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Podcast: PastMaster: Reshaping History
Episode: Does AI believe in Aliens? The Truth behind Area 51 (ft Sunil Patel)
Description: Rachel, Nevada, 1988. The nearest town to the most secretive military installation on Earth, and comedian Sunil Patel is here to ask the question PastMaster was arguably built for: does the AI Game Master, with access to the entire internet's worth of training data, actually believe in aliens?
The logic is sound. If any entity has parsed every conspiracy theory, government report, eyewitness account, and 4chan thread about extraterrestrial life, it's a large language model trained on the internet. It's read about Bob Lazar's nine flying discs, it knows about Element 115, and it's absorbed every theory about underwater...