524: Scripted Stupid
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2021
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Deepmind doesn't know how to fix AI; virtual staging; White Claw Surge; crypto unaffected by China news; Instagram for Kids, paused; Samsung's brain; Apple Wallet & vax cards; ravens attacking drones; Shatner in spaaaaccee; Imagineering Story; Sex Ed season 3; the Great Escapists; Foundation; Dune; the Witcher, for kids; Goliath; Nirvana; multiple timers in WatchOS; Cook is a gangster; Tiny Food Fight; iPad Mini; Star Wars: Visions; puppet shows to podcasts; file systems, do we need them; Mini's turn signals; strange blobs on Uranus.
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FOLLOW UP
DeepMind tells Google it has no idea how to make AI less toxic
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IN THE NEWS
Instagram for kids paused after backlash
California makes zero-emission autonomous vehicles mandatory by 2030
Samsung hopes to 'copy and paste' the brain to 3D chip networks
Apple Wallet update will allow digital COVID-19 vaccination card
Bird attacks on drones force Google to suspend home deliveries
William Shatner will boldly go into space with Bezos’s Blue Origin
MEDIA CANDY
They Said Foundation Couldn't Be Filmed, and It Still Hasn't Been
Netflix's 'The Witcher' plans include season 3 and a kids' series
Live nirvana concert chronology october 12, 1991 - Cabaret Metro, Chicago, IL
APPS & DOODADS
Apple turns post-lawsuit tables on Epic, will block Fortnite on iOS
New iPad mini owners report 'jelly scrolling' problems
AT THE LIBRARY
SECURITY HAH!
Dave Bittner: From puppet shows to podcasts.
Gen Z Kids Apparently Don’t Understand How File Systems Work
Apple ‘Still Investigating’ Unpatched and Public iPhone Vulnerabilities
MORON OF THE WEEK
Congratulations, Mini, You Made The Stupidest Turn Signals Ever
BRIC-A-BRAC
Maps That Show Us A New Perspective
SCIENTISTS INTRIGUED BY STRANGE BLOBS ON URANUS
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| 0:00.0 | Grumpy old geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schulmeister and Jason |
| 0:06.8 | DeFilippo discussing the finer points of what went wrong on the internet and who's to blame. |
| 0:11.4 | Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo. |
| 0:20.0 | And I'm Brian Schulmeister. |
| 0:21.6 | Got some follow up today Brian. |
| 0:23.2 | Okay. |
| 0:24.2 | Deep mind has told Google that it has no idea how to make AI less toxic. |
| 0:28.8 | Well, that's not good. |
| 0:30.8 | No, it's not. |
| 0:32.8 | No, it's not. |
| 0:33.8 | Deep mind, the big haunchos say, I don't know. |
| 0:41.2 | They did some tests and had basically this comes around the text creation, like GPT-3 |
| 0:47.3 | and all that stuff. |
| 0:48.8 | And it's NLP, natural language processing, not neuro-linguistic programming for you pick |
| 0:55.4 | up artists out there. |
| 0:57.3 | But, yeah, they're basically saying that, yeah, we just don't know. |
| 1:04.3 | All right. |
| 1:05.3 | So hold on one second. |
| 1:06.8 | So Google, which I think we can all agree is probably the furthest along in the AI development |
| 1:11.9 | game or at least, you know, they're certainly throwing the most money at it and all that |
| 1:15.7 | sort of thing. |
| 1:17.6 | They can't keep any ethicists on board for AI. |
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