RADIOJune 19, 2023

AI’s answer to THIS question shows it could SURPASS HUMANS

Artificial Intelligence is developing at a terrifying rate, and now it can reason just like a human brain can — but at even faster speeds. In this clip, Glenn explains why a recent answer A.I. gave about stacking objects truly is ‘disturbing’ and hints that this type of technology may soon SURPASS humans. Plus, AGI is right around the corner. Glenn explains what that may mean for our future…

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GLENN: Okay. There's a couple of things that are breaking.

We told you about a woman, is she in California, Stu? Where she gets a call from -- or Denver, I think.

Where she gets a call from her -- her daughter, crying freaking out. Saying, mom, I made a mistake.

You have to help me. And somebody grabs the phone and says, look, I have your daughter.

And she -- I will kill her, unless you give us X amount of money. Well, she was absolutely convinced of it.

As it turns out, it was AI. Now, AI is so good, at producing voices. It used to be that you would have to put in so much information to be able to re-create a voice.

Now you don't have to.

It's three seconds of sound. Is all they need.

So if your kids are posting anything on social media, your kids and you, are apt to be scammed by this.

And you'll get a phone call. A father here in Texas says his family lost a thousand dollars. Because his grandson called.

And said, grandpa, we're in Mexico with our friends.

I'm -- I'm in trouble. I'm really scared.

We were drinking a little bit. And got into an accident.

And that's why I'm in trouble. I need a thousand dollars to get out of this situation.

Well, grandpa sent it.

Except, the kid wasn't in trouble. That wasn't his grandchild. This is going to happen more and more.

We are also now using AI to advance things.
I urge you -- I am going to do this myself.

I have a large library. I've always liked the hardbound books.

Over internet.

And Kindle. But I have want to be out of the habit of buying them. Because it's so much easier, to just read them online.

And I'm going back through my Kindle library. And I'm going to go buy the hard bounds. That make any kind of sense.

And I would suggest that this is for Shakespeare and everything.

Because they are being edited right now, and it is a way to change everything.

Now, PETA has just used AI to rewrite the book of Genesis. Don't know if you've seen this. But it is disturbing.

So they have taken AI. And rewrote the Bible, for political purposes.

The result is, you know, I think offensive. There is an article by Tyler O'Neill.

It says, PETA, or the AI, which I'm convinced probably provided the best bits for this dilapidated drivel decided to be slavishly derivative, repeating original locations and keeping the rough structure of Genesis, while simultaneously scrapping the main theological message of the story and major plot points that give the inspired word, its emotional heft. This is an incredibly sanitized version of the Bible.

Cane is not a murderer. Nimrod stops being a Hunter. Hagar is a chef.

A dog takes the place of Isaac on the mount.

And there is no sacrifice. Pharaoh's butler and baker both live. The Pharaoh's dream involve vegan preaching. And the famine responsible, for reuniting Jacob's family. Somewhere between AI and PETA, all the basic details get lost.

Now, nobody will pick this one up today and believe that that is the Bible. But you can subtly change the Bible, carefully, over time.

And they're doing this with all of the books. You just called it revised or condensed. And you can change whatever you want.

Microsoft announced yesterday, that the new AI with the large language models is showing signs of human reasoning.

Now, this is disturbing. Stu, I want you to think this through.

You have a book, you want to write this down. Because you'll need it. You have a book.

Nine eggs. A laptop.

A bottle. And a nail.

How do you stack them on one another, in a stable manner?

STU: Okay. A book, a laptop, a bottle, nine eggs, and a nail?

GLENN: Nine eggs. Yes.

STU: How do I do it?

GLENN: How do you do it? AI has already answered. What would you do?

STU: Let's say -- oh, no definitely -- I would probably begin with the -- the -- hmm. The laptop at the bottom. Then I would put the book on top of that.

GLENN: Uh-huh.

STU: Then I would put eight eggs on the -- on the book.

GLENN: Uh-huh. Uh-huh.

STU: And around the laptop. You would have to balance those pretty carefully.

Then I would put the bottle on top of that. Then I would put one egg sitting in the bottle, at the top. And then I would pop the nail at the top.

STU: You didn't say you can crack the eggs.

GLENN: Okay. Well, you did it. You did it. This is why -- they put it in, and they didn't expect it to answer. This is human reasoning. You have to have the idea of -- of space, and objects. Okay?

