Glorbo for President, 2024 - DTNS 4556
Daily Tech News Show
Tom Merritt
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
AI is disrupting a lot of industries but will it also disrupt your paycheck? The Information reports that Meta told Quest Pro suppliers it would not need new components. Is this an early sign that VR is dying? Do couples who engage in “phone snubbing”—the act of cutting off conversations with others IRL using text or messaging instead, have a less fulfilling relationship?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Megan Morrone, Roger Chang, Joe.
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| 0:00.0 | Imagine you, you in a nice comfy seat with your hands behind your head, taking in the views, |
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| 0:30.1 | This 10th year of Daily Tech News Show is made possible by you, the listener. Thanks to |
| 0:37.2 | every single one of you, including Adam Green, Dustin Campbell, Tim Deppity, and our lifetime |
| 0:41.6 | supporter, David Snyder. On this episode of DTNS, Megan Moroney tells us why we shouldn't fear |
| 0:47.0 | for our jobs, but robots might affect our pay. Plus, is VR dead? TechCrunch seems to think so, |
| 0:53.6 | and stop fubbing. It's not what you think. This is the Daily Tech News for Friday, July 21st, |
| 1:03.4 | 2023 in Los Angeles on Tom Merritt. And from studio secret bunker, I'm Sarah Lane. |
| 1:10.0 | And from Petaluma, I'm Megan Moroney. And I'm the show's producer Roger Che. Welcome, Megan. |
| 1:16.8 | Thank you for having me. It's lovely. I haven't seen you in a while, Tom, because I've been on |
| 1:23.7 | days when you're not there. That's true. Not on the Daily Tech News Show, totally different show. |
| 1:29.7 | That one's about JFK conspiracies, I guess. I don't know what that would be about. |
| 1:35.8 | Let's not go there. Instead, let's start with the quick hits. |
| 1:39.2 | Amazon Anthropic Google Infliction Meta Microsoft and OpenAI have all voluntarily agreed to |
| 1:50.0 | US government requests about responsible development of AI going forward. The agreements include |
| 1:56.4 | investing in security, studying discrimination in AI tools, and a watermark system to indicate |
| 2:02.7 | when something has been generated by a machine model and not a human. |
| 2:06.8 | In bad timing news, OpenAI's head of trust and safety, David Wilner, just stepped down, citing |
| 2:12.8 | job pressure and a desire to spend more time with his family. He's been with OpenAI since February |
| 2:18.4 | 2022. So just over a year for the pressure to finally say that's enough. Wilner says he will remain |
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