376: Beardy Robots
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.9 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2019
⏱️ 42 minutes
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More MIT Media Lab; that Equifax settlement; Facebook's cheating, er dating app; please regulate us, says Microsoft; AI coming for small tasks; Walter Mosley quits Star Trek; the Spy; Whitney Cummings; vinyl rising; Korn's podcast; robot priests help your soul; feedback loop.
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| 0:16.0 | Grumpy old geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schulmeister and Jason DeFilippo |
| 0:20.7 | discussing the finer points of what went wrong on the internet and who's to blame. |
| 0:24.8 | Welcome to Grumpy old geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo. |
| 0:32.4 | And I'm Brian Schulmeister. |
| 0:34.0 | Read any good news articles lately, Brian? |
| 0:36.3 | Not really. |
| 0:37.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:38.3 | And you know, I'll go first because you probably have more to say about this. |
| 0:45.7 | My opinion about the Joey Eto MIT Media Lab stuff has not changed at all. |
| 0:51.4 | I've read all the articles that we've been kicking around with between you and I and |
| 0:55.8 | some of our other friends. |
| 0:58.2 | You know, they got caught and they kind of knew what they were doing. |
| 1:02.2 | It doesn't. |
| 1:03.2 | I understand the concept that everybody does it, but that doesn't make it okay with me. |
| 1:08.2 | I still believe he shouldn't have had to retire until they stepped on their own. |
| 1:13.6 | He made a huge apology and then it became big story again because, you know, |
| 1:18.0 | Negroponte, Negroponte screwed up and brought it up into the eye again. |
| 1:22.7 | And after that kind of scrutiny, then yes, you do have to resign. |
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