TWiG 804: Big Potato - Death Roulette, Influencer Voice, HillmanTok
Intelligent Machines (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.3 • 763 Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2025
⏱️ 163 minutes
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Summary
- Leo's AI Toys
- DeepSeek
- How a top Chinese AI model overcame US sanctions
- Mark Zuckerberg post re: Llama 4
- 17th Century Death Roulette ☠️
- Google says it will change Gulf of Mexico to 'Gulf of America' in Maps app after government updates
- 23andMe might sell itself as it runs out of money
- The rise of 'influencer voice': Why this TikTok creator accent is taking over the internet and maybe the world
- Paris' new TV
- Scoldy Mastodon
- Pluralistic: It's not a crime if we do it with an app (25 Jan 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
- Comcast unveils ultra-low lag Internet connection
- Dr. Barlow and HIllmanTok
- Philip Low, long-time friend and peer of Elon Musk, posts open letter calling him out for what he is.
- Why doesn't Siri know what it doesn't know?
- New Vatican document examines potential and risks of AI
- Technological puritanism
- All in the mind? The surprising truth about brain rot
- By Paris: Before Google's $2.7 Billion Deal With AI Startup, a Stark Warning on Safety
- The mayor of Merrymac
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Twink this week in Google, Jeff and Paris are here with lots to talk about. |
| 0:05.6 | Of course, Deep Seek that new AI from China is all the rage. |
| 0:09.7 | We'll talk about what it really means. |
| 0:12.2 | We'll even play with it a little bit. |
| 0:14.2 | I like the reasoning. |
| 0:16.0 | Google has changed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. |
| 0:19.4 | Apple hasn't so far. |
| 0:21.9 | And then we'll play 17th century death roulette. |
| 0:24.9 | Yes, it's a wacky show coming up next on this week in Google. |
| 0:31.6 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:33.3 | From people you trust. |
| 0:35.8 | This is Twit. |
| 0:37.3 | This is Twit. |
| 0:43.6 | This is Twig. |
| 0:49.9 | This week in Google, episode 804, recorded Wednesday, January 29th, 2025. |
| 0:51.6 | Big Potato. |
| 0:56.8 | It's time for Twig this week week in Google for the last time. |
| 1:00.6 | This week in Google, the show we cover everything but Google for the last time. |
| 1:04.5 | Just to reassure people, we're changing the name. |
| 1:06.7 | We're changing the music. |
| 1:10.3 | We're not whistling with the theme. |
| 1:13.8 | We have a Benito's doing a nice new theme for us. |
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