TWiT 953: Deadly Competent - OpenAI GPTs, Humane AI Pin, privacy in cars, Amazon ditching Android
This Week in Tech (Audio)
Leo Laporte
3.9 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2023
⏱️ 150 minutes
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OpenAI GPTs, Humane AI Pin, privacy in cars, Amazon ditching Android
- OpenAI allowing independent developers to create their own GPTs ("little agents")
- Agreement between Writers Guild and motion picture producers on use of AI in movies
- Microsoft investing in OpenAI and implications for cloud services
- China's investment in AI compared to the US
- AI appliances like Humane pin and rewindai pendant
- Dangers of deep fakes and advanced technologies
- Innovations in pinball like Venom
- Implications of vehicle data collection for privacy
- Role of social media in teen mental health
- Debating investment in Vision Pro, Apple Silicon, M3 Max
- Controversy around Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
- Amazon ditching Android for own Linux-based OS on Fire TVs
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Brianna Wu, Dan Patterson, and Janko Roettgers
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Twit this week at Tech, great panel for you. Brianna Wu is here from RebellionPAC, Dan Patterson, |
| 0:06.6 | he's got a new job at Blackbird. AI, I'll let him explain that, and Yanko records of lowpass. C. You may remember him from Giga Olm and Variety. |
| 0:16.6 | We will be talking AI this week. Of course, Open AI's developer days were this week. |
| 0:21.8 | They announced something called |
| 0:23.0 | GPTs. They could revolutionize as AI. I think they're very interesting. We'll |
| 0:28.7 | also talk about that new humane AI pin. You want to have a PIN that's watching all the time? And then, speaking |
| 0:36.1 | of watching all the time, why does Nissan want to know about my sexual |
| 0:39.7 | activity? We'll talk about privacy and cars and why it's not against the law to spy on you. |
| 0:46.8 | All that coming up and a lot more next on Twitter. |
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