Fri. 08/18 – Werner Herzog Is The AI Voice We Deserve

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🗓️ 18 August 2023

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More drips and drabs Threads feature releases. Meta is readying a “Code Llama.” Throwback Friday with Uber and Lyft threatening to leave a major municipality. Our first fall hardware event is on the calendar. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions. Sponsors: Nutrafol.com/men code ridehome Links: Threads gets retweets — sorry, reposts — in the reverse-chronological feed (The Verge) Meta’s Next AI Attack on OpenAI: Free Code-Generating Software (The Information) Lyft and Uber say they will leave Minneapolis if the mayor signs a minimum wage bill for drivers (CNN) Microsoft to hold ‘special event’ in New York City on September 21st (The Verge) Spotify Looked to Ban White Noise Podcasts to Become More Profitable (Bloomberg) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: A Rare Look Into the Finances of Elon Musk’s Secretive SpaceX (WSJ) How the iMac saved Apple (The Verge) A Living History of The Humble Paper Airplane (Popular Mechanics) A New Role for Werner Herzog: The Voice of A.I. Poetry (NYTimes) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Friday, August 18th, 2023. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:09.0	More drips and drabs, threads, feature releases. Meta is readying a Code Lama, throwback Friday with
0:16.0	Uber and Lyft threatening to leave a major municipality. Our first fall hardware event is
0:21.0	on the calendar and of course the weekend long rate suggestions.
0:24.0	Here's what you miss today in the world of Tech. Meta has updated threads with a repost tab on users profile pages and added reposts
0:39.2	to the reverse chronological following feed quoting J Peters in Tech Crunch.
0:44.8	Threads is adding reposts, aka retweets, to its reverse chronological following feed.
0:50.2	Instagram Head, Adam Mostari announced in a Threads Post on Thursday.
0:54.0	It's a small but nice addition to the app that makes the following feed a bit more useful.
0:59.0	And while Mostery said Meta added it based on your feedback the following feed does still have its
1:04.8	flaws that's not the only repost related update for Meta it's also rolling out a
1:09.8	repost tab on your profile so that you and others can more easily find the threads that you've reposted.
1:15.0	I don't appear to have either update on iOS yet, but I do have the repost tab when I view my profile on the web.
1:22.0	I think I need to repost tab when I view my profile on the web. I think I need to repost more. The new
1:25.3	updates probably aren't enough to bring over the many threads users that haven't
1:29.0	returned to the platform, but CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on August 4th that improved search and a web client will arrive in quote the next few weeks
1:36.9	Which might convince some lapsed users to come back on Wednesday Zuckerberg hinted that the web client might be imminent,
1:44.1	replying directly to my desperate plea with two emoji, soon, and shh, end quote.
2:01.0	Sources are telling the information that Meta is also preparing to release Code Lama, Lama, a free code generating AI model based on Lama2 as soon as next week.
2:07.0	Quote, Meta Platforms is preparing to launch software to help developers automatically generate
2:11.9	programming code, a challenge to
2:13.9	proprietary software from open AI Google and others according to two people
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