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on today's show a robot passes a small but crucial artificial intelligence test Ford's new headlight system that actually turns as it sees stuff on the road and VR is one step closer to Hollywood tomorrow Daley greetings citizens of the internet welcome to tomorrow daily the best geek talk shown there new verse I'm Ashley together that's kill anonymous don't don't correct your screen my pants are really this red yeah yeah turn up your saturation in fact just go right for it you're not ready for it you're not ready Kayla wears these to keep people cars and people will stop actually right in front of him it's like it's like at your own walking they can I had a lot of power I don't know how I'm able to wield them but I just am it's just a genetic thing I don't know it's kind of like the wheel near where you're the only person who's actually able to pull them up like you no one else can actually yeah if they're not they're not worthy no one's worthy I didn't buy them they just showed up on my body and this one is towed to you by a Nordic Nordic Norse God all right guys let's hit the headlines is there a Nordic god of fashion I feel like that would be fabulous gotta be one right oh my god yeah somebody somebody if you can draw draw fashion please just send that right over okay let's talk about real thing let's talk about this is a little bit scary so researchers at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute a I and reasoning lab that's a mouthful may have made a very small but but quite significant AI breakthrough this is very interesting so there is a true AI shows its awareness through recognizing itself as an individual different from others and so what they did was they took these three little cute robots and these now robots and they gave them a classic logic puzzle called the Kings wisemen and so in the King's wise men there's a thing about hats it's like it's there's it's a whole logic puzzle and what they did was they modified the puzzle like this so they told all the robots that two of them had been given a pill that rendered them unable to speak and one got a placebo and was able to speak and the mechanism that kept them from talking wasn't actually a pill was just a button on top of their heads okay so two of the three robots had a button pressed down on their heads that kept them from speaking okay and and they asked each robot individually see so there they are like type so when they tap on their heads there you go they're quiet and they basically asked the robots they gave him time to reason because they have reasoning software installed and they said okay did you receive the the pill or the placebo and one of the robots said the one who didn't get silenced said I'm sorry I don't know but then it recognizes that it spoke it stands up raises its hand like it's in a class and says I'm sorry I know now I was able to prove I was not given the dumbing pill so it recognized that it spoke meaning it did not get this pill to make it quiet so it realized it was different than the other two robots so this is like a very significant thing like a maze thing small it seems really small but this is a really kind of amazing AI achievement it's like a that's really cool that this robot was able to reason like oh I just spoke I must have gotten I must have gotten a placebo I reasoned that I'm different than these other two robots I like it I think it's adorable it's it's an adorable showing an AI but but then what I I'm so yeah understood the the robot understood the rules of the puzzle it recognized its own voice was speaking out loud and then was able to reason that it was distinct from the other two robots and that was what was so important about it I thought it was really fascinating and I I mean congrats to the team over there and and and well done because that is again small but significant kind of thing where you see it and you're just like wow like this is gonna kind of open up maybe some doors that weren't available to be open before for adorable little robots and Skynet tell me about we are okay so this would be a real quick story but there's some big stuff that happened with oculus because oculus just partnered with someone so we know that VR has been a big thing that gaming has been looking forward to that's really ready to go and stuff like that but a lot of people have been making content that is also filmmaking it's bringing it closer to Hollywood right and we've seen this done before we even reach echt it out with interstellar yeah he did an interstellar experience there was one for Jurassic world's so that you they were tying it to a movie well oculus has partnered with Felix and Paul Studios which is run by Felix and Paul they just signed a contract with the oculus or multi multi project multi-year deal to make more Hollywood crossover type stuff I like it yeah so you know obviously what like I said one of those was you know Jurassic world look this was a Cirque du Soleil one I guess oh my gosh this is amazing but it looks like that's what that's a direction that oculus wants to go and there's going to be more of this filmmaking variances marketing type stuff right that is that okay so that's pretty interesting because I think for most of Hollywood they kind of still see VR as kind of this getting tool as opposed to full-on filmmaking like I know that there are like they I think have made like narrative film that is virtual reality based but I I find it interesting that like right now the from Hollywood the big studios they're like oh this is a great marketing tool and I wonder if that do you think that will change next year like when when consumer headsets go on the market because I think obviously access is very limited right now for most people they can't get their hands on an oculus you know a developer's kit or they can't you know everything else is all you know the vibe is not available nothing's available so except for cardboard and so and the gear VR so do you think that like within a year or two we're gonna start