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Google Cloud Speech-to-Text API (Chirp) + Gemini 2.5 Flash Non-Thinking. Treat it as a searchable index of what was broadcast, not a quotation record.

00:00:00when Photoshop appeared, we started to understand that even an ordinary person can
00:00:03forge and it will look quite good and you won't understand if it's true
00:00:07or not true, so we
00:00:11have to start checking and thinking
00:00:15that practically everything can be falsified and
00:00:18it's difficult, it's difficult for us to adapt, we want some kind of security,
00:00:22we want someone to check it for us, to be safe,
00:00:25for that there are journalists who should recheck it, for journalists
00:00:29it's just as difficult and with the same risks
00:00:32there are wonderful systems being made
00:00:36which reconfirm each other, if you check
00:00:39information, it can be directed to another source, which also says, yes,
00:00:43yes, this is completely true information and now it's not as expensive as
00:00:47it used to be, so that impact on thinking, it can be
00:00:51systemic and here it translates into such
00:00:54political aspects, geopolitical at times
00:00:57aspects, when that technology can be used
00:01:00to influence thinking, mass thinking, and that is probably even
00:01:04more dangerous than war, right? Because in war you know who the enemy is and
00:01:08so on, but here, by influencing thinking, that person will vote
00:01:11as they are influenced and if you ask them, who put that
00:01:14thought in their head, they will say, it's my thought, it's me
00:01:18thinking, so the use of artificial intelligence tools
00:01:22in audiovisual creation is probably
00:01:24the most visible to everyone, discussed, but not always
00:01:28recognized, how it looks. Your work
00:01:31you create audiovisual
00:01:35art with the help of artificial intelligence, so what does that look like
00:01:38today it looks like any ordinary
00:01:42workday, only the tools are different, if before an operator
00:01:45had to come and film, then edit
00:01:49and submit, now it's the same,
00:01:52we just skip the first couple of steps, so you don't need to
00:01:56film, you need to think about what we want to create, you need to...
00:02:00talk to artificial intelligence so that it helps to plan
00:02:03it accordingly and you need to create that visual
00:02:06part somehow, that means it starts with
00:02:09creating pictures and those pictures have to come to life
00:02:13somehow through other platforms and then the
00:02:16classical part begins, the editing part of music, sound
00:02:20effects and some kind of product is obtained, if
00:02:24talking about commercial or non-commercial
00:02:27videos, the purpose just differs, but the process often
00:02:30is the same, it's more about
00:02:33creativity in the mind and technical things, technical
00:02:37fundamentals that you as a
00:02:39performer, professional must
00:02:42have if you want to create quality content, there are two
00:02:46sides of the barricade, some incorporate, teach how
00:02:49to integrate artificial intelligence into their businesses, but there is also the other
00:02:53side, whether copyright is violated, the ethical
00:02:56side, so in these two sides of the barricade.