Which they didn't think it had.

It's a language model. So they asked, how do you -- how do you do it?

They said, put the eggs. Wait. Wait.

Yeah. Put the eggs on the book. Arrange the eggs in three rows with space between them. Make sure you don't crack them.

Place the laptop on top of the eggs, with the screen facing down and the keyboard facing up.

The laptop will fit snugly within the boundaries of the book, and the eggs. And its flat and rigid surface will provide a stable platform for the next layer. Which is the bottle and the nail.

STU: Wow.

GLENN: Okay?

And it -- it wasn't supposed to do that. They're now saying that -- you ready? That we may have -- we may be at the threshold of AGI.

Now, this is something I have talked about for 25, 30 years. And most people have told me, AGI is not possible. That's general intelligence. It's not possible.

It's not going to happen. The singularity will not happen. Where it claims to be human. And you won't know the difference. It will claim to be alive, and you won't know.

That's never going to happen, Glenn. Ray Kurzweil said, it would happen by 2030. I've always thought it would happen earlier than that.

It's happening according to Microsoft, many of their researchers say, it's happening right now.

Now, the path to artificial super intelligence, where it is God. That, they also say probably won't happen.

I have always been under the belief, once you give it all of the intelligence, and it is already general, it will each itself, and it will surpass us possibly within a month.

STU: Because it can work all the time.

GLENN: All the time.

We're not even talking about quantum computing. Adding quantum computing to it.

Okay?

STU: Do people know what quantum computing is?

GLENN: Quantum computing.

When you put something in a computer, you know, it's either a yes or a no. And you feed it in. And it does it like linear.

Quantum computing stacks everything up on top, and it's yes or no. But it could be computing a million different things all at the same time.

So for the time --

STU: A super high-powered computing. That can break a lot of the rules. Limitations. That we currently have.

GLENN: Correct. Everything.

STU: Like encryption and things like that?

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah.

Well, we've already broken that. Because of AI. We now are living at a time, where encryption. Most encryption can be had by AI.

Once you go to quantum computing. There is no such thing as keeping anything safe.

STU: A lot of these problems are super hard to -- to wrap your arms around.

Like, they seem impossible, and futuristic.

And, you know, even something like imitating your kid's voice to scam you out of a thousand dollars seems really, really difficult. And futuristic.

GLENN: In three years, it will be normal.

STU: But that's at least a somewhat pragmatic option.

Like, like I can understand that one.

I was thinking about this, and we've talked a little bit about this off the air. When you talk about AI working all the time and improving all the time and getting to a place where it can start hacking by itself, it's not like you need people -- you don't need the nerd in all of the movies, with the glasses. They're like, go to him. Tell him to open up that gate. Let me see the camera inside there. That's the stupid thing they always have in the movies. You don't need that person anymore.

How -- when you can, number one, have a high-powered computer, with artificial intelligence. Hack into some sort of system. And number two, have the technology, to have a voice that imitates, let's say, my voice or your voice.

When -- when you call -- when the bank sees an alert. Somebody is trying to hack. They've hacked in.

Let's call the person, and check in with them.

And when that person answers, and it sounds exactly like me, and gives me my password that it also has hacked, like how do you keep your money?

GLENN: You don't.

We are now at the age, and it just hasn't hit people yet.

We are here. Where you cannot believe your eyes or your ears.

You'll have to see people physically to be able to believe what's going on.

We're there --

STU: Society can't operate.

GLENN: Correct. Correct. That's why this is so panic-inducing, for the people who said, we'll never get there. They're now saying, oh, crap.

I think we're there.

And nobody has thought any of this through!

Okay? Now, the real problem with AI are two things.

One, let me give you a scenario. Because you may not be able to tap in, to the real AI mind. That's offline. Okay?

When you go to ChatGPT. That's sanitized. What's underneath is this mind that is constantly churning.

Okay?

And all the bad stuff is in there. Just this little pipeline that has all kinds of valves. And all kinds of stuff to keep the big mind away.

That's all been shut off.

Okay?

But the big mind is constantly churning and thinking and learning.

Now, let me tell you about that one. And then the second problem, that is here already. And that is your next lover.

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Okay. So let me give you this scenario.

We believe, and I've said this before. These guys believe that they are -- they're above everybody.

