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TWiT 922: AI Hustlers - Bloomberg's large language model, Twitter open source code, E3 Cancelled, Sony Q Lite

This Week in Tech (Audio)

Leo Laporte

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

43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2023

⏱️ 128 minutes

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Summary

Bloomberg's large language model, Twitter open source code, E3 Cancelled, Sony Q Lite

  • Biden eyes AI dangers, says tech companies must ensure products are safe.
  • A viral image of the Pope in a white coat was faked with AI.
  • Bloomberg builds its own LLM, trained on financial data.
  • What if ChatGPT was trained on decades of financial news and data? BloombergGPT aims to be a domain-specific AI for business news.
  • Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT.
  • Midjourney Ends Its Free Trial After Fake Images Go Viral.
  • At Elon Musk's Twitter, speech is anything but free.
  • What did Twitter's 'open source' algorithm actually reveal? Not a lot.
  • Musk's Twitter Downranks Any Post Regarding the 'Ukraine Crisis'.
  • Dogecoin jumps more than 30% after Musk changes Twitter logo to an image of Shiba inu.
  • New Analysis Shows News Industry Reaps Considerable Economic Benefit from Facebook.
  • Clearview AI scraped 30 billion images from Facebook and other social media sites and gave them to cops: it puts everyone into a 'perpetual police line-up'.
  • Google Rescinds 5 Million Item Limit on Drive.
  • Google to cut some of its perks to cut costs amid AI race.
  • Google workers in London stage walkout over job cuts.
  • Google issuing Chromebooks to employees as part of cost-cutting measures.
  • E3 Cancelled After Big Tech Players Drop Out.
  • Super Mario Bros. movie has the largest domestic opening of the year ($146M), the global debut is huge too ($377.5M).
  • Sony is reportedly working on a remote play-only handheld, the Q Lite.

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Guests: Nicholas De Leon, Anthony Ha, and Doc Rock

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0:00.0

Coming up on Twitter, I'm Devin Dr. Hardowar, senior editor and

0:03.2

Engaget. We've got Anthony Ha, Doc Rock, and Nicholas Delio. We'll be talking

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about some new AI news including Bloomberg's AI large language model, which is

0:12.9

finally tuned to financial news. And of course we'll be talking about the latest

0:17.4

news from Elon Musk's Twitter. It turns out open sourcing a bunch of code

0:21.0

didn't work out as well as he thought it did.

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This is Twit. This week in tech episode 922 reported Sunday April 9th 2023. AI

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