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Hey there and welcome to Tech Stuff. I'm your host Jonathan Strickland, I'm an executive producer with iHeartRadio and how the tech are you.

It's time for the tech news for May 2nd, 2023.

And first up, you may have seen some headlines like Godfather of AI quits Google to warn us about artificial intelligence or something along those lines.

The Godfather in question is not Don Corleone, it is Dr. Jeffrey Hinton, he's been a researcher in AI in general and deep learning in particular for decades.

And he says that he quits his job at Google so that he could speak out about his concerns centering around artificial intelligence without having those concerns impact Google directly.

He says that generally speaking, Google has behaved in a responsible way with regard to AI research.

Now I'm going to do a full episode about Dr. Hinton and his concerns next week.

So be on the lookout for that episode, rather than dive into all those details here, I'll say that when someone who is deeply entrenched in AI research comes forward to talk about the potential dangers of the technology, it's probably a good idea for the rest of us to listen personally.

Personally, I've been concerned, but not quite at the point of being worried about AI for a while now, but I'm also worried about the fact that people tend to over generalize when they talk about AI or they use one aspect of AI to represent the entire field.

Maybe, however, it's time for me to crank the threat level up a notch or two in my own brain. We'll talk more about that next week, but we do have a few other AI stories today.

We're going to get to those in a second, but spoiler alert several of them fall into the bad news category.

Before we jump into all that, however, I wanted to give an update on the legal crusade some film studios are on in order to defeat evil content pirates,

and clearly are the most substantial threat to the entertainment industry's quest to make all the money in the world.

A little editorial note, I might be a little bit facetious here.

The film studios have sued an internet service provider formerly called RCN, now known as Astound Broadband, saying that this ISP did nothing to stop its customers from downloading more than 30 different films illegally.

Part of the studio's quest for justice, they have applied for a subpoena against Reddit.

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