SN 1001: Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) - Gmail Temp Addresses, Russia's Internet Off Switch

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Leo Laporte

Cyber Crime, Malware, Technology, Encryption, Steve Gibson, Security, Hacking, Twit, Spyware, Leo Laporte

4.6 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2024

⏱️ 147 minutes

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Summary

How Microsoft lured the US Government into a far deeper and expensive dependency upon its cybersecurity solutions.
Gmail to offer native throwaway email aliases like Apple and Mozilla.
Russia to ban several additional hosting companies and give its big Internet disconnect switch another test.
Russia uses a diabolical Windows flaw to attack Ukrainians.
The value of old Security Now episodes.
TrueCrypt's successor.
Using Cloudflare's Tunnel service for remote network access.
How to make a local server appear to be on a remote public IP.
How to share an 'impossible to type' password with someone.
How to find obscure previous references in the Security Now podcast.
What are the parameters for the expected and widely anticipated next generation Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)? What do those in the industry and academia expect? And is OpenAI's Sam Altman completely nuts for predicting it next year? Is it just a stock ploy?

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1001-Notes.pdf

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0:00.0	It's time for security now. Steve Gibson is here. He says there's not a lot of news,
0:05.5	so we're going to do a lot of questions from the audience, feedback and so forth. And then
0:10.7	Steve will explain in his understanding of what is going on with AI, the search for artificial
0:18.3	general intelligence and how close we're coming.
0:22.3	I think you're going to like this episode. Security Now is next.
0:27.6	Podcasts you love. From people you trust. This is Twitter.
0:44.8	This is Security Now with Steve Gibson, episode 1001, recorded Tuesday, November 19th,
0:48.7	2024, artificial general intelligence.
0:57.6	It's time for security now, the show we cover your security, privacy, computers work what's so intelligent about artificial intelligence all that jazz with the most intelligent guy i know
1:02.6	this cat right here mr steve gibson i am not that leo i you are not that no i'm a what
1:10.5	we call a domain expert. I have some
1:13.4	expertise in a couple places. When it comes to Sudoku, you're just like the rest of us.
1:18.5	And when it comes to artificial intelligence, I'm claiming no expertise. I wanted to talk about,
1:25.3	as I said last week, artificial general intelligence, AGI, because everyone's throwing the term around.
1:33.2	We're hearing people talking about it.
1:35.6	What caught my attention was when Sam Altman, the infamous and famous CEO of OpenAI, he claimed, oh, yeah, we'll have that next year.
1:49.6	He said 2025.
1:51.6	Yeah.
1:51.9	And it's like, what?
1:53.6	But he's kind of a salesman.
1:55.6	Oh, well, yeah.
1:56.8	Maybe this was just a nice little stock price boosting employee.
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