TNW 355: What It's Like To Wear Meta's Orion Glasses - X Transparency Report, Microsoft's AI Correction
Tech News Weekly (Audio)
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🗓️ 26 September 2024
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Emily Dreibelbis joins Mikah Sargent this week on Tech News Weekly! X released its first transparency report since Elon Musk took over the company. Initial impressions of Meta's Orion AR prototype glasses. And Microsoft has released a new tool that can reportedly correct incorrect AI-generated text.
- Emily Dreibelbis talks about how X has released its first transparency report following Elon Musk's purchase of the social media company. Why did X finally release the report after skipping last year?
- Scott Stein of CNET is reporting from the Meta campus in Palo Alto! He had the chance to try Meta's new Orion AR glasses prototype and share his initial thoughts.
- And Mikah Sargent shares a new tool Microsoft has released that can reportedly correct AI-generated text that generates incorrect information. However, the tool has some skepticism about when it attempts to fix it; it can generate more inaccurate information.
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Guest: Scott Stein
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Tech News weekly, Emily Dry Belbus of PC mag is here and we kick off the show by talking about |
| 0:06.8 | Social Network X releasing its first transparency report under Elon Musk. We talk about the report's numbers and the |
| 0:16.7 | implications therein as well as giving Emily a chance to discuss how Elon Musk's feelings, so to speak, |
| 0:26.6 | about journalists have impacted the choice |
| 0:31.0 | to report on a company. Then Scott Stein, editor at large for |
| 0:36.9 | CNET stops by to tell us about his time wearing Meta's new Orion A.R. Glasses. |
| 0:44.2 | Super cool chance to talk to Scott Stein while he was actually |
| 0:49.0 | at Meta's campus and hear about those wacky AR glasses. |
| 0:56.5 | Lastly, but certainly not least, |
| 0:59.1 | we talk about how Microsoft has a new tool |
| 1:02.0 | that aims to correct AI hallucinations, |
| 1:05.6 | even though hallucinations are kind of part of what AI is doing. |
| 1:10.1 | You'll learn more about it when we get around to that story. |
| 1:12.4 | Stay tuned for this episode of Tech News Weekly. |
| 1:14.8 | Podcasts you love. |
| 1:18.8 | From people you trust. |
| 1:20.8 | This is Twint. |
| 1:23.0 | This is Tech News Weekly, episode 355 with Emily Dry Belbus and me Micah Sergeant recorded Thursday September 26th |
| 1:36.6 | 2024 what it's like to wear Metas Orion glasses |
| 1:42.3 | Hello and welcome to Tech News Weekly, the show where every week we talk to and about the people making and breaking that tech news. |
| 1:49.0 | That's the sound of tech news breaking. I don't know why it's so subtle. |
| 1:52.0 | I am Micah Sergeant and I am |
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