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Deep Mind Now Has Brains! - DTNS 4503 Extended (Patreon)

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2023-04-20 21:28:22

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We have an excerpt from “A Word with Tom Merritt” where Tom talks with cyber-ethnography researcher and writer, Ruby Justice Thélot, about how people evaluate the veracity or truthfulness of information they find on the internet. And we share internal misgivings from inside Google about the issues with its ChatGPT competitor Bard and its not ready for primetime functionality.

Reasons BuzzFeed News Shutdown, #7 May Surprise You - GDI 4503 starts at 32:19

Buzzfeed is shutting down its news division. With all the journalists leaving or getting fired how do you think it will affect news coverage? Is Ai coming for reporters jobs? So much fat trimming. Can Rich pull off yellow tinted glasses? Bitcoin cant withstand the washing machine. Glasses talk takes over. When was the last time you went to an Optometrist? When did you release you need to wear glasses or contacts? Do you want robotic eyes? Are your eyes tired?

Starring Sarah Lane, Rich Stroffolino, Megan Morrone, Ruby Justice Thélot, Roger Chang, Amos, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.

Quick Hits:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-20/taiwan-export-orders-slump-most-since-2009-as-chip-demand-falls?leadSource=uverify%20wall

https://mashable.com/article/microsoft-drops-twitter-from-advertising-platform

https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/amazon-launches-program-identify-track-counterfeiters-2023-04-20/

https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/19/23688913/snapchat-my-ai-chatbot-release-open-ai

https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/19/snapchat-revenue-share-public-stories/

https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/19/snap-ceo-evan-spiegel-tiktok-ban/

https://www.wsj.com/articles/alphabets-google-combines-ai-research-units-brain-and-deepmind-620f4f7d?mod=djemalertNEWS

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2023/ai-chatbot-learning/

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/04/19/1071789/openais-hunger-for-data-is-coming-back-to-bite-it/

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