Flake: Nat’l Science Fdn. Spent $500k on Robots to ‘Binge-Watch’ ‘Desperate Housewives’

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FLAKE: "Well they programmed computers, actually a robots, to watch ‘Desperate Housewives’ and the office binge watch —"
DOOCY: "Finally."
FLAKE: "I think we're 600 hours to --"
EARHARDT: "And they spend almost $500,000 of taxpayer money to do this?"
FLAKE: "That's right. To see if they could predict behavior somehow. I think it's probably the first time you've ever seen a computer throw up but after that kind of binge watching -- but -- but I don’t think the taxpayers got much out of it."