seeing like beyond just marketing experiences where it's like oh go take a tour on these ship in the endeavour from interstellar or check out an Apatosaurus in Jurassic world like do you think we're actually gonna start seeing like full on full feature-length films in virtual reality I don't know I don't think so not yeah I think there's it was gonna be a lot of like fan-made stuff to start out with I don't think anybody's gonna jump in there right away but I think there's gonna be like a lot of fan experiences but like like yeah like we were saying even the World of Warcraft thing which you can watch online now yeah so for the Warcraft movie they made a flyover of Azeroth so it is awesome it's gonna be stuff like that and they don't I mean they're not gonna be able to sell ISM I mean headsets are gonna need to be much more commonplace before they start making that makes a lot that sort of cons really common yeah yeah it's got to be like you know the same type of thing is like a television in every house yeah it's a it's got to be that tipping point where it's like there's so many people I have them just have to make that it does seem gimmicky to a lot of people still and so the studio's also seen as gimmicky and so they're not gonna until it starts yeah just being like okay hey you'll never believe what I saw yet last night of my headset like it's like when your face just goes like this and you're just talking about your headset like that but but until there yeah we're bored oh so tired of being in a virtual experience of flying over Azeroth on a bagel anyway I do let go I like that though like being inside a scene for the movie if that would be cool yeah yeah I want to be in Terminator 2 so that brings us to our hashtag of the which is hashtag TD thumb ver filter yeah wait yeah film VR got it what was the lower third that we just saw what kind of VR experience do you want to check out for an upcoming film yeah what kind of VR experience would you want to check out for an up for me so a movie that's coming out well it's gonna come out yeah not something that already exists so you can't like you know interstellar like no we can't do that I feel like the right answer would be Star Wars yeah that could be good but I'm gonna I'm gonna back out of that one I'm gonna try I'm gonna try something original but you go ahead I'm gonna say I would like to see a VR experience for Suicide Squad where you have to go on a date with Harley Quinn duh yeah or that date with Harley Quinn that would be great um no I I like the idea of to one of two things one like action-packed sort of heist II kinda thing that's core you can do one where it's a little bit more like get to know the characters and you are the psychiatrist the prison psychiatrist who has to like talk to each of them like down in their little prison cells Oh like telltale games or you can like pick answers and then they respond I think that would be awesome it's pretty clever I would like that I'd want to do the hateful eight I want to see what good you know would do with some VR and I'd also be scared of that it would be terrifying I don't know I don't know I think I have somebody else right you'd never come out the same you've never ever come in but somehow blood comes out of the VR headset he'd find a way he put like pressure sensors in your chair when you moved a certain way it just starts bleeding so there you go TD film vr v film vr that's delightful okay well let me tell you about Ford and then we'll hit the brake so for does this really interesting headlamp system that they're testing out right now this is super weird and actually reminds me of this this actually was it kind of a patent like here just year decades decades ago somebody wanted to make a car where you turn the wheel and the headlights moved right you have the Tucker the Tucker so I'm sorry there's gonna be a lot of people that don't know this is actually a thing that has been people wanted wanted to make something like this for a very long time so Ford's new headlight system is really interesting because it uses infrared cameras GPS data and pivoting spotlights alongside stand headlights to pinpoint hazards and people on dark roads and literally shine a light in them on them so what it does is um the GPS insights you can see how this actually works it the infrared will see someone on the road scary and turn the spotlight part of the headlamp see so it's not the headlights themselves their actual spotlights where like your fog lights would normally be that point at potential hazards so your headlights are always gonna be fixed in front of you and then the these little spotlights underneath your headlights turn to sort of pinpoint things that might be hazards or will turn with a bend in the road so see like it's like they split out oh you have to turn so this spotlights gonna go this way and this one's gonna go so that you can make your turn safely and be able to see everything which is pretty amazing so they said that this new tech is gonna be available for customers in the near term that was their their phrase that's not a thing so I would imagine that maybe we might actually maybe even see a car like this at CES next year might see one on the show floor where they showed that show off the technology and it's called the camera based advanced front lighting system which is a really long name that no one's gonna remember you gotta make it snappy like you know like I need something short that guy can you put that back on producer Logan cuz that guy needs to not be walking that dog where he's walking on a dark road yeah in the middle of the night can we can we cue that it's clearly this person is get out of there go into the forest with your dog and let him go pee over there walking on this it's just bad there's nothing like a sidewalk look at this now you are that you are stupid sir you're asking but able the weird a weird side note when you're walking and a car's keep coming by you and flashing a bright light in your face yeah I'm I'm all for safety safety first but I thought