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Grumpy Old Geeks

217: Surveil and Chill

Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

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4.86.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2017

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

Measuring AI; retail apocalypse continues; robot journalists; Soundcloud, Microsoft layoffs, Jawbone shutters; drone identification; Xbox One; hackintosh; internet TV; MeDoc; cryptocurrency hacks; Zip Bomb; Panda solar farms; Panopticon; OK Computer. Full show notes at http://gog.show/217 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

Grumpy old geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schultmeister and Jason DeFilippo

0:07.5

discussing the finer points of what went wrong on the internet and who's to blame.

0:16.4

Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo.

0:19.1

And I'm Brian Schultmeister.

0:20.3

How about a little follow up?

0:22.2

Brian we have talked about AI on the show several times and you're disdain for use of

0:26.4

the word artificial intelligence.

0:28.8

It's just bandied about a bit half hazardly, wouldn't you say?

0:32.2

I would agree.

0:33.2

I would agree.

0:34.2

Now, I found this link this week, which I thought was pretty interesting.

0:37.2

It's from the EFF and it is the AI progress measurement page.

0:42.2

It's from EMF.

0:43.2

It's unbelievable.

0:44.2

Not EMF, EMF.

0:45.2

EMF.

0:46.2

Okay.

0:47.2

And it is a pilot project collecting problems, metrics and data sets from AI research,

0:53.8

from the AI research literature and is tracking the progress, which is, you know, minimal

0:58.8

it's a very long page.

0:59.7

I have a lot of things that I can't really understand.

1:02.8

I was about to say I spent an hour on this page.

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