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Grumpy Old Geeks

711: Oh Thank Heaven

Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

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4.86.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Remember when we thought AI was going to bring about utopia or Skynet? Turns out, it's mostly just a bunch of fancy spreadsheets, a potential bubble ready to burst (looking at you, Nvidia), and a legal minefield. We're talking wrongful death lawsuits because a chatbot encouraged suicide, OpenAI admitting their 'safety controls degrade,' and then secretly siccing the cops on users. Plus, the Citizen app's AI can't even tell a murder vehicle from a motor vehicle, and Grok 2.5 is now open source if you want to invite that chaos into your life. Also, don't ask Google if 1995 was 30 years ago, because apparently, AI can't do basic math.

Meanwhile, the adults in the room are just doing what they do: the U.S. government is buying a chunk of Intel, while Trump wants to "design" government websites (with badly edited photos, naturally). Meta's own AI stuff is so bad they're just licensing Midjourney's tech, proving it's always easier to buy than build. Apple TV+ raised its prices, and Spotify finally figured out how to let you DM songs. Over at Apple Fitness, it seems the execs are fostering a "toxic workplace environment," because who knew working out could be so hardcore? Oh, and Chipotle is doing drone delivery now. Welcome to Zipotle, because getting off your ass is apparently too much to ask.

As for what we're actually watching, it's a mixed bag. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' documentary episode was... fine, but Paramount's axing jobs and "un-renewing" Dexter: Original Sin to focus on Dexter: Resurrection (because that always works out). We're trying to keep up with Alien: Earth, Wednesday, and Upload, but good luck with those staggered release dates. Apple TV+ has some good sci-fi, but Foundation might just be a hate-watch for Brian. And in the library, we've got Budgie's surprisingly depressing memoir and some solid sci-fi from Scott Meyer and Dennis E. Taylor. It's almost enough to make you miss the simpler times before AI broke everything.


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Deep Questions with Cal Newport - Ep. 367: What if AI Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This?

AI Bubble Watch: Nvidia Shares Skid on Middling Q2 Results

Reports Of AI Not Progressing Or Offering Mundane Utility Are Often Greatly Exaggerated


IN THE NEWS

The US government is taking an $8.9 billion stake in Intel

Trump is forming a 'National Design Studio' to spruce up government websites

Trump Mobile is promoting its smartphone with terribly edited photos of other brands' products

ChatGPT Lawsuit Over Teen’s Suicide Could Lead to Big Tech Reckoning

OpenAI Admits Safety Controls 'Degrade,' As Wrongful Death Lawsuit Grabs Headlines

OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police

Huge Number of Authors Stand to Get Paid After Anthropic Agrees to Settle Potentially $1 Trillion Lawsuit

Meta is licensing Midjourney's AI image and video tech

MidJourney TV

Citizen Is Using AI to Generate Crime Alerts With No Human Review. It’s Making a Lot of Mistakes

You can now download and tweak Grok 2.5 for yourself as it goes open source


MEDIA CANDY

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

Paramount Job Cuts In Excess Of 2,500 Coming In November, With Cost Savings To Exceed $2 Billion

‘Dexter: Original Sin’ Un-Renewed as Paramount Opts Out of Second Season

Alien: Earth

Wednesday

Upload

‘The Institute’ Renewed for Second Season at MGM+

Apple TV+ subscriptions just rose to $13 a month

Spotify is adding DMs


APPS & DOODADS

Apple fitness exec accused of creating toxic workplace environment

Zipotle: Chipotle, Zipline Launch Drone Food Delivery in Dallas


AT THE LIBRARY

The Absence: Memoirs of a Banshee Drummer by Budgie

Master of Formalities by Scott Meyer

Flybot by Dennis E. Taylor


CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

'Was 1995 30 years ago?' Google's AI overviews is having issues with a simple question

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Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:05.4

That's audible.co.ukesl-wondery.

0:13.9

Grumpy old geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schulmeister and Jason DePhilippo discussing the finer points of what went wrong on the

0:21.2

internet and who's to blame.

0:27.9

Welcome to grumpy old geeks. I'm Jason DeFilippo. And I'm Brian Schilmeister. Jason, I noticed that

0:33.4

this is episode 7-Eleven. Woo! Yes, it is. Was 7-Eleven a big deal to you growing up?

0:39.1

Was it a part of your firmament of life?

0:41.3

Of course it was. Absolutely, man. It's where I went to play video games. Yep. That was it. Yeah. That and big gulps and slurpees. I played more Pac-Man in Mortal Kombat at 7-Eleven than is healthy for a young man, I'm sure.

0:38.9

I did a lot of that.

0:39.9

I remember they were the first place in the... I played more Pac-Man and Mortal Kombat at 7-Eleven than is healthy for a young man, I'm sure.

0:54.9

I did a lot of that.

0:56.0

I remember they were the first place in the area to get Dragons Lair. I hate that fucking game. It's just sucked up quarters like no tomorrow. Yeah, yeah. Anyways, I was just thinking about that because it's obviously episode 7-11. Oh, thank heaven. and I was thinking about how it's changed because my kid is aware of 7-Eleven.

0:54.6

We have them here.

0:55.4

He likes a slurpy, but it's not like, it's not a thing, man, like it was for us. No. Yeah, it got, and the funny thing is, it's like, that's the one place that I know around the world that I can go. And I feel at home. Like when I was in Hong Kong, I had nowhere to go. I was just like, oh, yeah, they're everywhere. If you go in Asia, they're like, they have legit good food too. Yeah, they do. They do. But when you go to the ones in Bangkok, they try and hook you up with lady boys. Coming and going. It's always an a little bit of follow-up I was thinking about our conversation that we

1:49.3

had with Dave last week about spending time with friends and and I followed through on that

1:53.4

promise I went to an oasis concert here not by choice it's my wife's favorite band so you know

1:59.9

got to do that but we went with some friends which, which was nice. And I had seen them for a while because they kind of live outside of Toronto. So got to spend time with friends there.

2:09.4

Hyper local update, if or maybe not, because, you know, maybe you're going to travel to Toronto to see a show. They've just opened up this place called the Rogers Stadium. Now,

2:17.8

it's not the Rogers Center. That's, that's different. That's the baseball arena, which also has

2:22.8

concerts and it's safe and wonderful and been there for years. But, you know, we're kind of doing a

2:28.2

Trump thing here where everything is being named after Rogers, apparently. So we also have a Rogers

2:33.0

stadium. And they just built this thing for big concerts.

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