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Hard Fork

The New York Times

Technology

4.5 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Hey Bard, can you take a look at my Gmail and psychoanalyze me? Turns out, that’s not a question Google’s chatbot, Bard, can answer with any veracity despite new features that allow it to plug into your Gmail, Google Drive and more . Kevin and Casey on why Bard isn’t answering all their questions correctly — and why Google is OK with that. Then, the New York Times reporter Kashmir Hill on the dangers of facial recognition that are already here. Plus: GAMER TIME! Our new segment on the latest in gaming news.

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0:00.0	Casey, I acquired an exciting new piece of technology this week.
0:04.0	Oh, it's that.
0:05.0	It's actually one we've talked about on the show before, but not for a while.
0:07.2	So do you remember many episodes ago when we had my colleague Tiffany Shuwan to talk to
0:12.6	us about all of the bad ads that we were seeing social media?
0:16.3	I do remember that.
0:17.3	Do you remember something called a rat bucket?
0:19.8	Yes, I mean, it was, you know, at the time New York City was dealing with a huge rat
0:25.4	crisis and it was sort of a very timely product.
0:28.1	Yes.
0:29.1	Well, I also have an emerging rat crisis, which is that I have a family of rats that lives
0:33.2	in my backyard.
0:34.2	Oh, I'm sorry to hear that.
0:35.2	And they live beneath my deck.
0:37.2	And normally like I like to peacefully coexist with animals like a sort of like cute little
0:41.2	Pixar family of rats.
0:43.0	Yeah.
0:44.0	So my first thought on how to deal with them was to open a French restaurant and list them
0:47.9	all as my helpers.
0:49.4	But my second thought was I should probably deal with these guys because they might actually
0:53.0	cause some damage to the property.
0:54.3	So yeah.
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