660: The Bendy Piece
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2024
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
NFTs & crypto, oh my; Google ruled a monopolist in search; you can't run an AI company ethically - with plenty of examples; Grokking without consent; Google's targeting "unknown" minors loophole; MetaAI celebrity voices; watermarking ChatGPT challenges; emotionally hooked on chatbots; Neuralink's second patient implant; Synchro's stent approach; Cybertruck spottings; Deadpool & Wolverine; American Conspiracy: the Octopus Murders; 2024 Olympics; enraging Google, Uber ads; living that iPad life; Humanes being returned; Sonos $30 million app fail; Lego Star Wars; advanced hinges; DarJar; losing power; medical system problems.
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FOLLOW UP
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IN THE NEWS
Google 'is a monopolist' in search, US judge rules in antitrust case
It’s practically impossible to run a big AI company ethically
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Elon Musk sues OpenAI, Sam Altman for making a “fool” out of him
X accused of using EU user data to train Grok without consent
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Meta and Google secretly targeted minors on YouTube with Instagram ads
Meta is reportedly offering millions to get Hollywood voices into its AI projects
OpenAI confirms it’s looking into text watermarking for ChatGPT that could expose cheating students
OpenAI Warns Users Could Become Emotionally Hooked on Its Voice Mode
Neuralink successfully implants its chip into a second patient's brain
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Gates, Bezos back $75M round for Synchron's drill-free brain-computer interface implant
What Synchron leaders learned from developing a stent-based BCI
Fiery Cybertruck Death Spurs Federal Probe
MEDIA CANDY
American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders
Google will no longer air an Olympics ad that showed a child using AI to write a fan letter
Google + Team USA — Dear Sydney
APPS & DOODADS
Humane’s daily returns are outpacing sales
Californians Are Getting Apple Wallet Driver’s Licenses This Year
Sonos’ $30M app fail is cautionary tale against rushing unnecessary updates
Home Security Giant ADT Admits It Has Been Hacked
Thursday, the dating app that you can use only on Thursdays, expands to San Francisco
Multitasking with ChatGPT on the Mac just got a lot better
THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE
LEGO® Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy
CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS
Texas school bans all-black clothing, cites mental health concerns
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| 0:30.8 | Grumpy old geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schulmeister and Jason de Philippo, |
| 0:38.0 | discussing the finer points of what went wrong on the internet and who's to blame. Welcome to Grumpy old geeks. |
| 0:49.2 | I'm Jason to Philipo. |
| 0:50.5 | And I'm Brian Schillmeister. |
| 0:51.7 | It is very early here. I can't believe you get up this early on a regular basis to do this show. |
| 0:56.7 | Every week Brian because somebody moved to Canada. |
| 1:00.7 | Three hours later. Hey, I could be in Canada on the same time zone. But then I'd have to live in Vancouver. |
| 1:06.0 | Yeah, the pot capital of Canada I hear. Is it? I don't know. |
| 1:10.0 | So this might be a little bit of an interactive episode |
| 1:13.5 | because for the past two hours, |
| 1:14.8 | the police have been circling a house not too far from me |
| 1:18.1 | with police helicopters. |
| 1:19.1 | There's news helicopters, so there's some kind of standoff. |
| 1:22.2 | They'll find you eventually, Jason. |
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