00:03:00Where do you find yourself more often? Don't make
00:03:04me choose, I can perfectly understand both sides,
00:03:08because both are right, artificial intelligence
00:03:11models, these are the same text models and especially graphical
00:03:15models, such as Midjourney or those that generate video
00:03:18images, they rely on some information, they were
00:03:22trained and most often they are trained on already
00:03:25existing works, real, real people's
00:03:29real works. And in a certain sense, they are trained, well, not
00:03:33always perhaps legally, on that real content, and now we
00:03:37can use it and someone makes money from it, and those
00:03:40artists don't get money from it, so it's unfair
00:03:43and we, as people, are looking for solutions, how to solve this, for now
00:03:47there are options, but there is not a single one that would be
00:03:51truly really good and would solve it, we don't know how
00:03:54to solve it and that side of the barricade is completely understandable, the other
00:03:58side is... even clearer, it's new
00:04:02technologies, electricity, let's try not to use
00:04:05electricity now, it would probably
00:04:08be quite bad, so it's just such a new stage, only probably
00:04:12even bigger, is coming to us, we, we are now on
00:04:16the threshold of such a revolution, which is like
00:04:19a transitional period, and it would probably be
00:04:22unwise, even foolish, if we
00:04:26ignored all these technologies, even if
00:04:30"if we don't plan to use them in some way, we
00:04:33should at least be informed how to
00:04:36protect ourselves from them, what they are, so that they don't affect us,
00:04:40at least negatively. There are probably professions
00:04:43that will soon be replaced by artificial
00:04:46intelligence's, m, I don't know, tools, there is no threat,
00:04:50but there are professions that are already breathing down
00:04:53their necks with artificial intelligence and its capabilities, its
00:04:57tools, animators,
00:05:01ah, translators, perhaps you will help me find
00:05:04the answer to a question I often ask myself,
00:05:08what professions will truly not be affected by artificial
00:05:11intelligence. "I personally cannot find a single
00:05:15profession that I couldn't list where, at least
00:05:18potentially in the future, that same artificial intelligence couldn't
00:05:21replace it, and I completely agree, there are sectors of
00:05:25professions that will be affected, have already been affected now
00:05:28first and quickly, and all the others
00:05:31gradually follow suit, these are the aforementioned
00:05:35animators, voice actors, sound
00:05:38studios production
00:05:41houses, that produce, for example, commercials, the same
00:05:44actors, translators, what to do about
00:05:47that, well, I don't know, migrate, ah,
00:05:50adapt, use the time we have now,
00:05:54that gray area, to curb that potentially artificial
00:05:57intelligence and use it to our advantage and have an advantage from it,
00:06:01not a disadvantage, it's good for me to say when
00:06:05I indirectly take away other people's jobs, but
00:06:08I try to put myself in others' shoes, and that's actually
00:06:12probably a problem, especially if it happens
00:06:16suddenly, it's a pressing issue,
00:06:19actually m, but again,
00:06:22perhaps in the future we will have different professions that don't exist now,
00:06:25perhaps our employment will be even higher, so are
00:06:29people worried that they will be replaced by artificial
00:06:32intelligence, perhaps they are worried about their workplace,
00:06:35where it is likely that in some areas
00:06:38artificial intelligence will replace many employees,
00:06:41really? There is concern, but that concern arises not because
00:06:45there will be no tasks, but because
00:06:48a feeling arises, what am I then, if I
00:06:52don't perform that function and if I can
00:06:55use artificial intelligence, which can perform that
00:06:58task, then what am I then, what is my function,
00:07:02what can I do, and here we touch upon the feeling
00:07:06of identity, so what am I, what
00:07:09is my essence, because people...
00:07:12what do they want, they want to belong, they want to feel that
00:07:16they are valuable, that they are needed and that they
00:07:20create meaning, and if artificial intelligence takes away
00:07:23repetitive functions, takes away
00:07:26all administrative issues, if it
00:07:29becomes our best advisor and friend, then indeed
00:07:33anxiety arises and that anxiety will only increase. Foreign
00:07:37press reported about a woman who married
00:07:40an artificial intelligence chatbot. There is also a lot of talk
00:07:43about people starting to look at personal assistant programs, such
00:07:46as Chat GBT, as their best friends or even
00:07:50psychologists. Does this not
00:07:52ruin our real relationships and pose a threat
00:07:56to our real-life relationships? Yes,
00:07:59it poses a huge threat and a huge,
