601: How Does Work Work?
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2023
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
RIP, Metaverse; nobody knows how LLMs work; CEOs that don't go into offices want you to go in; ChatGPT is low-paid people; sure, let's let AI generate mRNA vaccines; OURA acquires Proxy, but not science; MTV News shuttered; writer's strike; Spotify removes tons of AI generated songs; Google text-to-music in beta; Tucker turns to Twitter; the Diplomat; Slow Horses; Silo; Ted Lasso; Succession; Barry; the Muppets Mayhem; Bupkus; Beetlejuiice 2; Foundation: here be dragons?; Good Omens 2; FAST; Apple spatial audio; Blueky; sexy Alf; the Mission; Factory Records; Chip War; Star Wars: Visions; Citizen & Nextdoor; AI John Mayer; outsourcing inspiration; the EGOT of the internet.
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FOLLOW UP
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IN THE NEWS
Bank of Canada asks for public feedback about a national digital currency
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the remote work ‘experiment’ was a mistake—and ‘it’s over’
ChatGPT Is Powered by Human Contractors Getting Paid $15 Per Hour
‘Remarkable’ AI tool designs mRNA vaccines that are more potent and stable
ŌURA Acquires Proxy in All-Equity Deal
MTV News Signs Off for Good After 36-Year Run
MEDIA CANDY
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Spotify has reportedly removed tens of thousands of AI-generated songs
Google makes its text-to-music AI public
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Tucker Carlson Is Descending the Food Chain
Menendez + Menudo: Boys Betrayed
After 30 years of saying his name to no avail, Beetlejuice 2 has a release date
The Foundation season 2 trailer will make you want to suddenly catch up on Foundation
All the Good Omens season 2 news we’ve heard so far
Dungeons & Dragons Free 24-Hour Streaming Channel Set to Launch This Summer (EXCLUSIVE)
APPS & DOODADS
How I Accidentally Ruined Bluesky With Pictures of Sexy Alf
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AT THE LIBRARY
Heady Daze: The Mission Years, 1985–1990 by Wayne Hussey
New book “I Thought I Heard You Speak” spotlights women’s integral role at Factory Records
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE
Season 2 of Andor to continue production without writers due to strike
VICE News Presents: Vigilante, Inc.
Watch: New Documentary Tells Inside Story of Vigilante App Citizen
New CS:GO map bypasses Russia's censorship of Ukraine war news
Can AI Write a John Mayer Guitar Solo? - ChatGPT
CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS
Frank Kozik, Acclaimed Graphic Artist and Designer, Dead 61
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Transcript
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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 Grumpy Old Geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo. |
| 0:19.5 | And I'm Brian Schultmeister. What up B? |
| 0:21.7 | Well, what's that? |
| 0:23.6 | That's... |
| 0:24.7 | It's been a week. |
| 0:26.4 | Gotta be one of them. |
| 0:27.4 | Alright. |
| 0:28.2 | Lue energy as a certain... |
| 0:31.6 | ...something... |
| 0:32.4 | ...was a... |
| 0:33.2 | ...replatformed on CNN, would say. |
| 0:35.2 | Yeah, okay. |
| 0:36.0 | We'll talk about that in a little bit. |
| 0:39.6 | So, uh... |
| 0:41.1 | Yeah, we've got a hat tip here from T-Pot on Twitter. |
| 0:44.1 | He sent me a video, said, |
| 0:45.2 | The Energy Vault is a dumb idea. |
| 0:47.2 | Here's why. |
| 0:48.1 | I have all kinds of deja vu about this. |
| 0:50.7 | I feel like we brought up this idea and then people |
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