about that too I thought about a bicyclist like if they're if they're going the opposite direction and this light like shines into you like swing-off you know I can't see and they go blind but fortunately this system actually designed to point downwards like toward someone's have bottom half to the dog towards the ass you blind the dog but not there he shouldn't be in the street no but as far as the biking thing they're supposed to go with traffic right supposed to go with traffic that's the only thing that guy did the dog did right was go against traffic when you're walking can I tell you about anxiety that is stupid I always walk against traffic because I'm always scared that when I'm walking with it a car is gonna come up from behind and like you're supposed to do the rule is okay ride your bike ride your bike with traffic walk against it because you're supposed to be able to see any danger coming at you yeah good well the good I'm glad that my paranoia finally paid off and I did something right so that brings us to our hashtag of the day hashtag Ashley is paranoid about everything all right guys we're gonna take a quick break we're gonna be right back with a really awesome back rockin that kind of folds into this this technology it's a bicycle helmet and then we're gonna talk about and then and then we are going to discuss your user feedback and our photogra for the day so don't click away it's tomorrow daily yeah you were not welcome back to the show we've returned it's Monday which means it's time to discuss crowdfunding efforts that have caught our eye it's time for Becker Hackett alright so back into Hackett we're gonna talk about a bicycle helmet that is trying to push bike helmet technology into the 21st century which I feel is in dire need of an update this is called Lumos we need old helmets old town' just go for old how much just no helmets at all tip rocks to her head Oh perfect that'll actually protect you very well rocks are thick so Lumos is not just the Harry Potter spell as I mentioned lower third it's a this is a bike helmet that has turn signals on it and brake lights which is pretty cool so one of the things that I always worry about with my friends who are avid bicyclists or cyclists is that you know when they write at night it's dangerous you know cuz cars aren't paying attention a lot of the time and and you're little and you're small yeah you're not you're not exactly the bread the the biggest thing on the road and it's hard to see you so we've seen bike helmets with like brake lights or you know headlamps things like that sort of get the attention of drivers but this one has a built-in brake light that it works with an accelerometer so when it feels that you're slowing down it actually just comes on you don't have to toggle it which is pretty great and it also has turn signals so which those are controlled by a little remote that you put on your handlebar and you could say hey I'm going going right I'm going left or I'm slowing down and then I'm gonna turn and it recharges using USB so it's really simple it's not it's not anything crazy it lasts the charge lasts for two and a half hours of flashing so it's like I mean this in flashing mode lasts for two and half hours so a good bike ride it's not gonna you know you I mean if you're going on the Tour de France I mean this probably won't work for you but you're you're safe anyway you're for the most part you're it's although streets are blocked off you know how to worry about cars but yeah - now for our bike ride if it's flashing the entire time it's pretty good yeah good stuff I really like this it's really really cool now I need to know how much it cost because it's cool I'd buy it my bike is true so not all of us biker people biker dudes we spent a lot of money on your bike so yeah like you don't have a $700 bike I'm not gonna give inexpensive life I really ridiculously because a safety is amazing like this is the best okay okay so I'm gonna at first I'm gonna tell you how much they wanted they wanted one hundred and twenty five thousand dollars they have blown past that they've made three hundred and eleven thousand dollars as a right this second very cool which is awesome they still have 23 days left and a bike helmet after the couple of early birds are have gone they're still an early bird left $99 that's not bad at all not bad at all that's bird I would I thought $1.99 when I first saw it I'm like 200 bucks as well you know ninety-nine bucks which is the price of a Fitbit so if you have something for your fitness save up your money save up your couch change and go get go get a Lumos they deliver may of next year so not not terrible within a year there you feel like they're they're pretty ready it does say forty percent off the the early bird that's available there's nine hundred and eighty-two left of twenty five hundred as I'm reading it on the site right now and it says that this is forty percent off the projected price at retail a hundred dollars so it looks like it's gonna be you know you can get Loomis with Co you know you can get two for a hundred ninety bucks right yeah that's cool that's really cool you know who needs one of these that stupid guy walking his dog beyond the forest helmet and get your limos and pulling on your dog too because apparently you don't have to take care of your dog I like that you're more concerned about the dog than the actual person in them oh there he is again what are you doing you're not even there is a little path on the right you could just go over there the dog is looking at the car like could I just go with you he's not walking the dog so the dog can use the restroom and he's not even in the place where the dog would go that was negative on the street dogs don't go ah sorry I hate to break it to you but yeah there's like custom call signs and stuff that you can do like real awesome stuff yeah like depending on the tear they have like all these like custom different things yeah that's cool like that yeah they've got a bunch of stuff going on so I'm so really nice Loomis great