609: Freshly Wrong
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2023
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
xAI seeks to understand the nature of the universe; Twitter shenanigans continue; AI risks; FTC investigating ChatGPT; ye olde craftliee understandinge; EU decides USA has comparable privacy protections, because they are high; superalignment!; AI is still people, working hard for no money; Google medical AI being tested; US military wants to play a game; Sarah Silverman & others suing OpenAI & Meta over copyright infringement; Strange New Worlds; Silo; Hijack; Vapourspace; Black Mirror; legal lullabies; Canada is the USA on Ambien; Threads & Twitter clone fatigue; Dave gets Covid, podcast listening tanks; movies in black and white; another new Willy Wonka; Disneyland goes punk.
Show notes at https://gog.show/609
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IN THE NEWS
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The risks of AI are real but manageable
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ChatGPT's User Base Shrinks for the First Time Ever
Google’s medical AI chatbot is already being tested in hospitals
The US Military Is Taking Generative AI Out for a Spin
Sarah Silverman sues OpenAI and Meta over copyright infringement
Meta platforms top the list of UK payment scams, finance group claims
Celsius founder Alex Mashinsky arrested and charged with fraud
Canadian judge rules the thumbs up emoji counts as a contract agreement
MEDIA CANDY
Vapourspace - Gravitational Arch Of 10 (Magnetic Gravity Arc Suite)
APPS & DOODADS
Meta's Threads races to 100 million users in under a week
Jony Ive's first post-Apple hardware project is a $60,000 turntable
THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE
In praise of watching your favorite movies in black and white
Kenneth Copeland’s daughter goes metal
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| 0:00.0 | Grumpy old geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schultmeister and Jason |
| 0:06.7 | DeFilippo discussing the finer points of what went wrong on the internet and |
| 0:10.3 | who's to blame. |
| 0:16.8 | Welcome to Go Rumpy Old Geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo and I'm Brian Schultmeister. |
| 0:21.4 | We are back in the saddle Brian. We are. I'm in a different saddle. I'm in my |
| 0:25.9 | sister's old room in my mom's house in Orange County and it's hot but it's a saddle. |
| 0:30.2 | It is a saddle. It is a saddle. Well, I want to start off today with a class |
| 0:37.1 | action roundup here. Well, it's a roundup of one story but short roundup. It |
| 0:43.1 | isn't short roundup. Our friend Brian Blondell got a check from the Yahoo class |
| 0:48.2 | action lawsuit and I was surprised. It was for $61. Hey, that's that's getting |
| 0:55.4 | close to the XCEO's paycheck. Yeah, so the couple million dollars for running a |
| 1:02.8 | company into the ground check. Yeah, there you go. There you go. But that just shows |
| 1:07.4 | that you have to sign up for these things. We tell you all the time. Yes. Sign up. |
| 1:11.8 | Even if it's a dollar, you got to sign up. I signed up for this one too. I haven't |
| 1:15.6 | gotten any money yet. Maybe they're growing alphabetical. Oh, that's could be. Yeah. |
| 1:20.2 | It might be waiting for you when you get home in Canada. Yeah, maybe we'll see. |
| 1:25.0 | I think it's just going into my PayPal account. That's what everything does these days, |
| 1:28.7 | right? He got a physical check. He sent me a photo of it. Wow. Which I then took |
| 1:33.4 | all the numbers. High jacked it. I did exactly what I did printed it out. Flipped it over |
| 1:38.6 | and deposited it. Thank you, Brian. There you go. Well, I got some updated news from Elizabeth |
| 1:44.5 | Holmes. Her prison sentence was quietly reduced by two years, according to prison records. |
| 1:51.3 | She was originally sentenced to 11 years and three months for, well, we all know what she |
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