N.Y.C. Says Airbn-bye + How Far Would You Go for a GPU? + The A.I. Songs of the Summer

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The New York Times

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🗓️ 25 August 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Are New York City’s new rules for short-term rentals like Airbnb effectively a ban? And will they accomplish what proponents want them to? Then, The New York Times tech reporter Erin Griffith on Silicon Valley’s mad dash for GPUs. And finally, we take stock of the A.I. songs of the summer and discuss YouTube and Universal Music Group’s plan to make synthetic voices profitable.

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0:00.7	Casey, happy burning man week.
0:02.5	Happy burning man week to you.
0:04.1	Now, of course, if you don't live in the Bay Area, you might not know this, but starting
0:06.8	this Sunday, it is the best week to be in the Bay Area because you can get a restaurant
0:10.8	reservation anywhere.
0:11.6	Correct.
0:11.9	Our parking anywhere you want the city empties out because all of the tech people go to
0:16.3	the desert in Nevada to drop acid and dance.
0:18.9	I'm going to rent a car and just drive around parking in different locations in the city
0:22.6	just because I can't.
0:24.3	That's the plan for this week.
0:25.6	Have you ever been to burning man?
0:27.0	You know, I have it and for the following two reasons.
0:30.2	I don't like to be hot and I don't like going outside.
0:32.6	And burning man is basically the most concentrated version of those two things.
0:36.2	So what I've always said is if they would do it like at a hotel with Eric
0:38.8	conditioning, I'm very interested.
0:40.6	Well, do you go?
0:41.7	I did.
0:42.0	I went once because you wrote about the the rich people there.
0:45.0	Yes, I went once and it was a horrible experience.
0:49.0	I will say the most memorable moments of this.
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