588: KnightGPT
Grumpy Old Geeks11 Feb 2023

588: KnightGPT

ChatGPT+ & AI Powered Bing; more pink slips at Dell, Zoom, Disney & Yahoo; WB to keep Discovery+ stand-alone option; Amazon only hiring students & recent grads for entry-level positions; Twitter flounders around for a plan; Musk not liable for anything he says; Google unveils Bard, makes $100 billion mistake; MetaBirkin NFT lawsuit; M3GAN; Andy Prieboy, Miles Hunt live; Minions: the Rise of Gru; Clarkson's Farm; Nuclear War Simulator; Pen.Tips, Paperlike; the Unmaking Engine; Life: What Nat To Do; signing away your voice; Disney World, Star Wars Hotel prices; ChatGPT hallucinations; Wazin' with Dave; KITT.

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Show notes at https://gog.show/588


FOLLOW UP

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IN THE NEWS

Dell to cut roughly 6,650 jobs as PC sales drop

Zoom is laying off around 1,300 workers

Iger Announces Layoffs as Disney Grapples With Streaming Losses

Exclusive: Yahoo to lay off more than 20% of staff as it shrinks ad biz

Warner Bros. Discovery to Keep Discovery+, in Strategy Shift

Leaked emails show Amazon will only hire students and recent graduates for entry level software engineering positions

Twitter Considers Charging Brands $1000 Per Month to Stay Verified

Twitter Will Share Ad Revenue With Creators. But There’s A Catch

Trump White House asked Twitter to take down Chrissy Teigen's mean tweet about him

Twitter reportedly had only 180,000 subscribers in the US last month

Musk Found Not Liable in ‘Funding Secured’ Tesla Trial

Google unveils Bard, its ChatGPT rival

Bard’s first public mistake cost Google $100 billion

Google will soon default to blurring explicit image search results

Hermes wins U.S. trademark trial over 'MetaBirkin' NFTs


MEDIA CANDY

M3GAN

Linda Rondstadt: The Sound of My Voice

ANDY PRIEBOY - LIVE AT LARGO - 1997-ISH

Miles Hunt Live in Leeds

Minions: The Rise of Gru

The Peripheral Season 2 Renewed At Prime Video

Clarkson’s Farm Season 2


APPS & DOODADS

Nuclear War Simulator | Out Now

“What if?”: Academic Scenario Simulation Tool “Nuclear War Simulator” Launches Today on Steam

OPEN-RISOP

Pen.Tips Textured Feeling PenMat

Paperlike


AT THE LIBRARY

The Unmaking Engine (The World Walker Series Book 2) by Ian W. Sainsbury

Life: What Nat to Do - A Hot Take on the Advice You Never Asked For by Nat's What I Reckon

Nat’s What I Reckon on YouTube


SECURITY HAH!

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

‘Disrespectful to the Craft:’ Actors Say They’re Being Asked to Sign Away Their Voice to AI

Disney World’s struggling $5,000 Star Wars hotel slashes prices, cancels summer dates

ChatGPT Can Be Broken by Entering These Strange Words, And Nobody Is Sure Why

Dave Bittner on Waze


CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Burt Bacharach, one of pop's greatest songwriters, dies aged 94

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