#2340 - Charley Crockett

Charley Crockett (0:03)

The Joe Rogan Experience.

Joe Rogan (0:06)

Shrain by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.

Joe Rogan (0:13)

Doing something at the Viper Room and then trying to come here the next day. The Viper Room is just notorious. Like even when you're in the building, you just feel like, ugh.

Charley Crockett (0:27)

It is notorious. It's funny because the only way I'd ever been in there is through that, you know, the door on the side street there. You know, and they had all the cameras out and took me around the, I'd never come in through the door on Sunset before, even recognize the place.

Joe Rogan (0:43)

No, I'd never been through that door either.

Charley Crockett (0:44)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:44)

I've only, like I said, I've only been there once. I was there for a comedy show. It feels weird.

There's certain buildings that just have bizarre history.

Charley Crockett (0:52)

Yeah. Well, Shooter was telling me last night, man, River Phoenix died on the sidewalk right out that door on the, I didn't know that. I thought it was in front of the, I thought it was in front of the whiskey for some reason.

Joe Rogan (1:02)

No, no. It was the Viper Room.

Charley Crockett (1:04)

I never realized that.

Joe Rogan (1:05)

No. It's a fucked up place. Hey man, nice to meet you.

Charley Crockett (1:09)

Pleasure's all mine, Joe.

Joe Rogan (1:10)

I love your music.

Charley Crockett (1:11)

Really?

Joe Rogan (1:11)

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, my friend Jake turned me on to you. Your music is like, you've lived a life. You can't fake that. You know what I mean? There's something about certain dudes' voices and songs like, all right, that guy's done some living. You know, you can't create that with AI.

They're going to try.

Charley Crockett (1:32)

Everybody. I mean, it's crazy. We're kind of reaching singularity, you know, where nobody can tell the difference.

Joe Rogan (1:42)

I know. I think we're right about there. There was a new one that just got released today. Did you hear the new one today? It's even better than the Google one. That was insane. It was released last week. Yeah, it's weird.

Charley Crockett (1:54)

What are you talking about?

Joe Rogan (1:55)

Some new AI engine that does video. I'll send it to you, Jamie. It's pretty incredible.

The way they're able to make stuff now where it looks exactly like real human beings. It doesn't look fake even a little bit.

Joe Rogan (2:12)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (2:13)

I'll send it to you, Jamie. It's called ByteDance. So is that the China one?

Joe Rogan (2:24)

That's the company.

SPEAKER_4 (2:25)

ByteDance is the company that owns TikTok and stuff.

Joe Rogan (2:27)

Oh, yeah, China. Yeah. Yeah. This is their new AI. So this is all fake, all fake people, all done by computers, indistinguishable. You know, it's like very strange. You got it? Throw that up. Give me some sound. You got to click on it. This is all fake. I mean, what the fuck, man?

We are living in the weirdest time ever, Charley Crockett.

Charley Crockett (3:32)

Oh man, you're right.

Joe Rogan (3:33)

This is the weirdest time ever to be alive, because we're so close to not being able to tell what's real and what's fake. We're so close. I mean, we're essentially right there with video, and then eventually it's going to move into some sort of perception. It's gonna be feel. You're gonna be able to put a helmet on and go into some bizarre world.

Charley Crockett (4:00)

And you can't stop it.

Joe Rogan (4:01)

You can't stop it.

Charley Crockett (4:02)

It's coming.

Joe Rogan (4:03)

It's coming. And the people that are working on it in America, like we have to because China is working on it. I'm like, okay, I guess that's just what we're doing.

Charley Crockett (4:12)

Space race, even if it's just a show.

Joe Rogan (4:14)

Yeah, it's essentially the Manhattan Project for Artificial Intelligence. There's a race around the world.

Charley Crockett (4:20)

Joe, did we go to the moon?

Joe Rogan (4:22)

I don't think so.

Charley Crockett (4:23)

You know, I don't think so either.

Joe Rogan (4:24)

I don't think so. It makes you sound fucking completely insane to say it, but.

Charley Crockett (4:28)

I lost a lot of friends when I was younger when I started talking like that. I did too.

Joe Rogan (4:33)

I gained a lot of friends too, though. I gained a lot of... Listen, man, I've talked to scientists that don't want to talk about it publicly. Yeah. Scientists.