TNW 308: Rebutting Andreessen's Manifesto - Humans & AI, 23AndMe Data Leak, Meta Quest 3
Tech News Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.1 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2023
⏱️ 74 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
How are humans involved in the overall AI process? 23andMe suffers another data leak by hacker "Golem". And the Meta Quest 3 is being used publicly for hilarious and interesting results.
- Solana Larsen of the Mozilla Foundation and the IRL Podcast joins the show to talk about human beings, the data workers behind AI systems being used daily.
- Dave Karpf stops by to talk about Marc Andreessen's "The Techno-Optimist Manifesto" and his passionate response to Andreessen's manifesto and the line between tech optimism and pessimism.
- Mikah talks about another data leak from the 23andMe breach that includes data from "the wealthiest people living in the U.S. and Western Europe."
- And Jason shares some hilarious videos from a Verge article about the Meta Quest 3 being used publicly.
Hosts: Jason Howell and Mikah Sargent
Guests: Solana Larsen and Dave Karpf
Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/tech-news-weekly.
Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit
Sponsors:
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Coming up on tech news weekly, we start by talking to Solana Larson of the Mozilla Foundation |
| 0:05.6 | about the human beings, the data workers behind our modern AI systems. |
| 0:10.8 | That's right, and then I speak with Dave Carr, who talks about his rebuttal from his |
| 0:15.2 | substack to Mark Andreessen's tech-optimist manifesto. Everyone has some thoughts about this, |
| 0:22.1 | and you don't want to miss Dave's thoughts. This is fantastic. Then 23 and me says, |
| 0:26.8 | yes, some data has gotten out there related to DNA, but it was because of credential |
| 0:32.9 | stuffing, and so it means you may want to change your password and set up two-factor authentication. |
| 0:37.4 | There you go. It's a pretty important thing to do on all your accounts. Go do it now, |
| 0:40.9 | and then, well, but not now, because we also want you to finish the show. I'm going to be talking |
| 0:45.6 | a little bit about glass holes, the return of glass holes this time, though, it's the MetaQuest 3, |
| 0:51.9 | suddenly arriving in the coffee shop. How are you going to respond when that happens? All that |
| 0:56.3 | more coming up next on Tech News Weekly. Podcasts you love. From people you trust. |
| 1:05.7 | This is Twenth. |
| 1:10.5 | This is Tech News Weekly, episode 308 recorded Thursday, October 19, 2023, |
| 1:16.9 | rebutting Andreessen's manifesto. This episode of Tech News Weekly is brought to you by DRADA. |
| 1:22.6 | All too often, security professionals are undergoing the tedious and arduous task of |
| 1:27.2 | manually collecting evidence. With DRADA, companies can complete audits, monitor controls, |
| 1:32.1 | and expand security assurance efforts to scale. Say goodbye to manual evidence collection |
| 1:37.2 | and hello to automation, all done at DRADA Speed. Visit DRADA.com slash Twenth to get a demo |
| 1:43.6 | and 10% off implementation. And by Melissa, more than 10,000 clients worldwide rely on Melissa for |
| 1:51.2 | full spectrum data quality and IV verification software. Make sure your customer contact data is |
| 1:56.8 | up to date. Get started today with 1,000 records cleaned for free at Melissa.com slash Twenth. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Leo Laporte, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Leo Laporte and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.