596: Me Want Cookie!
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2023
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
AI disruption, the circle of life; prompt engineering; AIQL; Tesla workers sharing sensitive customer images; Twitter blue ticks still around, except for organizations Elon doesn't like; SpaceX Starlink satellites "deorbiting"; Midjourney bans Jinping images; Google's Bard spins conspiracies; TikTok fined; Virgin Orbit files for bankruptcy; Meta cuts more jobs; Roku picking up properties; Picard; Succession; You're Dead to Me; Shirley Manson; World's Greatest Con; Zane Lamprey; Lucky Hank; Punk Rock Museum; the Cranes; Google Drive file creation cap backlash; Apple Watch trick; the Mandalorian & Jack Black; Star Wars news; alcohol recovery startups sharing confidential user data; Oakland's ransomware attack; Operation Cookie Monster.
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FOLLOW UP
Goldman Sachs Predicts 300 Million Jobs Will Be Lost Or Degraded By Artificial Intelligence
The Potentially Large Effects of Artificial Intelligence on Economic Growth
AI prompt engineer: the hottest new job in tech?
IN THE NEWS
Special Report: Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customer cars
Jury reduces Tesla's $137 million racism lawsuit penalty to $3.2 million
The Morning After: Twitter keeps legacy verified blue ticks around, for now
Twitter designates NPR as 'US state-affiliated media'
SpaceX's Next-Gen Starlink Satellites Have Started Falling From Space
Midjourney Bans AI Images of Chinese President Xi Jinping
YouTuber Proves ChatGPT Can Manufacture Free Windows Keys
Google’s Bard Writes Convincingly About Known Conspiracy Theories
UK privacy watchdog fines TikTok $15.8 million for misusing kids' data
Tesla sales again fall short of production
GM to reject “phone projected” audio; will develop in-car subscription platforms
Virgin Orbit files for bankruptcy protection as it seeks a buyer
Meta’s job cuts are gutting customer service, leaving influencers and businesses with nobody to call
MEDIA CANDY
Many canceled HBO shows, including ‘Westworld’ and ‘Raised by Wolves,’ are now on Roku
EPISODE 59: SHIRLEY MANSON: LOL & BUDGIE LOVE SHIRLEY – TRUE!
Cranes Reunite with Original Lineup for 30th Anniversary of “Forever”
How to write a Bauhaus song in 1 minute
How to make a Depeche Mode song in 1 minute
APPS & DOODADS
Google removes 5 million file creation cap for Drive after backlash
Here’s why macOS has the Bitcoin whitepaper hidden in its files
THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE
Don't tell anything to a chatbot you want to keep private
Two alcohol recovery startups just got caught sharing private user data
Ransomware hackers leak second batch of city data from Oakland attack
FBI seizes a giant online marketplace for stolen logins
CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS
Remembering Sire Records’ Seymour Stein, whose musical taste shaped a generation
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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. |
| 0:16.7 | Welcome to Grumpy old geeks. I'm Jason DeFilippo and I'm Brian Schultmeister hopefully. |
| 0:20.8 | You're actually there. Okay, you're hearing me. You know, if we're going to get all the kinks out, |
| 0:25.5 | let's do it in the intro. Yeah, why not? Get it out of the way. |
| 0:30.9 | Oh, how you doing this week? I am doing good. How about you? I'm doing great shorts weather now. |
| 0:36.5 | So I'm happy summer's on the way. It's getting close here. It's deceptively bright outside, |
| 0:40.9 | but still freezing cold. But there's no more snow on the ground. It's all gone. So |
| 0:46.0 | same here. Birds are out and about. It's spring is a comment. All right, spring is in the air. |
| 0:51.8 | Yes. AI disruptions in the air too. So let's just jump right in. Okay. Goldman sex put out a report |
| 0:59.2 | and they say they predict 300 million jobs will be lost or degraded by artificial intelligence. |
| 1:04.2 | Okay. Yeah. I'm but they also contend that automation creates innovation, which leads to new types |
| 1:09.0 | of jobs and they see a rise of GDP up by 7% in the coming years. It's so circle of life. I know. I know. |
| 1:18.3 | Yeah. Yeah. The new jobs will be made. Old jobs will be lost. Geez. Happened a lot of times. |
| 1:25.5 | You know what happened when man discovered fire? Old jobs got lost. New jobs were created. |
| 1:31.6 | The guys that like cuddled at night to keep you warm out of a job. The guys that had to tend to |
| 1:36.4 | to keep to keep the flame burning. New job. New job. Yeah. That's right. And we are seeing this new |
| 1:42.8 | job coming to fruition right before our very eyes. The rise of the prompt engineer. I love the fact |
| 1:48.8 | that it started as a joke and it's now a job. Yep. Yep. And this is I mean this is what's making |
| 1:56.4 | news right now is this one company. They are called anthropic. They're out of San Francisco. They |
| 2:03.4 | are looking for a prompt engineer and librarian. Hopefully not the librarian from the disc world. That |
| 2:09.7 | would be a little interesting. So but they of course it's making news right now because it's one of |
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