Dec 10th 2023
This Week in Tech 957
Put It In a Red Envelope
Hosted by
Leo Laporte
EU AI Act, 23andMe Hack, Woke Grok
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EU AI Act, 23andMe Hack, Woke Grok
- Financial Difficulties and Layoffs at Twit
- AI's Potential and Misleading Demonstrations
- Regulating Artificial Intelligence and Self-Driving Vehicles
- Debate on AI Augmentation and Regulation
- Beeper's Impersonation of Apple's Server'
- Privacy Risks and Public Benefits
- Technology Misuse, Cameo Scandal, Criticism
- AI, Grock, and Free Money Impact
- The Potential of AI in Advertising
- Memories of 1000 Van Ness Theater
- Discussion on Podcasts and Potluck Etiquette
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Links
- Google’s Gemini AI Model Looks Remarkable, But It’s Still Behind OpenAI's GPT-4 - Bloomberg
- E.U. reaches deal on AI Act, landmark artificial intelligence bill - The Washington Post
- This is A.I. Subculture's Motto: go, go go
- Apple responds to Beeper’s iMessage for Android: ‘We took steps to protect our users’ - The Verge
- 23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9 million users | TechCrunch
- Actors Recorded Videos for ‘Vladimir.’ It Turned Into Russian Propaganda. - WSJ
- Elon Musk restores X account of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones
- Ex-Tesla employee casts doubt on car safety
- Grok is a woke, crypto-loving insult comic according to X users
- Elon Musk's AI startup — X.AI — files to raise $1 billion
- Historic 1000 Van Ness, a former movie theater, sold for $28 million