Episode 125 – The Failure of the Star Wars Hotel

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Show Notes 

• Ben and Josh discuss High School Graduation(s) and the AI arms race. They both use ChatGPT to help with their work and wonder how long before it comes for the jobs (hint: it already is). And finally, the hosts take on the 4-hr video essay by Jenny Nicholson on the failure of the Star Wars Hotel.  
• Intro & Follow-up (0-28:18)
  • The Fright of the Rabbit by Ammon Rich 
  • OpenAI releases ChatGPT4 
  • Google, Meta, and OpenAI have Artificial Intelligence Summit 
  • How Star Wars was saved in the edit (by Marcia Lucas) 
  • Turning off your lightsaber mid combat 
• Bad at Parenting (28:18-40:35)
  • The Sartov Approach (2013) — Full Movie on YouTube 
• What I’m Reading (40:35-54:53)
  • Josh: Towers of Midnight (Wheel of Time Book 12) by Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson 
  • Andre Agassi tennis hack against Boris Becker 
  • Ben: A Brief History of Intelligence by Max Bennett 
• Why the Star Wars Hotel Failed (54:53-end)
  • The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel by Jenny Nicholson
    • NBC News 
    • Rolling Stone 
  • First discussed on the Bad at Magic Episode 46, May 2021 (starts @42:51) 
  • Also discussed on B@M Ep. 52, Jul 2021, (starts @2:53) 
  • Evermore Park 
  • United Breaks Guitars 
  • The food was maybe the best part 
  • The Hotel Station Cosmos (in France) 
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  • Transition music by Jarus Rich 
  • Outro music from The Fright of the Rabbit by Ammon Rich