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A mysterious Twitter suspension, weird AI hallucinations, and David Bowie's crystal ball

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4.4116 Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we're joined by a University of Washington professor whose Twitter account was abruptly suspended last week for reasons that seemed inexplicable at the time. The story is a glimpse into the erratic, arbitrary, and divided state of social media, communications, and modern economics.

We also get a reality check on the new era of artificial intelligence, including the ongoing tendency of OpenAI's ChatGPT to generate facts out of thin air.

And in the final segment, we hear why the late David Bowie was right all along about the "exhilarating and terrifying" future in which the rest of us our now living.

Our guest is Kathy Gill, a tech veteran who is an adjunct professor at the University of Washington and Bellevue College, focusing on communications and user experience. Her current courses include a writing class for UW engineering students. She's a writer, motorcyclist, and self-described news hound. Follow her @kegill or @kathygill, and read her work at wiredpen.com.

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0:00.0

I had to create a list called, it's a private one, accounts Twitter doesn't show me anymore.

0:07.0

It's funny, this is a bit of a digression, but once I was in an Uber and the guy was playing a Spotify list and I noticed on the list it said music for my ungrateful

0:16.9

Uber passengers. Welcome to GeekWire. I'm GeekWire co-founder Todd Bishop. We're coming to

0:29.9

you from Seattle where we get to report each day on what's happening around us in technology, business, and innovation.

0:36.0

What happens here matters everywhere and every week on this show we get to talk about some of the most interesting stories and trends in the news. This week my guest is a University

0:45.7

of Washington professor whose Twitter account was abruptly suspended last week for reasons

0:51.6

that seemed inexplicable at the time. We also get a reality check

0:55.5

on generative artificial intelligence and in the final segment we hear why the

1:00.0

late David Bowie was right all along about the exhilarating and terrifying future in which

1:06.6

the rest of us are now living.

1:09.2

My guest is Kathy Gill, a tech industry veteran who is an adjunct professor at the University of Washington

1:15.2

and Bellevue College, focusing on communications and user experience.

1:20.4

Kathy Gill, thank you very much for joining me.

1:22.4

Well, it's lovely to be with you, Todd.

1:25.0

Kathy, for people who don't know you, how do you describe what you do at the University of Washington

1:31.0

and in other roles that you have right now?

1:33.0

Well, I'm an adjunct professor at the University of Washington,

1:36.0

where I used to teach full-time.

1:38.0

I am teaching engineering students,

1:43.0

undergraduate engineering students, which is so much fun.

1:48.0

And then I also teach a graduate level course in Human Center design and engineering for students who don't have

1:55.7

any background in web technologies.

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