643: Mechanical Goslings
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2024
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Gmail turns 20; Google isn't good; coding with ChatGPT; court bans "AI-enhanced" evidence; AI Goslings everywhere; NYC chatbot spews out dangerously inaccurate information; Amazon's mechanical turks; California right to disconnect bill; Elon Musk has hurt the Tesla brand; Constellation; Road House; Jon Stewart; Star Trek: Discovery; AI in music; DVDs; Sherlock Holmes; Super Monsters Ate My Condo, +; app feedback: Canva, Apple Vision Pro, Kagi; new Star Wars content; Avatar: the Last Airbender; the Muppets; down the AI personality cloning rabbit hole; AI generated sludge or world changing genius?
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| 0:00.0 | Grumpy old geeks a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schulmeister and |
| 0:06.4 | Jason de Philippo discussing with finer points of what went wrong on the internet |
| 0:10.2 | and who's to blame. |
| 0:19.0 | Welcome to grumpy old geeks, I'm Jason De Philipo. And I'm Brian Schillmeister. |
| 0:20.0 | Brian, we've been talking lately about things that have anniversaries that make us feel old. |
| 0:25.0 | So I thought I'd start off the show today. |
| 0:28.0 | Gmail is 20 years old this week. |
| 0:31.0 | Okay. |
| 0:32.0 | I remember when it was launched it was April 1st 2004 and everybody thought it was a joke. Well, |
| 0:38.1 | jokes on them. Still using it. Yeah, yeah, completely free and as long as you give up all your privacy and let them scow it. Yeah, yeah, completely free and as long as you give up all your privacy and let them scan your email. |
| 0:45.6 | Sure. Hey, it's actually been worth it. So there are no ads and no spam. So it works for me. |
| 0:53.2 | That's true. That is good. |
| 0:55.0 | Except, yeah, it used to be free and now it's, I think I'm spending 60 bucks a month on it. |
| 1:00.2 | So... |
| 1:01.2 | That's significantly not free. No, no, that whole grandfathered in thing got |
| 1:06.8 | D grandfathered quite a while ago, so as of a couple of months ago, they started to, they |
| 1:12.3 | started to send me the bill and it sucks. |
| 1:14.0 | There's been a lot of whack in the grandfathers recently. |
| 1:17.0 | Yeah, there are. |
| 1:18.0 | It has been. |
| 1:19.0 | Somebody's laying waste to the old folks home, I tell you. |
| 1:22.0 | Yeah. |
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