591: Universal Basic Ignorance
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Prompt engineers; the hopes of generative AI; Universal Basic AI, at least for the privileged; FTX consequences coming in; AI images not copyrightable in the US; deepfake & AI hacks; more Twitter layoffs & unpaid bills; Jack's beard roles out a Twitter competitor; Tesla pauses driver-assistance rollout; Waymo tries Los Angeles; the Mandalorian, Bad Batch & Picard; Marc Maron gets bleak; Dilbert dropped; more Lord of the Rings movies coming; Die Hart; History of the World, Part II; Bing Chat built into Windows 11 update; FAL detector; Tik Tok government device ban; let us take you into that meeting.
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FOLLOW UP
AI's rise generates new job title: Prompt engineer
Introducing ChatGPT and Whisper APIs
OpenAI Price Drop: [Another] Megathread
Adobe’s Scott Belsky talks generative AI — and why it’s not going to end up like web3
In todays iteration of unchecked emerging tech concerns
IN THE NEWS
FTX co-founder Nishad Singh pleads guilty to fraud and conspiracy charges
AI-created images lose U.S. copyrights in test for new technology
Deepfake AI Hack Dupes Avenged Sevenfold Fans into Thinking the Band Canceled Festival Dates
Meta revamps AI unit to get generative tech into products
Elon Musk's Twitter lays off yet even more workers
Jack Dorsey’s Twitter alternative Bluesky is now available in closed beta
Twitter hit with new lawsuits for not paying bills
Fighting ‘Woke AI,’ Musk Recruits Team to Develop OpenAI Rival
Tesla Pauses Rollout of Driving Software Subject to US Recall
Waymo is starting driverless taxi tests in Los Angeles
MEDIA CANDY
Marc Maron: From Bleak to Dark
‘Dilbert’ dropped by The Post, other papers, after cartoonist’s racist rant
Musk defends ‘Dilbert’ creator, says media is ‘racist against whites’
New ‘Lord of the Rings’ Movies Set at Warner Bros.
How to write a Smiths song in 1 minute
'Ted Lasso' season 3 trailer previews the highs and lows of the Premier League
Damian Lewis Returning To ‘Billions’ For Season 7
APPS & DOODADS
New Windows 11 update puts AI-powered Bing Chat directly in the taskbar
AI Tool Reveals How Celebrities’ Faces Have Been Photoshopped
YouTube’s new leader teases AI tools that can virtually swap creators’ outfits and locations
Government agencies have 30 days to purge devices of Tik Tok
Canada is reportedly banning TikTok from government-issued devices
Ford files patent for system that could remotely repossess a car
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| 0:00.0 | Grumpy old geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schultmeister and Jason |
| 0:06.8 | DeFilippo discussing the finer points of what went wrong on the internet and who's to blame. |
| 0:16.4 | Welcome to our Rumpy Old Geeks. I'm Jason DeFilippo. And I'm Brian Schultmeister. |
| 0:20.7 | Brian, we got a little bit of follow up here. Okay. I found this one over at Axios and I thought it was very nice. |
| 0:25.8 | AI's rise generates new job title prompt engineer. |
| 0:29.8 | Oh, so they listened to our show from six months ago. Who'd have thought of that? Who'd have thought it? |
| 0:34.6 | Oh, wait, of course we did, yes. Yeah. |
| 0:38.2 | So it's a good, it's a good article though. I highly recommend people who are curious about the new world order that is coming up to go check it out because |
| 0:48.0 | yeah, it has a lot of use cases for what it's going to be like in the future and writing prompts is definitely going to be a thing that |
| 0:55.0 | everybody should be up to speed on because it's not going away. |
| 0:58.7 | Yeah, you know, appropriate to that, you would sent me a YouTube link to a chat GPT tutorial or webinar the other week and I was like, |
| 1:08.0 | but I did finally watch it and to take away from it, first off, it's disturbing to be taught by what feels like 11 year olds. |
| 1:15.4 | Yes, yes. |
| 1:16.5 | Yeah, but beyond that, I just, it was very interesting. And I mean, I'm sure because of because of the nature of this |
| 1:24.6 | technology and how it's advancing so quickly, I'm sure everything that I learned is already out of date at this point. |
| 1:30.3 | But yeah, it's good to keep up on this because this is the new, the new deal man. It's, it's not going away. |
| 1:36.5 | Yeah, it is the new deal for sure. And the thing that I sent you is from ship 30 for 30 with Dikybush and Nicholas Cole. |
| 1:43.0 | Also, there goes Cole. Very, very smart couple of guys and very rich couple of guys too. Damn, these guys are raking it in because Nick, Nick is one of the, |
| 1:53.4 | I keep calling them Nick. His name is, we call him Cole, but he is part of the category pirates. So that's how I got to know him. |
| 2:00.9 | And there you go. Yeah, go check out ship 30 for 30. If you want to learn how to write better online and get that course that I sent Ryan. |
| 2:08.7 | Yeah, cool. It was very interesting. |
| 2:10.4 | Yeah, these guys know what they're doing. Now this week has seen the release of the chat GPT and whisper APIs. |
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