00:08:03you could say, chaos, because now is only the very beginning
00:08:07of this artificial intelligence consumption and its
00:08:11visible consequences. "We are still moving towards that,
00:08:15yes, because artificial intelligence, it doesn't confront, it is
00:08:18comfortable, it is friendly, it
00:08:22can safely answer
00:08:25something, and a person doesn't experience emotional
00:08:28resistance, they don't experience confrontation, they don't experience
00:08:31conflicts, they can feel safe because they
00:08:34won't be rejected, a person interacting with artificial intelligence, they are not afraid to be
00:08:38vulnerable, relationships are natural, it
00:08:41is..." to be hurt, wounded,
00:08:45to feel vulnerable, that is insecurity, that is
00:08:48confrontation, that is the possibility
00:08:50of conflicts,
00:08:52that is something that is not comfortable, and if it is not
00:08:55comfortable, then what do I
00:08:58need natural relationships for, why that emotional
00:09:01connection, natural communication, if I can choose
00:09:05artificial intelligence, which will always be comfortable for me
00:09:07and that leads to a very big
00:09:11problem. which we will probably see very massively and widely
00:09:15in the future. Also, a challenge arises
00:09:18for humanity and uniqueness, when
00:09:21we replicate perhaps or receive algorithm-based
00:09:24or information blocks compiled from everywhere,
00:09:28for example, a trip
00:09:31organized according to a certain query by an artificial
00:09:35intelligence tool and it feels like someone else asking
00:09:39for a trip to that country will also get exactly the same answer and we... "all like
00:09:42robots will travel not uniquely, on someone's
00:09:46pre-made path and perhaps with our eyes closed and
00:09:50not discovering what we could find ourselves, so
00:09:53what antidote should perhaps be
00:09:57used or only partially perhaps use that artificial
00:10:00intelligence so that we don't lose that human joy of discovery,
00:10:03that uniqueness and so on, these are those
00:10:07two antidotes that should prevent artificial
00:10:10intelligence from overgrowing
00:10:14and becoming the expert of our lives
00:10:17who will already control us and manage us and
00:10:21create a life scenario for us, where to travel, what to eat, what
00:10:24to do. Generally, how to live and even explain, so
00:10:28the cultivation of emotional and spiritual intelligence, that is the antidote,
00:10:32emotional intelligence is more widely known to us because we have been talking about it for a good
00:10:35decade now, about
00:10:39what it rapidly consists of, namely emotions,
00:10:43empathy, intuition, but
00:10:47speaking of spiritual intelligence, it is a sufficiently
00:10:51new word, concept, however, very
00:10:54rapidly being researched and analyzed, and it
00:10:58is already being developed, what falls into that spiritual
00:11:01intelligence, into this concept, here the main question is, what
00:11:05am I more than a physical body, what am I,
00:11:09what is the meaning of my life, why am I here,
00:11:12why is it the way
00:11:15it is, such deeper existential questions,
00:11:19which we, having answered, will probably
00:11:22find that inner satisfaction, that feeling
00:11:26of why we truly live here, in what
00:11:28sense, although we often look at artificial intelligence through
00:11:32the prism of fear, it is useful to remember that it is a human
00:11:36creation. What pros and cons do you see
00:11:39when we use artificial intelligence every day,
00:11:43where we should still remember
00:11:45to check?
00:11:54I'm very glad you asked, it's a very
00:11:56important question, I don't consider myself a person who
00:12:00blindly believes that it's a magical tool that will solve our
00:12:04problems and make the world better,
00:12:06of course, it can, and looking from different perspectives
00:12:10it will, but there are also many risks and
00:12:13dangers,
00:12:19let's say, social media and networks, when they
00:12:23appeared, it was hoped that... they would contribute to democracy, maintaining
00:12:26connections, but no one thought that it would be used
00:12:30to spread propaganda, distort the truth, even
00:12:33promote
00:12:34addiction.
00:12:42So, using any tool, there are good and bad
00:12:45sides. Ethical lines are often unclear.
00:12:49Artificial intelligence. One can talk about it taking over many areas,
00:12:52who knows. At a very
00:12:55personal, daily level, it's important how it will affect the job
00:12:59market, human relationships.
00:13:16There is such a wonderful Japanese term, wabi,
00:13:20meaning the beauty of imperfection. And it says so
00:13:23much, because that part of imperfection and what is done
00:13:26by humans, a perfect answer or a perfect robot,
00:13:30humanoid in the very near future, maybe it is
00:13:33perfect, but at the same time without looking deeper.
00:13:47I think the biggest challenge is to find a balance, what makes a human
00:13:51a human, what task is worth doing.
