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Time for a break. Grab a coffee, get comfy, and catch up with old friends. Join us for an easy chat on all the biggest news stories of the day on ICRT Breakdown, a bilingual 2030 policy program brought to you in cooperation with the National Development Council. You know, Shane, I just missed the radio newscast just now, because I know you told us what the weather is going to be today. But so what's the weather going to be like today? Just ask your Siri, don't you have it on your iPod? Yeah, but why would I ask Siri? My sound does that every day. Hey Google, what's the weather in Taipei today? And then Google would answer him. Today's weather is blah blah blah, cloudy clear, and the temperature is this and that. Oh yeah, that's a good point. I never thought of doing that. So he's relying on AI, artificial intelligence to tell him that. That's right. Is that what you do too, John? I fully rely. I don't have any intelligence on my own. So I have to rely on artificial intelligence. I don't know how to do artificial. Well, thank you. It's my new heady. All my intelligence is artificial. What exactly is artificial intelligence and where does this intelligence? Artificial is man-made, right? Anything man-made is artificial. And I'm the wrong person to ask about intelligence. Artificial, of course, the shirly and golden. If we want to make a robot, the AI is its brain. Yes, that's right. Right. And the robot needs food as well. The same way as how an engine in a car mimics the heart. Exactly. So AI is the brain. I think that's a really good way of thinking about it. And that's a good point, you're saying like the food. So what is the food for AI? It's information. And these days, it's probably a lot of big data where they're collecting more and more information about different things in real time and then applying that to whatever problem is facing us. Right. Big data to the task should do. Not that should do is to show the information, show the information, and then there will be this strange word that I have been hearing so much about. Algorithm. Algorithm. How quickly can you say it? Not very quickly, as you can see just now. Okay. But so John, so what is an algorithm, Mr. Smarty Pants? Al Gore was a former presidential nominee. Really? In the year to come. Former US President Al Gore. But I think this algorithm is not related to that. Al Gore. No, no, no, it's not.