work really really like it and for 99 bucks I mean I feel like you can't beat it that's a that's a little piece of technology that would you know could technically save your life beyond just the helmet part alright guys let's talk about you it's time for user feedback you're gonna really like all these answers we asked you guys use the hashtag TV Mickey to talk about what experiences you'd want in a new high-tech Disney theme park right you said just like one of those cool like like the voice and I said like soap in wrote to us and said Star Wars battle groups or tea cockpit Sims x-wing Millennium Falcon gun turrets with LCD displays for windows I like that that's pretty good they've already kind of got a game like that but it's garbage like it looks terrible but it's but it's yeah I totally agree with you or like a they have a pod simulators rad the pod the bat is like the battle pods those are yeah those are cool that's nice Derek wrote and said I want to Star Wars Clone Wars experience where I'm fighting battle droids and clone troopers that turn on me order 66 like they basically turn on him and he's gonna fight whoa whoa that's a pretty intense one to pick by the way did everybody go Star Wars no next person said interstellar black hole ride the longer you're on it the more years go by outside of it which I totally thought was awesome that's also terrifying yeah that's totally terrifying I would not you get out and like your kids who can't write it or like you know a hundred years old how was the ride dad right now you're older than I am Mitchell wrote and said each person gets a different Avenger character and you have to work together to fight Ultron little kids yeah I bet you little kids would be better at it than we would totally have like Hulk just like falling on my face and a little kid an Iron Man I love that so much oh my god a baby's with the Avengers so and then James wrote in an email and I really like this and I want to share with you because I feel like you would really like this and I really did he said I think it would be a great idea for Disney to have a simulation tour attraction have one at each of the parks around the world they would offer an interactive virtual tour of all the Disney parks it's true some experiences are difficult to fully appreciate virtually but by giving Disney fans some one which would be on otherwise experienced a chance to enjoy these parks they have fulfilled the essence of the Disney spirit so he was saying that like it would be kind of like in-house market like and he mentions like imagine like Ashlee if you could go did you just down the street to Disneyland and go see all of the Shanghai Disney stuff like right there in a like virtual reality setting pretty awesome like I think that's a really good idea also Disney should hire you because that's a really good marketing idea yeah super-good be really expensive - they'd have to make sure that in some way you could lose a lot of money while you're doing it yeah because Disneyland is expensive and that purchase like you can in-app purchase a churro from your favorite Disney theme park I'd buy it yeah I'd do that I've met a lot of virtual churros churros that's a new and what do you think eyes virtual virtual deep fried foods it's gonna be new new moneymaker you know who it you know who would probably really like that virtual experience is like idiot that walks his dog in the middle of the street probably it's like he's got like he's look at look at he's a lot in the street - at least he puts the dog on the like I'm towards your outside yeah he's closer to the cars I mean he's pretending when he sees the car he's not like what better move out of these like nah this is where I belong you remind me so much right now of Brody from mall rats when he keeps yelling about the kid on the escalator and it's just so amusing to me like I'm loving it so much like you're so enraged all right guys let's talk about our last piece of user feedback it's our phone tiger for the day we got an email from a German listener who was like I was walking my dog on the side of the road and I snapped this pic no that's not true this is from pat pat says typhoons and rains have passed by and finally a bit of evening sun lit up the sky with a double rainbow over the outskirts of Tokyo panoramic shot on my iPhone 5s keep up the interesting and fun stuff on the show my god that's a beautiful picture look at how nice that is in a double rainbow what does it mean guys what does it mean I still love that video edible it looks great no that's just definitely one of my favorite pictures we ever showed on the show this is really cool I really loved it it just tells it tells its own story like I just totally dig it so Pat thank you so much this is like one of the ones that I don't know if you guys have them around your town but in LA they have billboards that says chicken with an iPhone which is which is cool and kind of lame at the same time but also interesting yeah and they'll show like a picture you feel like that you feel like Apple would be like we got a oh yeah well Apple watches the show oh yeah totally yeah of course I mean Johnny I've number one but they but they like but they really hate Brian time oh wow paid him uh alright guys if you want to send in your photogra fee you can email us tomorrow at Sina comm set of story ideas if you feel like it I can also of course find us on social media where tomorrow daily pretty much all over the internet but mostly on Twitter but really if you want to get to know us go to our personal accounts or house please don't come to my house go kills house exactly right I don't have a house I'm homeless so if you want to find me you can find us on our personal accounts I'm at guy walking dog in the middle of the street and that kill anonymous yes then I met Ashley together that's it for the show today guys we'll be back tomorrow with Randy Jacque at a weird wonderful science back meeting science fiction blown up in your face all I could but until then begin humans we'll see you next time bye