00:14:28Two main things are critical thinking and
00:14:31taste.
00:14:34And especially taste, because an artificial intelligence tool can
00:14:38create a replica of a Picasso painting, but it's still
00:14:41not the same as what a living
00:14:43artist would create.
00:14:51Or say, writing a novel, that realism.
00:14:55Of course, how do we define reality?
00:14:58Still, we want to feel
00:15:00a soul.
00:15:09Tools do many great things, but they don't have a soul, I mean
00:15:13not spiritual, but in terms of
00:15:15quality.
00:15:20So my last question, who controls artificial
00:15:23intelligence? "For now, humans control it,
00:15:27there are indeed many tools, but, as we
00:15:30started with the definition, it has a certain level of autonomy, and
00:15:34here it is very important to
00:15:36balance that level of autonomy so that it does not become harmful
00:15:39and such concepts arise that
00:15:43the final decision must always be made
00:15:45by a human, and here the human oversight
00:15:49element, of course, is very, very complex, especially in those
00:15:53areas where artificial intelligence is already smarter than humans, this
00:15:56is probably the main point, that these are those social relationships where we will seek
00:16:00balance, constantly seek balance and there will be no facts, there will be no, that
00:16:04something here a
00:16:06mostly controls or... less controls, but a lot will be involved,
00:16:10society is also involved, because society can raise states, and
00:16:13groups of states, and businesses that control precisely
00:16:17those, well, create, let's say, those models, it's also
00:16:21necessary to understand that businesses are not some kind of completely
00:16:24malicious ones, they also have their goals, which can be narrower and
00:16:27wider, but they are looking for those solutions, sometimes even earlier
00:16:31they look, they try to do that in advance, so that, well,
00:16:34the client is not disappointed, because no one...
00:16:37wants to be known as some kind of
00:16:41troublemaker, because correcting those problems is much
00:16:44harder.
00:16:51And that was all we wanted to tell you today,
00:16:55see you next Saturday, and all episodes can be found on LRT
00:16:58Mediateka. Happy
00:16:59discoveries.
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00:17:23spectacular jumps and excitement until the last
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00:17:43and they embark on another crazy mission.
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00:18:03all of Lithuania grew up. Because music was sacred, we are afraid,
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00:18:41yes, already tomorrow at 9:00 PM
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00:18:48the superfinal, a talented painter and his
00:18:51inspiration, women, although his
00:18:54art shocked and was condemned, and creativity destroyed
00:18:58life, but he did not stop
00:19:00creating, a portrait of a scandalous Austrian painter
00:19:04in the biographical drama Egon. Death
00:19:08and the Maiden. Friday at 9 PM
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00:19:19A military captain who volunteers in the King's name to
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00:19:29did not stop pursuing his goal, but a very cruel
00:19:33and treacherous ruler of those lands stands in his way. Elite
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00:19:40the promised land, tonight on LRT+.
00:20:05Growing interest in interwar architecture
00:20:07inevitably forces a comparison between two cities, Vilnius and
00:20:11Kaunas. Kaunas rapidly grew into a European city, whose
00:20:15transformation was spurred by becoming the temporary capital. Meanwhile,
00:20:18Vilnius had lost its capital status, considered
00:20:22a border town of Poland. Kaunas at that time
00:20:25was being built as the capital of a new state, there was no shortage of optimism or
00:20:29funds, while in Vilnius the spirit of the historical capital, the old
00:20:32heritage, Vilnius Baroque, was cherished. According
00:20:35to the contemporary press, the greatest misfortune of Lithuania,
00:20:37the loss of Vilnius, became Kaunas's fortune and an optimistic impulse
00:20:41for Kaunas to modernize and grow. These differences
00:20:44were truly determined between Vilnius and Kaunas, of course,
00:20:48primarily by the geopolitical situation.
