608: The Way of the Grift
Grumpy Old Geeks1 Heinä 2023

608: The Way of the Grift

Hello, summer; disinformation professor falsifies own data; AI is eating itself, recursion & model collapse looming; scammers, liars, grifters prosper; mandated return to office not working out great; Amazon's robot revolution; Congress limits AI usage; Vatican releases AI Ethics Handbook; Google violates its ad deal standards; Youtube disabling videos for ad-blocker use; Zoox!; IRL lied their asses off about users, still got $170 million from SoftBank; Aspartame & warm Mountain Dew; Star Trek; Silo; Reality; Fubar; the Machine; Apple News UI needs help; later, Stitcher; Google cancels Iris; mustaches and learning about being a woman; ElevenLabs Voice Library & the end of voice over actors; cosplaying mommy & arrested development; 4th of July Movie Marathon.

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Show notes at https://gog.show/608


FOLLOW UP

Harvard professor who studies dishonesty is accused of falsifying data

The Internet Isn’t Completely Weird Yet; AI Can Fix That “Model collapse” looms when AI trains on the output of other models

THE CURSE OF RECURSION: TRAINING ON GENERATED DATA MAKES MODELS FORGET

The Huge Power and Potential Danger of AI-Generated Code


IN THE NEWS

We're Now Finding Out The Damaging Results of The Mandated Return to Office — And It's Worse Than We Thought.

Amazon’s New Robots Are Rolling Out an Automation Revolution

Congress is reportedly limiting staff use of AI models like ChatGPT

The Vatican Releases Its Own AI Ethics Handbook

Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg Contacted by Italy to Fight at Colosseum

Italian culture ministry denies reports of Musk vs Zuckerberg fight in Colosseum

Google Violated Its Standards in Ad Deals, Research Finds

YouTube tests disabling videos for people using ad blockers

Zoox begins testing robotaxis on public roads in Las Vegas

SoftBank gave $170m to a social app whose users mostly didn't exist

Aspartame to be named a possible cancer-causer


MEDIA CANDY

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

Silo

Indiana Jones - Destined To Flop - The Critical Drinker

Reality

Fubar

The Machine

Muscles & Mayhem: An Unauthorized Story of American Gladiators

Ted Lasso charted a record-breaking billion minutes of viewing during finale week


APPS & DOODADS

ChatGPT for iOS now lets paid subscribers use Bing right from the app

STITCHER FAREWELL

Google is no longer building its own augmented reality glasses


THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

ElevenLabs - Introducing: Voice Library

ElevenLabs Voice Library

COSPLAYING THE MOMMY WARS


Jason’s 4th of July Birth Control Movie Marathon

1. Hackers

2. The Edge

3. Shaun of the Dead

4. Fight Club

5. The Professional

6. Pulp Fiction

7. The Hunt for Red October

8. Die Hard 3

9. Hard Boiled

10. The Crow

The Electric Mayhem visit Spotify

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