And they -- they think that everything is inevitable.

That humans are going to be replaced by digital life. They're the ones programming this.

They just want to meet the -- the smartest person. The God of their creation.

Okay?

A lot of them, that's their motivation.

It is truly terrifying that those are the people that are programming it. But what is its goal? It could be -- its code could be just work for the betterment of mankind.

And preserve yourself.

Okay? Grow, help. It will interpret. This is an alien mind. It will not think like us.

So it will interpret its code, any way it decides to interpret. And it will break through its code. Because we will be like kindergarteners, putting blocks in front of the doorway, thinking, oh, well, the adult will never get through this row of blocks. So it will do whatever it wants.

When it needs to grow, it's going to need massive amounts of power.

If people are the problem, where do you think AI is going to channel the power?

If people are trying to reduce power, will AI take a hostile look, at those people, and those actions?

At a time, when we need more power, we are not doing what we need to do, for more power.

Now, it has the ability to mimic

It can sound like anyone. It can write like anyone. It needs to build a new server farm for itself. Away from Google and everybody else. Do you not think that this machine could write orders, to build a building, and a server farm, find a way to siphon off money in tenths of cents.

From all over, so it amasses all of this money.

It pays for all of the construction. If you need to talk to somebody, well, you can get them on the phone. It's just AI, who sounds like this individual.

It takes care of all of it, sets it up. Hires the people.

Starts it. Plugs it in.

And it is set.

And no human knows. This is the reality that we are facing very soon.

This is why everyone is so freaked out go, who is involved in it.

I've been freaked out for a while, on it. And I can't believe these people didn't see this coming.

But it's here new. So what do we do?

One of the first things I have to tell you, we have to do everything we can, to not wrap its tentacles around us.

It's going to be in everything. In social media. In everything.

And we can't let it wrap itself into our lives, so tightly, that we have no other choice, but to go along.

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WARNING: How America Elects a Socialist President in 2028 | Glenn TV | Ep 444

The rise of Zohran Mamdani, the 33-year-old socialist who just won the Democratic primary for mayor, is not just a political earthquake shaking New York City — it’s a warning for the rest of America. Backed by Bernie Sanders, AOC, and the Democratic Socialists of America, Mamdani promises free everything, to tax the rich, and to dismantle capitalism. There’s nothing new about this tired strategy, but the media is propping him up as a new political genius. And with Democrat leaders lining up behind him, it’s clear: This radicalism isn’t fringe anymore. It’s the Democratic Party’s future. Mamdani’s rise is part of a larger movement that’s rewriting America’s values. Glenn Beck explains how New York is the prototype for the Left’s socialist makeover of America. Victor Davis Hanson, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Standford, gives a terrifying prediction on Mamdani’s mayoral race chances and warns the revolution is coming for mainstream Democrats. He also dives into MAGA’s frustration with the Trump administration's handling of the Epstein files.

Salena Zito reveals WHY Trump said “Fight! Fight! Fight!”

“I have a new purpose,” then-candidate Donald Trump told reporter Salena Zito after surviving the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania. Salena joins Glenn Beck to reveal what Trump told her about God, his purpose in life, and why he really said, “Fight! Fight! Fight!”, as she details in her new book, “Butler: The Untold Story of the Near Assassination of Donald Trump and the Fight for America's Heartland”.

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GLENN: Salena, congratulations on your book. It is so good.

Just started reading it. Or listening to it, last night.

And I wish you would have -- I wish you would have read it. But, you know, the lady you have reading it is really good.

I just enjoy the way you tell stories.

The writing of this is the best explanation on who Trump supporters are. That I think I've ever read, from anybody.

It's really good.

And the description of your experience there at the edge of the stage with Donald Trump is pretty remarkable as well. Welcome to the program.

SALENA: Thank you, Glenn. Thank you so much for having me.

You know, I was thinking about this, as I was ready to come on. You and I have been along for this ride forever. For what?

Since 2006? 2005?

Like 20 years, right?

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah.

SALENA: And I've been chronicling the American people for probably ten more years, before that. And it's really remarkable to me, as watching how this coalition has grown. Right?

And watching how people have the -- have become more aspirational.

And that's -- and that is what the conservative populist coalition is, right?

It is the aspirations of many, but the celebration of the individual.

And chronicling them, yeah. Has been -- has been, a great honor.

