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Wed. 10/05 - Bruce Willis Deepfake Deal is Fake, But Others Could Be Coming

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Tech News, News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2022

⏱️ 18 minutes

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It’s Nobel Prize week. With three prizes announced and three yet to come, here are the winners in Physics, Chemistry, and Physiology or Medicine. Plus, Bruce Willis did not sell the rights to his digital twin to a deepfake firm, but could someone choose to do so eventually? More on the murky world of deepfakes and Hollywood. Sponsors: BetterHelp, Get 10% off your first month at betterhelp.com/COOLSTUFF I Am Bio, Subscribe at bio.org/podcast Links: Nobel Prize awarded to three scientists for work in click chemistry, which links molecules quickly (Washington Post) ‘Spooky’ quantum-entanglement experiments win physics Nobel (Nature) Nobel Winner Svante Pääbo Discovered the Neandertal in Our Genes (Scientific American) Actor Bruce Willis Becomes First Celebrity to Sell Rights to Deepfake Firm (Collider) Bruce Willis denies selling rights to his face (BBC) Deepfake Bruce Willis may be the next Hollywood star, and he’s OK with that [Updated] (Ars Technica) Bruce Willis did not sign rights for deepfakes to replace him in future films and advertisements (Mashable) Fat Bear Week 2022: It's time to vote (CNN)  2022 Fat Bear Week - Katmai (National Park Service) Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I'm Jackson Bird today.

0:41.3

It's Nobel Prize Week.

0:43.5

With three prizes announced and three yet to come, here are the winners in physics, chemistry, and physiology or medicine.

0:51.9

Plus, Bruce Willis did not sell the rights to his digital twin to a deepfake

0:57.8

firm. But could someone else choose to do so eventually? More on the murky world of deepfakes and

1:04.9

Hollywood. Here's some cool stuff for your ride home.

1:17.8

It's Nobel Prize Week, as the Foundation announces the 2022 laureates across six different categories this week through this coming Monday. And so far, we have learned the

1:23.3

prize winners for physiology or medicine, physics, and chemistry.

1:28.5

Tomorrow, the sixth, they will be announcing the literature winner.

1:32.2

On Friday the 7th will be the Nobel Peace Prize, and on Monday the 10th, we'll find out

1:37.3

who won the prize for economic sciences.

1:40.5

Here's a little more on each of the prize-winning achievements thus far.

1:44.9

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to paleogeneticist Svante Pabo for decoding the genome of Neanderthals.

1:53.7

Doing so was long thought impossible.

1:56.5

As Scientific American points out, DNA breaks down into short fragments and changes chemically over time.

2:03.4

Neanderthals went extinct 30,000 years ago. Only traces of their DNA remains in bone samples,

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