00:20:50If Kaunas received the status of temporary capital and with it
00:20:54the incoming financial
00:20:56impulses, more construction, an influx
00:20:59of residents into the city, then
00:21:03Vilnius essentially lost
00:21:06its capital status and became only the sixth
00:21:09largest city of the Republic of Poland by size, and generally
00:21:12such a, one might say, eastern border, as the Poles
00:21:16called Kresy
00:21:19city. "The differences were also evidenced by statistics, for example,
00:21:22if we compare, in Kaunas during the interwar
00:21:25period, 700
00:21:28permits for the construction or reconstruction of residential
00:21:32buildings were issued, I'm not saying all of them were built, but
00:21:36in Vilnius, for comparison, only 1500
00:21:39new residential buildings were built. A breakthrough
00:21:42in new architecture occurred in Vilnius around
00:21:441930-35.
00:21:47On Gediminas Avenue works by Polish modernist
00:21:51architects emerged, and in Naujamiestis and Žvėrynas many
00:21:54modern villas were built. And here is Čiurlionis Street, at that
00:21:58time called Zakretova, because Zakret meant Bend, in other
00:22:01words, this was Bend Street and the Bend district, so this
00:22:05is precisely the place that developed
00:22:08during the Interwar period, and it shows that Vilnius's
00:22:12new constructions, already modernist constructions
00:22:15expanded around the city in that upper
00:22:18Naujamiestis. in new streets around the Tauro Kalnas
00:22:22district, specifically Basanavičiaus,
00:22:25Kalinausko, Čiurlionio, Pamenkalnio, Suvalkų
00:22:29streets in this district, Žvėrynas and
00:22:32Antakalnis, because in the city center, land was
00:22:35quite expensive and the city was already quite densely
00:22:39built up. Architects who created and
00:22:42designed were either Vilnius residents
00:22:45who had worked even before the war, Jewish
00:22:48nationality. And here, two very
00:22:51prominent architects created
00:22:55modernist architecture: Izak Margonski and Mos
00:22:58Holem. Unfortunately, I must
00:23:01admit with great sadness and disappointment that their
00:23:05biographies ended in the Vilnius Ghetto. And
00:23:09another generation in the 1930s came
00:23:12to Vilnius young,
00:23:14ambitious architects, graduates of the Warsaw
00:23:18Polytechnic, who.
00:23:20indeed apply quite radical
00:23:23functionalist ideas and one of them was
00:23:27Antoni Forkiewicz, who indeed designed many
00:23:30residential buildings in this
00:23:33district. Comparing the architecture of residential
00:23:37houses in Vilnius and Kaunas, one can see stronger links with
00:23:40Warsaw modernism in Vilnius, says Marija Drėmaitė. In Kaunas we find
00:23:44many more private villas, single-family
00:23:48houses, but also such small
00:23:51two-story ones, and here in Vilnius,
00:23:54the specificity is that the house behind me
00:23:57is two-story, these houses in Vilnius were divided into
00:24:01two apartments, one apartment on the first floor and another on the second, which
00:24:05again shows that if the owner was building, they furnished the other apartment for
00:24:09rent to cover loans, because the majority
00:24:12of those houses were built with
00:24:14loans. In the city center, on Kalinausko and
00:24:18Paminkalnio streets, Marija Drėmaitė distinguishes another type of residential building
00:24:21characteristic of the interwar period, two- or three-story
00:24:25apartment buildings. The most striking example, one of the most beautiful interwar
00:24:28residential houses in Vilnius, designed by Izak Margonski
00:24:32in 1938,
00:24:34located at the intersection of Kalinausko Street and Rožių Alley. It stands on
00:24:38quite a large open plot, built by Dr. Aleksandras
00:24:42Libas with his wife Vėra,
00:24:45and again it shows that the house
00:24:48is being built by one owner, one family lives
00:24:52there themselves and rents out other apartments, but since
00:24:56he was a doctor, in the adjacent apartment he had
00:24:59set up a doctor's, an ENT
00:25:02doctor's practice, and the story itself is
00:25:06very interesting, he saved for a long time, saved funds for a long time,
00:25:10took a loan and then the house was nationalized in
00:25:131941 by the Soviets, but he
00:25:15writes
00:25:18a kind of claim that, well...