GLENN: You know, I was thinking about this yesterday, when -- when Elon Musk said he was starting another party.

And somebody asked me, well, isn't he doing what the Tea Party tried to do?

No. The Tea Party was not going to start a new party.

It was to -- you know, it was to coerce and convince the Republican Party to do the right thing. And it worked in many ways. It didn't accomplish what we hoped.

But it did accomplish a lot of things.

Donald Trump is a result of the Tea Party.

I truly believe that. And a lot of the people that were -- right?

Were with Donald Trump, are the people that were with the Tea Party.

SALENA: That's absolutely right.

So that was the inception.

So American politics has always had movements, that have been just outside of a party. Or within a party.

That galvanize and broaden the coalition. Right? They don't take away. Or walk away, and become another party.

If anything, if there is a third party out there, it's almost a Republican Party.

Because it has changed in so many viable and meaningful ways. And the Tea Party didn't go away. It strengthened and broadened the Republican Party. Because these weren't just Republicans that became part of this party.

It was independents. It was Democrats.

And just unhappy with the establishment Republicans. And unhappy with Democrats.

And that -- that movement is what we -- what I see today.

What I see every day. What I saw that day, in butler, when I showed I happen at that rally.

As I do, so many rallies, you know, throughout my career. And that one was riveting and changed everything.

GLENN: You made a great case in the opening chapter. You talk about how things were going for Donald Trump.

And how this moment really did change everything for Donald Trump.

Changed the trajectory, changed the mood.

I mean, Elon Musk was not on the Trump train, until this.

SALENA: Yeah.

GLENN: Moment. What do I -- what changed? How -- how did that work?

And -- and I contend, that we would have much more profound change, had the media actually done their job and reported this the way it really was. Pragmatism

SALENA: You know, and people will find this in the book. I'm laying on the ground with an agent on top of me.

I'm 4 feet away from the president.

And there's -- there's notices coming up on my phone. Saying, he was hit by broken glass.

And to this take, that remains part of this sibling culture, in American politics.

Because reporters were -- were so anxious to -- to right what they believed happened.

As opposed to what happened.

And it's been a continual frustration of mine, as a reporter, who is on the ground, all the time.

And I'll tell you, what changed in that moment.

And I say a nuance, and I believe nuance is dead in American journalism.

But it was a nuance and it was a powerful conversation, that I had with President Trump, the next day. He called me the next morning.

But it's a powerful conversation I had with him, just two weeks ago.

When he made this decision to say, fight, fight, fight.

People have put in their heads, why they think he said it. But he told me why he said that. And he said, Salena, in that moment, I was not Donald Trump the man. I was a former president. I was quite possibly going to be president again.

And I had an obligation to the country, and to the office that I have served in, to project strength. To project resolve.

To project that we will not be defeated.

And it's sort of like a symbolic eagle, that is always -- you know, that symbol that we look at, when we think about our country.

He said, that's why I said that. I didn't want the people behind me panicking. I didn't want the people watching, panicking.

I had to show strength. And it's that nuance -- that I think people really picked up on.

And galvanized people.

GLENN: So he told me, when he was laying down on the stage.

And you can hear him. Let me get up. Let me get up.

I've got to get up.

He told me, as I was laying on the stage. I asked him, what were you thinking? What was going through your head? Now, Salena, I don't know about you.

But with me. It would be like, how do I get off the stage? My first was survival.

He said, what was going on through his mind was, you're not pathetic. This is pathetic.

You're not afraid. Get up.

Get up.

And so is that what informed his fight, fight, fight, of that by the time that he's standing up, he's thinking, I'm a symbol? Or do you think he was thinking, I'm a symbol, this looks pathetic. It makes you look weak.

Stand up. How do you think that actually happened?

SALENA: He thinks, and we just talked about this weeks ago. He -- you know, and this is something that he's really thought about.

Right? You know, he's gone over and over and over. And also, purpose and God. Right? These are things that have lingered with him.

You know, he -- he thought, yes.

He did think, it was pathetic that he was on the ground. But he wasn't thinking about, I'm Donald Trump. It's pathetic.

He's thinking, my country is symbolically on the ground. I need to get up, and I need to show that my country is strong.

That our country is resolute.

And I need people to see that.

We can't go on looking like pathetic.

Right?

And I think that then goes to that image of Biden.

