This two-act episode from late last year covers the Trump administrations Remain in Mexico policy, which requires asylum seekers to wait in Mexico until their case is heard in U.S. immigration court. The standout is Sean Coles Bookfishing in America segment, which investigates the evolving legacy of Richard Brautigans 1971 novel The Abortion. Gwyn, who'd been so scared of awkwardness, is now so comfortable that she signals for me to come over from the car. But more than just a fun diversion, the episode is exemplary of This American Lifes attitude towards the holidays, which sought out the existential ambiguity at the heart of these seasons of plenitude. For general inquiries,email the team. Trying to understand and fit in with the humans of this planet. It might have been possible to design a show with him that he would have felt comfortable with and I would have felt comfortable with. She can bullshit her way through any topic for a couple of minutes." Yes we have videos! Will he return to Chicago? The 14 researchers wrote up a paper laying out all the experiments they had done. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. [2] It is broadcast on numerous public radio stations in the United States and internationally, and is also available as a free weekly podcast. It's shocking to think about all the things it seemed to be understanding here. Cooper is a beginner like Gwyn. It seemed to have formed an independent idea about what these words actually meant-- the physical shape of the objects, that eggs are kind of round and fragile, that a book is flat and you can put things on top of it. Is he really telling the truth? Arrange the nine eggs in a 3-by-3 square on top of the book, leaving some space between them. This is Ece Kamar, another one of the Microsoft researchers. If you would like to change your settings or withdraw consent at any time, the link to do so is in our privacy policy accessible from our home page.. I think it's definitely all over the news. They are indeed made out of meat. It's just cont-- Exactly right. 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