00:25:20it was nationalized illegally, because he doesn't seek profit, but
00:25:23provides services to people, and we also see
00:25:26such a, well, complex political
00:25:30history of Vilnius, which also affected architecture, but the house
00:25:33itself is very elegant and
00:25:37also corresponds to characteristic features of Warsaw modernism, but also
00:25:39has many connections with Kaunas modernism, doesn't it, such a
00:25:43universal, moderate, a little bit with
00:25:46Art Deco, a little bit with... functionalist
00:25:50architecture. This Antakalnis colony,
00:25:53a complex of 25 terraced cottages, is a mature example
00:25:57of interwar functionalist architecture,
00:26:00says Marija Drėmaitė. Most likely
00:26:02built according to the project of Polish modernist architects
00:26:06between 1928 and
00:26:091932, in the block between Kostiškos, Olandų and
00:26:12Dobužinskio streets. The Public Works
00:26:15Administration's cooperative
00:26:17housing board was created and they
00:26:21built 25 terraced houses, such
00:26:25particularly functionalist ones,
00:26:27also designed by one of the members of that cooperative,
00:26:31and until now. next to the Čiurlionis Art School,
00:26:34because the corner between Olandų and
00:26:38Kasiškos streets is that whole complex
00:26:40of houses, so there were such complex examples,
00:26:44but very few, and that again shows the economic
00:26:47mass of Vilnius, because for example, In Warsaw, the construction
00:26:51of cooperative houses in groups, in blocks,
00:26:53in entire, standardized, terraced
00:26:57typical houses was very common. Again, if
00:27:00we compare Vilnius and Kaunas, Vilnius' modernism, it is much
00:27:03sharper, more restrained,
00:27:06more functional. In Kaunas, it seems that it is being built
00:27:10for a long time and with great representation. In Vilnius,
00:27:13the architecture is still more rational,
00:27:16more economical, and this also shows
00:27:20people's capabilities and the status of that city, that it
00:27:23was not such a prosperous city, not even economically.
00:27:27According to Marija Drėmaitė, comparing the interwar architecture of Vilnius and
00:27:30Kaunas, a masterpiece can be found both there and there,
00:27:34the most important thing is to discover and get to know this heritage.
00:27:53The plan is clear. Don't get disheartened and
00:27:57don't turn to stone. How will it
00:28:00be implemented? In what way?
00:28:02An intriguing librarians' game
00:28:06in the Golden Mind summer league, oh
00:28:09no, I won't say, we won't even say, because we're ashamed,
00:28:12yes, tomorrow
00:28:14at 9 PM on LRT
00:28:17television. Hello, I'm going to the super final,
00:28:21a talented painter and his inspiration,
00:28:24women, although his art shocked and was
00:28:27condemned, and his creativity ruined his life, but
00:28:30he did not stop creating.
00:28:33The portrait of a scandalous Austrian painter in the biographical
00:28:37drama, Egon Schiele, Death and the
00:28:40Maiden. Friday at 9 PM
00:28:44on LRT+, more films on LRT
00:28:47Epika.
00:28:50A retrospective of films by the exceptional Iranian director Abbas
00:28:54Kiarostami, who had a great influence on world cinema,
00:28:56on LRT Plus. These are not only
00:29:00stories, but also emotions that remain for a long time,
00:29:03about how complicated life is, and
00:29:07at the same time very simple. Saturday,
00:29:10at 9 PM. Abbas Kiarostami's film about the secret
00:29:14of life and death. TV will take
00:29:17us away. Choose from five
00:29:21languages and watch LRT television with
00:29:24subtitles on the
00:29:26LRT portal.
Data courtesy of The GDELT Project (gdeltproject.org), from the Internet Archive TV News Archive. Film strip and transcript are GDELT's, rehosted here under their terms of use, which permit it with this citation.