TNW 315: Why Tesla Recalled 2M+ Vehicles - AI & Legal Rulings, E3 No More, AI Chatbots
Tech News Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
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🗓️ 14 December 2023
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
The UK is allowing ChatGPT and other AI tools to be used in legal rulings. Why did Tesla recall over 2 million of their vehicles? What led to E3 being canceled? And the fears of chatbots being used to help students cheat in their studies were overblown per a new research.
- If you're in the UK, you may have robots starting to help in determining your legal fate. Thomas Germain of Gizmodo talks about the UK Judicial Office allowing AI tools to help write legal rulings and be utilized in other tasks.
- Sam Abuelsamid joins us to talk about Tesla's recalling over 2 million vehicles due to US auto-safety regulators determining Tesla's Autopilot feature doesn't do enough to protect its drivers.
- Mikah talks about what led to E3, the yearly gaming trade event, being finally shut down.
- And Mikah shares a study that shows that cheating fears with the use of chatbots and other AI tools were overblown.
Host: Mikah Sargent
Guests: Thomas Germain and Sam Abuelsamid
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Tech News Weekly, are you ready for this show? |
| 0:03.5 | Let's see, Thomas Germain of Gizmoto stops by to tell us about some new guidance in the UK. |
| 0:08.8 | Judges are now allowed to use chat gpity in legal rulings. What are the implications? |
| 0:16.0 | Thomas Germain talks all about it. Then Sam Abool Samid joins me to talk about that Tesla |
| 0:20.8 | recall. Yeah, almost all of its vehicles have been recalled and that |
| 0:25.3 | is because of an autopilot safety flaw. I also have two stories of the week this |
| 0:30.2 | week first and foremost about E3 and why it has been cancelled and kind of a bigger look, |
| 0:35.7 | a broader look at the rest of the media industry. |
| 0:38.9 | And of course, we've got to talk about AI, this time with a report from Stanford University that suggests |
| 0:45.6 | that our fears about students using chat gpity for cheating are a little overblown, |
| 0:50.9 | at least for now. |
| 0:51.8 | Stay tuned for this episode of Tech News Weekly. |
| 0:54.1 | Podcasts you love from people you trust. This is Twit. This is Tech News Weekly, episode 315, recorded Thursday, December 14, |
| 1:09.0 | 23. Why Tesla recalled 2 million plus vehicles. |
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