The Gorillamen asked ChatGPT to write the intro to this episode about artificial intelligence...

"Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the field of computer science and engineering that deals with creating intelligent machines that can perform tasks that typically require human intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making, and language translation. AI involves the development of algorithms and computer programs that can learn from data and experiences, and adapt and improve their performance over time. AI techniques include machine learning, natural language processing, deep learning, computer vision, and robotics, among others. AI has the potential to revolutionize many areas of our lives, including healthcare, education, transportation, and entertainment, among others. However, as with any technology, AI also raises ethical and societal concerns, such as job displacement, bias, privacy, and safety."

To find out where we stand, give this episode a listen!

• What is your first memory of artificial intelligence?
• Have you used any AI technology?
• Do you have any qualms or reservations about AI technology? If so, what?
• What's your opinion on AI programs that generate fiction and art?
• Would you ever appreciate AI art (visual art, books, movies, or other things) in the same way you appreciate what humans make?
• What's the coolest use for AI technology you've heard about?
• Do you think people are overhyping AI technology or being overly critical of it?
• In what ways do you think AI will change the way we live?
• Do you trust AI technology?
• How long do you think it will be before we see AI replacing white-collar workers?
• If you could create an AI, what would it be and why?
• What is the future of artificial intelligence?

We've discussed control before, but it's fun revisiting a topic (and throwing in some new points of discussion).

Here's what was discussed:

• What is the first time you realized someone was trying to exert control over you?
• Have you ever tried to control anyone else?
• Why do people feel the need to control others?
• What systems of control are obvious?
• Which ones are less obvious?
• Who has control over you? To what extent?
• How do we free ourselves of outside control? Can we even do that?
• What’s the most insidious system of control?
• What is the future of control?

Pull up a stump and gather round, for I will speak to you now about the Gorillamen...

Some say they escaped...wherever it is they once were. Sightings are frequent: in the beginning, weekly. In time, they were seen and heard every other week. Now, they sometimes have a couple sightings a month, but at times we all wonder if they will ever come back.

They always do...

Somewhere it is written that the Gorillamen met while working for a large finance company, two apes-made-good writing mortgage procedures to [hopefully] prevent unfair practices. It is not likely their work changed much, but it was clearly meant to be...because on February 7, 2013, they crowded around a microphone not-at-all suited for podcasting and...they started a podcast anyway!

Now, ten years later, they are still on the run; still being sighted; and sometimes...even heard spreading their own ape-branded philosophy and humor at least they find funny.

To say they are another two-guys-with-microphones podcast is true, but it is also false. Over the years, sure...they have wandered off topic, but they are apes speaking with purpose, too. They have talked about some of the dumbest things during the last decade, but they have talked about important things, too. Sometimes they get things wrong, and maybe that's the beauty of the show: they have talked enough that you can see they are on the right side of history -- never afraid of admitting when one of their takes on an issue was off.

Apes striving to be better...

If nothing else, they did what they set out to do: start a podcast when no one else they knew was willing to give it a go.

And if you listen to the wind just right, you'll hear their frequency echo like a voice whispering, "Chill the fuck out...and make the damn thing..."

Here's what they talk about this time around...

• What's your first memory of Men in Gorilla Suits?
• Aside from starting Men in Gorilla Suits, what else was going on in your life ten years ago?
• Has Men in Gorilla Suits opened any doors for you in the last ten years?
• What's the best thing that happened in your last ten years?
• What's the worst thing that happened in your last ten years?
• What are you most proud of doing in the last ten years?
• What do you wish you had done differently in the last ten years?
• Let's not keep focusing on the past ten years: what do you feel was the most formidable decade in your life?
• What was your favorite decade in your life?
• What was the worst decade in your life?
• If you could live through any point in history for 10 years (with a guarantee you’d survive), what would it be?
• Where do you see yourself in 10 years?

Pew Pew Pew!!! "You'll never take mah gunz, Mistah Gov'mint!!!" Pew Pew Pew!!!

Other gun owners aren't that ridiculous.

This time around, we talk about them both as...we talk about guns.

Specifically:

• What was your first experience with guns?
• Have you ever fired a gun? 
• Do you own a gun? Why or why not?
• Have you ever, or would you ever? Under what circumstances?
• Is America obsessed with guns?
• What’s the worst gun-culture thing you’ve seen?
• Is American gun policy good? Does it do enough?
• Do you think people should be able to own guns?
• What the future of guns?