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fell asleep while YouTube was autoplaying, and data-scraping bots! Good to see, you, come on in. We’re having Check it out! Everyone’s dancing! , lady, , people, , and
even, hey look, it’s even , who we actually probably shouldn’t have invited because
those skeletons used to be Iraqi civilians. They’re all celebrating because this is
the 200th episode of Half as Interesting—that’s right, HAI has made 200 videos, which is the
most videos of any YouTube channel ever. In honor of this momentous occasion, we’ve
decided that we’re going to break tradition and finally make a good video. In fact, we’re making the ultimate HAI video. But we didn’t want to have to come up with
it ourselves, because like, we’re tired, we already wrote 199 of these things. So instead, we decided to do what’s already
happening to drivers, accountants, and girlfriends and replace ourselves with robots. So here’s the plan: we feed every title
of every Half as Interesting video we’ve ever made into this predictive text algorithm
bot, which can then write new titles for us—and I want to be clear, this is not a joke, we
are really, 100%, actually doing this. Unfortunately, the bot doesn’t know how
to do research, so none of the titles will be grounded in fact, but hey, when has shoddy
research ever stopped us before, and so, without further ado, I now present what, according
to science, might be the greatest HAI video of all time. Now, at first glance, you might say to yourself
“planes aren’t buffalo,” but what do you know, you’re just a hypothetical audience
member I made up. So, how are planes buffalo? Well, first off, buffalo live in the plains,
and planes fly to and from Buffalo, so take that. Plus, there’s even a specific type of buffalo
called the plains bison, which lives in Yellowstone National Park, and actually, maybe there,
airplanes are buffalo. You see, the only way that buffalos could
be planes is if we lived in a world without rules or laws—and in certain parts of Yellowstone,
that’s basically true. Yellowstone National Park is mainly in Wyoming,
a state best known for, well, having Yellowstone National Park, but there are also small sections
in Idaho and Montana—yet all of it is under the jurisdiction of the US District Court
for the District of Wyoming. Now, under the Sixth Amendment, to be convicted
of a federal crime, you must be tried before a jury of people who live in both the state
and the legal district where the crime was committed, and the trial must take place there
too, which means any crime committed in the Idaho section of Yellowstone would have to
take place in and be tried in front of jurors who live in the Idaho section of Yellowstone. But… no one lives there. And there are no courthouses there. And there are no Jimmy Johns there, which
doesn’t matter for this but is still sad. Furthermore, because Yellowstone is under
exclusive federal jurisdiction, crimes can’t be prosecuted under state laws. All of which, some legal scholars argue, means
that you cannot be convicted of any crime committed in this 50-square mile area--but
no one’s ever tested it, so we don’t know for sure. If you were confused about all the legal jargon,
don’t worry: our AI predicts that LegalEagle will do a video about this in a few months. The point is, since there are basically no
laws, you could classify a buffalo as a plane and nobody could stop you… and that’s
why, at least here, planes are technically buffalo. Here at Half as Interesting, we believe strongly
in quantity over quality, and so let’s try out our bot’s second idea: . Well, ah, when
a German man and a German woman love each other very much, they kiss each other one
time on the cheek and then a baby pops out. At least, that’s what my mom told me. Now, the reason they’re born in Germany
is because Germany exists, which it used to not, and it only really does because of an
accident. You see, after World War II: 2 World 2 War,
Germany was split into East Germany and West Germany, with rival capitals East Berlin and
West Berlin, separated by the Berlin Wall, and , separated by Troy Bolton’s bangs. On November 9, 1989, an East German spokesperson
named GĂĽnter Schabowski was announcing a relatively mild relaxation of travel regulations. He was asked when the change would go into
effect, and he had apparently been up late, probably trying to figure out how to spell
and pronounce a name like Gunter Schabowski, and so he mistakenly said the travel restrictions
would be lifted, “Immediately, without delay.” Actually, they would be lifted the next day,
and travel would still require a lengthy visa process, but he didn’t clarify that, so
East Berliners started storming the wall, all excited to go to West Berlin, which had
cool music and cool fashion and cool not-famine. When they all stormed, the armed guards didn’t
know what to do, and so did nothing, and before anyone could get a handle on what was happening,
East and West Berliners were celebrating and tearing down the wall and listening to David
Hasselhoff sing--which led to East Germany and West Germany getting remarried into just
plain Germany, which explains why are humans born in Germany. That one was a bit tough, but I’m sure the
bot’s next title will be much easier. Uh…ok. So, I guess, like, why... is it called Iceland? Well, there’s an old myth that explorers
named this place, which is relatively green, Iceland, and this place, which is relatively
icy, Greenland, to trick people into going to Greenland so the Vikings could have Iceland
to themselves… but that’s not actually true—as we all know, the only country named
to trick people is Mauritania, which they hoped high people would misread. Iceland’s real name origin is still pretty
weird, though: the explorer FlĂłki VilgerĂ°arson followed a raven there sometime in the 9th
century, he thought the place seemed nice, decided to stay a while, didn’t prep for
winter, all his cattle died, and then he got mad and cursed the place as Iceland, and since
he later came back and settled there permanently, the name stuck to this day. That’s right—Iceland was named after an
insult from a guy who hated it. That would be like naming HAI “Hey Sam We’re
Tired Of The Jokes Please Stop Doing Them”... and so I guess, uh, that’s “why Iceland.” Which brings us to our final video, for which
we allowed the bot to run as long as it wanted, with no interference, which produced: “
Despite our years of writing and interpreting nonsense for this show, even we weren’t
sure what to do with that, so we decided maybe only an AI bot could understand an AI bot. So we handed that sentence to a different
algorithm, and asked it to write us a paragraph. And here’s the brilliant content it provided. Why there are illegal the us ' terrible musical
flight pass how to make new islands in the us with no territory of land called rory so
keep the sun strong and pink green and red (so i'm told because im sure i didnt get all
that from a song that isnt on the agenda). Weird but weird. Im lucky i have a twin sister. Okay so, maybe the AI needs a little more
work. To be fair, though, predictive text does better
the more you give it, and we only gave it one sentence, and that sentence was nonsense. I guess we’ll try again at 300. Maybe you know how to make an AI bot that
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