625: If I Only Had a Brain
Grumpy Old Geeks11 Nov 2023

625: If I Only Had a Brain

Adventures in Covid; Bored Ape NFT event causes severe eye-burn; WeWork files for bankruptcy; Microsoft watermarks for deepfakes; Cruise's robotaxis even worse than previously reported; OpenAI's expanding; Google generative AI ads; bros on a boat; AI bot engages in insider trading, lying about it; Loki, the Marvels & superhero fatigue; SAG-AFTRA strike ends; Musk biopic; streaming media accounting; Marianne Faithfull; Star Trek escape room; the Traitors; YouTube ad-blocking; Humane AI Pin; the Interdependency; new sci-fi trilogy from the Expanse writers; thoughts are with the Great Woz.


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FOLLOW UP

Bored Ape NFT event attendees report ‘severe eye burn’

Sam Bankman-Fried and the People Who Gave Up Their Money for Nothing

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IN THE NEWS

WeWork files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection

Microsoft offers politicians protection against deepfakes

Things are going from bad to worse for Cruise's robotaxis

Could Cruise be the Theranos of AI? And is there a dark secret at the core of the entire driverless car industry?

Cruise Robotaxis Require Remote Human Assistance Every 4 to 5 Miles

Everything announced at OpenAI's first developer event

Google brings generative AI to ads

Google Announces Expansion of AI Partnership with Anthropic

The first AI nation? A ship with 10,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs worth $500 million could become the first ever sovereign territory that relies entirely on artificial intelligence for its future

Universe 2023: Copilot transforms GitHub into the AI-powered developer platform

AI bot capable of insider trading and lying, say researchers


MEDIA CANDY

Loki

‘The Marvels’ Review: You’ve Seen This Movie 32 Times Before

Hollywood studios reportedly want to recycle dead actors’ AI likenesses without family permission

Darren Aronofsky Will Direct an Elon Musk Biopic for A24

Disney+ Adds Nearly 7 Million Subscribers, Still Loses Money

Marianne Faithfull Covers Album Features Iggy Pop, Shirley Manson, Cat Power, and More

Star Trek: Quantum Filament

The Traitors Australia

Stanford Prison Experiment: Zimbardo’s Famous Study


APPS & DOODADS

Thousands of people are uninstalling ad blockers after YouTube's big crackdown

YouTube’s ad blocking crackdown is facing a new challenge: privacy laws

The Humane AI Pin Gets Its Big Reveal But We Still Have a Lot of Questions


AT THE LIBRARY

The Last Emperox: The Interdependency, Book 3 by John Scalzi

The Expanse's James S.A. Corey Announces a New Sci-Fi Trilogy

Spotify brings 15 hours of monthly audiobook listening to Premium subscribers in the U.S.


CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Apple Cofounder Steve Wozniak Hospitalized After Possible Stroke

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