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	Podcast:		Grumpy Old Geeks
	Episode:		608: The Way of the Grift
	Category:		Technology
	Duration:		01:05:12
	Publish Date:		2023-07-01 07:00:00
	Description:		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. Sponsors: *1Password* - Get a great deal on the only password manager recommended by Grumpy Old Geeks! gog.show/1password *Private Internet Access* - Go to GOG.Show/vpn and sign up today. For a limited time only, you can get OUR favorite VPN for as little as $2.03 a month. 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 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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