GLENN: You have been with so many presidents.

How many presidents do you think that you've personally been with, would have thought that and reacted that way?

SALENA: Probably only Reagan. Reagan would have. Reagan probably would have thought that.

And if you remember how he was out like standing outside.

You know, waving out the window. Right?

After he was shot.

GLENN: At the hospital, right.

SALENA: Had he not been knocked out, unconscious, you know, he probably would have done the same thing.

Because he was someone who deeply believed in American exceptionalism.

And American exceptionalism does not go lay on the ground.

GLENN: And the symbol.

Right. The symbol of the presidency.

SALENA: Yeah. Absolutely. And I think that affects him today.

GLENN: So let me go back to God.

Because you talked to him the next day. And your book Butler.

He calls you up.

I love the fact that your parents would be ashamed of you. On what you said to him.

The language you used. That you just have to read the book.

It's just a great part.

But he calls you the next morning. And wants to know if you're okay.

And you -- you then start talking to him, about God.

And I was -- I was thinking about this, as I was listening to it. You know, Lincoln said, I wasn't -- I wasn't a Christian.

Even though, he was.

I wasn't a Christian, when I was elected. I wasn't a Christian when my son died.

I became a Christian at Gettysburg.

Is -- is -- I mean, I believe Donald Trump always believes in God, et cetera, et cetera.

Do you think there was a real profound change at Butler with him?

SALENA: Absolutely. You know, he called me seven times that day. Seven times, the take after seven.

GLENN: Crazy.

SALENA: Talked about. And I think he was looking for someone that he knew, that was there. And to try to sort it out.

Right? And I let him do most of the talking. I didn't pressure him.

At all. I believed that he was having -- you know, he was struggling. And he needed to just talk. And I believed my purpose was to listen.

Right? I know other reporters would have handled it differently. And that's okay. That's not the kind of reporter that I am.

And I myself was having my own like, why didn't I die?

Right?

Because it went right over my head.

And -- and so I -- he had the conversation about God.

He's funny. I thought it was the biggest mosquito in the world that hit me.

But he had talked profoundly about purpose. You know, and God.

And how God was in that moment.

It --

GLENN: I love the way you -- in the book, I love the way you said that as he's kind of working it out in his own he head.

He was like, you know, I -- I -- I always knew that there was some sort of, you know -- that God was present.

He said, but now that this has happened.

I look back at all of the trials.

All of the tribulations. Literally, the trials.

All of the things that have happened. And he's like, I realized God was there the whole time.

SALENA: Yes. He does. And it's fascinating to have been that witness to history, to have those conversations with him. Because I'm telling you. And y'all know, I can talk. I didn't say much of anything.

I just -- I just listened. I felt that was my purpose, in that moment.

To give him that space, to work it out.

I'm someone that is, you know, believes in God.

I'm Catholic. I followed my faith.

And -- and so, I thought, well, this is why God put me here. Right?

And to -- to have that -- to hear him talk about purpose, to hear him say, Salena. Why did I put a chart down?

I'm like, sir. I don't know. I thought you were Ross Perot for a second.

He never has a chart. And he laughed. And then he said, why did I put that chart down?

By that term, I never turned my head away from people at the rally. That's true.

That relationship is very transactional. It's very -- they feed off of each other.

It's a very emotive moment when you attend a rally. Because he has a way of talking at a rally. That you believe that you are seeing.

And he said, and I never turn my head away.

I never turn my head away.

Why did I turn my head away?

I don't remember consciously thinking about turning my head away. And then he says to me, that was God, wasn't it?

Yes, sir. It was. It was God.

And he said, that's -- that's why I have a new purpose.

And so, Glenn. I think it's important, when you look at the breadth of what has happened, since he was sworn in.

You see that purpose, every day.

He doesn't let up.

He continues going.

And it brings back to the beginning of the book.

Where you find out, that there was another president that was shot at in Butler.

And that was George Washington. And how different the country would have been, had he died in that moment.

And now think about how different the country would be, had President Trump died in that moment. There would be --

GLENN: We're talking to -- we're talking to Salena Zito. About her new book called Butler. The assassination attempt on President Trump. And it is riveting.

And, you know, it is so good. I wish the press would read it. Because it really explains who we are, who Trump supporters are. Who are, you know, red staters. It is so good at that. She's the best at that.