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This Week in Tech (Audio)

TWiT 919: Hallucinating Bagels - GPT-4, TikTok's looming fate, Internet Archive vs Libraries, Olympic Esports

This Week in Tech (Audio)

Leo Laporte

Technology, Techtv, Tech News, This Week In Technology, Twit, Leo Laporte

43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2023

⏱️ 163 minutes

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Summary

GPT-4, TikTok's looming fate, Internet Archive vs Libraries, Olympic Esports

  • OpenAI announces GPT-4 AI language model.
  • Librarians should stand with the Internet Archive.
  • Here's how to participate in Monday's oral arguments.
  • TikTok's plan to stave off government intervention: Flood D.C. with influencers.
  • The FBI And DOJ Are Investigating ByteDance's Use Of TikTok To Spy On Journalists.
  • Why are the Olympic Esports Series games so strange? We asked the IOC.
  • Meta's place in the social media landscape.
  • The Ugly Lessons of Silicon Valley Bank's Collapse.
  • The Over-Financialization Of Tech And The SVB Backlash.
  • Meta layoffs: Facebook owner to cut 10,000 staff.
  • Dark Web 'BreachForums' Operator Charged With Computer Crime.
  • FCC orders phone companies to block scam text messages.
  • Carrot Weather gets snarky ChatGPT update.
  • GM wants to bring ChatGPT-like assistant to drivers.
  • Google is working on AI for ultrasound diagnosis and cancer therapy.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Alex Kantrowitz and Steven Levy

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It's time for twit this week and tech. What a panel I got today Alex Cantruitts from the big technology

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podcast is here and legendary author and historian Stephen Levy editor at large at Wired magazine.

0:12.9

We of course will talk about the AI apocalypse. Is it good news or bad news? The end of the line

0:19.2

for TikTok and then we'll take a trip into the desert with Stephen and Palmer Lucky. It's all

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coming up next on twits podcast you love from people you trust this is twit

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this is twit this week and tech episode 919 recorded Sunday March 19th 2023 hallucinating bagels

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it's time for twit this week and tech the show we cover the weeks tech news and I have a really

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