587: Our Inevitable Doom
Grumpy Old Geeks4 Helmi 2023

587: Our Inevitable Doom

100% Efficiency; PayPal layoffs; Microsoft & ChatGPT Plus; Spotify increases premium subscribers, loses more money; Tesla bitcoin loss; pushback against self-driving cars; Amazon shutting down grocery stores; Meta paid for data scraping while denouncing it; AI alien signals; Picard; Paramount+ With Showtime; Cunk on Earth; Earthside; Ask a Historian; After Babel; Barnes & Nobel is back; Wikenigma; the Dark Side with Dave; more playing around with ChatGPT; ElevenLabs AI voices; Stormtroopin'.

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IN THE NEWS

PayPal is laying off 2,000 employees

Report: Microsoft plans to update Bing with a faster version of ChatGPT in the coming weeks

ChatGPT Plus FAQ

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Plus, starting at $20 per month

ChatGPT reportedly reached 100 million users in January

Spotify reaches 205 million Premium subscribers as losses mount

Tesla records $204M loss from bitcoin in 2022

The DOJ is looking into Tesla's Autopilot and Full Self-Driving claims

San Francisco asks California regulators to halt or slow the rollout of driverless taxis

EU vows to get tougher on Big Tech privacy violations

Amazon Plans to Close Some Grocery and Convenience Stores

Documents show Meta paid for data scraping despite years of denouncing it

AI Finds Possible Overlooked Alien Signals In Radio Telescope Data


MEDIA CANDY

Picard Season 3 Trailer

Paramount+ Premium will absorb Showtime and rebrand as 'Paramount+ With Showtime'

Cunk on Earth


AT THE LIBRARY

Earthside - Quantum Earth, Book 2 by Dennis E. Taylor

Ask A Historian: 50 Surprising Answers to Things You Always Wanted to Know by Greg Jenner

After Babel - Jonathan Haight

How Barnes & Noble Came Back From Near Death by Ezra Klein

Wikenigma - an Encyclopedia of Unknowns


SECURITY HAH!

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

Cyber Craft

Kirk, Spock, Scotty, and McCoy outwit the Androids

ElevenLabs Beta

ChatGPT's New Tool for Detecting Text Written by AI Doesn't Work Very Well

New AI classifier for indicating AI-written text

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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